“Sepolia Testnet Successfully Replicates ETH Staking Withdrawals Ahead of Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade”
The Ethereum blockchain is one step closer to its highly anticipated Shanghai Upgrade, as the Sepolia testnet successfully replicated withdrawals of staked ether (ETH) today. The upgrade was triggered at epoch 56832 at 4:04 UTC and finalized at 4:17 UTC (11:17 p.m. ET). This marks Ethereum's complete transition to a fully functional proof-of-stake network, allowing validators to withdraw rewards...
Solana Mainnet Beta Outage: Cause Still Unknown
Solana developers reported on Monday that the cause of a network-wide outage over the weekend is still unknown and under investigation. The outage occurred at 05:46:16 UTC 2023-02-25 and led the validator community to opt for a restart of the network. The developers stated that the root cause is still unknown and under active investigation. They are continuing to...
ChatGPT vs Google Search: SEO
Google is the undisputed king of search, with a market share of 91% and $163 billion in revenue last year. OpenAI's ChatGPT has caused other companies who have tried to compete with Google to fail, as it provides better answers to complex questions and has attracted over 100 million users in a few months. Despite some restrictions, ChatGPT is...
Locking Profits with the Parabolic SAR: Exploring J. Welles Wilder’s Time/Price System
Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) is a technical analysis indicator developed by J. W. Wilder Jr. in the late 1970s and presented in his book New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. It is typically used as a way to identify market trends and points of reversal, and consequently may increase the chance of successful buying and selling opportunities. As...
Riding the Waves of Emotions: How Market Psychology Impacts the Price of Bitcoin and Beyond
The psychology of markets is a major area of interest for those involved in financial trading or investing. By understanding the emotions and sentiment of those involved in the markets, it is possible to gain insight into why prices and trends move in a certain way and what could be pushing them in a different direction. Market psychology theory...
Explore the Maker-Taker Fee World of Trading – Liquidity Providers and Liquidity Takers are Vital for Exchanges!
The concept of Maker-Taker has now become an integral part of trading markets, especially when it comes to the digital cryptocurrencies. Understanding this concept is essential to properly contributing to the trading markets in an organic and rooted way. To understand what makers and takers are, we must first understand market liquidity. Market liquidity is essentially a measure of how...
Obscure View From On High: Uncovering the Dark Side of Bitcoin’s Eclipse Attacks
Eclipse attacks are a problem in the digital world, and understanding them is critical for cryptocurrency networks like Bitcoin. A successful eclipse attack can involve a malicious entity successfully and temporarily “eclipsing” a node (as the name implies) in order to isolate it from the network and prevent it from receiving block updates or connecting to peers. Eclipse attacks can...
Solana Network Experiences Forking Event, Throttles Transactions
The Solana network experienced a forking event early Saturday morning New York time that throttled users’ ability to execute transactions. According to Solana Explorer, the network was processing about 93 transactions per second near 2:00 AM east coast time, significantly lower than the network’s rate near 5000 TPS some 15 minutes prior. This low throughput prevented users of Solana...
G20 Nations Unveil Global Crypto Rules Framework
The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors have held discussions in India to create a global regulatory framework for crypto. India, as the holder of the G20 Presidency, announced that the basis of the global crypto rules will be formed on a new synthesis paper jointly produced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Financial Stability Board...
Solana Network Deep Freeze Continues as Validators Prepare Second Restart
The Solana network experienced a deep freeze on Saturday, causing a near complete shutdown of activity on the blockchain. Validators running Solana's infrastructure are attempting to synchronize a restart and fork the chain in order to restore service to users. The first attempt was abandoned when validators realized they had picked the wrong point at which to restart. As...
