Solana’s staking network has shown significant geographic concentration, with 72.8% of delegated SOL assigned to validators operating in Europe, according to new research from Bitwise. Summary Bitwise found that European validators account for 72.8% of Solana’s staked SOL, highlighting geographic concentration. North America holds 16.2% of delegated SOL, followed by Asia at 10.6% and South
Development of the Ethereum project has gone very well over the months since inception. The core activity — development of the software platform — is on track and many developers around the world are starting to build small, exploratory distributed applications on the platform, even though we are still not yet in alpha release. The
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has opened two consultations to clarify how decentralized finance businesses will be regulated and which crypto activities could qualify for exemptions when the country’s new framework takes effect in October 2027. Summary The UK FCA has opened two consultations covering DeFi compliance requirements and exemptions from its upcoming crypto regulatory
Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not, have not yet decided to collude with each other. There has been a large amount of ruckus in the past week about the issue of mining centralization in the Bitcoin network. We
Leading decentralized betting platform Polymarket has fired its chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, who is also a close friend of the company’s CEO Shayne Coplan, according to the New York Post. The termination happened after an internal probe into several embarrassing episodes, including a reported scheme built on fake trades, that worried investors, the Post
Casa chief security officer Jameson Lopp has urged Bitcoin holders not to abandon self custody in favor of ETFs and third party custodians following a series of cryptocurrency wallet security incidents. Summary Jameson Lopp has urged Bitcoin holders not to abandon self custody despite. Lopp warned that Bitcoin ETFs and third party custodians do not
Writing effective decentralized applications in Ethereum is at the same time easy and hard. The easy part we all know: rather than needing to create your own blockchain, manage complicated database code, deal with networking and NAT traversal, or any of the other complexities involving writing a peer-to-peer app from scratch, you can write code
Pepenardo has transformed six copies of Bitcoin Magazine’s 2036 Issue into original artworks, drawing directly onto the covers with a Sharpie. The hand-altered editions feature familiar characters from his visual universe, including the Sleeping Knights, previously exhibited at the BMAG Museum in Nashville and Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas. Other imagery includes the masked rider
Zcash Foundation has released Zebra 7.0.0 with NU7 mainnet support, telling node operators to upgrade before block 3,543,405, expected around Nov. 5. Summary Mainnet operators must upgrade before activation to remain on the consensus chain. Zebra 6.4.x releases are scheduled to stop operating days before the upgrade. NU7 introduces 25-second blocks while preserving the scheduled
The topic of mining centralization has been a very important one over the past few weeks. GHASH.io, the Bitcoin network’s largest mining pool, has for the past month directed over 40% of the Bitcoin network’s hashpower, and two weeks ago briefly spiked over 50%, theoretically giving it monopoly control over the Bitcoin network. Although miners
