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Also known as "Akiba," Liam Wright is the Editor-in-Chief at CryptoSlate and host of the SlateCast. He believes that decentralized technology has the potential…

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Earnings

Coinbase reports $1.10B loss in Q2 as assets on exchange slump

Coinbase reported the biggest loss ever in Q2, losing more than $1B over the past 3 months. Assets held on the exchange also fell to just $96 million.

4 years ago

Privacy

Circle ‘blacklists’ all Tornado Cash ETH addresses effectively freezing USDC

Circle's USDC has "blacklisted" all Ethereum addresses owned by Tornado Cash listed in the US Treasury Department's sanction against the protocol.

4 years ago

NFTs

Vitalik proposes private NFTs using ‘stealth addresses’ to hide owner’s identity

Vitalik Buterin suggests an idea to use stealth addresses to hide the identity of NFT owners without the need for ZK-SNARKs or Merkle trees

4 years ago

How to analyze on-chain data with Nansen to find your own alpha for trading and investing

CryptoSlate spoke to lead analysts at crypto data platform Nansen to talk market reversal, using on-chain data, smart money analysis, NFTs, and gaming.

4 years ago

Culture

Anonymous may have set sights on BAYC for alleged connections to Nazi imagery

An Anonymous Facebook account has aligned itself with Ryder Ripps in his pursuit to "out" BAYC as having roots in Nazi symbology declaring "expect us" in reference to Yuga Labs.

4 years ago

Investments

Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow model creator PlanB promotes ‘quant investing’ via ByBit to ‘100x’ HODL strategy

PlanB, the creator of the S2F model for Bitcoin is promoting copy trading on ByBit to followers claiming 100x returns compared to HODLing

4 years ago

Price Watch

Ethereum breaks $1.8K first time since June crash – up 104% from local market bottom

Ethereum has rallied 104% since reaching lows of $882 in June to reach $1,800 for the first time since early June

4 years ago

Academia

Researchers say they discovered consensus level attack on Ethereum — miners cheating the system to earn more

At its core, the paper highlights an issue where miners can change the timestamp related to a mined block to avoid increased difficulty on the network.

4 years ago

Adoption

Wells Fargo: Digital assets are an “innovation on par with the internet, cars, and electricity”

Wells Fargo, a banking household name, just released a special report stating that digital assets are as innovative as the discovery of electricity.

4 years ago

BUIDLers at EthCC reveal when the bull market may return

CryptoSlate's Akiba spoke with some of the biggest projects on the Ethereum blockchain to find out what they are looking for as a signal for the next bull run.

4 years ago

Interview

Vitalik Buterin calls out ETHW hard fork proponents as “trying to make a quick buck”

Vitalik Buterin believes a proof-of-work hard fork of Ethereum is being pushed by "people who own exchanges trying to make a quick buck."

4 years ago

Rumors

DeFi Sybil attack created $7.5B fake TVL on Solana from ‘anon’ developers

How did two brothers from Texas create $7.5 billion worth of fake TVL on Solana and what is the wider implication for Sybil resistance in a decentralized, open-source ecosystem?

4 years ago

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Liam 'Akiba' Wright Liam 'Akiba' Wright has published within the past 30 days.

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Coinbase reports $1.10B loss in Q2 as assets on exchange slump

Circle ‘blacklists’ all Tornado Cash ETH addresses effectively freezing USDC

Vitalik proposes private NFTs using ‘stealth addresses’ to hide owner’s identity

How to analyze on-chain data with Nansen to find your own alpha for trading and investing

Anonymous may have set sights on BAYC for alleged connections to Nazi imagery

Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow model creator PlanB promotes ‘quant investing’ via ByBit to ‘100x’ HODL strategy

Ethereum breaks $1.8K first time since June crash – up 104% from local market bottom

Researchers say they discovered consensus level attack on Ethereum — miners cheating the system to earn more

Wells Fargo: Digital assets are an “innovation on par with the internet, cars, and electricity”

BUIDLers at EthCC reveal when the bull market may return

Vitalik Buterin calls out ETHW hard fork proponents as “trying to make a quick buck”

DeFi Sybil attack created $7.5B fake TVL on Solana from ‘anon’ developers

A four-way deadlock is now blocking the US Clarity Act crypto bill — and each side can stop it

Bitcoin faces critical weekend test as Iran closes Strait after immediately disputing the US narrative on Hormuz deal

The Fed treads on XRP’s core payments use case with new FedNow banking system upgrade

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