Well, that was unexpected.Back in Silo Season 3, episode 7, we were finally shown the founders responsible for building the silos. In episode 8, we seemed to get a clue as to how the world might end — and now...
In MicroStrategy Bitcoin news, MSCI is considering rules that could remove Strategy Inc. from its global equity indexes, potentially adding strain to the financing model behind the company’s Bitcoin holdings. The proposal is not specific to Bitcoin: it focuses on...
My previous post introducing Ethereum Script 2.0 was met with a number of responses, some highly supportive, others suggesting that we switch to their own preferred stack-based / assembly-based / functional paradigm, and offering various specific criticisms that we are...
The Maytag Man is one of the most enduring characters in American advertising, lonely because no one needs his help repairing a Maytag appliance. The Maytag brand, too, has endured—going back to the days when Frederick Maytag’s washers involved wooden...
BitGo Holdings completed its acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business on Aug. 27, adding derivatives, structured products, execution and financing services to its U.S. institutional platform. Summary BitGo completed its acquisition of NYDIG’s institutional trading business, though financial terms remained...
Genius Group has announced a new plan to buy bitcoin — just months after selling its entire stash. The NYSE-listed AI-powered education company said in a Thursday statement that it was aiming to build parallel AI and bitcoin treasuries worth...
There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain notwithstanding, perhaps the first major breakthrough after blinding and zero-knowledge proofs is fully homomorphic encryption, a technology which allows you to upload...
Mark your calendars: on Thursday night, September 10, StrictlyVC — TechCrunch’s boutique evening series — is heading to New York’s West Village (the real one — brownstones, cobblestones, and all — not the Mission Bay stretch of San Francisco that’s...
Key TakeawaysNew Zealand’s ACT party proposed tax-free crypto gains after a year to boost long-term retail investments.The proposal exempts small crypto purchases from taxes, aiming to make digital assets a daily currency.The plan includes clear stablecoin rules and a regulatory...
Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell writes the following on Reddit: There is a design flaw in the Bitcoin protocol where its possible for a third party to take a valid transaction of yours and mutate it in a way which leaves...
