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The Protocol: Beneath Bitcoin ETF Chaos, A Blockchain Drama
In this week's issue, we dive into the proposal that would have curtailed Ordinals inscriptions "NFTs on Bitcoin" traffic – were it not abruptly ended over the past week by a...
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Image of some of Luke Dashjr's proposed code changes, from pull request #28408. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down
Luke Dashjr's technical proposal sounded innocuous enough: to make the popular Bitcoin Core software "effective with newer datacarrying styles." In reality, the effort represe...
Image of some of Luke Dashjr's proposed code changes, from pull request #28408. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)

Twitter Source Code Leaked, Sparks Search for Perpetrator
Twitter Source Code Leaked, Sparks Search for Perpetrator
According to court filings, Twitter is on the hunt for the person who leaked the platform's proprietary source code that was published on GitHub until last week. "The Hash" pa...
Twitter Source Code Leaked, Sparks Search for Perpetrator

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Plagiarism, Fork or Simple Mistake? Shiba Inu Community Debates the Origin Story of Shibarium
SHIB is down 8% and millions have been unstaked over allegations that the Shibarium code was stolen.
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Crypto Custody Firm Copper Alerted to Security ‘Incident’ Over Christmas
Copper said some “concerning behavior” had been detected, and that a “machine-generated alert had been triggered.”
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Cardano Network Recovers After Short-Lived Node Outage
Cardano Network Recovers After Short-Lived Node Outage
The Cardano network had a brief outage on Sunday that was automatically fixed within minutes with no singular root cause determined as of writing time, developers wrote in a G...
Cardano Network Recovers After Short-Lived Node Outage

André Neves, co-founder of Vinteum and ZEBEDEE, presents at TABConf 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (George Kaloudis/CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Gaming and Payments Company ZEBEDEE Launches New Open Source Bitcoin Initiative
The initiative has already cranked out four Lightning-related projects on GitHub.
André Neves, co-founder of Vinteum and ZEBEDEE, presents at TABConf 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (George Kaloudis/CoinDesk)

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Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Code Is Back on GitHub
The move by GitHub comes as Ethereum developers have called for platforms that host the mixer service to not ban Tornado Cash code.
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Ethereum on Track for Testnet Merge in June
Ethereum on Track for Testnet Merge in June
Ethereum’s Ropsten public testnet will undergo a “merge” next month ahead of a rollout on the main network, developer activity on GitHub shows. “The Hash” hosts discuss the la...
Ethereum on Track for Testnet Merge in June

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Coinbase Wants Coders to Help With Its Crypto Regulation Proposal
A GitHub repository went live Thursday in a bid to make open source a proposed framework to U.S. officials.
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