Vitalik Buterin Donates $765K in Ethereum to Privacy Messaging Apps Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin supported two privacy messaging apps that are looking to break past sector leaders Signal and Telegram.Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has donated approximately $765,000 in ETH to two privacy messaging apps, Session and SimpleX—two apps looking to break past sector leaders Signal and Telegram. Buterin has become an increasingly vocal advocate for privacy solutions in the crypto industry, as global policies have expanded fears of global surveillance states and irked those wanting to keep their personal lives private.
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Department of Government Efficiency Winds Down Despite Months Left To Run: Report The administration’s DOGE office has gone dormant months early as the White House weighs easier paths to close federal units. The Department of Government Efficiency, created by executive order to drive President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting agenda, has effectively ceased operating eight months before its charter was set to expire. The office has ceased to exist as a “centralized entity,” with the administration’s personnel chief confirming its inactive status despite having eight months left to run, according to a report from Reuters on Sunday.
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Cardano Network Disrupted by 'Poisoned' Transaction Attack A validation mismatch sparked an unexpected Cardano network fork as a user publicly apologized for sending the bad transaction.The price of Cardano (ADA) was down on Friday after the blockchain suffered an unexpected chain split, which was caused by a malformed delegation transaction that triggered a software flaw. That created problems for Cardano users, and prompted a public apology from the user who claimed that they caused it. Intersect, the Cardano ecosystem’s governance organization, said in an incident report that the divergence began when the malformed transaction passed validation on newer node versions, but nodes running older software rejected it.
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