Is Hollywood over? ETH founder on AI, Wes Anderson Star Wars, robot dogs with ChatGPT brains – Cointelegraph Magazine

Your biweekly roundup of cool AI stuff and its impact on society and the future. The past two months have seen a Cambrian explosion in the capabilities and potential of AI technology. OpenAI’s upgraded chatbot GPT-4 was released in mid-March and aced all of its exams, although it’s apparently a pretty average sommelier. Midjourney v5 dropped the next day and stunned everyone with its ability to generate detailed photorealistic images from text prompts, quickly followed by the astonishing text-to-video generation tool Runway Gen-2. AutoGPT was released at the end of…

BTC, ETH Start Week Lower, Ahead of Key Economic Events – Market Updates Bitcoin News

Bitcoin started the week trading in the red, as markets prepared for an important week of U.S. economic events. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to increase rates by 25 basis points, with nonfarm payrolls for April being released this coming Friday. Ethereum was also lower in today’s session. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) continued to trade lower on Monday, as markets remained in consolidation ahead of a pivotal week of economic events. Following a high of $29,952.03 on Sunday, BTC/USD slipped to an intraday low of $28,360.50 earlier today. This…

Price analysis 4/28: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, MATIC, SOL, DOT, LTC

Bitcoin and select altcoins continue to face selling at higher levels, a sign that the bears have not yet given up. The cryptocurrency market witnessed sharp volatility on April 26 on rumors that large sums of Bitcoin (BTC) were on the move from the wallets linked to the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox and the United States government. A minor positive is that Bitcoin and select altcoins held their respective support levels. After Bitcoin’s sharp rally in 2023, some traders seem to be planning to book profits. Coinglass reported that…

ETH Staking Benchmark Introduced by CoinDesk Indices, CoinFund

“Our partnership with CoinFund creates such a foundational piece of infrastructure to crypto-asset markets,” Alan Campbell, president of CoinDesk Indices, said in the press release. “Drawing on our experience managing the longest-running and largest benchmarked crypto indices globally, we’re excited to launch CESR, a building block for crypto-based finance.” Source

Ethereum’s (ETH) Energy Footprint Before the Merge, Was as Much as Switzerland’s Yearly Use

“If I go out on the street now and ask, ‘Hey, what is 100 terawatt hours? What is six gigawatt hours?’ people don’t know,” said Neumüller in an interview with CoinDesk. “So we have tried to contextualized it in the form of pictures, specifically with the buildings and, of course, the raspberry. This makes these magnitudes very clear without an understanding of energy notations.” Original Source EnergyETHEthereumsFootprintMergeSwitzerlandsYearly CryptoX Portal

Third round of ETH withdrawals sees roughly equal amounts of deposits: Data

Ethereum staking withdrawals have entered their third “round,” but Ether (ETH) staking deposits have almost equaled them, according to the data from the analytics platform Nansen. Ethereum staking withdrawals started ramping up for the third time on April 24 and into April 25. According to Nansen, the crypto exchange Kraken was responsible for a large portion of these withdrawals. A “round” refers to the number of days taken to process partial withdrawals and rewards. Nansen says it currently takes just under four and a half days. The last large batch…

Ethereum (ETH) Layer 2 Networks’ Total Value Locked Hovers at Near-Record High, Data Shows

As ether’s price rose in April, so did the total value locked (TVL) of Ethereum layer 2, or companion, networks, reaching $10 billion on April 14, its highest level yet. TVL has subsequently declined amid a swoon in crypto prices but remains at around $9.29 billion, more than double where it stood at the start of the year, data from layer 2 analytics site L2Beat shows. Source

Price analysis 4/24: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, MATIC, DOGE, SOL

Bitcoin and select altcoins are at risk of falling below their respective support levels and starting a deeper correction. Bitcoin (BTC) managed to stay above $27,000 for the past three days but its 9% loss last week spooked some newbie traders. Glassnode data shows that short-term holders, who acquired Bitcoin less than 155 days ago, have been moving coins to the exchanges at a loss since April 16.  While short-term traders are panicking and focusing on the $25,000 level on the downside, some analysts are turning bullish for the next…

ETH Boston Conference and Hackathon Returns April 28-30 at Boston University – Press release Bitcoin News

press release PRESS RELEASE. ETH Boston and The Boston DAO are thrilled to announce the return of ETH Boston, a conference and hackathon event taking place at Boston University on April 28-30, 2023. The conference will feature three stages of 50+ industry experts, founders, and builders, technology-specific workshops, networking events, and a hackathon. We are excited to bring to you high quality discussions with tracks covering DeFi, Infrastructure, Data, Identity, Zero-Knowledge, DAOs, DeSci, Institutional Adoption, Regulation, and more! ETH Boston aims to build awareness and directly impact developers, investors, students,…