How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Legally Compliant Cryptocurrency Exchange: A Case Study of NovaChange By @novachange [ 3 Min read ] As cryptocurrency adoption grows worldwide, … Read more
The lingering fears triggered by US President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs have analysts increasingly convinced that Bitcoin is now more likely than ever to challenge the US dollar in the years ahead. “Higher chance Bitcoin survives over the dollar in our lifetime after today,” Bitwise Invest head of alpha strategies Jeff Parks said in … Read more
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The worst fears for risk assets, including cryptocurrencies, are coming true, and that has raised the risk of bitcoin (BTC) falling below $74,000 in a move that could shake out leveraged long bets. On Sunday, CoinDesk discussed the possibility of pronounced downside volatility in risk assets due to a potential unwinding of the Treasury market … Read more
An Ether whale who had held 10,000 Ether for the last 900 days has sold their entire stash and missed out on a peak profit of $27.6 million when the cryptocurrency was worth over $4,000. The whale initially bought a total of 10,000 Ether (ETH) across two transactions in October and November 2022 for $13 … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) dipped to nearly $75,000 early Wednesday, before slightly recovering, as Trump’s sweeping global tariffs went into effect on Wednesday. Ether (ETH) dived 10%, leading losses among major tokens, with xrp (XRP), dogecoin (DOGE), BNB Chain’s BNB, Solana’s SOL and Cardano’s ADA down more than 5%. Overall market capitalization decreased 6%, extending a 7-day … Read more
Ethereum has only outperformed Bitcoin for 15% of all trading days since its launch almost a decade ago, according to analysts. Since Ether (ETH) began trading in mid-2015, it has underperformed against Bitcoin (BTC) 85% of the time, analyst James Check said in an April 8 X post. Data shared by Check shows that Ether … Read more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has warned that crypto will increasingly threaten traditional financial markets’ stability as the industry grows and becomes more entwined with traditional finance players. “We cannot rule out that future sharp drops in crypto prices could have knock-on effects on our financial system,” ESMA’s executive director Natasha Cazenave said … Read more
Assemblyman Clyde Vanel’s new proposal would evaluate how blockchain can secure voter records and election results.
The artificial intelligence agent creation and monetization platform Virtuals Protocol has seen its daily revenue plummet to just $500 as demand for crypto AI agents continues to wane. “Probably one of the wildest crypto charts of the cycle,” Blockworks researcher Sharples said in an April 8 X post. Steep decline in AI agent creation Sharples … Read more
Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has been granted final court approval to settle a class-action lawsuit for $11 million with Astrals non-fungible token (NFT) buyers. Florida federal court judge Federico Moreno granted approval of the settlement between O’Neal and the class group led by Daniel Harper in an April 1 order made available on April … Read more
The team behind US first lady Melania Trump’s memecoin, Melania Meme (MELANIA), has moved $30 million worth of the token out of the project’s community funds and has begun selling them, says blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps. Bubblemaps said in an April 7 X post that 50 million MELANIA tokens worth around $30 million “was moved … Read more
Influencer Haliey Welch’s podcast returns with KSI, another figure with a controversial crypto past, as its first guest.
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more
Malicious actors are attempting to steal crypto with malware embedded in fake Microsoft Office extensions uploaded to the software hosting site SourceForge, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. One of the malicious listings, called “officepackage,” has real Microsoft Office add-ins but hides a malware called ClipBanker that replaces a copied crypto wallet address on a computer’s … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 MindEye2 and 2.1 Shared-Subject Functional Alignment 2.2 Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules 2.3 Image Captioning and 2.4 Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP 2.5 Model Inference 3 Results and 3.1 fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction 3.2 Image Captioning 3.3 Image/Brain Retrieval and 3.4 Brain Correlation 3.5 Ablations 4 Related Work … Read more
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The Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs could collapse US demand for Bitcoin mining rigs, which would benefit mining operations outside the country as manufacturers will look outside the US to sell their surplus inventory for cheaper, says Hashlabs Mining CEO Jaran Mellerud. “As machine prices rise in the U.S., they could paradoxically decrease in the rest … Read more
Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies has voted to investigate top officials after the Milei promoted Libra meme coin tanked in February.
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Related works 3 Methodology and 3.1 Causal language model as a classification model 3.2 Functional token 3.3 Dataset collection 3.4 Model development and training 4 Experiments and 4.1 Android function calls 4.2 Extension to Vehicle, Yelp, and DoorDash function sets 4.3 Full and partial training datasets and … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Related works 3 Methodology and 3.1 Causal language model as a classification model 3.2 Functional token 3.3 Dataset collection 3.4 Model development and training 4 Experiments and 4.1 Android function calls 4.2 Extension to Vehicle, Yelp, and DoorDash function sets 4.3 Full and partial training datasets and … Read more
Octane has secured $6.7 million from Winklevoss Capital and others to tackle rising crypto hacks using AI-powered code auditing.