A report published in various crypto publications reports that Bitmain has accumulated $1 billion Bitcoin Cash close to 6% of total supply and was supposedly used various tactic to manipulate the price before IPO. As a result, all cryptocurrencies are down. While Bitcoin is down close to 6%, most…
A report published in various crypto publications reports that Bitmain has accumulated $1 billion Bitcoin Cash close to 6% of total supply and was supposedly used various tactic to manipulate the price before IPO.
As a result, all cryptocurrencies are down. While Bitcoin is down close to 6%, most of the top 20 Altcoins are down from 10% to 20% and rest of the currencies are down between 20% to 30%, according to CMC.
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GeneralIntermediateA bridge is only as safe as whatever verifies cross-chain messages. Most major hacks came from stolen validator keys, verification bugs, or bad upgrades, not the chains themselves.
#bridges#security
On Bitcoin, scale confirmation depth with the amount at risk, since finality is probabilistic. On Ethereum, wait for the finalized checkpoint. On rollups, wait for the batch to be final on L1.
#consensus#transactions
GeneralIntermediateBIP-39 encodes random entropy as 12-24 words and stretches them into a seed; BIP-32/44 derive every key from it. Store the words offline on durable media in several places, never digitally.
#cryptography#security#wallets
