The Ethereum Foundation announced on Monday, January 7, that a grant of $ 5 million was given to the Parity Technologies development team. The funds will be used for further work on the scaling, usability and security of the Ethereum platform. The #Ethereum Foundation announces major grant to @ParityTech . https://t.co/mkLGaidz3d #BUIDL – Ethereum (@ethereum) January 7, 2019 “For several years, Parity Technologies has been an indispensable participant in the Ethereum ecosystem and has played a leading role in developments such as the Parity Ethereum client and much more, ” says the Ethereum Foundation blog. It is also noted that…
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A group of hackers called The Dark Overlord, threatening to reveal secret information about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, if it does not receive a ransom, revealed the first part of the documents. Hackers claim that they have stolen 18,000 documents with confidential information regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks from a number of the world's largest insurance companies, and they demand a ransom in bitcoins for nondisclosure. In addition to extortion, hackers also accept donations from users who want this information to be disclosed. In total, the archive contains five “levels” of documents, each of which contains “more…
Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange announced the addition of new trading pairs with the participation of the so-called stable coins, while they will bargain against each other. In particular, starting from 04:00 UTC on Tuesday, January 8, PAX / TUSD, USDC / TUSD and USDC / PAX pairs will become available to exchange users. #Binance Will Add PAX / TUSD, USDC / TUSD and USDC / PAX Trading Pairs https: //t.X/LLGtp5Lz pic.twitter.com/OxlhvcrMC4 – Binance (@binance) January 7, 2019 Recall that the most well-known stable coins (stablebinks) are tied to the US dollar and differ from other cryptocurrencies by significantly less volatility. In…
The Singapore Cryptocurrency Exchange Bitrue is only 56th in terms of daily trading volumes, but enjoys considerable popularity in the XRP community, making this digital token its basic currency. And by the end of this week, 26 pairs with XRP should appear on the platform. At the end of last month, Bitrue announced that it plans to add new couples with XRP every week in January. The first such addition took place on January 3, when support for pairs with TRX, XLM, NEO, GAS and OMG appeared on the exchange, and a couple of days later a pair of BEE…
Commissions for conducting transactions in the Bitcoin network fell to the lowest level in the last three years. According to the BitInfoCharts service, now the fee for a single operation on the main cryptocurrency network is only $ 0.029 . The representative of the crypto community Kevin Ruki on his Twitter page reported that the last time such a minimum commission for a transaction on the Bitcoin network was fixed in 2015, when the coin was trading at $ 270. 3 years! Jan 1, 2019: Median Bitcoin tx fee = $ 0.02 Total transactions = 234,576 Oct 13, 2015: Median…
A bill has been submitted to the Senate of the State of Colorado, suggesting the release of cryptocurrencies and certain digital tokens from regulation within the framework of securities laws, reports Cointelegraph . The authors of the bill, which was published on January 4, were Republican Jack Tate and Democrat Steve Fenberg. As stated in the explanation of the document, the Colorado Digital Tokens Act offers a limited exemption from registration of securities and removes the requirement to obtain a license for brokers, dealers and other persons involved in the sale of digital tokens. “A digital token is defined as…
network will appear In January, 2019, the hardfork Constantinople approved by Vitalik Buterin will take place in the Ethereum network , which has already been supported by many major exchanges, including Binance , Houbi, and others. However, despite the obvious choice of the chain by the overwhelming majority of miners , developers and ordinary users, several new coins are expected to appear on the background of this event: Classic Vision, Ethereum Nowa, ERC-20 Blue. It is worth adding that any of the listed projects is most likely a fraud created only for the purpose of obtaining money from the air.…
The manufacturer of hardware wallets for storing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Ledger, introduced Ledger Nano X, an improved version of Ledger Nano S, CoinDesk writes. The new model was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has Bluetooth support, a wider screen and more storage space – the Ledger Nano X can store information about 100 cryptoactive assets, which is six times more than the Ledger Nano S. Bluetooth support in combination with the new mobile version of the Ledger Live application also means that users will be able to complete transactions at any time without having…
Despite the decline in quotations on the cryptocurrency market, it is now obvious that it did more good than harm. Analyzing the situation with the prices of bitcoin and altcoins in 2018, researchers come to the conclusion that in everything that people usually see the negative, you can find positive moments. The main positive phenomenon of the market downturn in 2018 is that it is all exactly the same as what happened in the technology sector at the dawn of the advent of the Internet. Analyst Low Kerner therefore compares Bitcoin with Amazon. He recalls that at the peak of…
2017 has become a real “Bachelor Party in Vegas” for cryptocurrency investors. When morning came, the industry was confronted with all the obvious consequences: headache, hangover thirst, strangers [fraudsters and cybercriminals] in bed and Michael Tyson's tiger in the bathroom [regulators]. [embedded content] For a while, no one believed that there could really be a tiger in the bathroom, but this fact soon became undeniable. It is obvious that hundreds of billions have spun in the industry, the number of cryptocurrency millionaires has begun to grow exponentially, and regulators in general, and tax authorities in particular, rushed to snatch their…
