Recently, Insidebitcoins prepared a detailed infographic on the cryptocurrency market over the past year, entitled "Year of Crypto-Destruction: 2018". It analyzed last year’s figures and reflected the most important events of the cryptocurrency world, writes Cryptovibes . If in 2019 you are still “in the game,” then you probably know that in 2018, cryptocurrency prices have dropped from unprecedented highs to catastrophic lows. Starting the year with almost $ 20,000, by the end of the year, the price of bitcoin had fallen to $ 3,200. Such a collapse caused many reasons, this is the youth of the market, the high…
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The Canadian Cryptocurrency Exchange QuadrigaCX cannot access wallets with user funds worth CAD 250 million ($ 190 million), reports CoinDesk, citing the organization’s statement, previously filed with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Thus, about 115 thousand users had cryptocurrency (180 million CAD) and fiat balances (70 million CAD). As the newspaper notes, on […]
During today's conference call, the leading developers of Ethereum decided not to include the ProgPoW proposal code in the current protocol update, which allows reducing the impact of ASIC miners on the ecosystem. It is reported by CoinDesk. According to the participants, this proposal needs a thorough audit before implementation. The latter should confirm that this solution will indeed lead to a decrease in mining efficiency on ASIC devices. ProgPoW is called for […]
The state of Wyoming passed a law on January 31, equating cryptocurrency to money. The Digital Assets Act (SF0125) was introduced on January 18, and accepted for review on January 22. Its author is Senator Tara Nethercott, and eight other senators are named as co-authors. According to the document, all digital assets are divided into three categories: digital consumer assets, digital securities and virtual […]
Cryptocurrency processing service CoinGate added support for XRP. The company's blog says that now 4,500 merchants can accept payments in this digital currency. Big news for #XRPcommunity and our merchants alike! We’ve launched XRP support for our customers. Proceed to our […]
The company Bob Moore Auto Group has entered into a partnership with Aliant Payments processing, thanks to which Litecoin (LTC) cryptocurrency holders will be able to buy cars for cryptocurrency. Bob Moore Auto Group has agreed to accept Litecoin at their dealerships! # 1 dealership in Oklahoma City, @ bobmooresubaru1. ? Many thanks to […]
The Stuttgart Stock Exchange, Germany’s second largest trading platform, has launched its own cryptocurrency trading application. The launch of the Bison cryptocurrency platform was tweeted by the stock exchange. It was developed by a subsidiary of the Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures group, FinTech Sowa Labs. The new application will allow trading with ether, Bitcoin, lightcoin and XRP. The developers emphasize that the new platform will break stereotypes that prevent the massive introduction of digital currencies . The intelligent system will filter information about the movement of cryptocurrencies so that the user receives only the information that he really needs. To…
Ethereum startup Aragon is exploring the possibility of launching the aragonOS platform to create smart contracts on the Polkadot protocol. This was told by the technical director of the startup Jorge Iskierdo, writes CoinDesk. According to him, the additional network will not affect the work of Aragon that started in November 2018 in the Ethereum blockchain. “The idea is to make the majority of aragonOS transactions virtually free and highly optimized,” […]
Based in Las Vegas, Hosho laid off more than 30 employees, reducing staff numbers by 80%. It is reported by CoinDesk. The company claims that in the 17 months of its existence Hosho conducted an audit of so many smart contracts that any other firm from the blockchain industry could hardly make. “In conducting an audit of many ICOs, we thought that we were going to go […]
Cybersecurity experts at Palo Alto Networks have discovered new malware that is attacking Mac platform users to steal access to cryptocurrency wallets and stock exchange accounts. To do this, the Trojan CookieMiner steals the corresponding browser cookies and the passwords stored in Chrome. Also, experts have recorded that the program is trying to steal SMS-messages stored in a backup copy of iTunes on a tethered Mac device. "WITH […]
