Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as crypto exchange Bybit declares "war" against the Lazarus Group.
Hacked cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has declared a “war against Lazarus” and launched a new website tracking the group’s wallet addresses, while Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi announced that she will transition to her new role as president at the organization. CoinDesk's Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry on "CoinDesk Daily."
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This episode was hosted by Christine Lee. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Christine Lee and edited by Victor Chen.
Lyn Alden’s recent report on Bitcoin Consensus provides a helpful rubric for defining Bitcoin stakeholder groups, their power dynamics, and the game theory of forks.
Lyn Alden’s just dropped a report a little different than her normal Bitcoin & macro focus: Bitcoin Consensus. She takes us through defining the various stakeholder groups and how the game theory works as these groups’ influence wax and wane.
Notes:
• What is an Economic Node
• What are the Six Bitcoin Stakeholder groups?
• Protocol Developers power
• Game Theory of stakeholder power dynamics
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
02:52 - Lynn’s Background & Bitcoin Research
05:16 - The Six Bitcoin Stakeholder Groups
08:09 - Economic Nodes
12:03 - Miners vs. Nodes
16:33 - Protocol Developers & Their Influence
20:19 - Podcasters
23:08 - “State of Mind” Concept
29:26 - Should More Stakeholders Be Involved in Consensus?
31:43 - Game Theory Behind Bitcoin Consensus Changes
34:31 - Weaknesses & Risks in the Process
38:52 - Future Soft Forks
39:15 - Lyn’s View
42:46 - Potential Future Optimizations
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When Vivian Harsh became a Chicago librarian, she began what was called at the time the “Special Negro Collection” – an archive housing Black history and literature. Harsh knew writers like Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston personally. Their work is also housed in the Vivian Harsh Research Collection, at Chicago’s Woodson Regional Library. Reset chats with the unit head of the collection, Raquel Flores-Clemons, to learn about Harsh’s life and legacy.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
House Republicans passed a sweeping new budget plan but disagree on spending cuts. A group of civil servants on Elon Musk's DOGE team resigned, and egg farmers on the front lines of the latest bird flu outbreaks say they are losing the battle with the disease.
Today's episode of Up First was edited by Jason Breslow, Padmananda Rama, Carrie Feibel, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott. And our technical director is Carleigh Strange.
The first phase of Gaza’s ceasefire is near its end, but planning for the even more fraught second phase has hardly begun. What chance for near-term peace? We examine the harmful outcomes from the Trump administration’s slashing funding for America’s science institutions (9:45). And “I’m Still Here”, an Oscar-tipped film, confronts Brazilians with a dark past many had chosen to forget (18:35).
In our latest episode where we discuss Governor Gavin Newsom's bold $920 million initiative to tackle California's homelessness crisis, demanding local accountability and progress. We also touch on the alarming shift of wildfires into urban areas like Altadena, impacting diverse communities. The episode further explores the controversy surrounding teens confiding in AI chatbots, raising questions about tech companies' responsibilities. Plus, we cover Warner Bros. shutting down three game studios and axing the Wonder Woman game, signaling a strategic shift in their gaming division.
The Chicago area played a key role in Black aviation in the early 1900s. The founders of the first Black-owned airport learned to fly in Chicago and went on to teach thousands of others.
It beats. It throws blood. It breaks – but not if Dr. Herman Taylor can help it. He is a physician, professor and director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and an absolute legend. Cardiology is a vast field but Dr. Taylor joined for a 101 on how the heart works, and how to take care of it. Get pumped for valves, tubes, electrical shocks, Grey’s Anatomy glossaries, heavy metal hearts, the effects of long term stress and systemic oppression on the heart, what those blood pressure numbers mean, what to do in an emergency, cardiac disease symptoms, what your heart wants you to eat, how to decipher your cholesterol numbers and why you would want to. Also: the worst heart tattoos out there.
