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Making sense of the Bitfinex Bitcoin billions

[ad_1] It’s the Netflix script that wrote itself. A story so outlandish, it’s stunned the crypto community; an industry accustomed to apparent suicides in Spanish jail cells and nonfungible token auctions for dead rappers. The plot involves the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), a crypto exchange with a checkered history, a rapper-cum-Forbes magazine writer, a voucher to buy a new PlayStation, an occasional magician and $4 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC). The alleged Bitfinex hack money launderers have kept the internet enraptured since the larger-than-life story emerged last week.…

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‘Bitcoin makes no sense for blockchain developers,’ says 1inch Network co-founder

[ad_1] Anton Bukov, the co-founder of 1inch Network, thinks that Ethereum will likely become the main settlement layer for a multi-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.  “There is like a high chance that most of the chains will try to commit their states to Ethereum as a higher layer,” Bukov said in an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph. Bukov, who is number 39 in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 list for 2022, acknowledges that to achieve that, Ethereum needs to solve the scalability issues that limit its transaction output. DISCOVER COINTELEGRAPH’S TOP 100 IN…

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