Cryptocurrency

The Special Contribution Period for the KZG Ceremony ran 01-16 April 2023. This allowed participants to contribute in ways that may not have been possible in the Open Contribution period. While the Ceremony only needs a single honest participant to provide a secure output, Special Contributions provide additional assurances beyond a standard entropy contribution: computing … Read more

We’re thrilled to announce that Celestia (TIA) is now available on Kraken! Funding and trading TIA funding and trading are live. Add TIA to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit. Only deposit TIA on Celestia. Deposits using other networks will be lost. Got TIA and a Kraken account? … Read more

24 Nov Tether and Bitfinex Agree to Drop Opposition to FOIL Request Posted at 13:00h in Announcements by admin Tether and Bitfinex place a high value on transparency, a core principle within the cryptocurrency industry. Our commitment to transparency is evident through our past actions, such as Tether dropping opposition to a New York Freedom … Read more

I am trying to understand the minting of Taproot Assets. In particular I want to understand how to mint more of an existing asset, i.e. add to the existing supply of that asset. I am experimenting with Taproot Assets using tapd version 0.3.2-alpha: $ tapcli –version tapcli version 0.3.2-alpha.rc1 commit=v0.3.2-beta.rc1-2-g3757262 I have managed to create … Read more

Elon Musk’s X acquires a crypto license, Robinhood buys back its shares from Sam Bankman-Fried and a crypto streamer exposes his private key during a livestream. You can guess what happened next. These stories and more, this week in crypto. Gains Erased on Regulatory Decisions Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies experienced a rollercoaster of high … Read more

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In a dramatic twist, a mere 48 hours after the United States laid out a hefty $4.3 billion settlement proposal with the major player in the crypto market, Binance, Bitcoin price defied expectations by catapulting to a new peak for the year. Breaking the $38,000 barrier in the early stages of the New York trading … Read more

Friend.tech plans to reward users who stay loyal and refrain from joining its forks or clones.  The SocialFi project will automatically forfeit the points of users who choose to opt into its forked versions.  The points are expected to have a special purpose on the tokenized social media platform.  Friend.tech’s users expressed disappointment at the … Read more

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, expressed his views on the aftermath of their legal battle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Ripple CEO Insights On The SEC’s Stand In The Legal Battle The Ripple CEO spoke about the case between the crypto company and the SEC in an interview at the 2023 … Read more

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao briefly had his social media profile restricted on X after stepping down from his executive position. For a short amount of time on Nov. 23, attempts to access Zhao’s X profile returned a standard restricted account message, which read: “Caution: This account is temporarily restricted. You’re seeing this warning because … Read more