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An unknown, standalone Bitcoin miner scored $180,000 on Tuesday, defeating overwhelming odds to mine one of Bitcoin’s latest blocks. According to mempool.space, block 860749 was mined by Solo CK—a unique mining pool that doesn’t split mining rewards between its participants. That means one miner won a full 3.169 BTC (worth about $181,000 as of writing) for their efforts, inclusive of Bitcoin’s full block subsidy and the block’s transaction fees. ANOTHER solo miner mining a #Bitcoin block and cl...

Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) upheld World Liberty Financial, an upcoming crypto lending platform promoted by Donald Trump and his sons, as an example of heightened risks that consumers face when engaging in decentralized finance (DeFi) on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Last week, Twitter (aka X) accounts belonging to Tiffany Trump (Donald's daughter) and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Lara Trump (Donald’s daughter-in-law) were hacked. Under the control of bad actors, their acco...

Mech shooter MetalCore is set to enter open beta on the Epic Games Store on September 12 with its first in-game season of content, “MetalPunk Rhapsody.” This milestone will see the Ethereum-based game, which is built on layer-2 scaling network Immutable zkEVM, upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with a handful of new features added. The shooter, which gave off a Titanfall-meets-Destiny vibe when we first played a preview build last year, has spent the last six months in various closed beta phases. Studi...

U.S. payment processors PayPal and Venmo have added support for Ethereum Name Service, meaning that people can send crypto payments to ENS usernames, according to a press release from ENS Labs. The new integration simplifies wallet address management and reduces the risk of errors, the companies said in a statement. The feature, available initially for U.S. users, will simplify how users interact with crypto on these platforms. Previously, users had to input long wallet addresses manually or sca...

A new token launchpad on Solana will enable users to create decentralized applications (dapps) using just an AI prompt. Launching on September 10, dappslap is a “marketplace for ideas,” founder Troy Murray told Decrypt. https://t.co/T2WrkqD46o is live. Launch a dApp with one click. Currently live on @solana. $SOL pic.twitter.com/ZYDuokwfLk — dappslap.ai (@dappslap) September 5, 2024 Users can quickly launch a dapp using an AI prompt, and if the dapp escapes a bonding curve, the prompt gets put...

A Monero committee member has refuted recent allegations based on a leaked Chainalysis presentation to the IRS that implies the privacy-focused cryptocurrency can be traced. Monero (XMR) is the world’s most popular privacy coin and is specifically built to hide the addresses and transactions of those on its network. Privacy coins have become popular for use cases that require a high degree of anonymity. And while there are lots of legal reasons someone may want financial anonymity, law enforceme...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he sees a future where humans will have to figure out new ways to give their lives purpose, thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics. During a panel discussion at the 2024 All-In Summit hosted by the All-In Podcast on Monday, Musk echoed comments he made during a fireside chat at the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park in England last year. He said he foresees a future where a human workforce is a thing of the past. “I think the actual issue, the mos...