Casa's CTO and co-founder Jameson Lopp shared the latest version of his US seized Bitcoin sales tracker: - US government has sold 195,091.75 BTC it seized over the years for $366,493,104. - Current USD value of all sold BTC amounts to $5,543,532,076. - Potential USD gains missed so far: $5,177,038,9.. read more  

Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) is a mechanism used toallocate funding to builders who have positively impacted theOptimism ecosystem. In RetroPGF Round 2, 69 badgeholders voted to allocate 10M OP to 195 projects and people who have contributed to the development of the OP Stack. Fundi.. read more  

Dinerois an experimental protocol introducing an overcollateralized stablecoin ($DINERO) backed by Ethereum blockspace. It aims to democratize access to Ethereum's blockspace by providing a public and permissionless RPC for users, a decentralized stablecoin, and an ETH liquid staking token. By com.. read more  

An example code forreading Solidity eventsinPythonfrom ahigh-speed EVM blockchain. It uses the Web3.py Contract class and its Event subclass, and optimizes performance by using a thread pool reader with 16 parallel reading threads and the ujson library for decoding JSON. The code manually decodes .. read more  

The article discusses the potentialimpact of restaking protocols on Ethereum's staking participation and decentralization. While such protocols may provide significant financial benefits to validators, they could compromise Ethereum's ability to self-regulate staking participation and to temper cen.. read more  

Apple's macOS contains a copy of the Bitcoin white paperwritten by the pseudonymous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto. The paper was reportedly shipped with every copysinceMojave, and Twitter user, Joshua Dicken, first discovered it on his Mac. The paper can be found in the 'simpledoc.pdf' file in the 'Co.. read more  

Detecting server-side prototype pollution is a difficult task that can cause DoS if not done safely. The post introduces various safe detection techniques, which include encoding, constructor, expect, and request body overwrite, and non-destructive techniques like parameter limit, ignore query pref.. read more  

One of the main advantages of cloud databases is their scalability. With cloud databases, organizations can easily scale their database infrastructure up or down to meet changing demands, without the need for significant hardware investments. This makes it easier for organizations to manage large am.. read more  

Multicloud networking is becoming increasingly complex and a top challenge this year. A recent study highlights the need for a simple, secure, and seamless infrastructure that can operate across different locations. The focus should be on reducing complexity, simplifying connectivity, and creating .. read more  

Microsoft has demonstrated a day-long chatbot that uses a natural language approach to request relevant satellite data. The chatbot utilises GPT models, and analysts can ask natural questions to correlate location and supplementary imagery. Microsoft's solutions include the Azure Orbital cloud, whi.. read more