Former Representative Sean Patrick Maloney reportedly sent a letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren claiming he would recuse himself from crypto-related policy decisions at the OECD. Sean Patrick Maloney, a former United States House of Representatives member, reportedly plans to stop working on crypto-related issues if confirmed as a U.S. representative to the Organization for Economic...Continue Reading

Digital security has become a paramount concern for the medical industry in the wake of the 2017 “WannaCry” cyberattack. Researchers from Emporia State University in the U.S. and University of Allahabad in India recently developed a novel blockchain system for medical device monitoring.  According to the team, the new system, dubbed HNMBlock, has the potential...Continue Reading

Large financial institutions continue adding Bitcoin to their coffers, even after BTC price rallied 21% in the past week. Bitcoin (BTC) price has rallied by 21% over the past 7 days, reaching $52,000 for the first time since December 2021. The price surge is mainly attributed to the growing inflow into spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds...Continue Reading

A bug in its smart contract that allows users to double their balance by sending tokens to themselves has led to a crash in Miner’s price. Miner, a novel token minted using the experimental ERC-X standard, crashed over 99% in the past few hours before paring losses. At the time of publication, each Miner token...Continue Reading

NFTs launched by Hong Kong celebrity Stephen Chow recorded $23 million in trading volume, while a whisky distributor is using NFTs to sell a rare collection. In this week’s newsletter, read about how another hybrid token standard aims to rival ERC-404 and how Hong Kong celebrity Stephen Chow’s nonfungible token (NFT) collection recorded $23 million...Continue Reading

Bitcoin price continues to march higher, fueled by robust demand from the spot Bitcoin ETFs. Which altcoins could follow BTC’s bullish price action? Bitcoin’s (BTC) market capitalization reached $1 trillion on Feb. 14, buoyed by the strong demand from the newly launched spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds. Data shows the ETFs recorded more than $600 million...Continue Reading

An unofficial tally reportedly showed Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka winning Indonesia’s presidential ticket with roughly 58% of the vote. Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the vice presidential candidate running on the ticket with presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, has reportedly won the race in Indonesia’s election. According to a Feb. 14 Reuters report, an unofficial tally...Continue Reading

Security Alliance was spearheaded by the head of Paradigm security and offers good hackers the chance to work with companies according to preset rules. The crypto community is applauding the launch of Security Alliance, a nonprofit registered in the United States intended to provide support for “white hat” hackers capable of recovering funds from exploiters....Continue Reading

According to Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, cats are still smarter than GPTs. Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Claude aren’t going to lead to human-level artificial intelligence (AI) any time soon. At least not according to Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist. LeCun recently spoke with Time Magazine to discuss artificial general...Continue Reading

Several unauthorized crypto apps that drain users’ assets when downloaded have been listed by tech giants over the years. A fake app impersonating decentralized finance protocol Curve has been listed on Apple’s App Store. According to a Feb. 14 warning issued by developers, there is currently no official DeFi Curve app. “Beware of scams,” Curve...Continue Reading