Auteur/autrice : Alberto

Ethereum core developers have tentatively chosen November to release the protocol’s next major hard fork, called Fusaka, aimed at making the network more efficient and scalable.Meanwhile, feature upgrades in the Glamsterdam hard fork, the next upgrade after Fusaka, are set to be confirmed on Aug. 1.The Ethereum community has been pushing for more frequent and faster upgrades for the protocol. The upgrade timeline would place Fusaka six months after the most recent Ethereum hard fork, Pectra, which introduced account abstraction, increased the validator staking limit, and made layer-2 networks more efficient.According to ethPandaOps, a community dedicated to improving the Ethereum…

Robert Kiyosaki took a contrarian view to most crypto analysts on Monday, with a bearish prediction that the Bitcoin “bubble” could soon burst, along with gold and silver. “Bubbles are about to start busting,” the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author said on Monday, adding that when these bubbles bust, “odds are gold, silver, and Bitcoin will bust too,” and that’s when he’ll start buying. The comments follow his earlier remarks while celebrating Bitcoin’s (BTC) all-time high above $120,000 last week, where he said that the new price peak was “bad news for who… for whatever reason… never ‘pulled the trigger,’” because “They…

Oh you, Spadina, Finally, finality Hello and farewell tl;dr A quick Spadina postmortemNew testnet: Zinken. Launchpad is live; Genesis deposits due in one week! Spadina Postmortem The Spadina testnet dress rehearsal launched this past Tuesday. Although Spadina is now healthy and finalizing, the launch was not as smooth sailing as it could have been. Validator participation started very low, and it took ~70 epochs (almost 8 hours) to get up to the 2/3 participation threshold needed for the chain to finalize. Since then however, the chain has actually been remarkably stable. At first, we thought this lack of early finality…

Bitcoin has already shown a lot of strength in recent times, pushing as high as $123,000 before trailing back down toward $117,000. So far, it looks like the digital asset has hit a roadblock and is now possibly looking at a peak. But analyst Merlijn The Trader has explained that it is far from over for Bitcoin with more rallies to come. He reveals that the Bitcoin price is yet to stage its ‘final act’, which must happen before there are talks of a top. Bitcoin 4-Year Cycle Is Still In Play After the Bitcoin price rallied to new all-time…

Ethereum’s base layer is undergoing a major performance shift, with the network’s gas limit rising toward 45 million units, a move that could meaningfully expand its transaction throughput. According to a July 20 update on X from Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin, nearly 50% of stake is currently showing support for the change, with the limit already climbing to 37.3 million. On Ethereum, “gas” is the unit of computational expense needed to process transactions or smart contracts. In order to maintain fair pricing of network resources and reduce spam, users pay for gas in ETH. The amount of total computation…

Ethereum’s throughput ticked up on Sunday as more validators signalled their support for increasing Ethereum’s gas limit to 45 million units, which will reduce transaction fees and enable improved network scaling.  Ethereum’s gas limit rose to over 37.3 million units on Sunday, according to Etherscan, up almost 3% from levels late last week, while several blocks were proposed with higher gas limits.The latest gas limit increase represents the first significant climb since February, when it was raised from 30 million to 36 million.Average Ethereum gas limits over time. Source: EtherscanImproved transaction throughputHigher gas limits mean more transaction throughput on Ethereum’s…

The UK is reportedly eyeing the sale of over 5 billion British pounds ($6.7 billion) worth of seized Bitcoin to help fill a deficit in the country’s budget.The Home Office and the head of the country’s Treasury, Rachel Reeves, are working with law enforcement to sell off its stockpile of seized Bitcoin (BTC) and plans to make a system to store the crypto to handle the sell-off, The Telegraph reported on Saturday.Such a sale could potentially dent a recently renewed Bitcoin and crypto rally.Police handle crypto sales in the UK, but the Treasury is reportedly involved as the crypto market…

If there’s one people who know horses, it’s the Mongols. So it’s no surprise that the latest installment in the successful Ostwind series, Ostwind: The Legend of Khiimori, is set in the vast lands of East Asia. However, not in modern times, but in the 13th century. As a messenger, you must take on all kinds of tasks, such as delivering messages and packages or collecting herbs. Your travels will take you through steppes, deserts, and icy mountains, so you’ll need to plan well in advance. You breed and train horses with special characteristics to help you face the various challenges. The…

The UK is reportedly eyeing the sale of over 5 billion British pounds ($6.7 billion) worth of seized Bitcoin to help fill a deficit in the country’s budget.The Home Office and the head of the country’s Treasury, Rachel Reeves, are working with law enforcement to sell off its stockpile of seized Bitcoin (BTC) and plans to make a system to store the crypto to handle the sell-off, The Telegraph reported on Saturday.Police handle crypto sales in the UK, but the Treasury is reportedly involved as the crypto market has rallied, boosting the value of the government’s holdings. The total amount of…

Consensys, the blockchain firm behind MetaMask, has confirmed it will be “imminently” releasing a fix for its MetaMask browser extension after users reported it has been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day into their solid-state drives, potentially shortening their lifespan. Speaking to Cointelegraph, a Consensys spokesperson confirmed there has been “usually high disk activity” affecting certain MetaMask users.One of the more recent reports came from a user under the handle ripper31337, who said in a GitHub bug report on June 24 that after a fresh install of the MetaMask extension on Chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome, Edge and Opera,…