Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman explains how a weakening German economy — Europe’s largest — is a positive for cryptocurrencies.

Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman explains how a weakening German economy — Europe’s largest — is a positive for cryptocurrencies.
A frontrunning miner extractable value (MEV) bot that had drained approximately $11 million worth Ether from the Curve protocol returned nearly all of it.
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A miner extractable value (MEV) bot that drained 6,106 Ether from the Curve Finance pETH-ETH pool has returned most of the funds to the JPEG'd deployer, which represents nearly all of the drained funds. This event occurred after the bot's address sent a message on the Ethereum blockchain seeking to prove that their email address was associated with the frontrunning bot.
The Ethereum IDM negotiations that led to the partial return of funds. Source: Etherscan.The returned funds come only from the pETH-ETH Curve pool associated with the JPEG'd protocol, which was frontrun by the bot. All other exploited funds are still under the control of the attacker who initiated the exploit. The Curve team has also sent a message to the original attacker in an attempt to get the rest of the funds returned.
This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.

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Lea Thompson — aka Girl Gone Crypto — declares that she will not put her 225,000 Twitter followers to sleep with the same old boring “breaking” news tweets about crypto.
She explains that using “breaking” to share news that everyone knows is pretty lame.
“It is kind of generic. It is easy engagement, and there is not any personality or anything interesting about it.”
“By the time I’d have posted the news, five other accounts would have probably posted about it,” Thompson says.
Instead, Thompson likes to put a spin on the latest news, dish out some interesting commentary, or crack jokes to give her followers something different from the rest of the pack.
Girl Gone Crypto has amassed a huge following on Twitter thanks to her interesting and unique take on crypto news.
Girl Gone Crypto has amassed a huge following on Twitter thanks to her interesting and unique take on crypto news.
Girl Gone Crypto has amassed a huge following on Twitter thanks to her interesting and unique take on crypto news.
Lea Thompson — aka Girl Gone Crypto — declares that she will not put her 225,000 Twitter followers to sleep with the same old boring “breaking” news tweets about crypto.
She explains that using “breaking” to share news that everyone knows is pretty lame.
“It is kind of generic. It is easy engagement, and there is not any personality or anything interesting about it.”
“By the time I’d have posted the news, five other accounts would have probably posted about it,” Thompson says.
Instead, Thompson likes to put a spin on the latest news, dish out some interesting commentary, or crack jokes to give her followers something different from the rest of the pack.
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