Bitcoin enters world’s top 5 largest assets, surpassing Google, Silver, Amazon

Bitcoin (BTC) has overtaken Alphabet (Google) to become the world’s fifth most valuable asset by market capitalization. As of April 23, Bitcoin’s market cap surged to $1.87 trillion, edging past Alphabet’s $1.859 trillion valuation, according to asset ranking data. BTC is now behind only gold, Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia. Top assets by market cap. Source: CompaniesMarketCap.com Bitcoin beats Nasdaq 100 returns in April Bitcoin’s edge over Alphabet coincides with its ongoing “decoupling” from its long-standing correlation with US tech stocks, especially in April, when BTC’s price rallied 15% despite the…

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Google Faces Lawsuit After $5M in Crypto Stolen via Play Store App

A Florida woman, Maria Vaca, has sued Google in a California state court, alleging that a cryptocurrency wallet app she downloaded from the Google Play Store was malicious and resulted in the theft of $5 million in cryptocurrency. Vaca claims the app, Yobit Pro, exploited Google’s marketing that portrayed the Play Store as a secure […] Source link

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Bitcoin Developer Mailing List Migrates To Google Groups

Today, moderators of the mailing list for Bitcoin developers, Ruben Somsen, Bryan Bishop, and Warren Togami, announced the migration of the mailing list to Google Groups. “The bitcoin-dev mailing list has migrated from Sourceforge.net where it was originally hosted, to Linux Foundation, to OSUOSL, and now it is migrating to Google Groups,” said Bitcoin developer Bryan Bishop. Subscribers to the existing mailing list are urged to take action promptly, as emails to the old list will no longer be accepted as of February 2024. The new mailing list location will be accessible here.…

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The truth about ETH founders split and ‘Crypto Google’ – Cointelegraph Magazine

There’s a narrative that’s grown up around Ethereum’s two most important co-founders, Joe Lubin and Vitalik Buterin, to explain how they went in different directions almost a decade ago. It suggests the pair fell out over the blockchain’s future direction, with the idealistic 20-year-old Buterin determined to turn Ethereum into a nonprofit foundation, while Lubin and others wanted to commercialize the technology via a for-profit company. “That wasn’t really what happened,” the billionaire founder of Ethereum infrastructure and software firm ConsenSys tells Magazine during an in-depth interview in Tel Aviv.…

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