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Bitcoin Price Sinks to Lowest Level in 2 Years
 
 
A mixture of high-profile bankruptcy fears, regulatory pressure, and rampant short selling have crushed the price of Bitcoin.
 
 
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ETH Plummets 10% in a Week on FTX Drainer Swaps, Where's the Bottom? (Ethereum Price Analysis)
 
 
After a significant crash in the cryptocurrency market due to the FTX bankruptcy, Ethereum’s price has dropped to a decisive support level of $1K.

A further decline is expected if the mentioned level fails to hold. The upcoming price action should determine Ethereum’s mid-term direction.
 
 
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Ethereum: A rally in whale holdings might not help ETH investors. Here is why...
 
 
During the intraday trading session on 21 November, there was a significant surge in the whale holdings of ETH.
 
 
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Bitcoin, Ethereum Price Prediction- Market Leaders' Recovery Pushed Altcois Higher
 
 
The market leadersBitcoin and Ethereumrejecting lower prices has created a sense of sustainability in the crypto market. As a result, a handful of altcoins jumped higher today, trying to regain lost ground.
 
 
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond   ✅
 
 
Every time a major centralized exchange blows up, a common question that comes up is whether or not we can use cryptographic techniques to solve the problem. Rather than relying solely on "fiat" methods like government licenses, auditors and examining the corporate governance and the backgrounds of the individuals running the exchange, exchanges could create cryptographic proofs that show that the funds they hold on-chain are enough to cover their liabilities to their users.

Even more ambitiously, an exchange could build a system where it can't withdraw a depositor's funds at all without their consent. Potentially, we could explore the entire spectrum between the "don't be evil" aspiring-good-guy CEX and the "can't be evil", but for-now inefficient and privacy-leaking, on-chain DEX.

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📺 Quick Hits
 
 
Shiba Inu & Dogecoin investors are least stressed, study finds. The study shows that FTT token (FTX) holders are the highest stressed-out group at 37.99%.
 
 
In a sign of momentum for Layer 2s, Matter Labs, the team behind the nascent zkSync 2.0 network, raised $200M in a Series C round led by Blockchain Capital and Dragonfly, the venture announced on Nov. 16.
 
 
Ethereum whale and shark addresses are reportedly “rapidly” accumulating the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization at a time in which cryptocurrency prices have taken a bearish turn.
 
 
Bitcoin price returns to $16K amid warning over BTC whale selling. Bitcoin's modest recovery from two-year lows comes as major BTC price support emerges at $12,000.
 
 
Binance’s Changpeng Zhao and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong support Vitalik Buterin’s idea for how exchanges can maintain transparency for their customers. Buterin suggested a system where users can verify their personal balances through a Merkle Tree, protected with the privacy of a zk-SNARK (zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge).
 
 
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Mastering Blockchain: A technical reference guide to what’s under the hood of blockchain, from cryptography to DeFi and NFT
 
 
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  • Solve issues relating to privacy, identity, scalability, and security in enterprise blockchains
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  • Explore various applications, research topics, and future directions of blockchain
 
 
 
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K-Singh/SigmaBonds
 
 
Decentralized, P2P Bond Protocol on the Ergo blockchain.
 
 
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public-apis/public-apis
 
 
A collective list of free APIs
 
 
github.com github.com
 
OffcierCia/On-Chain-Investigations-Tools-List
 
 
Discussions about how one can investigate crypto hacks and security incidents, and collect all the possible tools!
 
 
github.com github.com
 
ping-pub/faucet
 
 
General Faucet for Cosmos SDK testnet.
 
 
github.com github.com
 
Quillhash/DeFi-anti-hack-checklist
 
 
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Xenilla #348: Vitalik Buterin: Relying on zk-SNARK (Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proof)
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