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
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
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
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
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
Religious historiography relates that the ten commandments, principles of conduct common to several religions and written on stone tablets, were kept in the Ark of the Covenant, a sacred wooden chest covered with gold. The Israelites who built it felt that this chest was a symbol of God, and that, through it, His presence guided … Read more
The mere introduction of this opcode would allow covenants, ZK-rollups and native L2 to be added to Bitcoin. OP_CAT was removed after an event known as the value overflow incident, which occurred in 2010. Today, the main development problem of the Bitcoin protocol seems to be modular. By this I mean that the shape and … Read more
Roger Ver was one of the first investors and promoters of Bitcoin. He participated as an investor in projects such as Ripple and Blockchain.com. He renounced his American citizenship and became a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis. In 2017, Ver decided to switch his allegiance to Bitcoin Cash, the fork of Bitcoin. In 2024, … Read more
Satoshis (sats) are today called the smallest indivisible unit of bitcoin (BTC). The motivation is to simplify user understanding and reduce confusion when doing calculations. A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) created by John Carvallo, a currency maximalist, is underway with the goal of redefining the primary unit of account of bitcoin (BTC). This initiative … Read more
Solana (SOL) ends 2024 as the network with the largest number of new developers working on it. It thus becomes the first network to surpass the main network of Ethereum (ETH) in this statistic since 2016. Despite the data, Ethereum continues to be the network that hosts the most developers in total, according to data … Read more