Crypto Speculators Betting on ‘No Airdrop’ for Arbitrum Lose 95%

The Tornado Cash token (TORN) is up 10% after a proposal submitted by a wallet address linked to a recent attack on the decentralized autonomous organization’s (DAO) governance state looks to reverse the malicious changes.“The attacker posted a new proposal to restore the state of governance," user Tornadosaurus-Hex wrote in the Tornado Cash community forum,…

Parity Technologies has added an early version of ethereum's hotly anticipated Casper code change to its blockchain development platform, Substate. Released on GitHub yesterday, the code more specifically contains a mechanism to transition to the "Shasper" upgrade, that combines the platform's in-house scaling solution, sharding, alongside its proof-of-stake consensus switch, Casper. "Shasper is combination of Casper and sharding.…

Here’s a crypto story full of sound and fury that may actually have a happy ending: Bankless HQ, a media brand, and BanklessDAO, a semi-related entity, are discussing divorce. And it’s the kids’ fault.It’s unlikely the split will be acrimonious; David Hoffman and Adam Sean Adams, the co-creators of the influential Bankless brand, submitted a

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Apr 29, 2020 at 13:49 UTCUpdated Apr 29, 2020 at 14:21 UTCTHEN IT STRUCK HIM: “I've noticed some clearly visible UX issues specific to Lightning Network wallets. All of them are solvable but require some kind of standard,” says the creator of Lnurl. (Image via Shutterstock)The Lightning network might be key to the future of…

Jun 18, 2020 at 13:35 UTCThe New York Times Proves Why Civil’s Vision Is Still VitalCathy Barrera, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an advisory group, and was chief economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in business economics from Harvard. The Black Lives Matter protests in response to the police…

Firefox, the popular Web browser, will soon begin automatically blocking crypto mining malware scripts as part of a wider performance-enhancing push. The Mozilla Foundation, the not-for-profit organization behind the open-source browser, said Thursday that it intends to block trackers and other "harmful practices" in upcoming releases. Some of these features, such as the anti-tracking function,…

markets With the supply of new coins to be halved in less than five weeks, litecoin is outpacing its peers. The fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is currently trading at $123, representing 5 percent gains on a seven-day basis, according to data source CoinMarketCap. Meanwhile, bitcoin, the top cryptocurrency by market value, is currently reporting a…

How Apple’s COVID Policy Limited a Public Health App in TaiwanThe Taiwanese startup Bitmark, which participated in a government-sponsored hackathon in May, was unable to promote its blockchain solution due to Apple’s pandemic moderation policy.  “We were trying to essentially build a weather forecast but for public health,” said Bitmark CEO Sean Moss-Pultz. “It allowed…