The news of the launch of Bakkt on September 23 certainly inspired the market. By the weekend, it turned green, only one bitcoin in the last 48 hours has added more than $ 600. Twitter users welcomed this news with a series of excited tweets. Bakkt is a Bitcoin futures and digital asset exchange founded by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Several large organizations, including the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Microsoft and Starbucks, are working to create the exchange. The crypto community has been waiting for a whole year since the ICE…
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Ethereum cryptocurrency developers have completed the preparation of a list of six different code changes that will be activated during the next hard fork called Istanbul, writes CryptoBTCmining.com . As agreed during previous meetings, Istanbul will be activated in two phases. The first one will include all six changes and, according to the current plan, will be launched on the Ethereum core network in October, and the second in the first quarter of next year. The second stage will include changes that still require refinement and testing. This number includes the new mining algorithm ProgPoW. “We split Istanbul into two…
Charlie Lee, creator of the Litecoin cryptocurrency, said he had invested in the American company Casa. The latter is known as a developer of a multi-signature scheme, which requires signing tools on three hardware devices, a Keymaster key manager, as well as a hardware bitcoin node with support for the Lightning Network. According to Charlie Lee, what Casa does is very important for the entire cryptocurrency industry, and today […]
The New York Federal Court rejected the application of the fintech company Paymium, in which it demanded to stop the consideration of the claim for violation of the trademark filed against it by the largest provider of blockchain wallets Blockchain. Blockchain Motion Ruling by ForkLog on Scribd A lawsuit against Paymium and its CEO Pierre Neusat was initiated by the British company Blockchain in September last year. It has a company […]
The code behind any cryptocurrency always remains a mystery to many, especially when you consider that cryptography is basically mathematical models integrated into a meaningful system. And Bitcoin (BTC) holds the palm as the very first successful system that emerged as a functioning crypto network. However, what many mathematicians and analysts are interested in now is the obvious connection between the fluctuations in the price of bitcoin and a specific mathematical model. For example, one analyst claims that cryptocurrency follows a Fibonacci number sequence (elements of a number sequence in which the first two numbers are either 1 and 1,…
The leading cryptocurrency platform Coinbase reported a potential vulnerability, as a result of which the personal information of 3420 users, including passwords, was stored in clear text in the server’s internal log. According to the exchange, third parties did not receive unauthorized access to this data. The California company also noted that we are talking about a very small part of customers, the general user base […]
The full-scale launch of the Bakkt platform daily and monthly delivery Bitcoin futures trading from the Intercontinental Exchange Corporation (ICE) will be held on September 23. According to Kelly Loeffler, CEO of Bakkt, the United States Derivatives Exchange Commission (CFTC) “gave the green light to contracts” through a self-certification process. At the same time, Bakkt Trust Company LLC received a trust license from the New York State Financial Services Authority (NYDFS), which will allow it to store institutional clients' bitcoins that will be insured for $ 125 million. We have some news https://t.co/ykUvQ31cGz – Bakkt (@Bakkt) August 16, 2019 Note…
will most likely be adopted Judging by the information of people directly related to the development of Russian cryptocurrency legislation, the authorities are inclined to follow the path of “supervised legalization” of crypto assets . Recall that in early August, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Finance and the State Duma to adopt a bill on digital financial assets by November 1 of this year. Earlier, President Putin had already set the deadline for the adoption of regulatory standards – until July 1 of this year – however, the State Duma was not able to adopt regulatory…
United Traders (hereinafter UT) is the oldest and largest prop-trading company in Russia, founded in 2009. He specializes in trading American stocks and IPOs. Since 2017, United Traders has been actively trading in the cryptocurrency market. Key differences between United Traders and other US stock brokers : individual leverage conditions, individual risk manager (the ability to limit daily losses on the broker's side), advanced features in short positions. That is why many professional American stock traders trade in United Traders. Although UT has direct access to the American exchanges NYSE, NASDAQ and BATS, but by main activity it is not…
French cryptographer Pierreck Godry hacked the Internet voting system developed by the Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT), which put some of its components in the public domain, inviting everyone to find vulnerabilities, Meduza reports. On September 8, residents of three districts in Moscow will be able to vote in elections through the Internet. Three weeks before the election, it turned out that the voting system is unreliable – it is quite simple […]