The creator of the Hashcash algorithm and Blockstream's CEO Adam Beck is convinced that behind the pseudonym of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is hiding one person, and not several people, as is sometimes assumed in the community. He said this in an interview with Cryptofinder.tv on the sidelines of this week’s Consensus conference in New York. He reinforced his faith in this by drawing attention to […]
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Today, the CEO and founder of Binance Cryptobirge Changphen Zhao (CZ) has announced the burning of ERC20 tokens in hot and cold wallets of the exchange. After that, an equal number of BEP2 tokens will be generated, and all of them will be placed in the new purse of the exchange. This update is designed for Binance DEX , details of which are available in the DEX browser. The current balance of the Binance DEX wallet is $ 372,152. . @Binance will convert all ERC20 BNB tokens to our BEP tokens. In order to achieve this, it’s possible to make…
Today, the Bitcoin cryptocurrency rate began to decline sharply after it only exceeded $ 8,000 a couple of days ago – in just half an hour, the BTC price dropped from $ 7,800 to about $ 7,000. Some exchanges recorded a fall and $ 6,200. Along with the fall in prices, the BTC capitalization has shrunk by more than $ 10 billion. If we consider the dynamics of cryptocurrency at the weekly interval, then the increase in this indicator remains at around $ 14 billion. Experts attribute the drop in the BTC rate to the placement of large orders for…
Researchers at DataLight analytical platform found an interesting correlation between the growth of Bitcoin and the complexity of its production. So, in 2019, an increase in complexity three times preceded a sharp upward price movement. Since the beginning of this year, the complexity of mining has increased by 33%, and the price of BTC – by 100%. There are three key hypotheses regarding the correlation between bitcoin and hashrate / complexity. The first one says that the hash rate and complexity grow after the price, as more and more miners are motivated to receive rewards. Another theory, a staunch supporter…
The Bitstamp cryptocurrency exchange began an internal investigation into the situation that occurred on the night of May 17, when one of the traders successfully implemented several applications for the sale of 5,000 BTC at a price of $ 6,200. This, in turn, led to the massive liquidation of long positions on the BitMEX derivatives exchange and, according to experts, caused a sharp drop in the bitcon rate. Around 02:25 UTC […]
Management kriptovalyutnymi asset company Grayscale Investments, part of the Digital Currency Group holding company, Barry Silbert, bought airtime for broadcast advertising Bitcoin and fund Grayscale Bitcoin Trust on major US TV channels, including AMC, Fox News and others. The company is doing all this as part of the #DropGold campaign , urging investors to abandon gold as a means of savings in favor of Bitcoin, since the world has entered the digital age. That to this content share Excited the #DropGold the TV spot Begins airing Nationally TODAY DURING commercial breaks on: – AMC – Comedy Central – Fox Business…
exchange The head of Ledger reports that against the background of a hacker attack on the Binance crypto-exchange, as a result of which over $ 40 million was stolen, sales of hardware purses from the company doubled. Pascal Gauthier, general manager of the French company Ledger, which specializes in the development of hardware crypto wallets, told during his speech at the Atomic Swap conference in New York that due to the increasing public concern about security in the digital world Binance sales of devices from Ledger doubled. Gauthier noted: “Binance was hacked, the day Binance was hacked, our sales doubled.”…
The creator of Telegram Pavel Durov wrote a great post in which he harshly criticized the WhatsApp messenger and the “empire” of Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook / WhatsApp / Instagram). In his channel in Telegram, where Durov shared a link to growth, he wrote that he didn’t like to “concentrate on competitors”, but since people often ask him about WhatsApp, he decided to express his opinion. We in Telegram must recognize our responsibility for shaping the future. It is either we or a monopolist of Facebook. It is either freedom and privacy, or greed and hypocrisy. Our team has been competing…
The Chicago-based crypto exchange, Seed CX, announced support for three new stablecocks, Paxos (PAX), USD Coin (USDC), and TrueUSD (TUSD). From May 17, users of the American crypto exchange Seed CX will get access to new trading pairs of three steylcoins with USD. In the near future, PAX, USDC and TUSD will be presented in pairs with other fiat currencies, in particular with EUR. Edward Woodford, CEO of Seed CX, noted that steakbloins are important for the ecosystem, many clients of the crypto-exchange have repeatedly asked the administration to expand the line of digital assets that are provided by Fiat.…
The Binance cryptocurrency exchange leading in trading volumes converts all Binance Coin (BNB) tokens based on the ERC-20 standard in hot and cold stores into native BEP-2 tokens. . @ Binance will convert all the ERC20 BNB tokens to our BEP tokens. To achieve this, all the ERC20 BNB tokens in our […]