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BlockDAG Makes History with the Largest L1 Launch Ever: The 100x Crypto Story You Can’t Ignore!
tekedia34d ago

BlockDAG Makes History with the Largest L1 Launch Ever: The 100x Crypto Story You Can’t Ignore!

The digital currency space is never short on massive claims. Every single week, a different project appears, calling itself a game-changer and promising to fix every old problem. Most of this noise eventually leads to nothing. However, there are rare times when actual market data cuts through all the talk to tell a story that [...]The post BlockDAG Makes History with the Largest L1 Launch Ever: The 100x Crypto Story You Can’t Ignore! appeared first on Tekedia.

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Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Should Be Bolder, Here’s Why
newsbtc34d ago

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Should Be Bolder, Here’s Why

Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called for “bolder and more open‐minded” experimentation at Ethereum’s application layer while keeping the core principles untouched. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Shakes Iran Fear as ETF Inflows Drive Short Squeeze Into The Vital $70K Level A Bolder Path For Ethereum In a long post on the social network X on March 5, Vitalik Buterin is doubling down on rethinking the future of Ethereum. After his warning that Ethereum should not lose itself into a memecoin-chasing and yield-farming casino, he is now asking that builders have a “more bold and open mindset to many things” referring this time especially to the “application layer and how we see ourselves in the world”. An Open Mindset Before getting into his deep dive, Buterin clarifies that this open mindset shouldn’t leave people insecure about the network’s security protocols. Ethereum’s co-founder ties back to his previous concerns regarding Ethereum’s role beyond DeFi, reminding users once again what the project ethos is about: technological and financial tools to give people more freedom. We should not compromise on core properties: censorship resistance, open source, privacy, security (CROPS). We should not have “open mindedness” of the type that leaves people with no confidence of what security properties the L1 will have one year from now “Issues of Tecnological Direction” Buterin first tackles what he calls the “technological direction” of the project. He believes that, regarding the layer of applications and Ethereum’s interface to the world, “should be willing to radically rethink various concepts and step outside our comfort zone”. Related Reading: Culper Shorts Ethereum, Says Buterin Selling Signals More Pain Ahead The first aspect to revisit should be the application stack, “because the entire stack so far has not been built around privacy”, he claims. Ethereum’s base layer is finally becoming a robust, efficient settlement engine, but the layers on top, such as L2s, wallets, DeFi, oracles and even future AI agents, are often re‐centralizing the very risks Ethereum was built to remove. Buterin calls to build radically new AI‐native, privacy‐first apps, but do it in a way that cannot override the chain’s cryptographic guarantees. “It Also Includes Culture” Then, he moves to another critique on the short-term casino culture that seems to be taking over Ethereum. Referencing the Milady NFT’s, he calls the attention out to a very specific crypto vibe: the hyper‐online, irony‐poisoned, degenerate, meme‐driven speculation. For Buterin, Milady represents an environment where attention, aesthetics and in‐group memes matter more than building tools that help people under capital controls, censorship, or real economic stress. By invoking Milady, he’s asking: are we going to keep optimizing Ethereum for this kind of self‐referential, nihilistic fun, or are we finally going to ship “sanctuary tech” that someone in a crisis would actually rely on?. He says: Yes, it’s a silly meme. Yes, I find the political takes of some milady partisans cringe and sometimes outright bootlickerish (though other milady partisans are quite the opposite). But the core underlying subtext, the message behind the message, is: rip off the suit and tie. If you have your suit and tie on, be willing to grab the nearest wine glass and spill it all over your suit and tie, so you have no choice but to rip it off and reclaim your body’s full flexibility and freedom. “How Ethereum Can Grow Back Stronger” At the end of his reflection, Vitalik Buterin makes it very clear. Recognizing the “solid position” the project now has, and all the “amazing” things Ethereum has achieved, the goal for it should no longer be searching for “the next step to make it one step better”, but to ask “what are the most valuable things to build, knowing what we know now?”. Ethereum can only grow back stronger, Buterin says, if builders treat its base layer as untouchable public infrastructure and push all the wild experimentation into AI‐native, privacy‐first apps and L2s that still inherit its full trustless guarantees. ETH's price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: ETHUSD on Tradingview Cover image from ChatGPT, ETHUSD chart from Tradingview

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neowin34d ago

Fan Control V262

Fan Control V262 by Razvan Serea Fan Control is a powerful and versatile portable utility that allows you to monitor, control and customize the fans of your GPU and CPU to keep your machine cool and running smoothly. Fan Control supports a wide range of devices and hardware configurations, giving you complete control over your computer's cooling system. Fan Control backend is mainly based on LibreHardwareMonitor, an open source fork of the original OpenHardwareMonitor. This means that hardware compatiblity is entirely open for anyone to contribute, and doesn't rely on a single developer who may stop caring at some point. Combined with the plugin system, Fan Control is unlocked for many generations of hardware to come. Main features Guided setup process on first launchSave, edit and load multiple profilesChange the theme and color of the application.Multiple temperature sources ( CPU, GPU, motherboard, hard drives... )Multiple fan curve functions, including a custom graphMix fan curves or sensor togethers (max, min, average)Low resource usageAdvanced tuning with steps, start %, stop %, response time and hysteresisFanControl V262 changelog: Fix a cache loading bug Fix tray icon tooltips Add support for any full config path with -c or --config cli option Update LibreHardwareMonitorLib Download: FanControl V260 | Installer ~20.0 MB (Open Source) View: Fan Control Homepage | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware

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