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Your Portfolio Called — It’s Feeling Itself Again🙏🏼 (1)
Tracey Plowman
May 21, 2025
This Week in Crypto
🔥 This week on Crypto Curious — it’s guest host time!
Blake is joined by Web3 powerhouse Danielle Lukins – aka Crypto Crush. She’s the founder of a leading Web3 social media agency, has worked with giants like KuCoin and Bitget, and has spoken on major platforms like BBC Radio 1 and NFT London. She's on a mission to empower the next wave of crypto entrepreneurs and she’s bringing the 🔥.
Join Blake & Danielle as they cover this week’s biggest stories.
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Markets at a glance.
X marks the spot.
Good articles.
The U.S. Senate's vote Monday to advance the key stablecoin bill, known as the GENIUS Act, is "historic" and could help "ensure U.S. dollar dominance," according to several senators and crypto industry leaders.
Bitcoin developers and die-hards alike are debating a proposed change that would change Bitcoin's base unit—and impact how BTC is perceived.
Coinbase saw its stock dip on its big day in the S&P 500. It closed at about $263, down from its high. Then came news of a US Justice Department probe into how hackers stole customer data. It’s a sudden turn for the exchange that just replaced Discover Financial Services on the index.
Crypto things you didn’t know you didn’t know.
🐌 Blockchains Are Intentionally Slow.
First and foremost, blockchain is not intended to be a high performance or low latency solution. In fact, it may well be one of the least performant types of distributed system technology — and that’s no accident.
A blockchain is a persistent, transparent, and public append-only distributed ledger. It consists of a network of computers or nodes that collectively contain a shared history of transactions. Transaction data can be added to a blockchain and previous data cannot be changed (i.e. it is “immutable”). The nodes do not know or trust each other, meaning blockchain is a trustless mechanism of trade. This is convenient, as it does not require a middleman to facilitate exchanges. Instead, nodes must rely on using an agreed-upon method for validating new additions to the chain (e.g. Proof of Work or Proof of Stake).
As a result, blockchains must prevent Byzantine behavior whereby some nodes (either due to unreliability or to being a bad actor) present a risk to the system. Unfortunately, Byzantine fault-tolerance is notoriously slow1.
When organizations seek ways to speed up blockchain transactions, they introduce technical risk that could result in system failure or exploitation by a bad actor. Let’s look more into technical risk and a recent example.
In Other Crypto News!
“Wrench Attack”
US Tourist Says Bitcoin, XRP Worth $123K Stolen After Ride With Fake Uber in London.
An American tourist has lost more than $123,000 in crypto after being drugged and abducted by a fake Uber driver in London’s West End.
