On this day in history, 12 years ago, Hal Finney passed away. When the Bitcoin white paper was first published, many cryptographers ignored the idea. Hal Finney was one of the few engineers who believed it could change the world and was first to receive a Bitcoin transaction. 👀
⚡️ Ethena bought out locked seed investor tokens and agreed to eliminate future VC monthly unlock overhang, while proposing a fee switch that would direct 95% of net protocol revenue to ENA buybacks. 👀
DeFi Development Corp resumed its Solana buys, acquiring roughly 19,000 SOL at an average $98.14 to bring its treasury to about 2.33M SOL and SOL equivalents. 👀
Bill Gates: AI is moving faster than society is ready for 👀
Gates warns that millions of jobs could disappear, while AI could dramatically increase cyber, biological and even loss-of-control risks. At the same time, he believes AI could transform medicine, education and science if governments prepare early
AI could be humanity’s greatest equalizer - or its biggest disruption 🚬
First Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction on Mainnet.
StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy has completed the first confirmed quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet, without requiring a soft fork or changes to Bitcoin’s consensus rules.
THORChain launched version 3.20, adding native swaps between Monero and Zcash and assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins without wrapped tokens or custodial exchanges. 🔥