Author: BlockchainJournal

The team of the blockchain platform NEO planned to implement the fork of the NEO Super in November of this year, according to CoinMarketCal . The new platform, NEO Super, is a global open source payment network, according to data from their official website . According to the developers : "The new payment network without centralized control will be implemented in such a way that will completely eliminate the involvement of intermediaries." Thus, NEO Super will soon be born as a result of the hard fork of the popular NEO cryptocurrency, which will use the Ethereum algorithm to provide users…

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tokens started trading on the Bitcoin exchange Poloniex Once the largest in terms of trading volumes of crypto-exchange, Poloniex launched Bancor tokens (BNT) trading. #BNT markets are now live on #Poloniex @Bancor – Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) 19 January 2018 р. The ability to input / output BNT digital assets appeared yesterday, October 18th. BNT deposits and withdrawals are currently live. Trading in USDT, BTC, and ETH pairs will be enabled on October 19th at 16:00 UTC. https://t.co/Cny0v8NDZV – Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) 18 December 2018 p. Also, the administration of Poloniex announced the resumption of access to Monero wallets (XMR) after…

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Sberbank and the National Settlement Depository (NSD) summed up the results of the primary offer of coins (ICO) on the basis of the regulatory sandbox of the Central Bank of Russia. According to the press service of Sberbank, the financial institution plans to provide its customers with services related to the tokensale. The test ICO on the Masterchain blockchain platform began in May. The issuer of the transaction was Level One, which placed 285 thousand tokens at the Sberbank account. The tokens served as a payment for tasks from Level One, and then the participants in the transaction "burned" the…

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Thailand-based payment blockchain-startup Omise attracted funding from the Japanese company 31VENTURES and the venture capital unit Mitsui Fudosan. It's official. We're a step closer to creating a more inclusive financial system for everyone. #Omise has received investment from VC firm Global Brain with participation of 31VENTURES and SMDV. https://t.co/WRSbMKpPck – Omise (@Omise) 18 December 2018 p. The amount of attracted Omise investment is unknown. The round of financing was led by the Japanese firm Global Brain. The Indonesian venture capital firm Sinar Mas Digital Ventures (SMDV), which had previously invested in Omise, also contributed to the development of the project.…

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The blockchain project Sia has published the official code for updating the protocol aimed at countering the miners using, in particular, the Bitmain devices. It is reported by CoinDesk . The CEO and founder of the parent company of the project Nebulous announced the release of version 1.3.6 code, reminding also in the official Sia channel on Discord that hardfork will be activated on October 31. “All users who want to stay with the Sia project should upgrade to the hard forks date. All major exchanges will take part in it , ”the project manager noted. Debates in the Sia…

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Despite the prevalence of bearish sentiment in the cryptocurrency market, since the beginning of 2018 in the US, the number of cryptocurrency and blockchain vacancies has increased. This is stated in a study of the recruiting company Glassdoor. According to the document, in August 2017 the number of vacancies for blockchain specialists was 446, at the beginning of 2018 – 693. In August 2018, this figure increased to 1775. Almost half of the vacancies for blockchain specialists are concentrated in New York (24% of the total) and San Francisco (21%). In total, the country's 15 largest cities accounted for 79%…

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Cryptodocumentation – secret mining of cryptocurrency, in recent months, at first rapidly gained popularity, and then even managed to slightly go out of fashion, returning the palm to traditional extortionate viruses. However, it is too early to relax: this threat is still relevant. We bring to your attention a translation of the article by Marty Puranik, founder and CEO of Atlantic.Net, who shares tips on how not to become a victim of cryptodikeking. Cryptojacking is the process of unauthorized use of someone else's computers for mining cryptocurrencies . It is not associated with installing spyware or adware, and in this…

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According to influential technical expert, business analyst, and co-founder of art technology company Thomas Crown Art, Jan MacLeod, the world of art will help raise prices for Ethereum to $ 500 by the end of this year. Currently, the second largest market capitalization of the cryptocurrency has not been able to overcome the resistance levels of $ 208 and $ 210 against the US dollar. But, despite the continuation of the downward trend, Ian MacLeod claims that Ethereum will return to a bullish trend by the end of this year. The expert noted in his statement: The price of Ethereum…

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The developers of the Russian bill “On digital financial assets” have removed the concept of “mining” from it. According to the chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, this is all due to the fact that the Russian economy does not need Bitcoin. About this writes "Interfax". “We used to think about bitcoins, how to grow them into our economic system. Since we decided that we do not need them, these bitcoins are incomprehensible, then, accordingly, mining is not needed, ”Aksakov said. The draft law also does not spell out the concept of “cryptocurrency”. According…

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Bitcoin rate on the fifth in terms of trading crypto trading Bitfinex almost reached parity with most other trading platforms. BitMEX Research analysts, in particular, pay attention to this: The premium is eroding pic.twitter.com/agw3OmrOp5 – BitMEX Research (@BitMEXResearch) 19 October 2018 p. The Tether USD stableblock rate, which, according to many, caused an imbalance between the price of Bitcoin on Bitfinex and a number of other exchanges, gradually returns to the target mark of $ 1: Data: CoinMarketCap At the same time, over the past few days, the market capitalization of the most popular steablokoin has decreased by about half…

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