At about 8:00 UTC, developers of the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Beam based on the MimbleWimble protocol reported stopping the network at block # 25709. Beam's blockchain stopped at block 25709, we are investigating. Stay tuned. – @Beamprivacy (@beamprivacy) January 21, 2019 Soon the problem was discovered and fixed. The developers also made corresponding edits to the GitHub repository. The fix was commited on Github. We will be performing additional testing. We will release the binaries in the coming hours. Thanks for your patience. https://t.co/btDsiwsMWI – @Beamprivacy (@beamprivacy) January 21, 2019 Recall that earlier in the Beam Wallet wallet a critical vulnerability…
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At the moment, the price of Bitcoin hovers around $ 3,590. Digital coin No. 1 has lost almost 4% in the last 24 hours, resuming the decline that started in the second week of January. The market seems to "see the glass half empty", paying attention only to negative news. Meanwhile, the researchers note that the average daily volume of BTC transactions returned to indicators recorded in October 2017, and this was a period of a strong rally in the cryptocurrency market. Although the share of SegWit transactions has not changed over the past six months, LighteningNetwork activity is gaining…
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten plans to reorganize its corporate structure by April 2019. In this regard, trading on the cryptocurrency exchange owned by Everybody's Bitcoin will be suspended in March. This is reported by the portal Blockmanity . According to available information, the work site will be restored only after the reorganization of Rakuten. More specific terms are not called It is expected that the new structure of the company will consist of four divisions: Internet services, communication interaction, financial technologies and calculations. At the same time, Everybody's Bitcoin will be included in the accounting and payment processing unit. Recall,…
The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has taken the initiative to allow Russian businessmen to use digital currencies for mutual settlements in a test mode. Such an opportunity should be provided to entrepreneurs in some regions of the country, the newspaper " Izvestia " reports. It is already known that the State Duma supports the proposal of the Ministry of Economic Development. Anatoly Aksakov, who heads the financial market lower house committee, said that testing cryptocurrency instruments in some regions would allow assessing the potential of this form of mutual settlement and the practical application of the…
for payment of cryptocurrency The administrator of the Bitcointalk forum under the nickname Theymos announced that the Grin cryptocurrency oriented on increased privacy based on the MimbleWimble protocol will be accepted as payment. He praised the technology at the heart of the new digital currency and noted that it was created in the true spirit of encryption. BitcoinTalk data Nevertheless, Theymos doubted that many would use Grin, but he still intended to rewrite the payment system on the forum, adding support for Lightning-payments. The administrator added that he does not call to buy or not to buy Grin, but he…
According to the latest data, the year 2019 will face big financial problems. For example, it is expected that the US economy will slow down in 2019, and in 2020 a recession is quite possible. The same goes for China, whose economy has slowed in the last couple of months. In addition, do not forget about the urgent trade war between these countries. Directly between the two countries is Britain, which is also experiencing turbulent excitement regarding Brexit. It is expected that without a deal, the country will receive a significant blow to the economy. So, the US dollar, the…
What are the advantages of IEO for exchanges and organizers? The main advantage of this approach for the organizers is a ready base of potential IEO participants from a huge number of exchange users. This reduces marketing costs. In addition, not only the exchange is engaged in marketing, but also the organizers of IEO. Such an approach not only saves money, but also creates a synergy effect, which increases the efficiency of tokens promotion to the market. The main source of income exchanges – trade commissions. More users and coins in the listing – more transactions and, accordingly, higher income…
ShapeShift, a platform for instant exchange of cryptocurrency, reported on Tuesday, January 8, a significant reduction in staff, citing as the reasons the general deterioration of the market situation. As the head of the company, Eric Vorges, said, he had to say goodbye to 37 employees with a “heavy heart,” which is about a third of the company's total staff. With a heavy heart, today we laid off 37 people. We've published a blog on this, also discussing some of our missteps and lessons. "Overcoming ShapeShift's Crypto Winter and the Path Ahead" by @ShapeShift_io https://t.co/1eNT54eyPp #bitcoin – Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees)…
Representatives of Gate.io said that the exchange would cover losses of approximately 40 thousand ETC (about $ 200 thousand), which its users suffered because of the ongoing “51% attack” on the blockbuster Ethereum Classic . [ https://t.co/8kWqgDWNXb Research] confirms the ETC 51% attack. 4 of the 7 rollback transactions detected were created by the attacker; transferring 54,200 ETC in total. Gate will be covering the 40k ETC loss for all of the users. See details: https://t.co/BhEYHZyP3z pic.twitter.com/pSXrsZrc7q – gate.io Exchange (@gate_io) 8 січень 2019 р. In its blog, the company confirmed the fact of “51% attack”. In addition, the exchange…
Representatives of the OTC cryptocurrency dealer Cumberland reported that last week the volume of demand for their OTC platform for the first time exceeded the volume of supply. Desk Update: Historically, our OTC trading is relatively balanced between buyers and sellers. Over the last week, our OTC buy / sell ratio (by notional value) has increased by 60% to counterparties buying. & mdash; Cumberland (@CumberlandSays) 8 січень 2019 р. According to the company, earlier on their platform, the demand was approximately equal to the supply. Only last week, the balance leaned in favor of buyers. The share of the latter…
