Vitalik Buterin claws back crypto community's right to redefine 'inflation'

The NY state assembly needs to approve any bill or propose amendments before it can be signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. 1521 Total views 1 Total shares A bill which would have required miners in New York to halt operations for three years as part of an apparent effort to slow the environmental…

The central bank says strong interest in its CBDC project is partly being driven by Bitcoin's recent surge, despite cryptocurrency still being banned in China. 537 Total views 7 Total shares The cryptocurrency space may be helping to spawn its own competitors after a representative of the People’s Bank of China said Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent…

“We are not selling Telegram – neither in part, nor in full,” Telegram CEO Pavel Durov promises. Pavel Durov, CEO of the popular encrypted messaging platform, Telegram, has denied reports that the firm is preparing to sell the company after the failure of Telegram’s blockchain project.According to an Aug. 5 report by local tech publication…

Doop Snogg, the impersonator, was hired to “drum up excitement” at the NFT.NYC conference. 221 Total views 15 Total shares A man impersonating the hip-hop icon Snopp Dogg went around NFT.NYC to fire things up at the nonfungible token (NFT) event. While the intention was to bring fun to the event, there were some mixed…

Government transparency group Open Secrets reported U.S. crypto firms spent roughly $19 million on lobbying from January to September 2023. 167 Total views 1 Total shares Companies connected to the crypto and blockchain industry in the United States reportedly spent roughly $3 million more on lobbying in the first three quarters of 2023 than over

Binance hopes to enable smooth BTC deposits and withdrawals while tackling network congestion issues. 413 Total views 1 Total shares On June 20, cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it had commenced operating nodes on the Bitcoin Lightning Network as a crucial step toward integrating it for deposits and withdrawals.In a tweet, Binance acknowledged users who…

Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an Ethereum (ETH)-based token backed by Bitcoin (BTC), has launched today, Jan. 31, according to a press release on the network’s website. The currency is a joint initiative by blockchain security firm BitGo, Kyber Network liquidity protocol and others.BitGo announced the development of the coin backed 1:1 with Bitcoin in October 2018.…

MakerDAO is currently the 4th largest DeFi protocol as per TVL rankings with $14.24 billion in locked value. 142 Total views 18 Total shares MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization serving the popular DeFi lending protocol Maker, has announced an upcoming deployment schedule on the decentralized zero-knowledge (ZK) Ethereum rollup, StarkNet.Expected to become fully operational in…

The framework under the bill would allow certain tokens to qualify as digital commodities if they were decentralized and crack down on the SEC’s previous approach to crypto. 406 Total views 3 Total shares Lawmakers with the United States House Financial Services Committee and House Agriculture Committee have released a draft discussion offering certain crypto…