BitDigest December 2 · Issue #795

• Crypto prices facing resistance at current levels
• Russia opposes issuance of ruble-backed stable coins
• Libra rebrands as “Diem”

An Uninspiring Beginning

Bitcoiners often talk about meaning behind the message hidden in the genesis block: “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” referring to a Times of London headline from the day the first block was mined so with the first block of Ethereum 2.0, it was hoped that an inspirational message would be included, or as Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said, “something profound… about giant leaps for mankind.”   Unfortunately, the first block validated by a developer known as Mr. Fahrenheit, was much more trivial: “Mr F was here.”

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