Author: Crypto Insider

Ethereum developers, node operators and users have yet to agree on Vitalik Buterin’s recent suggestion to increase the gas limit on Ethereum. On Jan. 11, Buterin advocated for a “modest” 33% gas limit increase to potentially improve network throughput. Increasing the gas limit to the proposed 40 million from the current 30 million would allow more transactions…

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) could come any day now. And when it does, many believe that everything will change. But is the United States ready for an onslaught of first-time crypto investors? Regarding tax compliance, maybe not. Crypto investors will have to pay taxes…

Ether price broke the resistance at $2,400 for the first time since May 2022, as traders turned their attention to the possibility of an Ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF) coming after a spot Bitcoin ETF is approved. Ether price rose sharply from the opening price of $2,343 on Jan. 10, soaring more than 7.8% in the last…

While the crypto industry at large celebrated the long-awaited, landmark approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, not everyone was pleased with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision. In a Jan. 10 statement, SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw — one of two commissioners to vote against the approval — wrote that the agency’s move to greenlight the Bitcoin-based…

ARB, the native token of Arbitrum, a layer 2 Ethereum scaling platform, is the leader within its sector after posting a 49.49% move over the past month. While the market price action of the last week has negatively impacted altcoins and ARB price, longer-timeframe data suggests that ARB could resume its bullish momentum. Arbitrum dominates…

The role of a nonce in a blockchain A nonce, short for “number used once,” is a special number that is assigned to a block in a blockchain during the mining process. It is an essential part of the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism.  The nonce, serving as a cryptographic puzzle, is a variable that miners manipulate to produce…