Cybersecurity experts from Japan Digital Design, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), attacked the trail of hackers hacked into the cryptocurrency exchange . It is reported by CoinDesk, with reference to the press release of the company. After examining the movement of Monacoin coins from the moment they were hacked, experts identified the “source” of the attack. “Since the move of Monacoin on October 20, we evaluated the sources of the five transactions in question and provided information to the authorities regarding the characteristics of the sender of transactions,” the press release said. Analysts did not report on…
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The 12th by capitalization of cryptocurrency Dash shows a positive trend against the background of the launch of a new service in Venezuela, which allows you to poison transactions using SMS. Over the past day Dash has grown in price by more than 5% and, bargaining at the time of publication in the region of $ 168, continues to show a tendency to a possible increase. At the same time, attention should be paid to markedly increased trading volumes. Source: CoinMarketCap Among the information providers that triggered a rise in the price of cryptocurrency, we note the launch of the…
Recently, Bitcoin has traded in a relatively narrow range – between $ 6,300 and $ 6,400. At the same time, independent analyst Jesse Colombo argues that investors should not get used to such relative stability, since it can be a prerequisite for powerful movement. Colombo also called this period of stability "calm before the storm." He warned that, based on historical data from financial markets, a period of low volatility usually precedes strong and volatile market movements. However, even the analyst is not sure in which direction Bitcoin will move. Colombo is leaning towards a downward trend, but at the…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai have, in addition to work, a lot in common. Both billionaires have sons who are well versed in cryptocurrency and mining Ethereum . According to Business Insider, Pichai reported that his 11-year-old son mined Ethereum on a home computer that Pichai collected himself. He spoke about this during the New York Times DealBook conference this week. In general, his speech was devoted to technology dependence and the importance of limiting the time that children spend behind the screens of various devices. “Last week I dined with my son and said something about…
In November, the Japanese company Hinomaru Limousine Co. in conjunction with Remixpoint Inc. plans to introduce cryptocurrency payments for limousine rental. This writes Bloomberg , citing anonymous sources. Sources said that the limousines with the ability to pay in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum will run between 23 districts of Tokyo and two international airports – Haneda and Narita. The companies are expected to make an official statement on this subject on November 6. Remixpoint Inc. owns one of the 16 licensed in Japan cryptocurrency exchanger BITPoint. Administered by Hinomaru Limousine Co. there are 362 limousines and 160 taxi cars.…
In the October report prepared by the Israeli company OneAlpha, it says that Bitcoin is beginning to gain momentum after the 2018 correction. The stabilization of recent weeks is a sign of market maturity, which seems to have gone through the hip stages of bullish and bearish trends in previous months. According to OneAlpha, the current bearish movement is necessary to reduce tensions in the market, it has provided a "sanitizing effect" for the ecosystem. After the abnormal bullish band of 2017, which attracted many speculators, in the second half of 2018, users will come to the market, who will…
Just two weeks ago, the TRON (TRX) network had a throughput of 500,000 daily transactions, but now it’s doubled. For comparison, the daily transactions of Ethereum are approximately 500-600 thousand, which is almost two times less than that of the TRON network. The growth of TRON transactions is partly due to the growth of simple dump rates in the network. Both TronDice and TRONbet have already exceeded 200 million TRX payments in less than a month. Currently, TRX has a market capitalization of $ 1.54 billion, which makes it the 10th largest cryptocurrency according to the AltDex 100…
Bancor, a decentralized liquidity provider, has announced the completion of the integration of the EOS blockchain and the start of cross-platform token trading between this network and Ethereum. Reported by the Cointelegraph . The upcoming launch of the BancorX product, which will enable the conversion of EOS assets into Ethereum tokens directly without the participation of exchanges, was announced in September. As representatives of the platform now say, the integration process has been completed, and this opens up the possibility of adding a huge number of other blockchains to BancorX. The decentralized application created for this purpose was created in…
Bitcoin futures is a contract to buy or sell an asset in the future at a specific price. After the conclusion of the contract, the parties are obliged to fulfill its conditions, regardless of the market price at the expiration date of the futures. In futures transactions, you can open long and short positions. In the first case, the trader agrees to buy the asset at a certain price in the future, in the second – to sell the underlying asset on the day of expiry of the contract. What are futures for? These derivative financial instruments (derivatives) are used…
The cryptorg.net service CEO and the regular contributor to BlockchainJournal, Andrey Podolyan , tells how bitcoin prices can behave in the near future. Last week again did not justify the hopes of either bulls or bears. It would seem that the price is ready to break the range up, but, on the contrary, falls. And when everyone gets upset and starts selling, the price starts rising again. It feels like intraday traders need to do the opposite. In general, a trend up trend is visible, but for a clear reversal you need to overcome the $ 7300 mark, which has…