Category: Cryptocurrency News

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What ever happened with the mysterious issue of wallets draining randomly not to long ago?

Do you guys remember a couple of moths back that some people's wallets were being drained and no one at the time seemed to know how they got compromised. I'm not talking about the usual "I was hacked and got drained and all I did was share my private key with someone from India claiming…
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Geth v1.13.1 – block production hotfix out

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Leave a permanent message on Ethereum!

My mother's birthday is approaching and I've figured out a great way to send the "happy birthday" message: over the blockchain! The data block in a transaction is taken advantaged of (abused?), which is intended to be used when deploying a smart contract / calling them. I developed a code snippet for this. An example…
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User lost $130,000 by giving permission to a smart contract from a phishing scam. The total amount in the scammer’s wallet is more than 319 ETH already

An user gave permission to a phishing scam to steal $130,000 from it, mostly from HILO and MEVFree tokens, as per etherscan: https://preview.redd.it/5o7pzut6jtob1.png?width=2334&format=png&auto=webp&s=8600ba11fef58fe7cd979c3d42af36f12e5c1bef ​ https://preview.redd.it/hezuezr7jtob1.png?width=2254&format=png&auto=webp&s=3dc2ef86e67d96ea6a85264ed0ac067e143a02b9 The scammer's address is associated to a phishing scam by etherscan itself, and currently holds around 320 ETH split into 135 tokens: https://preview.redd.it/uyujykx8jtob1.png?width=2343&format=png&auto=webp&s=57bd1976f485f459fc15fbf6ac26436d468ae7f1 It is both insane and sad that…
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Bitcoin will have 32 halvings, we’ve seen 3 en route to our 4th

The reward for the Genesis block was 50 bitcoins. There first halving in 2012 reduced the award to 25. The 2016 halving reduced the award to 12.5. Our most recent halving brought the reward down to 6.25. The upcoming 2024 halving will see the reward for miners at 3.125. 32 halvings and we’ve seen 3.…
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The ETH Supply has just gone slightly inflationary again, but that is not really the problem. With BTC we have certainty around the Supply, the same does not go for ETH…

I would like to start this off with a small disclaimer that I am no ETH hater here, actually I would probably be way more exposed to the ETH ecosystem than BTC myself with my money. But I just think that it is always important to observe some objective statistics and think about their consequences.…
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TIL: The First-Ever Bitcoin-to-Fiat Sale: 5,050 BTC for $5.02 in 2009

Have you heard the story of Martti Malmi and the first Bitcoin to Fiat sale? In the early days of Bitcoin, when it was more of an experiment, Martti Malmi, a lesser-known figure in the market, made history. Back in October 2009, when Bitcoin was still a niche concept, he executed a transaction that saw…
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TRON Founder Justin Sun Sparks Concerns After $865 Million TUSD Minting

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How many % staked do you think we will level out at?

We just went over 800k validators and increasing steadily. The queue is shrinking since more validators are allowed in and out each epoch (it's a fraction of the current number of active validators) If the trend continues, the queue should be gone in 18 days or so, and then growth could slow down. I can…
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Trailing stop loss is arguably one of the best risk management and profit optimization tools out there and it’s barely being talked about. Here’s a quick overview of it.

I'm a bit surprised that it's not being talked about a lot on here especially considering that it's perfectly suited for long-term strategies such as DCA or Buy The Dip. Here's what it is, how it works, and why it's arguably the best risk management tool out there. At its core, a trailing stop loss…
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