Bitcoin and proof-of-stake have natural ‘synergy’: Bitcoin Builders 2023

    Stanford University professor David Tsè said his team’s research had revealed a security property between Bitcoin and proof-of-stake protocols. Less than a year after proof-of-stake (PoS) became the consensus mechanism for the Ethereum blockchain — the industry’s largest blockchain network — researchers have found that PoS can complement Bitcoin. Stanford University professor David Tsè spoke to Cointelegraph at the…

    Optimism’s major mainnet upgrade to Bedrock set for June 6

    The much needed upgrade will provide a number of improvements across the network, and come at a time when competition in the Layer 2 space has been heating up. Layer 2 scaling solution Optimism is set to undergo its highly anticipated Bedrock upgrade on June 6. The move is expected to result in significantly reduced…

    Primordial NFT? Someone tried to sell a JPEG for BTC months before Bitcoin Pizza Day

    The seller even got help from Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, though it’s still up in the air whether the artist actually made the “sale.” Crypto Twitter was briefly set ablaze on May 14 with a suggestion that the world’s first real-world purchase made by Bitcoin may have been for a JPEG, not pizza. In a…

    Ethereum’s Beacon Chain is updated after finality issues

    Ethereum core developers released patches for Prysm Labs and Teku clients in response to a Beacon Chain issue preventing block finalization. Ethereum core developers rolled out patches for Prysm Labs and Teku clients as a response to two Beacon Chain finality issues within a 24-hour period. The Beacon Chain serves as the consensus layer for…

    Aragon launches defensive measures against Arca’s ‘51% attack’

    The Aragon Association has pulled plans to give ANT holders voting rights over its DAO in the wake of the attack. Aragon, an open-source framework designed to launch decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has pulled plans for its native Aragon (ANT) token holders to be given voting rights over the future direction of the organization. The…

    Worth it? Trader spends $120K on gas buying $155K worth of a memecoin

    A user spent an additional 76% of their total purchase price in gas fees on a single memecoin trade. A single trader just spent a staggering 64 Ether — equivalent to $118,000 — in gas fees purchasing $155,000 worth of a memecoin called Four (FOUR). According to an update from the popular blockchain tracking service Whale…