A few days ago, a new version of the most widely used Bitcoin implementation, Bitcoin Core, was released. Version 24.0 includes the configuration “mempoolfullrbf”, which has already been the subject o...
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Bitcoin Core 24, Bitcoin’s controversial upgrade is now live
Bitcoin Core 24, the long-awaited but controversial upgrade was activated on Nov. 26, opening the door for the Bitcoin memory pool that will serve as a waiting room for unconfirmed transactions. The...
Biden Administration Allows Chevron To Pump Oil In Venezuela—Here’s Why It’s So Controversial
Topline The Biden Administration granted a license to Chevron to resume oil production in Venezuela—easing sanctions imposed on the country in 2019 over corruption and human rights concerns—though a s...
Elon Musk Is Restoring Banned Twitter Accounts—Here’s Why The Most Controversial Users Were Removed And Who’s Already Back
Topline Twitter owner Elon Musk granted amnesty to almost all banned accounts Thursday, a drastic policy shift that has alarmed many users and advertisers and opens the door for numerous high profile ...
El Salvador inches closer towards controversial Bitcoin bonds – crypto.news
El Salvador is moving forward with plans to sell bitcoin-backed bonds, as evidenced by the national assembly’s consideration of a draft law to govern digital assets. Bitcoin bonds plan still in play M...
Fed President Says Entire Notion of Crypto Is Nonsense Following the Controversial Implosion of FTX
The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis says that the whole notion of digital assets can be discarded following the collapse of prominent crypto exchange platform FTX. Fed President N...
New FTX CEO Distances Company From SBF After Controversial DMs Surface
Following days of cryptic and controversial tweets from former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), plus today’s revelation of shocking direct messages to a reporter, FTX’s newly-installed CEO too...
‘Bitcoin will be the winner because bitcoin is a digital commodity and it’s the least controversial of everything’: MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor
“‘Bitcoin will be the winner because bitcoin is a digital commodity and it’s the least controversial of everything.’” — Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy In an interview Thursday morning on CNBC, MicroStr...
Controversial Terra Classic Proposal Passes With Less Than 30% Of Validators Voting
– Advertisement – Proposal 10879 passes to subject every spend of community assets to an on-chain governance vote. The Head of organization at Terra Classic independent development group T...
Crypto Lawyer Kyle Roche Exits Firm Weeks After Controversial Video Leak
Crypto law firm Roche Freedman has parted ways with its embattled founding partner, Kyle Roche, following weeks of cascading controversy spurred by leaked video footage that depicted the prominent att...
Kanye West’s Anti-Semitic, Controversial Behavior—Here’s Everything He’s Said In Recent Weeks
Topline Beginning in early October, Kanye West—also known as “Ye”—went on a spree of public appearances and interviews in which he spouted anti-Semitic comments and conspiracy theories, criticized Bla...
Kyle Roche Starts New Law Firm After Controversial Exit from Roche Freedman
Key Takeaways Kyle Roche, a lawyer involved in several crypto legal cases, officially left the law firm Roche Freedman today. Roche left the firm due to a controversy around Ava Labs, which also saw h...
New Blockchain Aptos Unveils Controversial Tokenomics, APT Incentive Plans
The Aptos Foundation holds 410 million tokens overall, which will be released over the next ten years. Of that, 125 million APT is available initially to support ecosystem projects, grants, and unspec...
Magic Eden: Will this controversial move be a hit or a miss? Assessing…
Magic Eden, the biggest NFT marketplace on Solana [SOL], with a monthly trading volume of over $87 million, announced its decision to implement an optional royalties structure on its platform. With th...
Controversial NFT Art Azurbala Receives Twitter Backlash
An awkward NFT art collection has created havoc among the Tweeps. The Azurbala collection is a part of the bigger ecosystem by Tally Labs. NFT market was still struggling to find recovery following th...
Palantir Extends Controversial Defense Contract That Google Abandoned
(Bloomberg) — Palantir Technologies Inc. has reupped and expanded more contracts with the US government that have been controversial within Silicon Valley. Most Read from Bloomberg The Defense D...
Binance to Implement Terra Classic (LUNC) Burn Following Controversial Vote
Leading global cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced Monday that it would burn all transaction fees generated from Terra Classic (LUNC) spot and margin trading pairs. The move is part of the excha...
Controversial Entrepreneur Sifu is Back with New DeFi Lending Protocol Forked from Aave
DefiLlama- a DeFi TVL aggregator, announced on Monday that Sifu, the pseudonymous co-founder of failed Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX, has launched a new decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol cal...
Compounding a disastrous year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency: IRS proposes controversial new question about digital assets
The Internal Revenue Service could have a potential head-scratcher of a question about your crypto investments and what’s taxable, according to a major accountants’ association. For two years, the IRS...
SudoSwap Announces a Controversial SUDO Token Allocation Structure – crypto.news
On Friday, 2nd September, SudoSwap announced their allocation of the recently created SUDO token. However, many questions arose from the community, especially concerning the distribution of SUDO token...
dYdX Ends Controversial Promo Citing ‘Overwhelming Demand’ – crypto.news
dYdX, a decentralized exchange for crypto derivatives, says it has ended its $25 first deposit bonus program. When the exchange made the announcement, folks criticized it for requiring new users to sh...
Controversial Chechen Leader Ramzan Kadyrov Appears To Say He’ll Resign
Topline Ramzan Kadyrov—the controversial Putin-backed Chechen leader accused of numerous human rights violations over his 15 years in office—said in a video posted Saturday morning he will take an “in...
Controversial Crypto Lawyer Kyle Roche Pulls Out of Nexo, Binance.US, Solana and Dfinity Lawsuits
Last Friday, whistleblower site Crypto Leaks published a series of damning videos, accusing the lawyer of weaponizing class-action lawsuits to collect sensitive information on various crypto companies...
U.S. Congressional Delegation Lands In Taiwan After Pelosi’s Controversial Visit
Topline A congressional delegation landed in Taiwan early Sunday morning to meet with Taiwanese leaders and discuss U.S.-Taiwan relations, just weeks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial v...
Billionaire Mark Cuban Takes Surprise Stance on Controversial New Tax
No subject is more controversial in economic circles right now than taxes. Tensions heighten even more when the specific subject is a new tax aimed at businesses. Simply put, the business community ha...
Dealing Josh Hader Becomes More Controversial After Brewers Designate Dinelson Lamet For Assignment
Two days after he was acquired from San Diego in a four-player package for Josh Hader, the Milwaukee … [+] Brewers designated right-hander Dinelson Lamet for assignment. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Get...
Wonderland Founder’s Controversial Return To DeFi
Wonderland (TIME) founder Daniele Sestagalli has announced his return to DeFi with a disconcerting tweet. The Return Of Wonderland Sestagalli has been away from the DeFi market for a few months. In J...
The controversial issue of inflation- The Cryptonomist
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman apologizes for underestimating inflation. Summers thinks we are close to a recession while Biden’s monetary policy is treading water. Amid inflation, recessi...
Atlético Madrid’s Expired Stadium Sponsor Wanda Is Among Controversial FIFA World Cup’s Partners
Stadium naming rights being sold is not uncommon in La Liga, with Barcelona’s ground becoming the … [+] Camp Nou Spotify around the time Atlético Madrid ended its deal with Wanda Group. Li...
Is XRP Centralized? Ledger Co-Founder Addresses Controversial Comment
Alex Dovbnya The Ledger co-founder has backtracked on his controversial comments about the XRP cryptocurrency, calling them “tongue-in-cheek” Eric Larchevêque, the co-founder of the popular cryptocurr...