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Apple Pay users faced a frustrating disruption on Wednesday afternoon as the payment service, particularly Apple Cash, experienced widespread outages. Reports of the issue began surfacing around 1 p.m. EST, leaving many users scrambling to find alternative payment methods. The outage, which primarily impacted fund transfers and access to Apple Cash, sparked confusion and frustration among consumers relying on the platform for their transactions. According to DownDetector.com, a website that tracks online service outages, the issues affected 54% of users attempting fund transfers, 38% making payments, and 8% accessing the app. While some progress was made to address the problem…

Pump.science and Hedgehog Markets have teamed up to foster decentralized science-focused betting contracts as the DeSci sector gains traction. According to a Jan. 8 announcement, Pump.science and Hedgehog Markets will enable bettors to speculate on laboratory mice undergoing experiments aimed at increasing human life expectancy. Pump.science is a blockchain research project focused on disrupting traditional academia by funding scientific initiatives and launching tokenized protocols. The project is backed by the Solana Foundation, which supports innovative ventures within the blockchain space. A blog post from Pump.science revealed that Hedgehog Markets users can place bets on mice each week, wagering on how…

Spot flows, including ETFs, turned negative, wiping out recent gains. Why a short term leverage shakedown played out recently and what’s next as whales make a comeback. An unexpected wave of sell pressure has wiped out the recent gains that Ethereum [ETH] achieved in its first few days of January. There were multiple reasons behind the sell pressure, including a leverage shake-down and spot outflows, among others. ETH spot ETF outflows were arguably the most noteworthy sign of sell pressure. It had initially kicked off this week with $128.7 million worth of inflows on the 6th of January, building on…

Follow Frank on X. With bitcoin’s price dipping significantly below $100k again, the “buy the dip” cheerleaders are out in full force.But I’m here to offer a different perspective: Don’t buy the dip.Before I continue, let me please make it clear that nothing that I write in this Take is investment advice.Why would I say such a thing? Is it that I hate bitcoin all of a sudden?No.I have other reasons for making such a statement.The first is that I’m trying to keep you from becoming exit liquidity for people like this:Don’t worry guys.The retards are coming. pic.twitter.com/1YL8keRHYa— Breadman (@BTCBreadMan)…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. Whale Alert, a prominent crypto and blockchain tracking platform, has spotted a massive DOGE deposit amid the Dogecoin price crash. This enormous deposit, involving over 70 million DOGE tokens, was moved by an anonymous whale to Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. Moreover, the lofty Dogecoin transaction comes on the heels of a recent10% price crash in the meme coin.  Whales Move Over 70 Million Dogecoin To Binance The recent Dogecoin price crash may have triggered fear among investors, as DOGE whales are suddenly selling off their holdings. With analysts and traders expressing…

With DEVCON1 a mere week away, the teams are excited and preparing to share all the great tools and technology the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of developers and dozens of talks including Nick Szabo, Vitalik Buterin, and Marley Gray from Microsoft. Tickets are limited and we anticipate selling out, so if you haven’t already registered, head on over to https://devcon.ethereum.org to secure your spot now! cpp-ethereum TurboEthereum released 1.0.0 of the C++ tools. Work has been done on state trie pruning and upgrading network protocols (PV 62 & 63). Several Mix bugs have been fixed and…

Members of the popular metaverse community the WIP Meetup have secured an allocation of Hyperfy‘s $HYPER tokens, ahead of their 2025 push to build a new era of the immersive web.Through the WIP Meetup, various members were able to acquire – either via a purchase or through competitions – Hyperfy Parcels, which enable holders to claim an amount of $HYPER tokens.The WIP Meetup continues to be held on a weekly basis, providing attendees with opportunities to not just interact with other members of the community, but to also get lucrative perks in hot-topic Web3 projects. Source: @theWIPmeetup on XWhat is…

Homepage > News > Finance > Reserve Bank of India warns of digital asset threat to financial stability The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) warned in its December 2024 Financial Stability Report that the widespread use of digital assets, stablecoins, and tokenization based on blockchain could create significant vulnerabilities to financial stability. “Widespread usage of crypto-assets and stablecoins has consequences for macroeconomic and financial stability. As highlighted in the IMF-FSB synthesis paper, it could reduce the effectiveness of monetary policy, worsen fiscal risks, circumvent capital flow management measures, divert resources available for financing the real economy and threaten global financial stability,” RBI’s report warned.  “Even though…

Beginning today, Synthetix Perps on Arbitrum have been placed into close-only mode. This decision follows the sharp pivot in Synthetix’s product strategy to vertically integrate rather than existing solely as a platform. While this decision was not taken lightly, it is a necessary step to ensure we can deliver the most liquid, reliable, and user-friendly onchain trading, leverage, and yield platform as possible. As each chain’s deployment requires unique liquidity, maintenance, and support resources, consolidating on one network allows us to focus these resources on strengthening our core offerings. This is also an important step as Synthetix progresses towards Snaxchain,…

Dogwifhat price crashed below the key support at $2 this week, mirroring the performance of Bitcoin and other Solana meme coins. Dogwifhat (WIF), one of the largest meme coins on the Solana network, tumbled to a low of $1.8520, marking a drop of over 61% from its peak in November. The decline in WIF’s price is tied to the broader crypto crash that has seen Bitcoin (BTC) and most altcoins retreat. The total market cap of these coins fell from $3.6 trillion last week to $3.3 trillion today as risks in the bond market continued. WIF also dropped as some…