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Bernie Madoff’s Lawyer: Sam Bankman-Fried Should ‘Shut Up’
21.12.2022
Ira Lee Sorkin, partner at law firm Mintz & Gold, discusses why he would’ve told the disgraced CEO to “keep his mouth shut” and not speak to various media outlets after the FTX exchange filed for bankruptcy protection
Swarm, Ethereum’s Storage Network, Announces Mainnet Storage Incentives and Web3PC Inception
21.12.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Swarm, the decentralised storage and communication system built on Ethereum, is announcing the mainnet release of its storage incentives programme, a mechanism to reward storage providers, which now incorporates staking. Swarm has been in development for the past five years, having...
Sam Bankman-Fried to be Extradited to the US
21.12.2022
A judge on Wednesday approved the former FTX CEO's agreement not to contest extradition
Biggest Movers: ETC Moves Away From Multi-Month Lows, as XMR Extends Recent Gains
21.12.2022
Ethereum classic rallied for a second straight session on Wednesday, following better-than-expected U.S. consumer confidence data. The figures showed that confidence among American consumers rose to the highest level in eight months, with a reading of 108.3. Monero was also higher on the news,...
Metaverse-First Blockchain Lamina1 Launches Rolling Fund for Web3 Builders
21.12.2022
The Layer 1 blockchain is the brainchild of Neal Stephenson, who coined the term "metaverse" in 1992, and Peter Vessenes, co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation. The project will also soon launch a testnet showcasing future use cases
Craig Wright v. Peter McCormack: Judge Rules McCormack Should Pay Around $1.1M in Costs
21.12.2022
Wright had argued that McCormack should pay the majority of costs for the legal proceedings, but then accepted to pay all McCormack's costs save for those ruled in Wright's favor
Another Crypto.com Ad Banned by UK Advertising Regulator
21.12.2022
The company also came under fire from the Advertising Standards Authority in January
DeFi’s Difficult Governance Decisions Lie Ahead
21.12.2022
Decentralization was proven to be DeFi’s saving grace this year. Shouldn’t protocol governance also be as decentralized as possible?
How Crypto Exchanges Can Be Free of Risk
21.12.2022
Crypto marketplaces such as FTX have caused huge losses to users because of the lack of full custody coverage. These issues stem from the way current electronic markets were simply designed as copies of open outcry and paper-based markets – and also, ironically, from the fact that all the major...
DeFi Protocol Ankr Says Ex-Employee Caused $5M Exploit
21.12.2022
A former employee of DeFi protocol Ankr maliciously caused a $5 million exploit earlier this month, according to a blog post published on Ankr's website
The Next Generation of Automated Settlement
21.12.2022
We have elaborated the circuitry of DeFi, and must now realize its potential to replace the oil lamps, hand cranks and steam engines of the present financial landscapes
Bitcoin miner Northern Data says it has no financial debt, expects $204M in revenue for 2022
21.12.2022
At the midpoint, the guidance represents a growth of 1.1% from its revenue in 2021
Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Firm Plans to Continue Mining Bitcoin to Pay Down Debt
21.12.2022
On Dec. 21, 2022, one of the largest bitcoin mining operations in the industry, Core Scientific, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of Texas. According to the filing, Core Scientific has roughly 1,000 to 5,000 creditors and its estimated assets are worth between...
2022 Roundup of Web Research
21.12.2022
We’ve started making a tradition of rounding up the latest front-end research at the end of each year. We did it in 2020 and again in 2021. Reports are released throughout the year by a bunch of different companies …
2022 Roundup of Web Research originally published on CSS-Tricks...
RIP To These 14 Games That Died In 2022
21.12.2022
There was a time, back in the day, where you’d just buy a finished game and played it. No day-one updates or extra patches—it was simple. These games couldn’t “die” because they simply…existed. But as MMOs and live-service games (or “games as a service”) began to proliferate, requiring online...
Built on Bitcoin in 2022: Top Bitcoin Newsletter Publishes Its Year-End Review
21.12.2022
A deliberately measured progression in development with at least 3 major themes is the conclusion of the Bitcoin Operations Technology Group
Waves Blockchain Founder Asks Exchanges to Delist WAVES Token Derivative Trading
21.12.2022
Sasha Ivanov, the founder of decentralized blockchain Waves, has asked centralized exchanges to deactivate futures markets tied to its native WAVES token
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Briefly Above $17,000 Ahead of US Consumer Confidence Report
21.12.2022
Bitcoin was briefly trading above $17,000 on Wednesday, as markets prepared for the release of the upcoming U.S. consumer confidence report. Today’s figure is expected to come in at a reading of 101.00 for December, which is higher than last month’s number of 100.2. Ethereum was also...
Peer-to-Peer Crypto Marketplace Paxful Removes ETH From Platform
21.12.2022
Peer-to-peer bitcoin (BTC) marketplace Paxful has removed ether (ETH) from its platform, with CEO Ray Youssef describing it as "essentially a digital form of fiat."
First Mover Americas: One of The Largest Bitcoin Miners Goes Bankrupt
21.12.2022
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Dec. 21, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets