Month: January 2026

Solana Labs CEO Says Ethereum-Style ‘Walkaway’ Thinking Is a Death Wish

Over the weekend, Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko pushed back on Vitalik Buterin’s latest case for Ethereum “ossification,” arguing that for Solana, continuous protocol iteration is not optional, it is survival. The exchange was sparked by a Jan. 12 post in which Buterin said “Ethereum itself must pass the...
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Bill Ackman Says Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Messaging App ‘May Be Useful’ In Iran To Evade Internet Shutdowns

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said Saturday that Block’s decentralized messaging app Bitchat could be a useful communication tool in censored environments like Iran. Can Bitchat Revolutionize Messaging In Iran? Ackman reacted to an X post about Bitchat, a peer-to-peer messaging application developed by Jack Dorsey’s Block that can deliver messages...
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Why Is Ripple’s Price Down Today and What’s Next for XRP?

Ripple’s native cross-border token joined the rest of the cryptocurrency market in an early Monday morning price correction, dropping below $2.00 for the first time since January 2. Moreover, the token plunged to its lowest price since the start of the year at $1.84 before recovering some of the...
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