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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says advances in cryptography could turn decentralization from a performance cost into a scaling advantage for…

[alloc] init researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov and Aleksei Moskvin released the 56-page Shielded Bitcoin paper on 24 September. Transfers…

Bitcoin’s BIP138 wallet-backup proposal was merged into the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository on Sept. 21, but the specification remains Draft.…

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce wants financial firms to stop stockpiling customer data after breaches exposed…

Bitcoin researchers have proposed a system for private transfers directly on the network without requiring a soft fork or changes…

Even if Bitcoin eventually adopts post-quantum protections for on-chain outputs, five parts of the Lightning Network’s off-chain payment system would…

The Senate fell short of advancing the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, when a 49-50 cloture vote failed to reach…

A flaw in Bitcoin Lightning software Eclair could let malicious peers wipe out a node’s local channel balance through fees.ACINQ…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says laptop AI is approaching a practical turning point. Wallet software still needs a much higher…

Ethereum validators rely on independently built consensus clients to agree on the chain, and that diversity is a safety feature.…