Tag: Cryptocurrencies
The Treasury Department of the United States prohibited recently Tornado Cash, a method for mixing Ethereum tokens. Tornado Cash pools transactions to obscure their origins and make it more difficult to ascertain where digital currency was being transported.
Now, an anonymous troll is sending Ethereum to celebrities from a Tornado Cash wallet, ostensibly to demonstrate how difficult it would be for the United States government to enforce...
The US bans the Ethereum mixing tool Tornado Cash
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In a notice made on Monday, the US Treasury Department placed the Tornado Cash website and a huge variety of Ethereum addresses on its Specially Designated Nationals list, prohibiting American citizens from utilizing the service or doing transactions with these addresses.
What is Tornado Cash?
Tornado Cash is an Ethereum network “mixer.” It enables Ethereum users to transmit ether (ETH) or ERC-20 tokens to the service to be...
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What is the Merge in Ethereum?
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The Merge represents the joining of Ethereum’s existing execution layer (the Mainnet we use today) with its new proof-of-stake consensus layer, the Beacon Chain. It eliminates the need for energy-intensive mining and instead secures the network using staked ETH. A truly exciting step towards realizing Ethereum’s vision: more scalability, security, and sustainability.
How The Merge happens
Proof-of-work has been used to...
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Crypto Today: Thousands of Solano wallets hacked; Michael Taylor steps down as CEO of MicroStrategy; RobinHood lays off nearly a quarter of its employees
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Targeting Solana, hackers stole bitcoin from “hot” wallets. Despite the prevalence of attacks on blockchain platforms, Solana remains one of the fastest and cheapest digital asset trading ecosystems.
The cryptocurrency (SOL) and blockchain-compatible USDC were stolen by cybercriminals. Independent professionals and security organizations believe that the ongoing assault has caused $8 million in damages.
Solana has been the...
The Merge might boost demand for Ethereum, probably surpassing Bitcoin
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According to a Bloomberg piece titled “Booms, Busts, and Bitcoin,” The Merge will be accompanied by a sequence of events that will alter the view of ETH as an investment asset, with the potential to become an institutional-grade asset on a global scale. In this respect, they note that the alteration of the consensus method will be the determining factor.
Ethereum has exceeded Bitcoin in a number of key adoption indicators that...






