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A name from the crypto world is now attached to one of the most ambitious missions in human history. Chun Wang, co-founder of F2Pool, which controls roughly eleven percent of Bitcoin's total mining power, has been named Mission Commander for SpaceX's first commercial flight to Mars. The mission involves a Starship flyby of the Red Planet ahead of any crewed landing attempts, and Wang's role puts a figure from the digital asset world at the center of interplanetary ambition.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, Robinhood Crypto is navigating some turbulence of its own. Chief Operating Officer Tanya Denisova is departing the company after more than five years, as the trading platform contends with a sharp pullback in crypto revenue. The exit signals broader pressure on firms that built their growth on the volatility of digital asset markets and are now working to reduce that dependence.
And in a story that should concern anyone running open-source code, a large-scale automated attack called Megalodon has poisoned more than five thousand five hundred GitHub repositories with credential-stealing malware targeting CI/CD pipelines. Security researchers at SafeDep uncovered the campaign, drawing comparisons to an earlier attack that hit nearly four thousand repos. The scale here is a serious reminder of how exposed shared infrastructure can be.
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