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Bitcoin developer Marco Falke announced that he has stepped down as a maintainer for Bitcoin Core on Tuesday. There now remain just four maintainers of the protocol: Michael Ford, Hennadii Stepanov, Andrew Chow, and Gloria Zhao. Falke was Bitcoin Core’s single largest contributor, having proposed over 2000 individual changes to Bitcoin’s codebase – aka “commits” – in his lifetime.  During three of his seven years as maintainer, Falke was supported and sponsored by the crypto...

Matthew Klinger – a 51-year-old Jefferson City, Missouri resident – received five years of supervised probation after admitting to shooting a bitcoin ATM with a handgun. It remains unclear whether the machine had any faults, however, he said he did it “so that it could not take money from anyone else.” So Close to a Prison Sentence Recent coverage informed that Klinger arrived at Vapor Maven on Missouri Boulevard in August last year and requested to talk to the general...

Despite the ups and downs of the crypto market, the Web3 and the NFT gaming industries continue to attract the attention of business leaders who are betting on technological innovation to push the whole ecosystem forward. On February 24, Trip Hawkins, one of the founders of Electronic Arts (EA), announced he was joining the Web3 gaming startup Games for a Living (GFAL) as co-founder and chief strategist. GFAL develops a set of tools that allow the development of Web3 games....

The United Kingdom and its finance ministry is planning to lay the groundwork for new digital currency regulations following the collapse of popular digital currency exchange FTX. The United Kingdom Doesn’t Want Another FTX in the Books Financial Services Minister Andrew Griffith commented in a recent interview: Our view is that this reinforces the case for clear, effective, timely regulation and proactive engagement with [the] industry. This includes a proposal to bring...

A woman living in New York City is being accused of using crypto to fund a terrorist organization in Syria. 43-year-old Victoria Jacobs – who also operates under the alias Bakhrom Talipov – is now being charged with terrorism herself, along with money laundering and various other crimes. Victoria Jacobs Is in Big Trouble Jacobs is believed to have given the money to a group called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a foreign terrorist organization currently designated as such by the...

There has been a tremendous transformation in the Bitcoin mining landscape since. Different countries have become the new harbors of miners. One European country has emerged as the world’s largest hash rate producer per capita. Owing to cheap electricity, Iceland is one of the first countries to see industrial-scale Bitcoin mining. According to Bitcoin mining researcher Jaran Mellerud, the country’s entrepreneurial locals can also be attributed to the growth of the sector....

Cathie Wood of Ark Investment Management said that she feels bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market capitalization – could wind up hitting a price of $1.5 million by the year 2030. Cathie Wood Is Predicting Big Things for BTC This is a tad different from the comments she made in early January of this year. During that time, Wood was confident that bitcoin would only reach a price of $1 million by the year 2030. Now, it looks like she’s upping the...

The Solana-based Wormhole Bridge was hacked for $325 million after the attacker managed to exploit a security flaw, making it one of the largest exploits in crypto history. A year later, a group of white hats, along with two crypto firms, launched a “counter-exploit” against the malicious entities and clawed back a portion of stolen assets tied to the exploit. “Counter Exploit” The counter exploit was jointly conducted by the decentralized finance platform Oasis and Web3...

Bitcoin didn’t react well to the latest PCE data coming from the US and dropped by almost a grand to a ten-day low. The altcoins also sit deep in the red, with the most substantial losses coming from MATIC, DOT, UNI, and others. Bitcoin Fell to $23K The end of last week went a lot better than this one as BTC skyrocketed by double-digits to chart a six-month high above $25,000. It failed to decisively overcome that line at first but kept trying. However, all three attempts saw...

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