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A third of all ether is now staked. A proposal would pay you less for it

Ethereum researchers have filed a proposal that would destroy a growing slice of staking rewards as more people stake. Here's where that yield comes from, why anyone would want to shrink it, and who has the most riding on it staying put.

The Block, CoinDesk and CryptoSlate 3 months ago · 8 min read
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4,500 people did the safe thing with their bitcoin. It didn’t help.

About $70m of bitcoin drained from 1,200 hardware wallets in under an hour, and the fault was in the devices rather than anything the owners did.

CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Block and Decrypt 3 months ago · 9 min read