Category: Cryptocurrency News

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Anyone else annoyed with how US centric this sub is?

I know, the US is a great country (in some ways, honestly). They do tech, they value tech, they impact other countries. But most topics here are: SEC this, SEC that, can't do crypto transactions because gov wants a share of it, gov officials talking about crypto. I couldn't care less. Given that less than…
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Bitcoin set to 'tick, tick, tick' by the end of 2023: DeFi exec

In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Obi Nwosu, CEO and co-founder of Fedi explains why it will “be clear” that Bitcoin’s ecosystem will come out on top by the end of this year.

Bitlord’s Mong Coin: A Pump and Dump Scam

Influencer bitlord7, who boasts a substantial following of over 300,000 individuals, recently introduced Mong Coin, a meme token built on the Ethereum blockchain. Collaborating with a team of co-founders, he asserted that the token's launch was conducted in a fair manner, assuring that no tokens were sold by him or his associates. ​ However, there…
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Attacker hijacks Tornado Cash governance via malicious proposal

The total control over Tornado Cash governance allows the attacker to withdraw all of the locked votes, drain all of the tokens in the governance contract and brick the router.

Hinman Emails Reveal XRP Doesn’t Satisfy Howey’s Security Test

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Visa Deploys ‘Paymaster’ Contracts on Ethereum Testnest for Gasless Transactions

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Daily General Discussion – May 21, 2023 (GMT+0)

Welcome to the Daily General Discussion thread. Please read the disclaimer and rules before participating.   Disclaimer: Consider all information posted here with several liberal heaps of salt, and always cross check any information you may read on this thread with known sources. Any trade information posted in this open thread may be highly misleading,…
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Tornado Cash has been attacked

This is technically way beyond me, but it appears as though a malicious actor has attacked Tornado Cash and taken over governance control. They used a previous proposal but with extra functions in the logic to grant themselves 1.2M votes which was more than required: https://etherscan.io/address/0xC503893b3e3c0C6b909222b45f2a3a259a52752D Unfortunately the creator added a selfdestruct function to the…
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Blockchain gaming — is it all hype?

I see lots of projects but nothing really seems to work or be necessary, for that matter… IMX is a good idea but I don't fully get why other Ethereum L2's like Polygon can't do the job. Games like Illuvium have been in the making for at least 2 years with nothing but fancy trailers…
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