Only play-to-earn games will interest gamers in 5 years: Reddit co-founder
Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian expects that the play-for-fun games will be pushed out in about five years’ time, as a new breed of games allowing users to make money take over.
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Blockchain jobs surged by 400% in 2021, 4x higher than other tech jobs: LinkedIn
Job postings related to Bitcoin, blockchain, and other related roles saw the highest surge in 2021 as over $30 billion flowed into the sector, according to LinkedIn.
North Korean hackers stole $400M from digital currency platforms: Chainalysis
The hackers launched at least seven attacks targeting exchanges and investment firms and laundered the money through an intricate web of DEXes and mixers.
Threshold signatures to go prime time
One of the most underappreciated technological developments that have been vastly overlooked since the advent of blockchain technology is that of threshold signatures.
Walmart patent filings show retail giant eyes venture into the metaverse
Walmart filed the patent applications on December 30, exploring the development and sale of virtual goods, along with potentially offering its own virtual currency, as well as diving into NFTs.
OP_CODESEPARATOR
sCrypt demonstrates the usage of OP_CODESEPARATOR, such as optimizing preimage size in OP_PUSH_TX and other uses like in-script functions and signing different execution paths.
US Congress to tackle BTC mining’s environmental impact in upcoming hearing: report
Lawmakers in the United States are reportedly concerned about the impact the rising number of miners has on the environment and will invite several stakeholders for a hearing.
Kosovo bans digital currency mining after winter blackouts
Kosovo is eliminating all non-essential energy needs, such as block reward mining, after winter-fueled blackouts led the nation to a state of emergency.
Deadly protests in Kazakhstan lead to 5-day Internet outage, BTC hash rate drops 13%
Kazakhstan has been experiencing its deadliest protests ever with over 160 dead, and BTC hash rate took a nosedive after a five-day Internet outage.
Trustless outsourced vanity address generation
To overcome the drawback of the previous Zero-knowledge key-statement proof, sCrypt conducted the exchange entirely on chain using a smart contract which only pays out if a private key is provided.
ECDSA signature verification in Script
sCrypt has implemented ECDSA signature verification algorithm in Script to verify if an arbitrary message is signed by a private key corresponding to a given public key.
Hackers use ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ to spread Monero mining malware
The latest Spider-Man film is proving quite popular, and hackers are taking advantage to spread a very well-disguised mining malware on torrent sites.