blockchains
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Did the Ethereum Merge Do Anything to Crypto Emissions? We’ve Got an Early Answer
In September, the Ethereum cryptocurrency network managed to pull off what it had been promising to do for years: switch to a model of mining that is far less emissions-intensive than the standard, a move known as the Merge. Did the switch do anything for the currency’s emissions? Could it be a good solution to…
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Feds Seize Over $US1 ($1) Billion in Crypto Originally Stolen from Dark Web Drug Marketplace Silk Road
The largest amount of illicit funds ever recovered by federal law enforcement came in the form of bitcoin on a disconnected drive stuffed at the bottom of one Georgia man’s linen closet.
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Did CNN Just Rugpull Its NFT Store?
Rug-pull, verb: “to pull the rug out from under someone,” dramatically upsetting the status quo.
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Ether Plans to Lose Proof-of-Work While Crypto Miners Lose Their Minds
There’s a diamond shaped hole in the earth that’s getting unknowingly deep, and we’re all staring into its depths with minds grown ragged with questions. “The Merge,” which promises a move from the old proof-of-work consensus model to the proof-of-stake, is coming on in a week’s time, if promises from a notoriously poor-predicting posse of…