Samsung Wallet Taps Solana for USDC Transfers on 82M US Galaxy Devices
Users can send USDC across borders from late October, three months after Samsung teased stablecoin support without naming a blockchain.
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Users can send USDC across borders from late October, three months after Samsung teased stablecoin support without naming a blockchain.
OpenAI posted 722 AI-written math manuscripts from an unreleased model, saying most came from a single prompt. Some mathematicians call the claims unverified.
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged holders to calmly move funds to unused addresses, warning that AI-driven math could break crypto signatures before quantum computers do.
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less to run than its predecessor and targets high-volume jobs like summaries and live customer support. It arrives 15 days after Opus 5.5.
The House Financial Services chairman credited the SEC and CFTC for stepping in after the Clarity Act's collapse but said only "permanent law change" can secure U.S. leadership.
This week’s newsletter summarizes the responsible disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities affecting older versions of Eclair and describes a proposal for synchronizing wallet labels between devices through an untrusted store. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ahmet Kurt and Jan B to discuss Newsletter #424.
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for upgrading the offchain protocols of the Lightning Network to post-quantum security. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza, Eric Price, and PortlandHODL to discuss Newsletter #423.
This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of mining pool difficulty controllers stranding slowed miners, describes a proposed improvement to Utreexo’s initial block download, and links to a draft BIP for specifying unspendable taproot internal keys. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Bitcoin Core version 29.4 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 29.4 released was originally pub…
Bitcoin Core version 30.3 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 30.3 released was originally pub…
Bitcoin Core version 31.1 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 31.1 released was originally pub…
We have become aware of a privacy bug in the -privatebroadcast feature, newly introduced in Bitcoin Core 31.0, that may cause the originator’s IP address to be revealed to the receiving peer under certain network conditions. A fix is forthcoming and will be released with 31.1. Users of -privatebroad…
After Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 and before Bitcoin Core 29.0, validating a specially-crafted block may cause the node to access previously freed memory. During validation, necessary data required for checking inputs for each transaction is pre-calculated and cached. For specially crafted invalid blocks, i…