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Cryptocurrency News and Public Mining Pools

How is the difficulty bomb “activated”?

Is the difficulty bomb initially defined when the newest client version is released (can't be changed and has a fixed value) or does an external instance "activate" the difficulty bomb so that miners need to migrate to the newest client at some point in the future? submitted by /u/aemmeroli [link] [comments]

HUSD stablecoin has lost its peg – possible 200mm shortfall

Huobi's HUSD is currently trading at $0.85 on Huobi Global exchange. Stablecoin universal are the issuer of HUSD and should have 1:1 backing for each coin issued. They are currently not providing liquidity, unknown whether they have the 200mm to back up the coins market cap currently. FTX and Paxos have removed support for the…
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A standard for a Web3 ‘app store’ so user can run local version of dapps

submitted by /u/thecultofoil [link] [comments]

Ethereum Name Creation Doubles In Four Months to 2 Million

submitted by /u/Some_won [link] [comments]

Meta Launches Horizon Worlds Metaverse App in Spain and France

Meta, the social network company, has expanded the services of its flagship metaverse app, Horizon Worlds, to Spain and France. This move is part of the expansion plan of Meta to offer these services to more countries in Europe this year. While the app was available as an invite-only service in 2020, it just opened […]

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is exactly what I expected, and I’m so happy.

Spoiler its bad. That's a good thing. encase you missed this abomination I'm so happy this is terrible, This looks like second life, and honestly id rather play second life. Ironically the dead eyed avatar suits him really well. But They've spent so much damn money. Its hilarious this is the outcome. The stupid thing…
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Law enforcement should give up trying to access everyone’s data, says legal expert

Ahmed Ghappour explained that sanctioning ideas can lead to criminalizing harmless associations with no ties to other criminal conduct.

3 cloud providers accounting for over two-thirds of Ethereum nodes: Data

The data suggests that DeFi apps running on mostly centralized cloud providers may make Ethereum vulnerable.

Monero (XMR) Nodes Activated Most Crucial Hardfork of 2022

https://preview.redd.it/vp52yz64kfi91.png?width=1012&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae1eda2e3d24046bcabe291719c225d94a44ec70 Monero (XMR) nodes’ upgrade is now live: Why is this important? According to the official statement shared by all community-managed Monero (XMR) accounts, its blockchain was successfully hardforked. The hardfork was activated at block 2,688,888 that was mined on August 13, 2022. Firstly, the upgrade implemented a novel ring signatures scheme: instead of 11…
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