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by COINS NEWS - 5 months ago

Daily Crypto Discussion - January 31, 2025 (GMT+0)

Welcome to the Daily Crypto Discussion thread. Please read the disclaimer and rules before participating. & Disclaimer: Consider all information posted here with several liberal heaps of salt, and always cross check any information you may read on...

by COINS NEWS - 5 months ago

What's your retirement target?

Before becoming aware of crypto, I would have been thrilled at the idea of eventually having 400k to retire. But if things continue as they have been, I'll hopefully end up with much more than that. To be honest, I'm tempted to quit my job ri...

by COINS NEWS - 5 months ago

I tried to buy $50, I received $47,000 worth of coins.

This morning I put in an order to buy $50 of XEN on the Polygon network. I received over 250 billion coins worth over $47,000. I panicked for second, thinking I accidentally bought more than I wanted and check the blockchain transaction. No, I...

by COINS NEWS - 5 months ago

Staking in the US is back on Kraken!

https://blog.kraken.com/product/staking/new-us-staking Starting today, clients residing in eligible states will be able to securely stake eligible tokens via Kraken Pro. These clients will be able to participate in bonded staking, which locks up/bond...

by COINS NEWS - 5 months ago

“Useful” Proof-of-Work? Seeking Existing Projects

I’ve been thinking about how Bitcoin’s proof-of-work burns tons of energy just on hashing. What if we used that same brute force to do something valuable, like matrix multiplications for large ML models or protein folding, withoutcompromising the key...