Ripple played Trump to pump XRP — now he’s cutting ties
Thanks to lobbying efforts that garnered a thumbs-up from Donald Trump, Ripple's XRP gained $44B in 75 minutes to hit a market cap of $173B.
Aaron Wise
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The fine print on the crypto ‘reserves’ of New Hampshire and Arizona
Two state governors signed crypto reserve funds into law. However, the fine print is significantly different from the headlines about them.
Careful when signing messages in Ethereum Pectra
Security researchers flagged Ethereum's Pectra update for heightened risk of theft from malicious smart contracts.
Bitcoin nodes protesting OP_RETURN change hit all-time high
Knots, an alternative client for Bitcoin full nodes, has grown in popularity as Core developers appease corporate interests in OP_RETURN.
Samson Mow claims Peter Todd was ‘paid’ for OP_RETURN PR
Samson Mow has accused someone of paying a senior Bitcoin developer to push through a controversial change to Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN.
Bitcoin devs in OP_RETURN war motivated by ‘harm reduction’
Bitcoin developers’ war over the data storage limits of OP_RETURN was about UTXO bloat and harm reduction, according to one side.
The corporate interests taking over Bitcoin development
Disagreement over a seemingly minor change to OP_RETURN unearthed hidden corporate interests influencing Bitcoin development.
Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base are fighting over $52 billion DeFi pie
Ethereum layer 2s are battling for dominance of a market they believe could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Moderators censor Bitcoin devs as OP_RETURN war rages on
Bitcoin Core moderators are using GitHub repository controls to mute and ban contributors to a viral debate about OP_RETURN data storage.
— Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy wannabes and the return of mNAV mania
Crypto traders invented the term 'mNAV,' a simplistic ratio to explain how much they overpay for crypto holdings. It can exceed 8X.