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2023-04-24 09:52:36 Chinese city public servants to receive digital yuan salaries starting May

The Chinese city of Changshu has stated that all civil servants in its jurisdiction will be paid their full salaries in digital yuan starting May 2023, according to local reports.

An on-site staff member of a local hospital reportedly confirmed that the workforce would receive payments in digital yuan starting next month. In addition, reporters were told that employees can opt for digital yuan settlements through self-service terminals.

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2023-04-24 08:19:17 A long-dormant Ethereum address that participated in the blockchain's initial coin offering, or ICO, awoke after 7.7 years. It transferred one ether to a new address — which some speculate indicates a test transaction.

The wallet in question received 2 365 ETH — worth approximately $4.42 million today.

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2023-04-21 11:38:26 Terawulf Energizes 50 MW at Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility Nautilus

Bitcoin mining company Terawulf has announced the full deployment of its 50-megawatt (MW) stake in the nuclear-powered Nautilus Cryptomine facility.

The behind-the-meter bitcoin mining facility is powered by 100% nuclear power and benefits from a fixed power cost of $0.02 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), according to the company.

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2023-04-19 20:53:20 A dormant address containing 6 071 BTC (178 128 678 USD) has just been activated after 9.3 years (worth 3 362853 USD in 2013).

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2023-04-18 07:51:14 Elon Musk to launch truth-seeking artificial intelligence platform TruthGPT

Elon Musk told Fox anchor Tucker Carlson that he’s developing a ChatGPT rival known as “TruthGPT,” a large language model (LLM) that Musk says will be trained to explore the mysteries of the universe.

“I’m going to start something which I call TruthGPT, or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.”

This truth-seeking AI, as per Musk, will also push back against what he perceives as “left-wing” bias in the industry. Musk told Carlson that ChatGPT “is programmed by left-wing experts, which train the chatbots to lie.” Carlson, for his part, also stated that “the deeper problem is not simply that it will become autonomous and turn us all into slaves, but that it will control our understanding of reality and do it in a really dishonest way,” adding that “it could be programmed to lie to us for political effect.”

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2023-04-17 10:03:52 Ethereum’s Shapella hard fork executed on mainnet The Shapella hard fork has officially been executed on the Ethereum mainnet — meaning that Ethereum validators can finally withdraw their staked Ether from the Beacon Chain. The long-awaited upgrade took… Open / Comment

2023-04-17 09:36:09 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler could be facing unemployment after United States Representative Warren Davidson declared he would introduce legislation to fire the SEC boss.

In an April 15 tweet responding to Coinbase’s legal chief, Paul Grewal, the crypto-friendly congressman announced his intention to have Gensler removed from his role after the SEC’s latest announcement about revisiting the proposed redefinition of an “exchange.”

"To correct a long series of abuses, I am introducing legislation that removes the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and replaces the role with an Executive Director that reports to the Board (where authority resides)," Davidson tweeted.

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2023-04-13 11:13:16 Twitter to let users access stocks, crypto trading through eToro as Musk pushes app into finance.

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2023-04-13 10:15:30 Exploit involving Aave V1 and Yearn estimated to be around $10 million.

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2023-04-13 08:03:05 Ethereum’s Shapella hard fork executed on mainnet

The Shapella hard fork has officially been executed on the Ethereum mainnet — meaning that Ethereum validators can finally withdraw their staked Ether from the Beacon Chain.

The long-awaited upgrade took effect at 10:27 pm UTC on April 12 at epoch number 194 048.

Currently, around 44% of validators, or 248 043 of the total active 559 549, can request a partial or full withdrawal.

The majority of withdrawals at this time range between 2.8 to 3.2 ETH, which suggests that it’s mostly staking rewards that are being withdrawn at this time.

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