Category: News

Vitalik Buterin Puts Privacy And Quantum Safety Higher On Ethereum’s Roadmap

By Bitcoinist Editorial Team Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared a comparison between Ethereum’s earlier roadmap and a newer L1 “Strawmap,” highlighting privacy and quantum safety as higher-priority research areas. The post points to several notable changes, including more emphasis on native privacy requirements, keyed nonces, shielded pools, quantum safety, and a move away from […]

Metaplanet Moves $250M in Bitcoin as Paper Loss Swells to $1.4B

By Jordan Lyanchev The world’s third-largest public holder of Bitcoin made a substantial transfer hours ago, which raised some questions given the peculiar timing. Metaplanet, which adopted its BTC strategy a few years ago and was described as Japan’s Strategy, has moved 3,881 units (worth around $250 million), according to data from Arkham and Lookonchain. […]