Author: BlockchainJournal

On Saturday, the first cryptocurrency overcame the psychological mark of $ 4,000 and it seemed that the long-awaited growth began – the weighted average rate at CoinMarketCap reached $ 4207. But after that, a decrease in quotations followed – as of this writing, the BTC course was close to $ 3,800. Together with BTC, other cryptocurrency rates began to fall. As a result, on the afternoon of February 24, the market fell from $ 143 billion to $ 127 billion. Accordingly, some assumptions about what happened have appeared on the network. According to one of these assumptions, the growth of…

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The initial exchange offer (IEO) of the Fetch.ai project, which took place today, on February 25, collected $ 6 million in just 22 seconds. The @fetch_ai token sale on #Binance Launchpad has finished! ? https://t.co/PvMdtl7AxO – Fetch.AI (@fetch_ai) 25 February 2019 p. First, the head of Binance Changphen Zhao wrote that IEO passed in 10 seconds. However, a little later, he clarified that the tokenail lasted […]

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The activity of Bitcoin users (BTC) has been growing rapidly since the beginning of 2019, according to BitInfoCharts . In early February, another Bitcoin Visuals service provided similar data, from which it followed that the activity of the holders of the main cryptocurrency in January approached its maximum level since November 2017. During February 2019, there was a tendency for steady growth in the number of transactions in the Bitcoin network , which reached approximately the same level as in January 2018, when BTC was trading at the highest mark in its history. Now, on average, users of the main…

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technical indicators Over the past few years, traders and cryptocurrency researchers have created several excellent indicators to help predict long-term market trends. These tools are based on such fundamental indicators as price, transaction volume, market capitalization, realized value, UTXO (exits of unspent transactions), etc. We offer to get acquainted with another popular indicator – Mayer Multiple, created by the investor and the leading Bitcoin Knowledge podcast Trace Mayer . As the basis of the material on display is taken article analyst Sam CoinDesk Uimeta. In the volatile market, cryptocurrency is almost impossible to accurately determine the price bottom or top,…

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There is an opinion that Bitcoin (BTC) follows certain cycles, rising and falling year after year. According to analyst Spencer Bogart, who adheres to this theory, the BTC course has almost reached the bottom. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Bogart discussed the recent rise in the market. Due to the fact that Bitcoin broke through the $ 4,000 level that day, strategist Mike McGlone expressed the opinion that BTC is close, but has not yet reached the bottom, indicating that the main indicators foreshadow further losses ( the $ 400 drop that occurred on February 24 confirms): “I like…

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A few weeks ago, Bitcoin Core developer James Hilliard discovered a vulnerability in the ASIC miner firmware Antminer S15 , produced by the Chinese company Bitmain. A Twitter user named 00whiterabbit subsequently created an exploit based on the facts established by Hilliard, and Hilliard himself posted a video with evidence of the bug's performance. This writes Bitcoin Magazine. Hilliard is ready to provide Bitmain with information about the vulnerability, but only if it complies with the requirements of the popular license for GNU open source software, which the company is currently violating. "Bitmain firmware is generally pretty buggy, " Hilliard…

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In the cryptocurrency wallet MyEtherWallet, it is possible to convert digital currency into cash without the need to check your account. Service "Exit to Fiat" implemented in conjunction with the company Bity. Now holders of cryptocurrency can withdraw their assets in francs, euros without checking. A prerequisite is to have an international bank account. The service is available to all bank account holders with an international bank account number (IBAN). “The possibility of withdrawing cryptocurrencies in Fiat without verification is consistent with the law on countering money laundering in Switzerland, ” added MyEtherWallet. To use Fiat, the user in the…

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CoinList, which focuses on ICO for next-generation technology companies, announced that several tokens issuers have already expressed their desire to conduct crowdsales in 2019. Among them is the Ocean Protocol, the creators of which intend to raise $ 8 million at a price of a token of 25 cents, reports The Block. Representatives of the platform said that several tokensails took place in the middle of the summer of 2018, […]

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