This post will provide the groundwork for a major rework of the Ethereum scripting language, which will substantially modify the way ES works although still keeping many of the core components working in the exact same way. The rework is necessary as a result of multiple concerns which have been raised about the way the
Bitcoin recovered toward $81,700 on Friday after Thursday’s tech-led selloff. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF outflows hit about $635 million on Thursday, per SoSoValue, after three sessions that had pulled in more than $1 billion combined. Bitcoin was up about 0.5% since midnight UTC on that rebound. Oil near multi-month highs and next week’s Federal Reserve
Crypto and crypto-linked companies announced $1.7626 billion across eight disclosed financings during Oct. 17–23, 2026, led by Tenstorrent’s $1.5 billion Series E. Summary Eight disclosed financings totaled $1.7626 billion during the Oct. 17–23 reporting period. Tenstorrent closed a $1.5 billion Series E at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation. Whop raised $200 million from Sequoia and
My previous post introducing Ethereum Script 2.0 was met with a number of responses, some highly supportive, others suggesting that we switch to their own preferred stack-based / assembly-based / functional paradigm, and offering various specific criticisms that we are looking hard at. Perhaps the strongest criticism this time came from Sergio Damian Lerner, Bitcoin
Following the arrest of former President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026, Venezuela has entered a phase of profound transformation, and tokenisation is emerging as a tool to boost economic growth The Bitfinex Securities’ Latin America Market Inclusion Report is the industry’s first analysis of the barriers facing all classes of fund-raisers and investors across Latin
Since November 2025, Bitcoin’s price movements have not inspired much confidence among investors. However, long-term investors still believe that this leading cryptocurrency will eventually return to its peak, especially after Bitcoin recently broke through the $84,000 mark. In the meantime, retail investors are looking for solutions that offer cryptocurrency mining opportunities so they can earn
There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain notwithstanding, perhaps the first major breakthrough after blinding and zero-knowledge proofs is fully homomorphic encryption, a technology which allows you to upload your data onto a server in an encrypted form so that the server can then
China is seeking to confiscate 61,896 Bitcoin worth $5.1 billion, while HSBC has begun rolling out its Hong Kong dollar-backed RedCoin stablecoin. Chinese prosecutors have applied to confiscate Bitcoin seized by UK authorities in connection with a massive investment fraud. A day later, on October 23, HSBC began making RedCoin available through its PayMe payments
Argentine President Javier Milei has named five journalists in an attack on LIBRA coverage and asked who will compensate him for alleged damage to his reputation after a judge dismissed the criminal case against him. Summary Five journalists were named in Milei’s statement attacking coverage of the LIBRA investigation. Argentina’s dismissal covered Milei, his sister
Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell writes the following on Reddit: There is a design flaw in the Bitcoin protocol where its possible for a third party to take a valid transaction of yours and mutate it in a way which leaves it valid and functionally identical but with a different transaction ID. This greatly complicates writing
