Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin cautioned that a blockchain’s key security assurance is that even a 51% attack cannot turn an invalid block into a valid one, meaning colluding validators are unable to steal users’ assets. However, he clarified that this guarantee doesn’t apply off-chain in external trust situations...
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A solo miner successfully mined a Bitcoin block using equipment worth up to $300.
An unknown lucky miner mined block #887212 using a home setup from Bitaxe (priced between $150 and $300) with a hash rate of 480 GH/s. For comparison, this is only 1/27th of the hash rate of an old Antminer S9 from Bitmain.
The mine...
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The Trump family project WLFI's portfolio has incurred a total loss of $110 million. Of the $336 million in funds used to purchase nine cryptocurrencies, the current portfolio value stands at approximately $226 million. ETH makes up 65% of the holdings and is the asset with the largest loss. The average purchase price ...
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North Korean hackers are suspected to be responsible for the Phemex exchange hack. On January 23, Phemex suffered a breach, resulting in the loss of over $70 million in cryptocurrency. The attack resembles the vulnerability exploitation patterns observed in previous hacks targeting other prominent crypto exchanges.
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