Kraken crypto exchange launches own Wrapped Bitcoin token
According to Kraken, kBTC reinforces Bitcoin’s position as the “epicenter of crypto” and empowers developers to explore new ways to use BTC.
India’s central bank orders Sachin Bansal’s Navi to halt loans
India’s central bank ordered four non-bank lenders, including Navi Finserv and DMI Finance, to halt loans from October 21, citing excessive interest rates and regulatory breaches. The Reserve Bank of India said (PDF) the firms violated rules on pricing, income assessment, and asset classification. This action follows months of warnings about responsible lending practices, it … Read more
Ongoing Profit-Taking Could Slow Bitcoin’s Move To Record High
Historical data suggests when the bitcoin circulating supply in profit is over 94% we tend to see a sell-off due to profit-taking.
Two builders produce 88% of Ethereum blocks in October, raising concerns
Some analysts don’t see this as a centralization concern due to the Ethereum network’s underlying builder-proposer architecture.
Hamster Kombat Season 2 Teaser
Here’s a first look at Season 2 of Telegram tap-to-earn game Hamster Kombat.
WazirX to List Its 240,000 Wallets and Balances as Part of Debt Restructuring
“Transparency starts with showing you everything, even if that means sharing what might seem like overwhelming data,” WazirX noted.
Working with Collections in Rust | A Comprehensive Guide
Rust is well known for its focus on memory safety, performance, and concurrency, making it a great choice for systems programming. One of the key aspects of working in any language is managing and organizing data, and in Rust, collections play a crucial role in this task. Collections in Rust are versatile and efficient, allowing … Read more
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Recedes to $67K as Crypto Market Sees Slight Dip
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Oct. 17, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
This Beat Up Old Honda Just Hit Every Crypto Hot Spot in Europe—Here’s Why
A banged up Honda Civic called The Meme Machine traveled across Europe this summer, becoming emblematic of crypto in 2024.
Increased LLM Vulnerabilities from Fine-tuning and Quantization: Abstract and Introduction
:::info Authors: (1) Divyanshu Kumar, Enkrypt AI; (2) Anurakt Kumar, Enkrypt AI; (3) Sahil Agarwa, Enkrypt AI; (4) Prashanth Harshangi, Enkrypt AI. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Problem Formulation and Experiments 3 Experiment Set-up & Results 4 Conclusion and References A. Appendix ABSTRACT Large Language Models (LLMs) have become very popular … Read more
‘Hamster Kombat’ Telegram Game Overhaul Revealed for Season 2
In a very meta shift, the next season of Telegram game Hamster Kombat will be all about developing and publishing games.
Hamster Kombat Season 2 lets players become CEOs, build game studios
Hamster Kombat teased its new storyline for Season 2 in a newly released trailer for the popular Telegram clicker game.
Remember Blockbuster?
It was a chilly winter morning in 2004. The scene was Stanley, Idaho — a city with a population of 101 and a current temperature of negative 17. My boyfriend, who had lured me here from London, England, handed me a bright red envelope and asked if I could drop it in the mailbox on … Read more
Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches Wrapped Bitcoin Token kBTC
The token will be available on both Ethereum and OP Mainnet.
GraFun Starts Labs Division to Boost Memecoin Ecosystem on BNB Chain
The Labs partners include trading firm DWF Labs and the Floki, BNB Chain’s largest memecoin by market capitalization.
Trump’s Bitcoin U-turn: How the crypto critic became a pump signal
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pitched himself as a pro-Bitcoin candidate, but not too long ago he said it was based on “thin air.”
A Brief History of Money: From the Economy of Favors to Bitcoin
For most people, money means banknotes and coins. Of course, we also know that a banknote is just paper, and a coin is just metal. But what is money really? Money is nothing more than embodied trust! To understand this, it’s worth taking a brief look at the history of money. Around 2.5 million years … Read more
Elon Musk’s X boosts DSA info for EU users as bloc’s probe of its complaint handling continues
An incoming privacy policy update to Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) will see the company making it clearer to users in the European Union that they have the right to appeal decisions under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), such as account bans, content takedowns and shadowbanning. The online governance regulation, which applies on scores … Read more
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Everything You Need to Know About Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) Technology
Everything seems to be registered here! The best definition I have found about zero-knowledge proofs is given below: A zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a powerful cryptographic protocol that allows one party (the prover) to convince another party (the verifier) that a statement or computation is true, without revealing any additional information beyond the validity of … Read more
Bitcoin Market Dominance Reaches 3-Year High—What’s That Mean?
“The price is climbing toward the midpoint of this range, but it has not yet established a decisive breakout,” one analyst told Decrypt.
Oh, WoW
World of Warcraft, or WoW, is like the Red Hot Chili Peppers of the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre: not only is it still going strong but it’s also somehow even bigger than you thought. World of Warcraft’s current numbers aren’t public, but one recent educated guess came in at 7 million paying subscribers, which, … Read more
5 reasons why Trump’s World Liberty Financial token crashed and burned
The former pesident’s DeFi token saw poor sales for various issues, including restrictions on who can invest, non-transferability and others
Casio says ‘no prospect of recovery yet’ after ransomware attack
The Japanese electronics giant says some of its systems remain “unusable” almost two weeks after cyberattack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Web3 provider says access to quantum computing is ‘human right’
Dynex co-founder Daniela Herrmann told Cointelegraph that innovation is a human right and that she believes technology should be available to everyone.
Instagram rolls out new safety features to protect teens from sextortion
Instagram is introducing a series of new safety features to protect users from sextortion scammers, the company announced on Thursday. Most notably, the company is no longer going to allow people to screenshot or screen record ephemeral images or videos sent in private messages. Up until now, you have been able to screenshot ephemeral content … Read more
Stellar ecosystem implements Blockaid security features
Stellar’s Lobstr and Freighter Wallets are the first to receive the new Blockaid security features.