In 2019, Rodolfo Novak sent a Bitcoin transaction from Toronto to Michigan without internet or satellite. He used a ham radio, the 40-meter band, and the ionosphere as his relay. Nick Szabo called it “Bitcoin sent over national border without internet or satellite, just nature’s ionosphere.” The transaction was tiny, the setup finicky, and the […]
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Karp's share sale may signal insider confidence shifts, impacting investor sentiment and raising questions about Palantir's future valuation.
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Agency officials said data showed nothing unusual about Comet 3I Atlas despite weeks of speculation.
Alfred's investment signals confidence in Strive's growth potential, potentially influencing market perceptions and future investor interest.
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For more than a decade, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has, for one reason or another, stood apart from the rest of the blockchain industry. Built in 2012, long before the rise of modern DeFi, it embraced a minimalist design of fast settlement, deterministic consensus, and no economic incentives for validators. That architecture helped XRPL grow […]
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Yesterday’s outage showed how dependent the modern web is on a handful of core infrastructure providers. In fact, it’s so dependent that a single configuration error made large parts of the internet totally unreachable for several hours. Many of us work in crypto because we understand the dangers of centralization in finance, but the events […]
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Adobe's acquisition of Semrush could significantly enhance its digital marketing capabilities, impacting competition and innovation in the sector.
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For years, quantum computing has served as cryptocurrency’s favorite doomsday scenario, a distant but existential threat that periodically resurfaces whenever a lab announces a qubit milestone. The narrative follows a predictable arc where researchers achieve some incremental breakthrough, social media erupts with “Bitcoin is dead” predictions, and the news cycle moves on. But Adam Back’s […]
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A Cloudflare outage today disrupted access to services across the internet, exposing the significant amount of traffic that runs through Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s status page described the event as an “internal service degradation” that began at 11:48 UTC, saying some services were “intermittently impacted” while teams worked to restore traffic flows. Earlier, at 11:34 UTC, CryptoSlate […]
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The incident underscores the vulnerability of internet infrastructure and the significant impact of service disruptions on global connectivity.
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Five years ago, if you wanted to bring a software idea to life you had two choices. Learn to code well enough to build it yourself or pay someone who knew what they were doing. Either way it took time, money, and the kind of technical commitment most people understandably avoided. Today that entire process […]
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The tech sector's massive selloff highlights investor concerns over interest rates and inflation, potentially impacting future tech investments.
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Tesla's stock decline highlights vulnerabilities in tech sectors, signaling potential shifts in investor confidence and market dynamics.
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A viral clash between novelist Joyce Carol Oates and Elon Musk over “soul” in the algorithmic age became a referendum on empathy, ego, and what it means to be human.
Colossal Bioscience has cloned former NFL star Tom Brady's dog, drawing the ire from some who are calling for a moratorium on pet cloning.
Imagine the world’s internet backbone collapsing in a day. Whether it’s due to human error, a catastrophic software bug, a rogue computer virus, or outright kinetic warfare, what happens to Bitcoin if the physical internet exchange hubs that connect the world suddenly go dark? If Frankfurt, London, Virginia, Singapore, and Marseille were to go offline […]
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A new quantum countdown website projects a two– to three-year window for quantum computers to break widely used public key cryptography, placing Bitcoin within its scope. Sites like The Quantum Doom Clock, operated by Postquant Labs and Hadamard Gate Inc., package aggressive assumptions about qubit scaling and error rates into a timeline that spans the late 2020s […]
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For years, Ripple was best known for its legal battles and its token, XRP, which was a symbol of crypto’s friction with the traditional financial world. Now, after years of courtroom and regulatory turbulence, Ripple has quietly built something far more ambitious: a full-stack institutional financial platform that resembles a 21st-century investment bank, albeit without […]
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Quantum computing is no longer just science fiction or the stuff of cypherpunk paranoia; it’s officially a front-page threat for the world’s first stateless money. If you ever thought Satoshi’s creation was immune to existential risk, think again. The latest round of Bitcoiners and cryptographers in the Human Rights Foundation (HRF)’s latest report would like […]
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The Bitcoin Lightning Network was once the crown jewel of Bitcoin’s scaling story, a living map of open channels and growing liquidity that reflected adoption in real-time. However, as the network matures, the picture has blurred. Behind the steady decline in public Bitcoin Lightning capacity lies a quiet transformation: exchanges, wallets, and merchants are routing […]
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On Oct. 20, a hiccup in Amazon’s US-EAST-1 region set off a chain reaction across the crypto industry. Coinbase reported degraded service, Infura and Alchemy posted AWS-related incident notes, and several wallets and rollups began timing out. None of these failures came from the blockchains themselves. Consensus was fine. The problem was everything wrapped around […]
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The next major Ethereum upgrade, called Fusaka, a hybrid of “Fulu” (consensus) and “Osaka” (execution), will modify how the network handles data and fees without altering the primary user experience. Beneath the surface, it’s a statement of direction: Ethereum’s main chain is staying the final settlement and data-availability hub, while everyday activity continues to flow […]
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Bitchat uses Bluetooth mesh networking for offline communication, turning each phone into a node that relays messages to nearby devices.
Putin touts tests of Russia’s nuclear “Poseidon” drone, built to trigger radioactive tsunamis—analysts see posturing, not proof.
Zcash (ZEC) was little more than a historical footnote for most of the past years. The digital asset was seen as a relic of crypto’s cypherpunk age, forgotten amid the rise of AI tokens, restaking narratives, and layer-2 rollups. Yet, it has become 2025’s most surprising comeback story almost overnight. CryptoSlate data shows Zcash surged […]
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Publicly traded computing firm IBM is rolling out a digital assets management platform targeted at governments and institutions.
Bitcoin, the world’s largest and oldest blockchain, is confronting an existential question of how much data should live on its ledger. A new proposal, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 444 (BIP-444), seeks to roll back a recent OP_RETURN upgrade that allowed users to attach text, images, and digital signatures to transactions. Its supporters call it a necessary […]
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ZEC's price has surged by 380% this month.
Trezor just unveiled Safe 7 and set a Nov. 23, 2025 ship date with the company is marketing the device as “quantum-ready.” However, the label refers to the wallet’s ability to verify future firmware and device attestation using post-quantum cryptography once those paths are available, not to on-chain protections for Bitcoin or Ethereum today. According […]
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For decades, physicists have promised that quantum computing would one day outrun classical machines. That day may have arrived. On Oct. 22, Google’s Willow quantum processor completed a task that supercomputers would need 150 years to finish by compressing centuries of calculation into two hours. Industry experts say the result, verified by Nature, isn’t only […]
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