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Het blijft fascinerend, ondanks alle turbulentie bestaat en functioneert de bitcoin blockchain nog steeds, niet als gedroomd breed gebruikt betaal product maar het lijkt een blijvertje
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Two Brothers Arrested for Attacking Ethereum Blockchain and Stealing $25M in Cryptocurrency (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-brothers-arrested-attacking-ethereum-blockchain-and-stealing-25m-cryptocurrency
http://www.memeorandum.com/240515/p51#a240515p51

I though crypto was safe? https://infosec.exchange/@screaminggoat/112446226057448933

🏦 With Mastercard, MetaMask Tests First Blockchain-Powered Payment Card
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/03/11/with-mastercard-metamask-tests-first-blockchain-powered-payment-card/

Decentralized FaaS over Multi-Clouds with Blockchain based Management for Supporting Emerging Applications
Rabimba Karanjai, Lei Xu, Lin Chen, Nour Diallo, Weidong Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08151

Decentralized FaaS over Multi-Clouds with Blockchain based Management for Supporting Emerging Applications
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offers a streamlined cloud computing paradigm, but existing centralized systems suffer from vendor lock-in and single points of failure. We propose DeFaaS, a decentralized FaaS system leveraging blockchain technology and decentralized API management. DeFaaS addresses these limitations by establishing a secure, transparent registry of functions on a blockchain and enabling applications to discover and invoke them. This approach fosters scalability, flexibility, enhan…

Humanity Protocol, a blockchain-based identity system that uses scans of people's palms, raised a $30M seed led by Kingsway Capital at a $1B valuation (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I still remember all the experts who told me I was just to dumb to understand the visionary direction of Kickstarter in going for blockchain. What a 16-dimensional chess it was: "Here's a lot of money if you do this technologically dumb thing."
https://hachyderm.io/users/molly0xfff/

Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image Kickstarter's bizarre blockchain announcement in December 2021 makes so much more sense now that we know Andreessen Horowitz secretly promised them $100 million to pivot to a blockchain-based product built on the also-a16z-backed Celo blockchain. At the time, I wondered why COO Sean Leow was so insistent on the move despite being apparently very confused about the whole concept. https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/11/kickstarter-blockchain-a16z-crypto-secret-investment-chris…

lol. lmao https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112102620968049364

Starbucks is shutting Odyssey, which launched in December 2022 in closed beta offering NFT-based rewards minted on the Polygon blockchain, on March 31, 2024 (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/221967/starbucks-shutting-down-odyssey-nft-rewards…

Starbucks Is Shutting Down Its Odyssey NFT Rewards Program—Will It Return?
Starbucks Odyssey is shutting down this month, and it's unclear whether the Polygon-based NFT rewards program will be revived.

"Blockchain case study: Kickstarter"
This quick summary on how Kickstarter crippled itself for a bullshit move "to the blockchain" is very enlightening: The claimed to do something there cause a16z promised to buy their shares if they did. It was never about anything meaningful, just for shareholders to make a quick buck.
(I still remember the people who told me how dumb I was when I said back then that that move didn't make any rational sense, how they…

Crypto is going great: KuCoin busted, how Kickstarter shot itself in the foot with blockchain, Tether goes AI
We are all Satoshi. Not you, Craig.