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The Merge had “all the makings of a scammer’s dream”: Chainalysis executive

Eric Jardine talks about how thieves were able to profit on the changeover of the second-largest blockchain and how $2 million in ether was taken. According to Eric Jardine, the cybercrimes research lead at Chainalysis, there were about $2 million worth of frauds prior to, during, and following Ethereum’s Merge, the blockchain’s switch from a…

‘Difficulty Bomb’ Delay of Ethereum isn’t good for the update

Ethereum’s big transition to a more energy-efficient framework that developers have been committing for years could be kicked down the road once again as they intend to postpone a so-called difficulty bomb that is designed to slowly boot miners off the blockchain. A special code that is always been a part of Ethereum, the difficulty…