The price of Bitcoin plunged 4% as the Federal Reserve pressed pause on interest rates. The price of Bitcoin has fallen below the $25,000 mark for the first time since March 17 following a hawkish Fed announcement amidanother turbulent week for the crypto industry. Within the span of 30 minutes on June 15, the price of…

Ethereum hummed along through the latest AWS outage but one commentator said its reliance on Lido for staking could cause issues in the future. Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a minor outage but there was no impact on Ethereum network nodes which largely rely on Amazon’s hosting. On June 13, the cloud service provider went…

U.S. Treasury official Graham Steele told an audience at a Texas payments conference that a future CBDC in America should consider anonymity. Privacy and the ability to transact anonymously should be considerations in the design of a digital dollar, a United States Treasury official has said. On June 13 the Treasury Department’s Assistant Secretary for…

Cybernetic organizations automate decision-making so that DAO actions can be taken without proposals — implementing law through code. What makes a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) a DAO? In practice, the democratic structure of these organizations has been compromised because a number of self-purporting DAOs are operating like traditional corporations. With this in mind, developers at Delphi Labs…

Bitcoin’s market dominance index has failed to sustain above 50% since April 2021 — so will this time be any different? Bitcoin’s percentage share in the crypto market has risen to nearly 50% in the aftermath of the last week’s altcoin market rout. On June 13, the Bitcoin Dominance Index (BTC.D), which tracks BTC’s weight against…

Binance.US has lodged its defense ahead of tomorrow’s hearing on whether it’s funds will be frozen. Binance.US has asked the court to deny the securities regulator’s proposed temporary restraining order against its assets ahead of a June 13 hearing, claiming that the move would “effectively end” its business. In a June 12 filing, Binance.US slammed the…