According to a new study submitted by two research firms – Chainalysis and Diar – the real number of Bitcoin (BTC) tokens in circulation was counted. According to CoinMarketCap, the number of coins in circulation is 17296587 at the time of writing. The study says that 36% of this amount is "absolutely accurately lost, most likely, that they were lost or are still underdeveloped." If to count, it turns out that 6.226 million BTC are technically inaccessible for purchase or trade even for whales. The report further says that 22% of the negotiable offer belongs to speculators, while investors have…
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Today Ripple (XRP) is trading at a price of 0.614 US dollars (+ 7.74%). The market capitalization of XRP is $ 24,481,165,999. The maximum exchange rate for the last 24 hours is $ 0.614, and the minimum rate is $ 0.54 (pair XRP / USD). Recall that tomorrow – the day after tomorrow in San Francisco Ripple is hosting a SWELL event, which should raise topical issues about global payments. One of the keynote speakers will be former US President Bill Clinton. It is planned that before the event Ripple will accompany the bullish trend, as the price of the…
The StellarX marketplace, which sells assets on Stellar's blockbuster , announced the launch of a decentralized site with zero commissions and support for fiat currencies. The functional of the exchange differs little from the existing stock exchanges on the Ethereum block , but unlike the same IDEX and EtherDelta, where it is still necessary to pay for gas, the exchange does not charge commissions from users, thanks to its unique mechanism of the consummation. In addition, StellarX supports fiat currencies. While on-site transactions are performed from bank accounts in the US through the ACH network, in the future it is…
Based in the UK capital, the start-up London Block Exchange (LBX) announced plans to launch a new stebblecoin tied to the rate of the British pound, Business Insider reports. LBX is proud to announce the worlds first GBP backed stablecoin! LBXPeg https://t.co/9ltCtHEyVU – LBX, The London Block Exchange (@LBXSocial) 29 September 2018 LBX provides services for over-the-counter trading in crypto-currencies, and is also in the process of creating its own trading platform. On Friday, the company announced that it received permission from an unnamed bank partner to launch a new LBXPeg crypto currency, which will be backed by the British…
Over the past two years, one of the early bitcoin miners, whose name remains unknown, has sold 30,000 coins that belonged to him. This writes CCN , citing a report published earlier this week by the crypto analyst Antoine de Calves. As de Calves wrote, the sale of coins, which were produced in one of the youngest blocks of bitcoin, was carried out between December 2016 and early January 2018, when he sent them to various stock exchanges. An analysis of the spending patterns of the earliest blocks of Bitcoin to the end of January, 2018. pic.twitter.com/8SB89o80h3 – Antoine Le…
We are slowly moving towards the format of a society in which the economy is completely decentralized, and instead of fiat money people will use the crypto currency . Whether you like it or not, the crypto community continues to promote this idea and unite enthusiasts around the world. Despite the fact that the cost of coins is extremely unstable, the popularity of virtual money is growing. Indeed, if you have a small amount of extra money, then buying a crypto currency will not cause financial damage. But which coins are better to invest? Let's reflect on the future and…
Investor and founder of the popular publication Michael Arrington said that his company Arrington XRP Capital refuses to invest in tokens in the US and considers Asia or other jurisdictions as a new place for doing business. This decision was made by the firm after receiving the SEC's second agenda on the account, which wants information on its investments in one of the American companies. We received a second subpeona from the SEC, again collecting information from us as investors in a US company. The legal costs of dealing with these are not insignificant. We will not invest in any…
The spread of blocking and virtual currency technology continues to gain momentum. I got a crypto currency and the homeland of the terrible conqueror of Genghis Khan. Today, the Central Bank of Mongolia held a presentation ceremony of the country's first digital currency, announced as a new payment method. In Mongolia, a full normative set of rules for working with crypto currency was previously developed. The non-bank financial institution Mobicinance, which is part of the Mobicom Corporation, became the first company to acquire a digital currency certificate and began distributing Candy as the official digital currency. Candy will be the…
Two hackers suspected of hacking the Crowd Machine crypto currency platform and stealing the tokens for a total of $ 14 million were arrested this week by the Oklahoma City police. This is reported by the news service of Oklahoma News 4 . Fletcher Robert Childers and Joseph Harris detained on suspicion of hacking a Crowd Machine purse Arrested were 23-year-old Fletcher Robert Childers and 21-year-old Joseph Harris, both residents of Missouri. It is assumed that to steal the CMCT tokens, they used a method called "SIM swapping", that is, they convinced the mobile provider to give them control over…
The TRON Foundation presented detailed information on the integration plan with the BitTorrent project Atlas . The acquisition of BitTorrent was closed in July this year. According to the Atlas project, BitTorrent will connect its peer-to-peer network to the TRON blocker in the first stage to use the TRX token. Users of the peer-to-peer network will be able to receive special services and additional functions for tokens, including faster download speeds. Creators of content will have the opportunity to reward supportive distribution (sidov). It is assumed that this will encourage the latter to allocate a wider channel for distribution and…