Bitcoin (BTC) Nears $43,000 as Meme Coin Dreams on Solana, Avalanche Lead Altcoin Gains
“On the other hand, Tuesday’s peak is close to last Thursday’s, leaving Bitcoin inside the range. Average fees on the Bitcoin network topped $37, hitting a yearly high. The growth was fuelled by another wave of activity in the Ordinals segment, which increased demand for space in the blockchain, and thus increased BTC demand,” Kuptsikevich…
Cathie Wood’s ARK Sells $28M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Shares
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What Prediction Markets Are Forecasting for Crypto in 2024
A big caveat here is that the trading volumes on these niche questions are small – in the thousands of dollars for each of the markets mentioned above. One reason may be that Polymarket is not allowed to serve U.S. residents under a settlement with the CFTC, excluding a broad swath of traders from the…
Metis, the Ethereum Layer 2 Where Vitalik Buterin’s Mom Works, Creates ‘Metis Ecosystem Development Fund’
The fund, called the Metis Ecosystem Development Fund (Metis EDF), will allocate 4.6 million METIS tokens, which will all go to “sequencer mining, retroactive funding, deployment of new projects and other endeavors,” according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. Source link
USDC Issuer Circle Brings Native EURC Stablecoin to the Solana (SOL) Ecosystem
“Users will be able to securely hold savings in euro without the need for a traditional bank account, offering a powerful tool for those looking to safeguard against local currency volatility or devaluation risks that afflict numerous regions globally,” said Rachel Mayer, vice president of product management at Circle. Source link
3 Antarctic glaciers show rapidly accelerated ice loss from ocean warming
SAN FRANCISCO — Several Antarctic glaciers are undergoing dramatic acceleration and ice loss. Hektoria Glacier, the worst affected, has quadrupled its sliding speed and lost 25 kilometers of ice off its front in just 16 months, scientists say. The rapid retreat “is really unheard of,” says Mathieu Morlighem, a glaciologist at Dartmouth College who was…
BlackRock Revises Spot Bitcoin ETF Proposal Ahead of Rumored SEC Approvals
Black Rock’s ETF proposal now includes cash redemptions, a concession to the SEC that may improve the fund’s approval odds. Source link
Here are some astounding scientific firsts of 2023
Science experienced many first-of-a-kind feats this year. These are the groundbreaking achievements that grabbed our attention. Cosmic web shake-up Glowing threads of gas, galaxies and dark matter provided the first tangible evidence that shock waves permeate the cosmic web, the large-scale structure of the universe (SN: 3/25/23, p. 14). Simulations had predicted that colliding threads…
5 Predictions for Real World Assets in 2024
Tokenized finance took off this year. 2024 promises growth in new directions, say Collin Erickson and Mac Naggar of the RWA.xyz research team. Source link
Invisible comet tails of mucus slow sinking flakes of ‘marine snow’
WASHINGTON — Tiny, sinking flakes of detritus in the ocean fall more slowly thanks to the goop that surrounds each flake, new observations reveal. The invisible mucus makes “comet tails” that surround each flake, physicist Rahul Chajwa of Stanford University reported November 19 at the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting. Those mucus…