A crypto wallet tied to a little-known Chinese mining pool may have been the victim of the largest bitcoin theft ever recorded, according to new findings from Arkham Intelligence. In an Aug. 2 thread on X, the onchain analytics firm said it had uncovered evidence that 127,426 BTC — worth $3.5 billion at the time … Read more
Impermanent loss has been a major factor preventing crypto holders from becoming liquidity providers on decentralized finance platforms.
Dogecoin stands its ground. Shiba Inu is charging forward. Ethereum keeps pulling in heavy institutional cash. But quietly, in its own lane, Pepeto is gaining serious ground. Priced at just $0.000000144, Pepeto’s presale has already raked in over $5.8M, with $6M now in clear view. That kind of early buzz doesn’t spark without investors spotting … Read more
With the passing of the GENIUS Act, stablecoins are no longer a regulatory grey area—but usability challenges still remain.
In this post, we will implement a command-line interface that’ll accept a markdown file as a command-line argument, read its content, and print the entire content of the file in the terminal. After doing this, we will be well on our way to start implementing parsing basic texts, headers, lists, and so on. I’ll explain … Read more
ZachXBT named some sponsors of Token2049 as sketchy. While these coins may have hype-fueled pumps to cult-like followings, they may have no real utility.
Big banks are making it harder and more expensive for consumers to use fintech and crypto apps, which amounts to what could be seen as “Operation Chokepoint 3.0.” That’s according to Alex Rampell, General Partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In its latest fintech newsletter, Rampell pointed to traditional financial institutions charging high … Read more
The Bitcoin mining difficulty is crucial to both miner profitability and ensuring that BTC is not mined faster than the protocol allows.
Anthropic has cut off one of its biggest competitors, revoking OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models.
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Strategy (MSTR), the bitcoin-focused corporate entity formerly known as MicroStrategy, launched its Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC) late last month — an offering Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has described as the company’s “iPhone moment.” The STRC preferred stock has already raised $2.5 billion, and a newly opened $4.2 billion at-the-market (ATM) program could extend its … Read more
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 2, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Netscape produces Navio to Compete with Microsoft in 1996, undefined in 1902, The San Francisco cable car system began operations in 1873, and we present you with these … Read more
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Bitcoin miners had a profitable month in July, JP Morgan analysts noted in a report, as the price of the digital coin broke a new record.