May 2, 2026
Crypto

AI Hallucinations News: Nebraska Lawyer Suspended

AI hallucinations news moved from courtroom embarrassment to career consequence as the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled to suspend Omaha attorney Greg Lake until further notice, after a court brief he submitted in a divorce appeal contained 57 defective citations out of 63, including 20 fully fabricated case references and four completely invented cases that do

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Ethereum

Bootstrapping a Decentralized Autonomous Corporation, Part 3: Identity Corp

In the first two parts of this series, we talked about what the basic workings of a decentralized autonomous corporation might look like, and what kinds of challenges it might need to deal with to be effective. However, there is still one question that we have not answered: what might such corporations be useful for?

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Bitcoin

Binance and Biget to probe RAVE’s 4,500% token surge as claims of insider-orchestrated rally grow

Binance and Bitget, two major cryptocurrency exchanges, have opened investigations into trading activity surrounding RaveDAO’s RAVE token, after onchain sleuth ZachXBT alleged insiders engineered a large short squeeze that drove the token’s rapid rise. Crypto exchange Bitget’s CEO Gracy Chen said the exchange had “started investigating” the matter, while Binance CEO Richard Teng later said

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Crypto

Feud With Pope Leo XIV

In Trump news today, President Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV as “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” in a social media post that escalated a days-long public feud with the first American pope, who has repeatedly condemned the US-Israel war on Iran and called Trump’s pre-strike threat to wipe out Iranian civilization “truly

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Ethereum

Slasher: A Punitive Proof-of-Stake Algorithm

The purpose of this post is not to say that Ethereum will be using Slasher in place of Dagger as its main mining function. Rather, Slasher is a useful construct to have in our war chest in case proof of stake mining becomes substantially more popular or a compelling reason is provided to switch. Slasher

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Crypto

Circle Payments Network Launches for Banks

Circle launched CPN Managed Payments on April 8, a fully managed stablecoin settlement solution that makes the Circle Payments Network accessible to banks, payment service providers, and fintechs without requiring them to manage digital assets, custody infrastructure, or blockchain operations directly. Summary Partners interact entirely in fiat while Circle manages the complete digital asset lifecycle

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Ethereum

Ethereum: Now Going Public | Ethereum Foundation Blog

I first wrote the initial draft of the Ethereum whitepaper on a cold day in San Francisco in November, as a culmination of months of thought and often frustrating work into an area that we have come to call “cryptocurrency 2.0″ – in short, using the Bitcoin blockchain for more than just money. In the

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Bitcoin

Congresswoman Sheri Biggs Discloses Up To $250,000 BTC Investment Via IShares Bitcoin ETF

Representative Sheri Biggs of South Carolina has disclosed a purchase of up to $250,000 in Bitcoin exposure via the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), marking one of the largest single Bitcoin-related buys by a sitting member of Congress.  The Periodic Transaction Report filed with the House shows a transaction in the $100,001–$250,000 range executed on March

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Crypto

US Crypto Exchange 2026: AndX Launches on BitGo

BitGo announced that AndX USA LLC has launched its US crypto exchange 2026 entry on top of BitGo’s Crypto-as-a-Service infrastructure, giving the global digital asset platform nationwide operations across all 50 states under an OCC-regulated custody framework backed by $250 million in insurance coverage. Summary AndX, a New York-headquartered AI-native Web3 financial platform that already

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Ethereum

Conference, Alpha Testnet and Ether Pre-sale Updates

Important notice: any information from this post regarding the ether sale is highly outdated and probably inaccurate. Please only consult the latest blog posts and official materials at ethereum.org for information on the sale Ethereum received an incredible response at the Miami Bitcoin Conference. We traveled there anticipating many technical questions as well as a

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