OnlyFans is in talks to sell a stake: report
London-based subscription platform OnlyFans is reportedly negotiating the sale of a 60% stake to California private equity firm Architect Capital. Summary ...
The P + epsilon Attack
Special thanks to Andrew Miller for coming up with this attack, and to Zack Hess, Vlad Zamfir and Paul Sztorc for discussion and responses One of the more interesting surprises in cryptoeconomics in recent weeks came from an attack on SchellingCoin conceived by Andrew Miller earlier this month. Although it has always been understood that SchellingCoin, and similar systems...
What crash? Binance’s CZ rejects claims platform caused $19b crypto crash
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, co-founder and former CEO of Binance, defended the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange against accusations that it played a central role in last October’s $19 billion market crash. Speaking in a live ask-me-anything session on Binance’s platform, Zhao called such claims “far-fetched” and said...
The Subjectivity / Exploitability Tradeoff
One of the issues inherent in many kinds of consensus architectures is that although they can be made to be robust against attackers or collusions up to a certain size, if an attacker gets large enough they are still, fundamentally, exploitable. If attackers in a proof of work system have less than 25% of mining power and everyone...
KuCoin CEO on MiCA, Europe entering new era of compliance
MiCA is fully in force, but the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and national regulators are warning that crypto asset service providers operating without authorization must either secure licenses or wind down as transitional periods expire into 2026. Under MiCA, licensed exchanges face capital, asset segregation,...
Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update V
I was woken by Vitalik's call at 5:55 this morning; pitch black outside, nighttime was still upon us. Nonetheless, it was time to leave and this week had best start on the right foot. The 25-minute walk in darkness from the Zug-based headquarters to the train station was wet. Streetlights reflecting off the puddles on the clean Swiss streets...
Dimon to Coinbase CEO Armstrong: ‘You’re full of it’
A pointed insult from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon crystallized a growing power struggle between Wall Street and crypto’s most influential U.S. champion. Summary ...
The Ethereum Launch Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog
I’m Vinay Gupta, the newly minted release coordinator for Ethereum. I’ve been working with the comms team on strategy, and have now come aboard to help smooth the release process (some of the content in this blog is out of date, please see this link for the most up to date information on Ethereum). I’ll be about 50/50 on comms...
XRP price prediction amid economic uncertainty
On January 30, the XRP price crashed sharply, reflecting rising investor anxiety over the economic outlook. Market jitters fueled by postponed U.S. inflation reports and potential government shutdowns drove heavy selling in the cryptocurrency market. Summary ...
The Ethereum Development Process | Ethereum Foundation Blog
So I'm not sure if this kind of development methodology has ever been applied to such an extreme before so I figured I'd document it. In a nutshell, it's sort of like test-driven triplet-programming development. While speed-developing our alpha codebase, four of us sat around a table in the office in Berlin. Three people (Vitalik, Jeff and me) each...
