The 1.x Files: January call digest
January 14th tl;dc (too long, didn’t call) Disclaimer: This is a digest of the topics discussed in the recurring Eth1.x research call, and doesn’t represent finalized plans or commitments to network upgrades. The main topics of this call were Rough data quantifying advantages of switching to a binary trie structure Transition strategies and potential challenges […]
Expert Eyes Bitcoin At $750,000 As Fidelity Advises 1-3% Allocation
In a major shift within the financial industry, Fidelity Investments, with its colossal $12.6 trillion in assets under administration, is now recommending that the traditional 60/40 portfolio model should evolve to include a 1-3% allocation to crypto, specifically through its spot Bitcoin ETF (FBTC). This groundbreaking move is not just a nod to the burgeoning […]
Whale transactions and ETF records fuel Bitcoin’s push toward $60,000
Quick Take Bitcoin is currently demonstrating a robust market performance, bulldozing its way towards the $60,000 benchmark, up from its daily start of around $57,000. In the preceding 24 hours, a significant wave of liquidations hit the digital asset market, amounting to approximately $250 million. The liquidations depict a slight bias towards shorts, with an […]
The 1.x Files: The Stateless Ethereum Tech Tree
I started to write a post that detailed a “roadmap” for Ethereum 1.x research and the path to stateless Ethereum, and realized that it’s not actually a roadmap at all —— at least not in the sense we’re used to seeing from something like a product or company. The 1.x team, although working toward a […]
Bitcoin Price Consolidates Gains, Can BTC Extend Rally To $60K?
Bitcoin price rallied further toward $58,000. BTC is now consolidating gains and might soon attempt more gains toward the $60,000 resistance. Bitcoin price is consolidating gains below the $57,500 resistance zone. The price is trading above $56,000 and the 100 hourly Simple moving average. There is a rising channel forming with resistance near $57,650 on […]
Who is Martii Malmi? Bitcoin’s earliest contributor and Satoshi’s first helper
Early Bitcoin contributor Martii Malmi recently attracted attention for sharing his email correspondence with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. However, Malmi’s contributions go far beyond email correspondence, as he was one of the first developers to ever work on Bitcoin’s code aside from its pseudonymous creator, based on information collected by Peter Rizzo. He contributed to […]
Solidity 0.6.x features: try/catch statement
The try/catch syntax introduced in 0.6.0 is arguably the biggest leap in error handling capabilities in Solidity, since reason strings for revert and require were released in v0.4.22. Both try and catch have been reserved keywords since v0.5.9 and now we can use them to handle failures in external function calls without rolling back the […]