As CZ Gets His Sentence, Michael Lewis Should Rewatch 'Star Wars' He likened FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried to Luke Skywalker and Binance's Changpeng Zhao to Darth Vader. Federal judges saw it differently. https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2024/05/01/as-cz-gets-his-sentence-michael-lewis-should-rewatch-star-wars/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines
Blockchain Sleuth Elliptic Explores AI and Anti-Money Laundering Using 200M Bitcoin Transactions Patterns of illicit activity involving groups of bitcoin nodes and chains of transactions are described in a research paper by Elliptic and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Sinks Below $58K in Run-Up to Fed Decision The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 1, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Restaking 'Gold Rush' Spreads to Solana From Ethereum, With Jito and Others Joining In Restaking has taken hold of the Ethereum ecosystem. With Jito and a handful of other companies building for Solana, can the trend spread?
Stablecoin Bill Could be Ready for the U.S. House Soon Says Top Democrat Maxine Waters: Bloomberg U.S. House Representative Maxine Waters (D-California), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, told Bloomberg Wednesday "We are on our way to getting a stablecoin bill in the shor...
'Buy Bitcoin' Sign Sold for Over $1M at Auction Proceeds will go to fund the development of Bitcoin layer-2 lightning startup Tirrel Corp.
Bitcoin Pioneer Hal Finney Posthumously Wins New Award Named for Him
Bitcoin Dips Below $60K as Israel Launches Strike on Iran Iran's first strike on Israel pushed down crypto and risk assets, while leading to a spike in gold.
Runes, Casey Rodarmor's Protocol for 'Sh!tcoins' on Bitcoin, Set to Go Live at Halving Rodarmor created last year's breakout Ordinals protocol, which is used to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin. Now, he says the relevance of protocols like his new Runes, used to create fungi...
OG Bitcoin L2 Stacks Is Getting a Major Overhaul The Nakamoto update will decouple block production from Bitcoin itself, solving the problem of network congestion Stacks has had since it launched its mainnet in 2021.