Microstrategy scooped up $1 billion worth of Bitcoinand its total hoard is now worth a little over $4.5 billion. The company also paid off a loan to Silvergate Bank and reported a net loss of $15 million in the fourth quarter. They plan to sell $600 million in shares to fund further Bitcoin purchas.. read more  

The US Commodity Future Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a civil lawsuitagainst Binance, its founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, and three other entitiesover alleged violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations. The complaint alleges that Binanceoffered to execute commodity de.. read more  

Former Coinbase CTO, Balaji Srinivasan,bets $1M on Bitcoin hitting $1M by June 2023, a wager initiated by James Medlock. If BTC's price fails to reach $1M, Medlock wins $1M worth of USD Coin (USDC). Srinivasan argues there's an impending crisis that will lead to deflation of the US dollar, hence th.. read more  

The future of blockchain lies inapplication-specific modular chains. Many projects, including Polygon and Avalanche, are building "rollups-as-a-service" to facilitate this. Platforms like Nitro, Orbit, Slush, and Hyperchain provide rapid experimentation and permissionless rollups. The gaming indust.. read more  

This article fromblockworks.co discusses upcoming cryptocurrency events, such as the Digital Asset Summit in March 2024 and the Permissionless conference in September 2023. It also mentions news in the crypto world, such as Galaxy's reported $1 billion net loss and Binance and its CEO facing a laws.. read more  

Crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is awaiting permission from a federal court to conduct legal research online. US Attorney Damian Williams previously rejected his request to access messaging apps but has proposed a whitelist including whitelisting websites such as Amazon, news providers such as the N.. read more  

Solidity released support for user-defined value types(UDVTs) with the recent feature ofintroducing a new class type to provide an abstraction for elementary value types. This resulted in completely new types similar to `create`, `alias` or new types with distinct underlying value types for UDVTs. .. read more  

Tokenization is becoming more populardespite not being a buzzword yet. It creates on-chain use cases and decreases the need for intermediaries, allowing individuals more control over their data. Trading real world assets (RWA) is a top use case. However, unregulated trading can create risks, and th.. read more  

Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) are partnering to bring good continuous delivery and GitOps content to San Francisco in March. CDCon and GitOpsCon conferences aim to feature talks from leaders in the industry like Luke Philip, Eve Ben Ezra, Stefan S.. read more  

AWS has partnered with Hugging Face, an open source platform for machine learning models and tools, to integrate generative AI into its cloud offerings. Generative AI allows for the creation of "original" content, such as text, music or images. The partnership will make it easier for developers to .. read more