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Money has pumped into 73 Bitcoin ‘Layer-2’ scaling solutions this year. But many are just insecure sidechains. There is a better way. Source link
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Opinion: From Brazil to Norway, there is plenty of evidence that governments are planning to use CBDCs to abuse their people. Source link
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Despite promises of “decentralization” and “trustless ownership,” the vast majority of crypto games today are, at best, partially decentralized. Web3 is the branding, but in reality, most are “Web2+.” Game assets live on-chain,…
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Bitcoin’s price (BTC) broke below its 55-day support at $27,000 on May 12. In result, the two-day, 7% correction to $26,155 caused $100 million worth of long BTC futures contracts to be liquidated….
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According to a recent survey by Immunefi, white hat hackers mostly crack crypto to solve technical problems. Whether you believe that is up to you. On Thursday, Immunefi, a bug bounty platform for…