Bitcoin’s hash rate has dropped by 25% since the weekend—a worrying sign for the security of the biggest digital coin’s network ahead of its highly anticipated “halving” event. Data from MiningPoolStats shows that…
The rollout of Ethereum layer-2 scaling network Blast hasn’t been without controversy, but even so, users have pumped the project with more than $1.3 billion in search of yield and airdrop rewards. Blast…
Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six: Siege publisher Ubisoft is joining Korean game publisher WeMade’s Wemix’s blockchain node council as a partner, Wemix announced late last week. Ubisoft is now one of Wemix’s 40…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt It was the craziest week crypto has had in a long time. And that’s saying quite a lot. After months of escalating anticipation, the crypto community entered…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. The historical and hotly anticipated approval of Bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds (ETF) this week basically blocked out the sun for the rest of the crypto solar system,…
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink fully shed his crypto skeptic shell today and defended Bitcoin as a check against authoritarian governments. During a day-long media tour, Fink stopped by Fox Business to discuss this…
In a statement announcing the approval of several spot Bitcoin ETFs, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler released a statement about the road to approval, using the unsually bright spotlight on…
Hollywood union SAG-AFTRA (aka the Screen Actors Guild)—which represents film and television actors as well as voice and motion-capture video game performers—has signed a deal with generative AI firm Replica Studios to allow…
While the financial world waits to see when and which Bitcoin spot ETF applications receive approval, Standard Chartered Bank issued a prediction on Monday that the price of Bitcoin will top $200,000 by…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt ETF fever has taken over the body of crypto—and now appears to have a grip on markets and discourse so all-consuming that it likely won’t let up…
Analysts are weighing in on what happens next as the financial world awaits the first Bitcoin ETFs to be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission—especially as filings started to move forward…
Analysts are weighing in on what happens next with the financial world waiting for the first Bitcoin ETFs to be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission—especially as BlackRock’s filing started to…
A new Solana project called “Less Fn Gas” captured the attention of Crypto Twitter earlier this week when it airdropped 40% of its LFG token supply to Ethereum users. It was a ploy…
With anticipation of an approved spot Bitcoin ETF reaching fever pitch levels in the opening days of 2024, frenzied discourse on the subject has now settled around one question: Is it already priced…
Can scrappy, decentralized, open-source artificial intelligence models compete with well-funded proprietary ones like OpenAI’s powerful GPT-4? The frequently asked question fueled a lively debate on Twitter after a former Google AI researcher picked…
On a cloudy day in a nondescript building in Los Angeles, Decrypt was invited to take a closer look at a technology that purports to use artificial intelligence to help doctors better identify…