‘Survival games’ as Bitcoin hash price skirts near all-time low

    Bitcoin’s hash price, a crucial metric measuring miner revenue on a per terahash basis, is now near its lowest level ever recorded. Data from Luxor Technology’s Hashrate Index shows Bitcoin’s hash price fell nearly 52% to $0.0459 per terahash second on June 24 after notching a two-month high of $0.095 on June 8. It was inching toward…

    EigenLayer enhances EigenDA security to combat Sybil attacks

    EigenLayer has implemented an additional security feature for its EigenDA data availability service on the Ethereum mainnet to prevent Sybil and distributed denial of service attacks. According to an X post from EigenDA, the whitelist security measure utilizes either an internet protocol address or Ethereum’s elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) authentication to ensure enhanced protection…

    Bitcoin offers ‘economic immortality,’ will reach $10M per coin— Michael Saylor

    Michael Saylor, the outspoken executive chairman and co-founder of business intelligence company MicroStrategy, recently sounded off on the virtues of Bitcoin — including claiming it’ll reach $10 million per coin and that the entire nation of China will get behind the cryptocurrency — in an 84-minute podcast interview. Economic pseudoscience In the above video’s intro,…

    Ethereum could fall 30% after spot ETH ETFs launch — Crypto VC

    Ether could tumble to as low as $2,400 after the launch of spot Ether exchange-traded funds, says Andrew Kang, a founder and partner at crypto-focused venture capital firm Mechanism Capital. According to CoinGecko, Ether is currently trading at $3,410. A tumble to $2,400 would be a nearly 30% drop from its current price. In a June…

    Blockchain to enable universal reward system for loyalty programs: Interview with Aria Oh

    Loyalty programs had come a long way from the copper tokens of the late 18th century. Modern programs don’t even require customers to carry stamp cards around — most processes operate through mobile apps and digitized systems. However, the convenience of establishing a loyalty program through a simple app also brought unwanted complexity and fragmentation for customers….

    1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets ‘affected’ in security breach

    Cryptocurrency portfolio manager CoinStats has temporarily suspended user activity following a security breach that affected 1,590 crypto wallets. “The attack has been mitigated, and we have temporarily shut down the application to isolate the security incident,” CoinStats wrote in a June 22 X post. “Thanks to the immediate incident response from the CoinStats team, only 1.3%…