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SBF used stolen money to funnel top U.S. politicians

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How does restaking affect alt-L1 coins?

ETH is the token with the most amount staked of any blockchain. Restaking, introduced by Eigenlayer, is the idea of using staked ETH for more than just validating blocks on Ethereum. It can be used to validate information on oracle networks, l2s, and potentially alternative l1s. L1 tokens are also used to validate blocks on…
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Let’s be real. Have you even invested in a coin or project just because it was getting hyper either here, Twitter, YouTube etc. without properly researching it? Here are some tips I have for you.

Hello everyone. Again the things I am about to write are not rocket science and many people in the crypto space knows about them but as said on a previous post I prefer to see these things getting repeated than random prediction of random people. In the end this can help someone dodge a bullet…
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Republicans Call CBDCs a Threat to Western Civilization

There's a battle happening right now in the US Congress over CBDCs. Two major anti-CBDC bills and one pro-CBDC bill were introduced last week. Republicans are generally against a government-back digital currency, with Rep. Warren Davidson even calling it a threat to Western civilization. Davidson previously commented that it is akin to the one ring…
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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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