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The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Great Ethereum Traffic Jam of 2023: Blame It on Inscriptions (2/4/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 4, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From How to Build a Tiny Language Model (TLM) in Ruby: A Step-by-Step Guide to The AI Writing Contest by … Read more
El Salvador Buys the Bitcoin Dip, Snaps Up Another $1.1 Million
The Central American country snapped up another 11 Bitcoin for its national reserve as crypto prices slumped this week.
The AI Writing Contest by Bright Data & HackerNoon: Results Announcement 🎉
Howdy Hackers, The wait is over—we’re thrilled to announce the finalists and winners of the AI Writing Contest, presented by Bright Data and HackerNoon. This contest, which kicked off on September 2, 2024, put the spotlight on a key player in the world of Artificial Intelligence—data. Writers explored how AI training data is collected, how … Read more
HackerNoon Decoded 2024: Celebrating Our Science Community!
Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: Science Edition—the ultimate recap of the stories, writers, and trends that defined your 2024! From Molecules To Galaxies, You Saw Connections Everywhere We know hundreds of Pi digits, yet how so many of you ended up in the top 2.27% of users who devour Science stories is a real mystery. :::tip … Read more
Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes
On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do. But when they … Read more
Meta says this is the make or break year for the metaverse
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth is giving the metaverse a year to become a hit, according to an internal forum post reported by Business Insider. That time period will determine whether Reality Labs’ mixed reality efforts are “the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure,” he writes. Bosworth details his expectations early in the post: We … Read more
Olas Secures $13.8M to Build the App Store for AI Agents
Olas has secured $13.8 million in funding to launch Pearl, the world’s first decentralized AI agent marketplace. The investment round has attracted an impressive roster of strategic partners, including Tioga Capital, Sigil Fund, Zee Prime Capital, and Spaceship DAO. Notable angel investors, including ML Tech co-founder Leonid Mindyuk, have also joined the round, signaling strong … Read more
Accidental wildfire alerts prompt probe from Congress
House of Representative members from California want to know what led to accidental evacuation alerts that fomented confusion during devastating Los Angeles fires in January. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires broke out in early January, killing at least 29 people and destroying more than 16,000 structures. In the midst of the chaos, some 10 million … Read more
Making Technology Work for Everyone: Igor Kuzevanov about Innovations in Blockchain
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a new way of using technology to manage money without needing banks. According to Market.us, the global DeFi market is projected to grow significantly, reaching a market value of approximately $616.1 billion by 2033. As promising as the future looks, DeFi has some big problems. It is often too hard for … Read more
How EVM Chains Became the New Playground for Meme Coins
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Research Questions and Contributions Related Work Background Inscriptions and ordinals 4.1 Operation Types 4.2 Comparison with NFTs and ERC-20s Data Collection Empirical Analysis and 6.1 Overall Transactions 6.2 Inscriptions Characterization 6.3 Inscription Trading 6.4 Impact on Gas Fees Discussion Conclusion and References 2 Related Work In this … Read more
Data, Dollars, and Degens: Inside the Inscription Frenzy of 2023
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Research Questions and Contributions Related Work Background Inscriptions and ordinals 4.1 Operation Types 4.2 Comparison with NFTs and ERC-20s Data Collection Empirical Analysis and 6.1 Overall Transactions 6.2 Inscriptions Characterization 6.3 Inscription Trading 6.4 Impact on Gas Fees Discussion Conclusion and References 1.1 Research Questions and Contributions … Read more
The Great Ethereum Traffic Jam of 2023: Blame It on Inscriptions
:::info Authors: (1) Johnnatan Messias, Matter Labs; (2) Krzysztof Gogol, Matter Labs, University of Zurich; (3) Maria Inês, Silva Matter Labs; (4) Benjamin Livshits, Matter Labs, Imperial College London. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Research Questions and Contributions Related Work Background Inscriptions and ordinals 4.1 Operation Types 4.2 Comparison with NFTs … Read more
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Miner Moves $5 Million BTC Earned When the Price Was Just 10 Cents
Thanks to Bitcoin price action in recent months, the Bitcoin went from being worth $5 to approximately $5 million over 15 years.
Cryptomus Offers ‘Endless Possibilities’ With High Liquidity Platform
With over 400,000 customers, including 100,000 institutional clients, the centralized crypto exchange supports a plethora of assets.
Ethereum game Moonray to launch on Xbox and PS5: Web3 Gamer
Can Ethereum game Moonray repeat the success of Off The Grid when it launches on Xbox and Playstation later this year? Web3 Gamer.
Coinbase Users Are Losing $300M a Year to Social Scams, ZachXBT Says
Coinbase (COIN) users lost over $65 million to social engineering attacks in the past two months with an estimated $300 million lost to such attacks annually, crypto sleuth ZachXBT said in an X post Monday. The actual figure lost might be higher, because the amount doesn’t include unreported cases, ZachXBT said. Coinbase has not publicly … Read more
Spotify reports its first full year of profitability, adds 35M monthly active users
On Tuesday morning, Spotify announced its fourth-quarter earnings, marking its first full year of profitability since its inception 17 years ago. The operating income for the quarter reached a record €477 million ($509.48 million) and amounted to €1.4 billion ($1.495 billion) for the 2024 fiscal year. Spotify also reported an addition of 35 million monthly … Read more
How HyperCycle and TGC Are Reinventing Gaming: New Rollout Set to Accelerate Cloud Gaming
HyperCycle and TGC announced a two-stage collaboration aimed at expanding gaming infrastructure. The partnership comes on the heels of TGC’s recent seed funding of $7.5 million from investors including Telecoin, SingularityDAO, Bullperks, HyperCycle, NodeMarket, Foundership, and the former CEO of Telenor. In the first stage, up to 2,000 Network Node Factories will be deployed to … Read more
Starting 2025 with New Features: Settings Dashboard, HackerNoon Decoded, Updated Search UI, and More
HackerNoon’s monthly product update is here! 🚀 Say hello to HackerNoon Decoded, your ultimate recap of 2024. Explore the revamped settings dashboard for easier customization, a powerful AI detector tool to protect your content, a seamless ticketing app, and much more! This product update reflects changes to the platform from November 25, 2024, until February … Read more
The timeline apps are here, and they’re awesome
Tapestry is a particularly colorful way to look at all your feeds. The folks at Iconfactory, which once made a wonderful Twitter client called Twitterrific, launched a new app on Tuesday. Itâs called Tapestry, and itâs a cross between a social app and a news reader. The app can ingest feeds of all kinds: someoneâs … Read more