Deepseek tries to “bitcoinize” artificial intelligence

This AI throws doubts about the tendency to privatize technologies to guarantee efficiency. Deepseek can be executed locally and does not depend on a server, just like Bitcoin. Bitcoin and Deepseek share something in common: they are technologies that use open source and collaborative development. They also share another feature, a controversial one: they are … Read more

How El Salvador and Bitcoin attract young people from all over the world?

The country is teaching their young people to change their history with financial technology. Bitcoin designs futures, thanks to initiatives such as Cubo+. In El Salvador, history is also written with code and not only with ink. It has been happening like this since 2021, when the country declared Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender and … Read more

Who is Luke Dashjr and what have been his contributions in Bitcoin?

Luke Dashjr is one of the oldest and most respected developers of Bitcoin Core. In 2013, Luke was one of the first to detect an accidental hard fork in Bitcoin. Dashjr founded Eligius, one of Bitcoin’s first mining pools. BFG Mine developed, open source mining software that provides greater efficiency. In 2023, Luke Dashjr claimed … Read more

XRP users are increasingly betting on their network, but… is it enough?

XRPL has only 17 active developers as of January 2025. In contrast, during 2024, 7,625 developers worked on Solana. According to data from DeFiLlama, an on-chain metrics platform, the total value locked (TVL) on the Ledger XRP increased to $87 million. In September 2024, just a few months ago, this locked value barely reached $15 … Read more

Ethereum’s most popular dex will have update next week

Uniswap Labs, the Development Team behind the Decentralized Exchange (DEX) of the Ethereum Network, announced that the latest version of its protocol will be launched next week, between January 27 and February 2. A Post in the social network X The company reported that this week the official implementations of the new version of the … Read more

“A Second Ethereum Foundation has not yet been created”

Konstantin Lomashu had been linked with the creation of the new organization, Second Foundation. The founder of Lido said that the Ethereum ecosystem needs “more organizations contributing.” Konstantin Lomashu, founder of the platform staking Liquid Ethereum (ETH) Lido, had been linked by the community of this network with the creation of a second Ethereum Foundation, … Read more

Court lifts sanctions against Tornado Cash and TORN soars 200%

Alexey Pertsev, developer of the protocol, remains detained. The mixer operates as a service with no direct control over the funds processed. An appeals court in the United States annulled the sanctions imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on the Tornado Cash protocol, a ruling that could well mark the beginning of … Read more

They urge the Ethereum Foundation to stop selling ETH

Various active participants in the Ethereum community fear that the sales of ether (ETH) by the Ethereum Foundation (FE) are excessively affecting the price of the cryptocurrency. These users demonstrated their disagreement in a post by Josh Starka member of the non-profit entity. At the time of writing, and although this also depends on other … Read more

The next Ethereum update already has a tentative release date

With Pectra, EIP-7702 will be implemented, which will optimize account abstraction. Validators would no longer be limited to staking 32 ethers (ETH) per node. The Pectra update, which will be the next hard fork of Ethereum, will be launched on the main network after completing its implementations on the Sepolia and Holesky testnets, scheduled for … Read more

Who is Scott Stornetta and how is he related to Bitcoin?

In 1994, Stornetta and his partner Stuart Haber co-founded Surety Technologies. In 1995, the first commercial deployment of a distributed ledger was made. Stornetta and Stuart are the most cited authors in the Bitcoin white paper. In 2019, Stornetta and Haber spoke for a cryptocurrency conference. Currently, Stornetta is head of Yugen Partners, a company … Read more