The Curse of the Blue Diamond
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Censored Ethereum Blocks Hit the 51% Threshold Over the Past 24 Hours
Censorship has been a growing concern within the Ethereum ecosystem, especially since the advent of MEV-Boost after the Merge.
The SEC should be aiming at Do Kwon — But it’s getting distracted by Kim Kardashian
Do Kwon should be front-and-center for scrutiny from regulators. Instead, they’re getting distracted by grandstanding over Kim Kardashian.
Investing App Stash Raises $52.6M Weeks After Expanding Access to Cryptocurrencies
The convertible debt offering was revealed in a regulatory filing and confirmed by the company.
What the Regulators Said at DC Fintech Week
A number of high-profile regulators weighed in on crypto and related issues.
$50B asset custody platform GK8 enters Brazil with license agreement
Brazil is becoming a hotbed for crypto adoption, with the country’s tax authority recently claiming that over 12,000 companies hold digital assets.
Tata Power, a top power producer in India, confirms cyberattack
Tata Power, a leading power generation company in India, has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack. In a brief statement released on Friday, the Mumbai-based company said that the attack impacted some of its I.T. systems. “The company has taken steps to retrieve and restore the systems. All critical operational systems are functioning; however, … Read more
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She-Hulk tried to save itself from Marvel’s finale formula by jumping the shark
She-Hulk having a little chat with the writers of her show in the real world. | Image: Disney Plus / Marvel Studios She-Hulk’s season one finale was a tribute to John Byrne’s fourth wall-breaking comics and a rumination on how formulaic Marvel’s live-action stories tend to be Continue reading…
The highs and lows of Q3 venture capital data for women startup founders
Perhaps unsurprisingly, new PitchBook data found that U.S. companies with all female founders are raising less capital this year than the last amid current economic woes. Last year, women raised around 2.4% of all venture capital allocated, a figure that stands at 1.9% through Q3 of this year. That number becomes even lower and even … Read more
Flashbots Reveals New Version of Its Key Ethereum Software
Development of SUAVE, as the project is codenamed, has been going on for a year.
Bitcoin Is Macro, but Not ‘Correlated’ in the Way You Think
We tend to use the two terms (macro and correlation) without understanding what they mean.
Price analysis 10/14: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, MATIC
Buyers could not build upon the strong recovery of Oct. 13, indicating that higher levels continue to attract selling in the U.S. equities markets and Bitcoin.
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The best iOS lock screen widget is made by Google
Google’s helpful iOS lock screen widgets are here. | Image: Google Google announced widgets for the new iOS 16 lock screens last month when the OS left beta and went public, but they weren’t quite ready. Now, the company has just released the last of its promised widgets, including one extremely important shortcut: a Google … Read more
La empresa de trading de criptomonedas NYDIG despide alrededor del 33% de su personal
Hace “varias semanas” que se vienen dando los despidos, le comentaron a CoinDesk.
Google is now testing passkey support for Chrome and Android
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google announced on Wednesday morning that it has taken another step on the journey toward a passwordless future by rolling out support for passkey login to Android and Chrome. Passkeys, which let you use your phone or computer’s built-in authentication systems instead of a traditional password, have support … Read more
Crypto Biz: $470B bank enters crypto — Probably nothing, right?
Another major financial institution has signaled its intent to offer Bitcoin and Ether services to its clients.
SEC Chair Gensler Says CFTC Should Get More Power to Oversee Stablecoins: Report
Gensler pointed out that the CFTC does not have direct authority to write rules for the firms that issue stablecoins.
Bitcoin Steady Above $19K Even as Stocks Give Back Thursday’s Wild Gains
BTC was holding around $19,300, even as traditional markets lost steam following the release of third-quarter company earnings reports.
Fast Forward Venture Studio to build African startups from idea to scale
Opeyemi Awoyemi, one of Nigeria’s well-known serial founders, is back with another outfit. It’s not a tech company this time — Awoyemi co-founded online jobs site Jobberman (which was acquired by ROAM Africa in 2016) and Whogohost, a bootstrapped hosting platform — but instead, a venture studio: Fast Forward Venture Studio. Awoyemi choosing this route … Read more
Is this really the second-best time ever to raise early-stage capital?
“The 2022 venture capital market” is nearly a misnomer, as each quarter that passes seems to bring with it a new normal for startup investment. The pace of quarterly change in how venture investors are disbursing capital is making full-year numbers almost misleading. The change inside of 2022, in other words, may at times mask … Read more
Clear Capital lays off 27% of its global staff
Clear Capital, a real estate valuation technology company and firm, is laying off 27% of its staff months after freezing mass hiring, TechCrunch has learned from sources. A spokesperson for Clear Capital confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch but did not share the specific number of employees impacted. Last November, the company announced they had 1,400 … Read more
Testing approaches for Amazon SageMaker ML models
This post was co-written with Tobias Wenzel, Software Engineering Manager for the Intuit Machine Learning Platform. We all appreciate the importance of a high-quality and reliable machine learning (ML) model when using autonomous driving or interacting with Alexa, for examples. ML models also play an important role in less obvious ways—they’re used by business applications, … Read more
Bitcoin trader predicts $18K return within days as stocks wilt post-CPI
The fun could be over at $20,000, analysis warns as U.S. equities feel the burn and the dollar makes up for lost time.