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Bitcoin Skipped the NIST Curve a 1997 Clock Just Explained
Claude traced NIST's curve seeds to a Unix clock in 1997, and Bitcoin has run all along on secp256k1, a curve built a different way.
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Messari Names Diran Li Chief Executive Officer
Messari CEO Eric Turner handed the role to seven-year CTO Diran Li on March 16, 2026, alongside a round of layoffs the firm tied to an AI-first pivot.
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Phil Daian Names MEV, and Flashbots Builds Its Market
A 2019 Cornell Tech paper named the profit in ordering trades; by October 2026, 92 percent of Ethereum slots ran through Flashbots' MEV-Boost.
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Kevin Owocki Squares the Crowd at Gitcoin
Gitcoin ran its first quadratic funding round in February 2019 with a $25,000 match; by 2022 matches topped $3 million, and fake accounts grew alongside.
