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Month: April 2025
Discord is verifying some users’ age with ID and facial scans
Discord is preventing some users from accessing sensitive content unless they allow the platform to verify their age by scanning their face or ID. The new age verification process is described as an “experiment” by Discord, and is being trialed in the United Kingdom and Australia in response to local laws that require online platforms … Read more
How Solana Copy Trading Platform Odinbot is Achieving ‘Zero Block Latency’
The Solana copy trading bot has focused on speed, with a claimed 15% of trades completed in the same block as the mirrored wallet.
What Does the Future of AI Model Training Hold?
:::info Authors: (1) Corby Rosset, Microsoft Research and Correspondence to corbyrosset@microsoft.com; (2) Ching-An Cheng, Microsoft Research; (3) Arindam Mitra, Microsoft Research; (4) Michael Santacroce, Microsoft Research; (5) Ahmed Awadallah, Microsoft Research and Correspondence to hassanam@microsoft.com; (6) Tengyang Xie, Microsoft Research and Correspondence to tengyangxie@microsoft.com. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 2.1 … Read more
Lombard Finance Launches Toolkit to Unlock Bitcoin’s $154B DeFi Opportunity
Lombard Finance, a Bitcoin infrastructure developer, has launched a software development kit (SDK) that allows wallets, exchanges, and other platforms to offer one-click bitcoin (BTC) staking. The release aims to further bring BTC into the decentralized finance (DeFi) economy by tapping into the estimated $154 billion in bitcoin estimated to be sitting idle on centralized … Read more
Mantra OM token crash exposes ‘critical’ liquidity issues in crypto
Mantra’s recent token collapse highlights an issue within the crypto industry of fluctuating weekend liquidity levels creating additional downside volatility, which may have exacerbated the token’s crash. The Mantra (OM) token’s price collapsed by over 90% on Sunday, April 13, from roughly $6.30 to below $0.50, triggering market manipulation allegations among disillusioned investors, Cointelegraph reported. … Read more
XRP Downside Fears Persist Despite ETF Optimism, Options Data Show
XRP might be the next cryptocurrency to get a spot ETF listing in the U.S. after bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), analysts argued this week. However, the Deribit-listed options market,doesn’t share this optimism. As of the time of writing, Deribit’s put options tied to XRP were pricier than calls across several timeframes, according to data … Read more
mIRC: Internet Relay Chat Client
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Secret Service, Canadian Officials Disrupt $4.3M Ethereum “Approval Phishing” Scam
The operation reached out to Ethereum wallet holders who had been compromised, whether or not they had already lost crypto.
Polygon’s Nailwal: Jio partnership to drive real-world Web3 adoption for 450M users
As Polygon lays the groundwork for mainstream Web3 adoption in India by bringing blockchain access to over 450 million Reliance Jio users, it remains focused on balancing speed, scalability and affordability, without compromising on decentralization. Polygon is working with Jio, a telecom giant owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, to find ways to infuse … Read more
Is AI Trading the Answer to Crypto Market Volatility?
The New York Times recently ran a story on the upcoming AI storms, in which AI that accurately forecasts world events would collide with human-driven enterprise. This follows from last year’s BBC coverage on the future of AI trading, which heralded a new era of benefits to artificial intelligence. But are these reports accurate as to … Read more
Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin Loses Allure to Gold as Economic Concerns Rise
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” announcement earlier this month drove the economic trade policy uncertainty index to a record high and sent investors away from risk assets, which include bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fanned the flames late Wednesday, saying the … Read more
Babylon total value locked drops 32% as wallets unstake $1.2B in Bitcoin
Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon saw $1.26 billion in BTC unstaked from its platform, reducing the protocol’s total value locked by 32%. On April 17, blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged several addresses that had unstaked a total of 14,929 Bitcoin (BTC) from the staking platform. The security firm flagged four addresses that had unstaked 299 BTC, … Read more
Skeptical Engineer Tries AI Coding Agent, Walks Away a Believer
Programming is changing, and the pace has been getting even faster in recent years. LLMs are getting scary smart, and agents are being integrated everywhere. You need to try hard to avoid it. Although I’m an advanced user of modern LLM tools, I was highly skeptical about agent engineering. Oh boy, I was wrong. I … Read more
Excel DAYS Function Explained: Calculating Date Differences Between Two Dates!
DAYS Function: A Brief DAYS function in Excel is used to calculate the number of days between two dates. If you have a start date in cell A1 and an end date in cell B1, the formula =DAYS(B1, A1) will return the total number of days between those two dates. If your system uses the … Read more
Rust’s Build.rs Might Be the Most Underrated Feature in Cargo
While working on my demo on WebAssembly and Kubernetes, I wanted to create three different binaries based on the same code: Native: compile the Rust code to regular native code as a baseline Embed: compile to WebAssembly and use the WasmEdge runtime image as the base Docker image Runtime: compile to WebAssembly, use a base … Read more
Erlang Solutions’ Blog round-up
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The Testing Hack That Makes Bugs Easier to Catch (and Code Easier to Read)
Table-driven testing is a testing paradigm where multiple test cases are defined in a structured format, typically as a collection of inputs and expected outputs. Instead of writing separate test functions for each test case, you define a single test function that iterates through the collection (or “table”) of test cases. This approach allows you … Read more
Bitcoin, Gold, and the Minsky Moment: Novogratz on the End of Fiscal Complacency
The “Minsky Moment” is here, according to Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy Digital, in a recent interview on CNBC. Novogratz noted that tariffs are playing a key role in reshaping the global security apparatus, while President Trump’s return to the political scene is introducing fresh uncertainty into the markets. Although equities are down roughly 10% … Read more
Building an AI That Watches Rugby
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Binance helps countries with Bitcoin reserves, crypto policies, says CEO
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is involved in discussions on establishing strategic digital asset reserves with several countries, its CEO, Richard Teng, reportedly said. Binance has been advising multiple governments on establishing strategic Bitcoin (BTC) reserves and formulating crypto asset regulations, Teng said in an interview with the Financial Times on April 17. “We have actually received … Read more
Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers
Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Wednesday that it had partnered with Kaggle — a Google-owned data science community platform that hosts machine learning data — to publish a beta dataset of “structured … Read more
Bitcoin gold copycat move may top $150K as BTC stays 'impressive'
Bitcoin (BTC) has a new gold-inspired $155,000 target, as analysis describes both assets as “remarkably impressive.” In a post on X on April 16, popular trading and analytics account Cryptollica predicted BTC/USD copying gold to hit new all-time highs next. Analysis sees key BTC price similarities to gold Bitcoin has made the headlines for its … Read more