Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino sees cross-chain value transfers as the most critical issue facing the cryptocurrency sector for 2020. With over 4,000 digital assets in circulation and many of them confined to their own ecosystems, a lack of liquidity and interoperability plagues many tokens. Blockchain ecosystem diversity is harming the industry — locking value inside...Read More
Virgil Griffith, the Ethereum Foundation research scientist arrested for allegedly aiding North Korea with sanction evasion, was released today on a $1 million bond just in time for the new year. Griffith was charged for violating federal law after traveling to North Korea to deliver a presentation on using cryptocurrency and blockchain. Allegedly, his talk...Read More
Ethereum co-founder Jeffrey Wilcke doxxed himself after selling 92,000 Ether, worth over $11 million, because of its connection to his Ethereum Name Service domain. On Christmas Day, approximately 92,000 ETH was transferred to Kraken from an address funded by the Ethereum Foundation dev wallet, as first reported by Trustnodes. These funds were from the pre-mine...Read More
Greece will not yet extradite Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national accused of laundering billions of dollars through the BTC-E exchange. Officially to be sent to France, a letter obtained by RIA Novosti appears to show that the U.S. will be the final destination. Greek authorities have put a hold on the process due to an...Read More
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin suggested a faster way to migrate data to ETH 2.0, meaning the long-awaited upgrade may come sooner than expected. In an Ethresear.ch proposal dated Dec. 23, Buterin described a way to do away with Ethereum 1.0’s current proof-of-work blockchain. This would allow the project to merge with Ethereum 2.0’s beacon chain...Read More
Riccardo Spagni aka Fluffypony stepped down as the lead maintainer of the Monero project. Multiple reasons went into this decision, including centralization concerns from being the lead figure for the project. The Monero Core team made an announcement on Monday delineating several role changes within the project. Previously, Spagni was the lead repository maintainer, approving...Read More
Roger Ver, a co-founder of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and owner of Bitcoin.com, finally responded to criticism after listing the controversial altcoin, HEX. “If you don’t like HEX, don’t trade it,” he wrote on Reddit. The Bitcoin Cash community has since been up in arms that their project’s founder has openly validated the highly controversial crypto...Read More
