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The post The Best Cranberry-Orange Nut Bread (and It Doesn’t Need A Glaze) appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. This festive colorful loaf of cranberry, orange and pecans will delight your friends and family either at home or as a gift. Elizabeth Karmel This time of year, cranberry and orange go together like peanut butter and jelly. It is a classic combination so perfect, it’s practically its own flavor. I’ve always loved the bright, tart combination of cranberry and orange, but most of the cranberry-orange loaves (I’ve tried) miss the mark. Too often, they’re dry and one-dimensional, relying on a sugary glaze for flavor. Last year, I decided to see if I could fix that. I set out to create a version of this popular loaf that would be moist and tender with bursts of tangy cranberry tempered by just enough sweetness and fragrant citrus—and delicious enough to stand on its own without a glaze. I experimented with chopping the cranberries, but ultimately preferred leaving them whole. I love the look of pockets of bright red from whole cranberries and the sharp burst of tart flavor. The liquid in the recipe is mostly fresh-squeezed orange juice. I top off the fresh juice with half and half to soften the acidity, and add a little extra moisture to the crumb. For extra citrus flavor, the zest of those same oranges is rubbed into the sugar to maximize the fragrant oil (from the zest). I often use clementines or mandarins when they are in season because I find them to be even more flavorful. The reverse creaming method calls for butter to be cut into the dry ingredients a.k.a. flour-sugar mixture until it is evenly disbursed and resembles fine sand. Elizabeth Karmel To insure that the loaf bakes tender and moist, I used the reverse creaming method—an easy, foolproof technique that’s less fuss than traditional creaming. Instead of beating butter and…

The post GBP trades firmly against US Dollar appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Pound Sterling trades firmly against US Dollar ahead of Fed’s policy outcome The Pound Sterling (GBP) clings to Tuesday’s gains near 1.3640 against the US Dollar (USD) during the European trading session on Wednesday. The GBP/USD pair holds onto gains as the US Dollar remains on the back foot amid firm expectations that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will cut interest rates in the monetary policy announcement at 18:00 GMT. At the time of writing, the US Dollar Index (DXY), which tracks the Greenback’s value against six major currencies, holds onto losses near a fresh two-month low of 96.60 posted on Tuesday. Read more… UK inflation unchanged at 3.8%, Pound shrugs The British pound is unchanged on Wednesday, trading at 1.3645 in the European session. Today’s inflation report was a dour reminder that UK inflation remains entrenched. CPI for August was unchanged at 3.8% y/y, matching the consensus and its highest level since January 2024. Airfares decreased but this was offset by food and petrol prices. Monthly, CPI rose 0.3%, up from 0.1% in July and matching the consensus. Core CPI, which excludes volatile items such as food and energy, eased to 3.6% from 3.8%. Monthly, core CPI ticked up to 0.3% from 0.2%. The inflation report comes just a day before the Bank of England announces its rate decision. Inflation is almost double the BoE’s target of 2% and today’s release likely means that the BoE will not reduce rates before 2026. Read more… Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/pound-sterling-price-news-and-forecast-gbp-trades-firmly-against-us-dollar-ahead-of-feds-policy-outcome-202509171209

The post Vitalik Buterin lays out new Ethereum roadmap at EDCON appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. At EDCON 2025 in Osaka, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered fresh details of Ethereum’s technical roadmap, delineating both short-term scaling goals and longer-term protocol transformations. The immediate priority, according to slides from the presentation, is scaling at the L1 level by raising the gas limit while maintaining decentralization. Tools such as block-level access lists, ZK-EVMs, gas repricing, and slot optimization were highlighted as means to improve throughput and efficiency. A central theme of the presentation was privacy, divided into protections for on-chain “writes” (transactions, voting, DeFi operations) and “reads” (retrieving blockchain state). Write privacy could be achieved through client-side zero-knowledge proofs, encrypted voting, and mixnet-based transaction relays. Read privacy efforts include trusted execution environments, private information retrieval techniques, dummy queries to obscure access patterns, and partial state nodes that reveal only necessary data. These measures aim to reduce information leakage across both ends of user interaction. In the medium term, Ethereum’s focus shifts to cross-Layer-2 interoperability. Vitalik described trustless L2 asset transfers, proof aggregation, and faster settlement mechanisms as key milestones toward a seamless rollup ecosystem. Faster slots and stronger finality, supported by techniques like erasure coding and three-stage finalization (3SF), are also in scope to enhance responsiveness and security. The roadmap also includes Stage 2 rollup advancements to strengthen verification efficiency, alongside a call for broader community participation to help build and maintain these improvements. The long-term “Lean Ethereum” blueprint emphasizes security, simplicity and optimization, with ambitions for quantum-resistant cryptography, formal verification of the protocol, and adoption of ideal primitives for hashing, signatures, and zero-knowledge proofs. Buterin stressed that these improvements are not just for scalability but to make Ethereum a stable, trustworthy foundation for the broader decentralized ecosystem. This is a developing story. This article was generated with the assistance of AI and reviewed by editor Jeffrey Albus before publication.…