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Ethereum (ETH) founder Vitalik Buterin has launched a new six-step roadmap for Ethereum. The Roadmap sees multiple different changes being made to the blockchain with the aim of improvement. Ethereum is one of the few blockchains that has consistently sought to improve its quality for its users. The new roadmap will benefit many other cryptocurrencies alongside Ethereum. Specifically ERC-20 tokens. These tokens are native to cryptocurrencies that are built on Ethereum. When Ethereum changes its blockchain, all of…

Image: Warner Bros. We’re getting a sense of just how important The Flash is to Warner Bros Discovery today. Apparently so much so that a sequel for the movie has already been written. In a deep dive on the state of the DC extended universe, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that there are definite plans for the franchise should it do well at the box office. That, of course, is no guarantee, considering its star Ezra Miller recently pled not guilty in court to felony burglary charges. That charge is just one of…

As part of Moscow’s response, the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (known as Rosstat) and other government agencies halted publication of many economic statistics. Regular reports on imports and exports, debt, monthly oil production, banking, airline and airport passenger volumes, and so on, simply disappeared. But then, as the war dragged on, something strange happened. Media coverage noted Russia’s economy was holding up much better than expected. Key pieces of evidence included Russia’s gross domestic product…

While the first couple of quarters of 2022 were brutal for most altcoins, Binance Coin (BNB) and Optimism (OP) faired better than most. Binance, as you probably know is a stalwart and battle-hardened crypto exchange. It has the highest volume of any centralized exchange. It’s been around for a while. Optimism is an up-and-coming layer-2 blockchain. While both of these assets are expected to produce nice returns in the coming years, there are no guarantees and the risks are still high for those that go all in on one…

The newest graphic novel by Tillie Walden is out today with Clementine: Book One, which is set within The Walking Dead universe and centered around a character who has to-date mostly appeared in video games. This is, essentially, the first major addition to The Walking Dead in comics since the main series ended in July 2019. It’s also the launch of a new YA imprint from publisher Skybound — dubbed Skybound Comet — and Walden’s first new original book since Are You Listening? hit in 2019 (not long, coincidentally, after…

SAN FRANCISCO (06/15/2022) – Ankr, one of the world’s fastest-growing Web3 infrastructure providers, is thrilled to announce that it has become an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) provider to Optimism, a blazing-fast and low-cost Layer-2 scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain. Following this partnership, Ankr is now an RPC provider to 17 blockchains including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, and Avalanche. An RPC enables various applications to interact with the blockchain. Ankr Protocol serves an average of…

Optimism was supposed to be Ethereum’s saviour, but it’s killing ETH further Even though Ethereum has grown to become one of the most powerful cryptocurrencies in the world, largely due to its unique smart contracts feature, it does not come without its drawbacks. Ethereum suffers from extensive scaling issues, along with the fact that its transaction fees are extremely high. The ETH developers have been trying several methods to make sure that investors gain the best trading experiences. But even after its…

When the pandemic hit in 2020, Karen Lee Orzolek set about constructing what she thought of as a “portal” in a closet at the foot of her stairs. Orzolek, better known as Karen O, the spectacularly charismatic frontwoman of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, was experiencing the locked-down contraction of her world along with everyone else. Unlike everyone else, however, Orzolek is a rock star in the truest sense of the word – a woman used to selling out huge venues with a triple-Grammy-nominated band whose driving spirit these past 22…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Consumers voiced much more positive views in April, rising 9.8% above March, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Most of the surge…