Here’s a thought exercise: what is the most impactful thing you could make in just 10 days? Thirty years before creating the crypto-enabled Brave browser in 2015, Brendan Eich was a young developer at Netscape, the company Marc Andreessen co-founded with fellow entrepreneur and computer scientist Jim Clark after coding the first web browser as a student at the University of Illinois. Eich was charged with creating a working prototype of a new computer scripting language in a week in order to compete with Microsoft. He succeeded, and what is now known as JavaScript is the most popular programming language, used by 68% of developers according to a survey by…
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Beeple NFT artwork sells for $6.6 million
Non-fungible token artwork seller Nifty Gateway called the sale of the Donald Trump-bashing piece by Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann historic
The unique NFT art was part of the first drop on Nifty Gateway by Beeple, also known as Mike Winkelmann. The record-setting price was obtained when “CROSSROAD #1/1” was resold on the secondary market, the company said on Twitter. “History has been made,” it added. “We can confirm that this is a legitimate sale - this was brokered by Nifty Gateway's art buying services."
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It’s time for crypto to stop thinking small: An interview with Meltem Demirors
The outspoken chief strategy officer of CoinShares believes the crypto community has forgotten it willed Bitcoin into reality, worries government-issued stablecoins will kill privacy, and explains why she ‘could give two fucks’ about JPMorgan
“I think our aspirations are so small. Making Bitcoin institutional? I could give two fucks if JPMorgan cares about Bitcoin. It does nothing for me as a person, and it makes me sad that so many people have made institutional adoption a goal," Demirors said.
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Verge, PornHub’s first crypto, suffers 51% attack a half million blocks deep
Hackers reversed all the transactions processed on the Verge network in the last 200 days
“The past 200 days worth of $XVG transaction history just vanished," tweeted Coinmetrics network data product manager Lucas Nuzzi. "This is likely the deepest reorg that has ever taken place in a 'top 100' cryptocurrency.”
