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Vitalik Buterin Warns Protocol Complexity Threatens Ethereum’s Decentralization Goals

TLDR: Complex protocols fail trustlessness by requiring specialized experts to verify properties. Backwards compatibility pressures cause protocol bloat as additions outpace feature removals. Buterin proposes garbage collection to minimize code…

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Bitcoin options just overtook futures for the first time, and the new way institutions hedge is trapping retail leverage

By mid-January, open interest in Bitcoin options rose to about $74.1 billion, edging past Bitcoin futures open interest of roughly $65.22 billion. Open interest is the stock of outstanding contracts…

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Scammers Drain $20,000 Life Savings From Wells Fargo Customer After Posing as Bank and Federal Agents: Report

A scammer posing as an FBI official has successfully taken a Wells Fargo customer’s entire life savings. Diane Fendley of Houston received what she believed was an urgent fraud alert…

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