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Blockchain data shows that the value of the assets held by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is down by about $20 million over the last seven days. According to information available on blockchain data platform Arkham Intelligence, the value of the assets held on publicly-known Buterin’s addresses went from $412 million on
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By now, most of the cryptosphere has heard of Privacy Pools — a project launched this year by Ameen Soleimani, a well-known developer and founder. As a former contributor to Tornado Cash, Soleimani aimed to “fix” the popular open-source solution for anonymising Ethereum transactions in order to make it regulator-friendly.The
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ZachXBT declined to speculate on whether Buterin was the victim of a "SIM swap" attack, stating that the Ethereum founder, who has 4.9 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, is a "big enough target to where an insider could have been paid off." SIM swapping involves taking control of someone's
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Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, had his X (formerly Twitter) account compromised, which, according to social media reports, resulted in victims losing over $691,000 through malicious links.In a Sept. 10 post on X, Dmitry Buterin, the father of Vitalik Buterin, announced that his son's account has been compromised:“Disregard this post, apparently Vitalik
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Buterin said the new donation would work toward reducing the long-term impact of coronavirus. Source
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s latest salvo against “shitcoins” has ended up with him simply being sent more of it.Only days ago, the Ethereum developer made moves to sell over $700,000 of tokens previously airdropped to him, causing the price of these tokens to fall. Buterin has since continued his war on
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On March 7, onchain observers noticed that Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, had allegedly sold billions and trillions of airdropped ERC20 tokens, resulting in a gain of an estimated $700,000 in value. The market liquidity of the airdropped tokens was shallow, and the relatively unknown ERC20 tokens plummeted in
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According to a Mar. 7 announcement from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), the post-secondary institution has received a 15 million USD Coin (USDC) donation from the Balvi Filantropic Fund. The foundation is currently directed by Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin and "is a scientific investment and direct gifting
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The collapse of numerous major crypto ecosystems in 2022 revealed the urgent need for revamping the way crypto exchanges operate. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin believed in exploring beyond “fiat” methods to ensure the stability of crypto exchanges, including technologies such as Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge (ZK-SNARKs). Following a
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Flashbots, the research and development firm behind the software, apparently aims to make MEV extraction more equitable. It has been scrutinized, however, for contributing to Ethereum’s problem with centralization and censorship: anyone is allowed to build and deliver blocks through MEV-boost, but most validators opt to receive blocks pre-built by
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