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A researcher from the crypto asset investment firm, Paradigm, has co-authored a whitepaper for a new decentralized finance, or DeFi, lending protocol boasting fixed-interest rates.The whitepaper for Yield protocol was written by Paradigm’s Dan Robinson and Allan Niemberg — who announced the project on May 8.Niemberg also announced that Yield
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Every day, around mid-morning New York time, the average fee bitcoin users worldwide pay to send the cryptocurrency spikes for up to an hour, then returns to normal. A respected researcher thinks he’s found the reason: BitMEX.If the crypto derivatives exchange used more efficient technologies when broadcasting transactions, users could
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Pseudonymous researcher Hasu has discovered a new twist on a well-known potential attack on the bitcoin network.The researcher posted a description of the attack, which he named "Purge" after the B-movie franchise, to the bitcoin developer email list last week. It's a variation on the so-called sabotage attack, in which
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The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has filed an indictment against Ethereum Foundation researcher Virgil Griffith on Jan. 7.According to a court filing on Jan. 7, a federal grand jury charged Griffith with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.The act
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Ethereum Foundation researcher Virgil Griffith has reportedly been denied bail in New York. Currently detained, Griffith is appealing the action. “Griffith was presented yesterday and ordered detained,” James Margolin, the chief public information officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Southern District of New York, told CryptoX in an email
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Mimblewimble, a privacy-focused blockchain protocol, is allegedly not private at all. According to an expert at blockchain research firm Dragonfly Research, Mimblewimble's privacy is fundamentally flawed, which he reportedly proved by discovering the exact addresses of senders and recipients for 96% transactions of Mimblewimble’s privacy-centric coin Grin (GRIN).Ivan Bogatyy,
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