“If RDTS fails, it’s the end of bitcoin”: Luke Dashjr

“If RDTS is successful, the sky is the limit,” adds Luke Dashjr. Dashjr’s statements are his personal opinion and not the consensus of the bitcoiner community. On May 16, 2026, an X user posted a seemingly simple question: His friend is 42 years old and says he is too old to invest all his money … Read more

What will be the impact of the Clarity Act on the DeFi ecosystem?

After years of a tense coexistence marked by regulation through sanctions and a persistent legal gray area, the United States is facing a moment of redefinition for its financial system. That uncertainty has an expiration date because this May 14, 2026, the Senate Banking Committee will begin the final review of the Clarity Act (Digital … Read more

Tether launches scholarship program for AI and wallet developers

The grants focus on: core libraries, documentation, applications and decentralization. The program has no maximum funding limit and pays for specific tasks with defined deadlines. Tether, the issuing company of the USDT stablecoin, announced the launch of a grant program to finance developers who build open technological infrastructure in artificial intelligence (AI) and self-custody wallets. … Read more

Vitalik proposes redesigning Ethereum to scale without sacrificing decentralization

The proposal replaces Ethereum’s linear nonce with a key-independent nonce system. Buterin advises that without this change, nodes would need to download up to 16TB to function. Vitalik Buterin, along with three other collaborators in the Ethereum ecosystem, developed EIP-8250, a proposal that promises to eliminate a design block that holds back the network’s privacy … Read more

A critical vulnerability in Bitcoin Core was active for almost a decade

The bug has been present since Bitcoin Core 0.14.0, released in 2017. The fix was covertly integrated into GitHub PR #31112. Bitcoin Core publicly disclosed on May 5 a high-severity vulnerability that affected its software between versions 0.14.0 and 28, a range that spans approximately nine years of development. According to the official notice, the … Read more

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