Bitcoin’s BIP Editors Remove Luke Dashjr Two Days After BIP-110 Fork Stalled
Bitcoin’s BIP editors removed Luke Dashjr from the role on Monday, two days after the soft fork he championed split thousands of nodes onto a chain that has not produced a block since Aug. 8. The BIPs repository has no written procedure for taking the role away. BIP 3, the document that governs the… Read […]
Two Prediction Markets Shut Down Hours Apart as Kalshi and Polymarket Take 93% of Volume
Two crypto prediction market startups announced they were winding down within 90 minutes of each other on Monday morning, both giving users until Sept. 30 to pull their money out. The venues that closed sat at opposite ends of the market. Trepa built its own mechanism on Solana, paying users by how… Read the full […]
Robinhood’s Head of Product Reveals How Robinhood Chain Hit 200M Transactions in 30 Days
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Ether Products Lead $600M Crypto ETP Flow Rebound in July
Global crypto exchange-traded products drew a net $600 million in July, their first positive month since April, 21Shares said in a monthly flows report published Aug. 10. Ether-native products took $350 million of that, roughly twice the $176 million that went into bitcoin-native products. XRP… Read the full story at The Defiant
Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum Roadmap Prioritizes Quantum Readiness and Privacy
Vitalik Buterin overlaid his 2023 Ethereum roadmap diagram onto the Ethereum Foundation’s current strawmap on Monday and said the most striking part of the comparison is the set of items that were not on the 2023 diagram in any form: privacy, defenses against quantum computers, and an execution… Read the full story at The Defiant
BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits
The Bitcoin chain enforcing BIP-110 has not produced a block since Saturday night, and the proposal’s supporters — including Luke Dashjr, who maintains Bitcoin Knots and is chief technology officer of the mining pool Ocean — are now discussing a change to Bitcoin’s proof-of-work algorithm…. Read the full story at The Defiant