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Tribulations and triumphs: The biggest surprises in crypto of 2022

2022 was a challenging year for many crypto companies, but some maintained exemplary performance.

Sam Bankman-Fried pleads ‘NOT GUILTY’ to fraud charges

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Blockchain fintech GammaRey signs $320M merger agreement

GammaRey said it has nearly $800 million in consumer assets.

Recommend command-line tool for offline signing ethereum transactions?

I'm looking for a command-line tool that will allow me to use a separate, offline computer for signing and verifying transactions, and then use my normal, online computer for submitting the raw transactions to the rest of the world. I want to manage my own keys and keep the dependencies used as simple as possible.…
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How is your general mental health following the barrage of 2022 and (likely) continued crypto winter of 2023?

I doubt there are many who didn't feel a fair bit battered and bruised from the events of 2022. Even those joining late and buying low were potentially still knocked about by the Q4 events like the FUD surrounding CDC and SOL shitting a brick. Like many I joined Q4 2021, bought fairly high and…
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The ‘godfather of crypto’ wants to create a privacy-focused CBDC: Here’s how

David Chaum explained his game plan to create a CBDC that would also be appreciated by the crypto ecosystem in an exclusive interview.

Declining Interest Leads to Poor Market Performance for Ethereum Proof-of-Work Forks

After transitioning from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), the Ethereum community saw the launch of two new PoW Ethereum forks: ethereumpow and ethereumfair. In the past four months, the value of both coins has dropped by 94.8% to 98.4% in U.S. dollars. PoW Ethereum Forks Ethereumpow and Ethereumfair Suffer Significant Value Loss After Launch Since […]

A Software Engineer’s Opinion on Gaming NFTs

I find it pretty funny that people are so opinionated about how games are built when they never cared before. Hypothetical example but I've never heard somebody argue about a company using SQL vs NoSQL datastores for in-game assets before and that's more or less the same sort of argument about them using a distributed…
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Looking for Historical Block Sizes Dataset

Hello, does anyone know where I could obtain historical data on Ethereum block sizes? I'm not looking for daily averages (got that) but for block by block data, simply (height, size) tuples. If any of you are running an Ethereum node it would be really cool if you can dump this data somewhere. For example,…
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Bitcoin miners see mixed successes in tackling debt-fueled overexpansion crisis

Industry players accumulated over $4 billion of debt in the last crypto run-up.