The Literain network hashrate has updated the previous record in this month, recorded at the end of May 2018. According to the Litecoin Foundation blog, this happened on April 4, when the total network capacity was 359.43TH / s. The previous record 11 months ago was 342.88TH / s. Litecoin Hashrate Reaches New All Time High, 359TH / s! ⛏️https: //t.co/Xz8g0OfKup – Litecoin.com (@LitecoinDotCom) April 12, 2019 In a post […]
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The Bakkt Bitcoin Futures exchange, owned by Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, was inspired by the launch report. In a report on Medium, CEO Kelly Loffler wrote that the coveted day is approaching and the startup is about to be approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): “Working with regulatory approvals, we take into account that the infrastructure we create increases the relevance and level of trust in digital assets. This is achieved by increasing their safety. Like a marathon runner, we conduct long training sessions with the team. Day X is coming,…
The losses of miners involved in the extraction of Bitcoin SV (BSV) cryptocurrency, totaled $ 2.2 million since November of last year. Such data are provided by the analytical department of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange. Based on our estimates and current coin prices, since the November 2018 split, the Bitcoin Cash SV miners have been accumulated by 12%. This is […]
During a conversation with cryptocurrency expert Luke Martin, the general director of the BitMEX exchange Arthur Hayes said that in the coming years, BTC will reach $ 50,000. The head of the cryptocurrency company BitMEX is confident that the authorities of various countries will gradually remove financial confidentiality in the next 5 years. Because of this, the popularity of cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin , will increase. “If I'm right and this scenario comes true, Bitcoin will grow to 50 thousand dollars over the next few years ,” said Arthur Hayes. The general director of the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX spoke about the…
The words of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, said at a meeting with the head of Gazprom, were heard. In Russia, an interest in blockchain and cryptocurrency has recently become obvious. The first wave of interest came in the period of the Gaidar Forum in February 2019, during which Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for “not burying” cryptocurrency , and the underlying technology at the heart of digital assets once again attracted attention. At the same time, the independent director of Gazprom, Vladimir Mau, said that cryptocurrency has a future. On April 4, Dmitry Medvedev met with the head of Gazprom,…
After stopping the mining of the internal currency of the social network VKontakte, the second stage of the VK Coin service implementation started. Now, users are offered to directly exchange koinami and spend them on shares from partners, as well as to fight for the status of the richest players and communities, putting them on a kind of honor roll, the press service of the social network reports. “The new format is a logical step in the development of the application. Now we want to allow players to independently determine the value of virtual currency , ”commented the manager of…
Launched in January, the promotion Lightning Torch is officially completed. All bitcoins collected during its course (0.4108021 BTC) were donated to the Bitcoin for Venezuela humanitarian initiative. About this wrote in her Twitter charitable organization Bitcoin Venezuela. We've received the #LightningTorch donations from the @tallyco_in campaign run by @hodlonaut for a total of ₿0.4108021 BTC ⚡️ Amazing what the […]
Despite the fact that the attitude to the initial exchange offers (IEO) were ambiguous from the very beginning, there is no doubt that this unique method of raising funds came for a long time. IEOs operate mainly in secondary markets ( crypto-counters ), with the result that many of the tokens presented soared in price. The term IEO quickly attracted the attention of crypto-enthusiasts around the world, just look at the active discussion of these topics in Reddit and Telegram-channels. However, the history of the first IEO can be traced back in 2017. It should be noted that recently, several…
A group of leading developers Ethereum held on Friday, April 12, a traditional video conference, during which the question was raised about the possibility of carrying out system updates of the platform every three months. This writes CoinDesk. Such an idea emerged after one of the developers noted that some future proposals for updating Ethereum (EIP), for example, the implementation of storage rental fees, for […]
Telegram distributed access to the test version of TON to a limited number of professional teams involved in the blockchain – around the world, including several Russian ones. According to the leaders of the two companies that had access to the platform testing, in fact, they were able to install the TON blockchain network node, but did not voice any specific test results. The first test results show “extremely high transaction speed,” one of them said. But while the blockchain code, including smart contracts , is only being tested, so specific speed indicators are not called. It can be assumed…
