Author: BlockchainJournal

Chinese mining farms, which have suspended work last year due to the collapse of the cryptographic market, are restarting the extraction of digital assets . Xu Feng, one of the operators of a mining bitcoin farm located in the Chinese province of Sichuan, said that many miners who stopped work last October are preparing to return to their activities. He noted : “A large number of equipment for the extraction of bitcoins, turned off during the fall of the market in the province of Sichuan, begins to work again. It is expected that the number of functioning mining devices will…

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Part of the missing assets of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX may “with a high degree of probability” be on the Poloniex and Bitfinex exchanges. This was reported in a report by the authors of the blog Zerononcense. The report's authors claim that they were able to track transfers in the amount of 649,708 ETH (about $ 100.4 million at the time of operations). They installed 12 Ethereum wallets, which, according to their assumption, belong to […]

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Facebook is working on creating its own cryptocurrency , which will be used by users of the company messenger WhatsApp to send instant transfers, writes The New York Times , citing five anonymous sources, noting the high level of secrecy of the project. “The Facebook project has reached the stage at which the social network is in talks with cryptocurrency exchanges regarding the sale of Facebook Coin,” the newspaper writes. According to sources, Facebook employees told cryptocurrency exchanges that they expect to launch their product in the first half of 2019. It is known that in December 2018, Facebook began…

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update. Constantinople and St. Petersburg Updates Petersburg was successfully activated in the network of the second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum on the block 7 280 000, it happened 02.02.2019 at 22:57 Moscow time according to the previously designated plan . According to the Ethernodes portal, only 19.9% of users of Geth clients and 32.6% of Parity installed a version of the software compatible with Constantinople. Overall readiness for hard fork was 22.1%. It is expected that the block time will return to 15 seconds, after rising to 20 seconds as a result of the activation of the bomb complexity. Along with…

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Today, February 28, on block # 7280000, Constantinople was updated for the second most capitalized Ethereum cryptocurrency. Network upgrade completed .. so far so good https://t.co/l6vgHb1P51 Ether – Etherscan.io (@etherscan) 28 February 2013 p. According to EtherNodes, 19.9% of the total number of Geth clients use the new software version. 32.6% of Parity customers also installed the software version compatible with Constantinople. The total […]

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Wallet and mobile applications (iOS and Android) from leading American cryptocurrency company Coinbase now support XRP token from startup Ripple. XRP is launching at https://t.co/bCG11KveHS and Android apps within the next 15 minutes. You can need to sell or convert XRP. We will update when […]

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Today, February 28, trading in the FET tokens of the Fetch.ai project started at the largest cryptographic company Binance. During the record-breaking speed of IEO on February 25, FET tokens were sold at a price of 0.008584 BNB (about $ 0.08). As can be seen in the screenshot above, currently the price of the coin is about $ 0.38, which is 4.75 times higher than its value during a tokensale. The project […]

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The Lightning Network allows Bitcoin to fully implement the concept of p2p digital money, which can move instantly with a minimally low commission. Developers continue to add new features, making this protocol more reliable and creating software cryptocurrency wallets that allow all the features of Lightning to be used. The supplier of certificates for the use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for travel, video games, restaurants, entertainment and much more Bitrell has prepared a list of the most convenient and easy-to-use wallets Lightning, created by the most innovative teams in the industry. Bitcoin Lightning Wallet (BLW) Available on Android. BLW…

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The token, which will soon release one of the world's largest investment banks, JP Morgan, may receive consumer application. This means that JPM Coin can go beyond the bank and become available to all traders. This statement in an interview with CNBC was made by the CEO of the financial organization, Jamie Dimon. He clarified that the token in the future could be used for retail payments. "JP Morgan Coin will become the domestic currency of the bank, but one day it can turn into commercial – or consumer." When a token can be made available to a wide range…

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The Center for the Development of the Information Technology Industry (CCID) at the Ministry of Industry and Information of China on Tuesday presented an updated version of its rating of cryptocurrency projects . This is the second release this year, it includes 35 projects, and Tron has become its only new participant, Bitcoin.com writes. In the anniversary ranking, experts analyzed 35 virtual currencies using the traditional CCID assessment in three categories: "Basic technologies", "Applications" and "Innovations". In the “Innovations” category, bitcoin takes the first place. In "Applications" Ethereum leads. In the "Basic Technologies" in the first place the leader of…

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