How are you, hacker? đȘWant 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. ## Central Banks Are Panic-Buying Gold. You Should Be Asking Why By @vladimirgorbunov [ 3 Min read ] In 2025, gold and … Read more
Publicly-listed Metaplanet announced fresh bitcoin (BTC) purchases on Monday as BTC went above $87,300, reversing last weekâs loses. Metaplanet picked up 330 BTC bring its overall holdings to 4,855 BTC, worth over $420 million, based on current prices. This is the Japanese firm’s third bitcoin purchase this month, even as broader markets reel from tariff … Read more
Crypto exchange Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou says more than two-thirds of the digital assets stolen from the platform in February by North Koreaâs Lazarus Group still remain traceable. In an executive summary on hacked Bybit funds posted on X on April 21, Ben Zhou said that of the total $1.4 billion hacked, 68.6% … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says users sending âpleaseâ and âthank youâ messages to ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars. âTens of millions of dollars well spent — you never know,â Altman said on April 16 after being asked to estimate the cost on X. Source: Sam Altman Altmanâs response sparked discussion … Read more
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit’s CEO Ben Zhou said that 27.95% of the funds lost in the $1.4 billion exploit engineered by the North Korean Lazarus Group have gone dark or become untraceable. “Total hacked funds of USD 1.4bn around 500k ETH. 68.57% remain traceable, 27.59% have gone dark, 3.84% have been frozen. The untraceable funds primarily … Read more
The number of addresses holding more than a thousand Bitcoin has surged in April as whales continue to accumulate. More than 60 new wallets holding over 1,000 Bitcoin (BTC) have appeared since early March, a signal of increasing whale activity. The number of these whale wallets has increased from 2,037 in late February to hit … Read more
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The Solana network briefly surpassed Ethereum in total staked value of their respective native tokens, SOL and ETH, sparking debate over whether it is actually bullish or bearish for Solana. More than $53.9 billion worth of SOL is now staked on the Solana network from 505,938 unique wallet holders, who are making an 8.31% annualized … Read more
The Chaos Within Bitcoin mining, once a playground for tech hobbyists, has increasingly been overtaken by corporate giants, but a grassroots revolution is gaining momentum. On April 15, 2025, Solo Satoshi announced a pivotal milestone on X: over 10,000 Bitaxe miners sold, contributing more than 10 petahashes of hashpower to bitcoin home miners globally. Fueled … Read more
A doomsday-themed Solana NFT project is looking to sell 100,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to buy a Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Rutland, England. Dead Bruv, the creators of the narrative-driven NFT project Meatbags, plan to mint 100,000 NFTs, with Meatbags holders being airdropped 10,000. The the rest will be sold off starting April 21, starting … Read more
Ethereum-based real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform Blocksquare has partnered with a Florida-based real estate company to offer fractional ownership in a pipeline of US commercial properties valued at over $1 billion. Announcing the deal on April 18, Blocksquare and Vera Capital said a marketplace would launch in the coming weeks to enable global investors to … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) outshined the otherwise volatile alternative cryptocurrencies early Monday as the dollar index crashed to a three-year low on reports that President Donald Trump is exploring ways to remove the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. BTC rose over 2% to $87,200, hitting the highest since April 2, according to data source CoinDesk. The move … Read more
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Bitcoin prices appear to be breaking out of an extended period of consolidation as the asset climbs to its highest level since late March. Bitcoin (BTC) surged above $87,400 on April 21, its highest price since March 28, according to TradingView. It has climbed by more than $3,000 from an intraday low of just over … Read more
(Even When Life Dropkicks You in the Face) You know that hollow feeling when something falls apart and you suddenly have no idea who you are anymore? Yeahâbeen there. For years, my identity was my business. It was my purpose, my personality, my status, my therapy, my everything. Until it wasnât. When I stepped away, … Read more
Everybody wants to get a lot of visitors to their site every day because traffic directly impacts your business. Eventually, some of those visitors will become customers. I want to share a strategy using dropped domains with backlinks that can bring you long-term web traffic. With this approach, Iâve been getting around 100 relevant, unique … Read more
The term “AI agent” seems to be everywhere lately. From tech news headlines to business strategy discussions, it’s rapidly becoming one of the most prominent terms in the artificial intelligence lexicon. Like many popular tech terms, however, its meaning can sometimes get diluted, leading to its use as a catch-all buzzword. So, what really constitutes … Read more
MONTH Function: A Brief The MONTH function in Excel is used to extract the month number (1 to 12) from a given input date. The MONTH function will return a #VALUE! error if the input is not a valid Excel date. It will return a #NUM! error if the input number is outside the acceptable … Read more
MINUTE Function: A Brief The MINUTE function in Excel is used to extract the minute portion from a given input time value and returns the output as the numerical value (0-59). Note: MINUTE function will return #VALUE! error, when there is an issue with your inputs or used invalid starting or ending dates. You can … Read more
When talking about safety in programming, it is memory safety that usually takes the spotlight. However, here we’ll touch on another common safety issue that typically causes application logic errors, meaning your program won’t function correctly. It’s about checking the status of any kind of statement that provides it. Not checking the status could mean … Read more
How many times have you been told? You are not listening to me. Will you let me finish? That’s not what I meant! You may find it hard to listen because as soon as someone starts talking, instead of paying attention to their words, your mind gets activated and already starts constructing the response. What … Read more
1. What are Metrics and Why They’re Important Metrics are numerical measurements collected at regular intervals that provide insights into your application’s behavior, performance, and health. Unlike logs which capture discrete events, metrics track values that change over time, allowing you to observe patterns, trends, and anomalies. 2. Metrics in Prometheus Format and Why Use … Read more
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pSjV5zdfjV0kshQ7fRNNa?si=9Le4xI0BQpmGEhPlFPXidg&embedable=true Your bookshelf is full of half-read self-help books. Your phone has six productivity apps you downloaded and abandoned. Your notes are filled with morning routines you followed for exactly 9 days. I get it. I’ve been there â spending thousands on courses promising transformation while feeling like I was sprinting on a treadmill going … Read more
Swiftâs structured concurrency has transformed the way we write asynchronous code. With async/await, expressing complex logic becomes cleaner and more linear. However, to fully leverage Swiftâs concurrency, you need a solid grasp of how tasks are created and managed â particularly Task, .task, and their variations. Task: Entering an Async Context from Sync Code The … Read more
Hard lessons from real-world deployments, and how to avoid the most expensive mistakes. Docker is amazing â until itâs not. You write a Dockerfile, run it locally, and it works like magic. But the moment you try to scale it, secure it, or run it reliably in production, reality hits hard. From bloated images to … Read more