Security tokens are digital analogues of securities (English – securities), certifying property and giving owners the right to realize their investment interests (the right to shares, dividends, a share of profits, etc.). These rights are recorded in a smart contract , and the tokens themselves are traded on exchanges. The turnover of security tokens takes place in accordance with the legal regulations of financial regulators of various countries, for example, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Swiss Financial Market Supervision Authority (FINMA). The managing partner of Morgan Creek Capital, Anthony Pompiano, in his article “The Official Guide…
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Ethereum's daily issue on Sunday, February 10 reached a historic low, dropping to 13,000 ETH. This writes Trustnodes. The extraction time of one block in the Ethereum network is more than 20 seconds, with which the average daily number of transactions fell from 580,000 to 380,000 units. Commissions are $ 0.005 per transaction. The price of ETH has risen over the last week […]
The second in catalyzing cryptocurrency Ethereum seems to be ready for hardfork again. This time the update will differ from the one proposed earlier, since there will be two forks in one block at once – the initial update Constantinople, and the second update – Petersburg. According to the report, hard forks will occur on February 25, 2019, and not on February 27, as was previously stated. Forks take place on block No. 7,280,000, around 11:49:25 UTC. Afri Shoedon, Ethereum hard forks coordinator and Parity Technologies manager, wrote on Reddit: “Constantinople is activated on Monday 2019-02-25 11:54:02 UTC. The current…
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, expects before the end of the year to invest in the development of the Bitcoin futures platform Bakkt up to $ 25 million, reports CoinDesk. In the course of the last week's teleconference devoted to the results of the 4th quarter of 2018, ICE Chief Financial Officer Scott Hill said that investment in Bakkt during this fiscal year will be $ 20 million […]
fake cryptocurrency wallet appeared on Google Play Malicious software disguised as a full-fledged cryptocurrency wallet was discovered in the Google Play application store by Eset expert Lucas Stefanko, which he wrote about in a blog. The so-called clipper viruses have been known to Windows users since at least 2017. Last year, the Satori botnet learned how to infect the computers used for mining cryptocurrencies to change the addresses of the wallets to which they sent the extracted cryptocurrency. In August, for the first time, a clipper was discovered that targets Android users and was distributed through a third-party application store.…
Residents of 37 cities in Argentina were able to pay Bitcoin in public transport. This was made possible thanks to the cooperation of the platform for replenishing the Alto Viaje transport cards and the Bitex cryptocurrency exchange, Bitcoinist reports. Payment of travel on the subway and buses is made by the SUBE national contactless card, which can be recharged both through PayPal and with the help of bitcoin payments. SUBE cards can be refilled […]
The total computing power of Bitcoin mining equipment (BTC) has increased to the values of November last year. The hash rate has now reached 50 EH / s. The growth of this indicator indicates the accession to the network of new devices for the extraction of BTC . According to some experts, this is a positive signal for the price of cryptocurrency, as miners rely on its future growth. Price follows hashrate and hashrate chart 9 yr bull market. #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/Rh49V9gaJw – Max Keizer, tweet poet. (@maxkeiser) August 8, 2018 “The price follows the hashrate. The schedule of the latter…
Bitcoin micropay network Lightning Network continues to grow steadily. Thus, according to 1ml, over the past 30 days, the number of active nodes has grown by almost 15% and currently has 6090 already. Over the same period, the number of channels has risen to 24,680 (+ 27.4%), the network capacity has increased to 657.14 BTC or almost $ 2.4 million at the current rate of […]
The team of the Californian cryptostartap SFOX concluded that if in January of this year the market was dominated by “moderately bearish” sentiments, in February they changed to “moderately bullish”. Below is the SFOX multifactor index, the values of which depend on such variables as volatility, prevailing sentiment in the market, and also indicators of industry development. Associated with the blockchain , cryptocurrency and ICO HYIP a few minutes. The media has become less loud headlines about events in the industry. But among institutional investors, there is a steady interest in the field of digital assets . Projects continue to…
Law enforcement authorities of Ukraine have announced the arrest of a resident of the Kiev region, who, as an employee of one of the cryptocurrency exchanges, was engaged in theft of user funds. In total, the detainee is accused of stealing bitcoins and other altcoins worth more than 700 thousand hryvnia (about $ 26,500). As reported in the Department of Cyber Police of the National Police of Ukraine, the suspect worked in the technical support service of the unnamed British […]
