Coinbase’s institutional sales director for the American cryptocurrency exchange Kristin Sandler revealed some details of her acquisition by startup company Neutrino, which provides tools for analyzing transactions in the blockchain , which has been protested by a number of users united in #DeleteCoinbase. According to Sandler, Neutrino Coinbase decided to use the services after one of its partners violated the requirements of the exchange policies in the field of work with data. “It was important for us to get away from our current suppliers, ” she said in a conversation with the portal Cheddar. They sold customer data to external…
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From the point of view of the creator of Ethereum cryptocurrency, Vitalik Buterin, his project exceeds Bitcoin in different respects. In an interview recently, Vitalik explained in simple words why his “second generation blockchain” has enough merits to become the most important altcoin in the global market. In an interview with Business Insider (the original video, see below), the creator of ethereum told that at the beginning of his journey in the world of cryptocurrency, he worked closely with the Bitcoin user community. For two years, he not only actively participated in community life, but also contributed to the development…
From the very beginning of Bitcoin, skeptics, including the world's leading media, have always created a lot of negative messages about the world's most popular cryptocurrency . However, despite all the predictions about the inevitable end of Bitcoin, it continues to strengthen, and its infrastructure and community grow. Although the crypto-winter of 2018 made many enthusiasts wrestle, thinking about when the next price peak would be, one of Twitter users, $ carface , to which CryptoPotato refers, suggests that the next peak price for BTC may be $ 102,000, and for the order and $ 336,000 per coin. Events of…
Investments in fintech companies, including those involved in blockchain solutions, doubled globally in 2018, reaching more than $ 55 billion. 46% of all transactions fell on China, where this rapidly growing sector was invested more than $ 25 billion. About this, with reference to the latest report Accenture writes South China Morning […]
Following Russia, which intends to adopt a law aimed at developing the digital economy before July 1, 2019, as Vladimir Putin ordered , the German cabinet of ministers announced that by the middle of 2019 it would also introduce a strategy for the country regarding blockchain technology and digital assets. . Published on the Bundestag website, the document outlined intentions regarding the emerging digital asset class, where the German Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy and Energy will develop a strategy and contribute to the regulatory framework together with other departments in the country. According to Reuters ,…
After the successful upgrade of Constantinople, the leading cryptocurrency developers Ethereum began to discuss the question of who will coordinate the further hard forks of the platform, and apparently came to a consensus that this task will be assigned to several people at once. The discussion about the need to coordinate further actions regarding the upgrades was held at the last Ethereum developer video conference. Its need was brought about by the recent decision of Parity Technologies release manager Afri Shoedon to leave the community. [embedded content] As the Ethereum Foundation Hudson Jameson Community Manager noted, the role of the…
Twitter CEO and payment startup Square Jack Dorsey acquired the Lightning node from Bitcoin-based company Casa. Soon after the purchase, Dorsey took a photo of the unpacking. Post scored a lot of positive comments. Got one of these to play with. Thanks @CasaHODL @jeremyrwelch! pic.twitter.com/XnGqucrQNH – jack (@jack) 1 March pond 2019. After that, the head of Twitter shared with subscribers screenshots of the node installation process: pic.twitter.com/5h1GMF5Z4i […]
The operator of the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, the investment application Circle Invest and the developer of the stablebcoin USDC startup Circle intends to attract an additional $ 250 million investment. It is reported by The Information. In the previous rounds of financing, Circle raised over $ 240 million from Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital and other investment firms. According to the results of the last stage of financing, when it was possible to get $ 110 million from […]
Following the successful updates of the networks Ethereum and Tron, which occurred only a few days ago, another popular cryptocurrency – Monero , plans to hold a hard forks, which date is scheduled for March 9, 2019, block number 1788000. Earlier, we wrote that this very controversial decision was made by a narrow circle of developers in a closed chat, which caused discontent on the part of the non-participating community. However, to all appearances, disputes and controversies did not lead to any changes and the network will be updated according to the planned scenario. The schedule for GitHub reports that…
According to Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report , based on an analysis of data provided by corporate and private users, in 2018, the number of ransomware attacks decreased by 73%. In Russia, the share of attacks of extortionists has decreased by one third of the total number of cyber attacks – to the monthly average of 0.08%, and the least of these types of threats were recorded in Sweden (0.02%), Japan (0.01%), USA ( 0.02%), Great Britain (0.02%) and Ireland (0.01%). However, attacks with the aim of hidden mining of cryptocurrencies were carried out twice as often as before. In Russia…
