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wallets and exchanges
Synthetix Resumes Trading Following Misplacement Of 37 Million Synthetic Ether
After an oracle error resulted in a trading bot receiving profits of 1,000 times their actual worth, an agreement between the bot's owner and Synthetix saw the exchange platform get back 37 million synthetic Ether while the bot owner received a bug bounty.
NEWS
business and finance
Bitcoin IRA, BitGo Offer Full Crypto Retirement Accounts
With Bitcoin IRA offering hybrid crypto and fiat individual retirement accounts (IRAs) since 2016, the digital asset IRA firm has partnered with BitGo to launch crypto IRAs, allowing individuals to diversify their holdings among 12 different digital assets.
NEWS
world
Swiss National Bank Member A-OK With Facebook And Libra
Speaking at the Crypto Valley Conference in Zug, Switzerland, Thomas Moser, an alternate member of the governing board at the Swiss National Bank, said Facebook's Libra project has yet to sound any alarms for the Swiss National Bank and that the country's regulators are "pretty relaxed" about it.
NEWS
business and finance
What PoolTogether's Lottery Can Tell Us About The Money Libra's Backers Will Make
In PoolTogether's Ethereum-based lottery, winners receive payment from interest earned on pools of the Dai stablecoin, while everyone else receives the price they paid for a ticket back. Backers of the Libra investment token, Facebook's token released alongside Libra, will expect to earn a profit in a similar way.
NEWS
cryptocurrencies and tokens
Coin Metrics Finds Inaccuracies With Kik's Kin Usage Claims
After Kik claimed its blockchain saw more activity than both Ethereum and Bitcoin, data provider Coin Metrics found that while users were creating Kin accounts, 93% of them remained empty.
NEWS
cryptocurrencies and tokens
Electric Coin Company Working On New Zcash Blockchain
With fewer than 2% of Zcash users taking advantage of the network's privacy features, Electric Coin Company developers and the Zcash Foundation hope a new blockchain with private transactions enabled by default will change how people use the network and its native coin, ZEC.
Ecosystem Updates
Week in Ethereum News, June 22
The June 22 issue of Week in Ethereum News includes an update on where Ethereum 2.0 development is at and info regarding the Burner Wallet Factory. See More
Week in Ethereum News, June 15
The mid-June edition of Week in Ethereum News includes a look at the ENS timeline for 3-6-character domain names and Devcon updates related to speaker applications and ticket sales. See More
Empirical Energy Consumption Model Quantifies Bitcoin's Carbon Footprint (6/12)
A closer look at the energy consumption of bitcoin mining, based on where miners are located and the types of machines they are using. See More
Week in Ethereum News, June 8
The latest edition of Week in Ethereum includes a look at 0x and StarkWare's decentralized exchange solution, StarkDEX, and Blockchains LLC's acquisition of slock.it. See More
