Only three years after putting Bitcoin on par with the U.S. dollar, El Salvador is ready to leapfrog again—this time into the realm of sovereign artificial intelligence. Over the weekend, President Nayib Bukele’s National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) revealed a letter of intent with U.S. chip titan Nvidia, pledging to equip the volcanic nation with cutting‑edge AI hardware, […]
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When India’s once‑buoyant trading hub WazirX froze withdrawals in July 2024, 200,000 users watched ₹19 billion ($230 million) vanish through mixers allegedly controlled by North Korean hackers. Nine months later the exchange sits on the brink of resurrection. In an April 21 update, WazirX confirmed that its parent firm Zettai Pte. Ltd. has completed every preparatory chore but one: securing
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When Vitalik Buterin drops a weekend forum post, the Ethereum brain trust listens—and this one lands like a thunderclap. Writing on the Ethereum Magicians board, the network’s co‑founder pitched a wholesale replacement of the Ethereum Virtual Machine—the 2015‑vintage engine that executes every smart contract—with RISC‑V, an open‑source chip architecture famous in hardware circles but almost unheard‑of
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For years, a single mis‑click could banish crypto to limbo: send an unsupported token to a Coinbase address and your funds were functionally irretrievable. In late 2022 the exchange softened that blow with an Ethereum‑based recovery portal, later extending it to BNB Chain and Polygon. Now the safety net stretches further. Coinbase revealed on April 21 that
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When Lourenco Garcia wired $751,000 from his Santander accounts in late 2021, he believed the money would buy cryptocurrency on CoinEgg—a platform he thought legitimate. Instead, it vanished into one of the year’s slicker digital‑asset frauds. Garcia sued, arguing Santander should have flagged the wire requests, stopped them, and saved him from himself. Two years and two
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The Aptos community is wrestling with the price of security. This week pseudonymous contributor MoonSheisty filed an on‑chain governance motion that would almost halve the network’s staking yield, ratcheting annual rewards from roughly 7 % to 3.79 % in just three months. The plan aims to put Aptos on an economic diet—realigning emissions with rival layer‑1s while
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When India’s top cyber‑sleuths descended on the crypto sector last year, Binance found itself in the crosshairs. Investigators flagged missing tax data, the Financial Intelligence Unit slapped a ₹188 million fine, and Apple quietly booted Binance’s app from its India store. Twelve months on, the exchange is scripting a comeback—one PAN card at a time. On
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Sanctions are reshaping Yemen’s financial map—one block at a time. Decentralized finance (DeFi), often dismissed as niche software in wealthier markets, is emerging as a survival tool on the Arabian Peninsula, where U.S. restrictions have unplugged large swaths of the traditional banking grid. The latest blow landed on April 17, when Washington blacklisted the International Bank
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