Zach Pandl, head of research at Grayscale, said in an interview that "a Fed rate cut is out of the question for now." He pointed out that this is bad for risk assets such as bitcoin in the short term, as the market is further digesting expectations that the Fed will delay rate cuts. Pandl believes that the CPI data in January exceeded expectations (up 3% year-on-year), and core inflation also rose to 3.3%, indicating that inflation remains stubborn. Pandl also warned that if inflation continues ...
On October 20th, Vitalik Buterin replied to netizens on X: "I have been talking about the need for (L1 and L2) lightweight clients for years. I think the solution will come when @NoahCitron Helios (or alternative) makes a handy javascript library to handle these things that wallets can easily import. In addition, it is important that the configuration (config) of L2 is moved to the chain, as this will make it easier for lightweight client side proof-of-state verification capabilities to be part ...
"Reducing the [Sinsemilla] hash function to a discrete log is not advisable because one of the potential targets of looking at the hash function is quantum resistance," Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, said in a reply to users on X. "We want to be able to do this once and then fix the state tree from that point."