Revisiting the Playground
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HODL! Tesla hangs onto all its remaining $218M in Bitcoin in Q3
The vehicle manufacturer’s latest earnings report for the third quarter shows it’s made no changes to its Bitcoin holdings since its huge sell-off in the second quarter.
$4.5T asset manager Fidelity offers ETH custody and trading to clients
According to an email reportedly sent to clients, Fidelity Digital Assets is offering institutional Ethereum capabilities for their clients starting next week.
Voyager customers could recover 72% of frozen crypto under FTX deal
The plan is tentative at this stage and won’t be finalized until it receives approval from Voyager’s creditors and the bankruptcy payout plan is approved by the judge.
Mango Markets Will Soon Start Returning Stolen Funds From $114 Exploit
The exploiter had come forward and returned most of the stolen funds a few days ago.
General Atlantic eyes increasing stake in Amazon-backed insurtech Acko
General Atlantic is in talks to invest about $50 million in Acko, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, doubling down on its bet on the Indian insurtech at a time when most investors are treading investment opportunities carefully. The New York-headquartered growth equity investor is positioning to lead a new financing round of … Read more
The Town of Pullman
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Bitcoin’s discount to hash rate highest since early 2020 — Mike McGlone
The senior commodity strategist is bullish on Bitcoin, revealing on Oct. 18 that its relative discount to hash rate has hit levels not seen since the first quarter of 2020.
The great Mahler composing hut tour
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AntiX-22 Released
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‘Secretly circulating’ draft crypto bill could be a ‘boon’ to DeFi
A crypto bill that industry advocates previously said would “kill DeFi” has seen an updated draft released online with one commentator saying the U.S. is “finally getting their act together.”
Twitter user saves cross-chain bridge from potential exploit
The BitBTC bridge reportedly had a bug that would essentially allow an attacker to mint fake tokens on one side of the bridge, and swap them for real ones on the other.
Pig War (1859)
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Here are the 5 finalists of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022
During the last two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022. These 20 companies were selected as the best of the brand-new Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for a chance to take home Battlefield Cup and $100,000. TechCrunch editors and expert judges winnowed them down to the … Read more
Developers Excluded From Broker Label in New DCCPA Bill Draft
Stakeholders say that this latest draft of the bill softens language that would otherwise be detrimental to the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) industry.
4,400 disgruntled investors are hunting for Terra’s Do Kwon
A retail investor group is trying to track down Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon following the crash of the Terra ecosystems’ cryptocurrencies.
Stop Writing Dead Programs
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Ethereum Alarm Clock exploit leads to $260K in stolen gas fees so far
Web3 security firm Supremacy highlighted Etherscan transaction history that showed the hacker(s) were able to swipe 204 ETH in gas fees so far, worth roughly $259,800.
The Mystery of 355/113 (2010)
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First Mover Asia: Why Bridges Are So Vulnerable to Exploit; Bitcoin Falls Under $19K
One crypto developer says that centralization and reliance on private key holders are to blame, not the inherent technology and logic behind the bridges themselves.
Skuad manages hiring and compliance for building distributed teams
Singapore-based Skuad helps companies hire employees in different countries while staying compliant with local employment regulations and processing cross-border payroll. The startup announced today it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. Skuad has signed up more than 350 employers so far, mostly from North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. This funding round, which … Read more