Vitalik Buterin proposes solutions for Ethereum’s MEV problem

A U.S. citizen has pled guilty before a federal court to operating an “unlicensed money transmitting business” via LocalBitcoins.com, according to a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release published Oct. 29.The man, Jacob Burrell Campos, has reportedly admitted to “selling hundreds of thousands of dollars” in Bitcoin (BTC) “to over 1,000 customers” in the U.S.…

Economics Professor Jason Potts is co-director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University. He sees blockchain technology as a fundamental institutional technology revolution comparable to the emergence of companies and the internet — perhaps even as world-changing as the invention of electricity.What’s the last big technological change that had the same sort of impact…

German financial services company Commerzbank and securities marketplace Deutsche Boerse have completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a legally binding repo transaction using distributed ledger technology (DLT). The news was reported by Cointelegraph auf Deutsch on March 6.A repo transaction is commonly used for short-term borrowing, and allows dealers to sell securities to investors — often…

A Georgia state senator has reported to jail over allegedly lying about the theft of cryptocurrency mining equipment worth $300,000, The Guardian reported Dec. 27.Republican Michael Williams, who originally reported the alleged theft in May, made a false police report and gave a false statement, court documents claim.Williams had said servers with a value of…

NFT sales volumes have rebounded across major blockchains, and Polygon has taken the lead with a 123.20% increase. 

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Bitcoin (BTC) logged its worst daily performance since September as BTC price slid by 10% to under $59,000 on Tuesday. On the other hand, the U.S. dollar jumped to its best level in sixteen months after spending across the American retail sector grew despite persistent Covid-19 fears and inflation concerns.The BTC price established an intraday…

The results of a 300 megawatt (MW) energy allocation for cryptocurrency miners, run by Canadian provincial utility provider Hydro-Québec, has failed to attract expected demand from the local industry.A Request for Proposals (RFP) for power allocation was opened in June last year, supposedly based on huge demand of around 16,000MW from miners around the world…

The European Commission has tipped “extended reality” — technology that enables people to interact with virtual worlds — to create as many as 860,000 jobs in Europe by 2025. Extended reality or XR is an umbrella term for immersive technologies including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality, and is a “major technology enabler” for virtual…