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Hands On Ethereum Day

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Can someone help me to clear my doubts about the need of an L2?

I’ve read that the future of Ethereum is with executing transactions on L2. Rollups like zkRollups are presumed to be the future. I totally get how Rollups and side chains are needed to alleviate the Ethereum L1. But I also wonder if the need to have an L2 is simply because of the limitations of…
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Is it really <1¢ to swap on Optimism? Seems like this changed recently.

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BREAKING: The Bitcoin network welcomes Taproot soft fork upgrade

Taproot soft fork introduces the concept of Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree (MAST) to improve the scripting capabilities and privacy of the Bitcoin network.

Taproot is active! Bitcoin’s latest major upgrade in four years!

Credit to u/xcryptogurux for the below, which was posted on r/bitcoin… Taproot is arguably the biggest upgrade to Bitcoin's base-layer protocol, introducing a new signature algorithm and scripting language. It brings a set of protocols that enhance Bitcoin's privacy, security, scalability, fungibility and unlocks the infrastructure that will allow for seamless integration of L2/sidechain application…
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Egyptian Billionaire Remains Bullish on Gold, Says It’s Wrong to Compare Precious Metal to Bitcoin

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has said he remains bullish on gold and has no intention to invest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin because such investment is a very risky business. Sawiris Says Gold Still Safe-Haven Asset In his remarks published by The National News, the billionaire reveals he believes it is wrong for people to make […]

Is zkSync the best layer 2 solution for Ethereum?

Is zkSync the best layer 2 solution for Ethereum? Which others that are either out now or coming soon do you think are better if you don't think zkSync is the best? submitted by /u/mybed54 [link] [comments]

ETH is on Tinyman

Get some cheap ETH on Tinyman! https://app.tinyman.org/#/swap?asset_in=0&asset_out=404624719 submitted by /u/nucholza [link] [comments]

How to survive inflation (some advice from a Venezuelan)

Hi guys, as you know I'm Venezuelan living here. We had more than 2,000,000% inflation anually in 2019 and I (we) survived. Now it has dropped to 1,258% anually and that is a nice number for me (October was only 8%, lowest value in more than 5 years!). Mind you, more than 1,000 % inflation…
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Goldman Sachs: Gold Is Becoming Poor Man’s Crypto

Goldman Sachs’ head of energy research says, “Just like we argue that silver is the poor man’s gold, gold is maybe becoming the poor man’s crypto.” He sees funds starting to flow from gold into bitcoin as inflation fears escalate, noting that “We’ve argued historically that crypto and gold do not have to cannibalize each […]