Federal prosecutors filed a forfeiture bill of particulars on Oct. 5 specifying assets subject to forfeiture in the criminal case against cryptocurrency executive Samuel Bankman-Fried. The filing in New York federal court listed two private jets prosecutors say are subject to forfeiture — a Bombardier Global 5000 and an Embraer Legacy. Prosecutors said the aircraft The post SBF Trial: Grounded private jets worth combined $70M may be forfeit in Bankman-Fried trial appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin’s global network hashrate may seem like an objective metric, but researcher and Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp reveals measuring it precisely is deceptively tricky. In a recent Proof of Work (POW) Summit talk in Prague, Lopp described his “hunt for the real Bitcoin hashrate” by evaluating the accuracy of various estimation algorithms. As Lopp explained, most The post Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp sees need for machine learning to improve Bitcoin hashrate estimates appeared first on CryptoSlate.

CommEX, the company that acquired Binance’s Russian operations, anticipates approximately a million customers to transition to its platform, Russian media Kommersant reported Wednesday, Oct. 4. However, not all of Binance’s Russian customers will likely migrate to CommEx. According to Dmitry Stepanin, CEO of Satoshkin, pointed out to Kommersant that crypto traders primarily turned to the The post CommEx to onboard 1 million Russian customers from Binance amid increased competition – report appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Elon Musk officially became a gaming streamer on Oct. 3 as he streamed himself playing Diablo IV on his X social media platform. However, what surprised the world is that self-identifying gamer “Elon” experienced a first stream that was no different from anyone else starting up a gaming channel for the first time, with one The post Op-ed: Rookie mistakes don’t stop Musk’s gaming debut from drawing millions appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin recently wrote an in-depth blog post exploring the question of which features should become official parts of the Ethereum protocol versus being built on top of it. This has been an ongoing debate as the network evolves. In the early days, Buterin explains, Ethereum strove to keep its base layer as The post Vitalik considers implications of adding ZK-EVM, other features to Ethereum mainnet appeared first on CryptoSlate.