The emission of Ethereum, the second most capitalized cryptocurrency, in two years can be reduced 10 times, reports Trustnodes. Ethereum-developer Justin Drake outlined key timelines, stating the following: “January 2020: the launch of Beacon Chain. June 2020: production stage of launching a lightweight client eth2. November 2020: fork # 1 eth1, designed to complete eth2 (according to a conservative forecast, emission reductions are not expected). March 2021: […]
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Russian banks got acquainted with the statistics of financial fraud for 2018 and received recommendations for protection against cyber threats. The corresponding report was published by the Center of monitoring and response to computer attacks of the Bank of Russia FinCERT. According to the study, 177 of the 687 hacker attacks on banks recorded in 2018 were aimed at gaining financial gain. About one third are also aimed at embezzling funds […]
The provider of cryptocurrency loans Nexo announced that it will start accepting the Gram token of the Telegram messenger as security, reports CoinDesk. According to representatives of the company, users will be able to provide a new token as collateral for loans after the Gram listing on the Liquid Exchange, scheduled for July 10. According to representatives of Nexo, the togram of the Telegram messenger “has the potential to […]
The network of the first cryptocurrency consumes more electricity than small countries such as Switzerland or Kuwait. This is evidenced by data from an online tool from researchers at the University of Cambridge. This tool, in particular, allows you to see the total power consumption of the Bitcoin network and make comparisons both with various countries of the world and with other objects. According to the service, today the Bitcoin network consumes 7.49 […]
Petro comenzará a aceptar la criptomoneda nacional en el banco más grande de Venezuela. 5 (100%) 1 El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, ordenó al banco más grande del país, el Banco de Venezuela, que comience a procesar las transacciones con la criptomoneda estatal Petro . Esto fue informado por el servicio de prensa del Ministerio de Finanzas de Venezuela y señaló que el jefe de estado ordenó que todas las sucursales del banco en la provincia pudieran manejar las operaciones con la moneda. Maduro hizo esta declaración durante el evento dedicado al décimo aniversario de la nacionalización del Banco…
Bitcoin and the Facebook-announced Libra coin are most popular among Twitter users in the United States. This is evidenced by research data cryptocurrency platform The TIE. 1 / A Geographic Breakdown of Crypto Twitter??? Overall 38.9% of total Bitcoin tweets come from the US and 10.5% from the UK. The top five countries where Bitcoin is discussed on Twitter are […]
El jefe del proyecto de Facebook Libra aclaró los detalles sobre el trabajo de la futura criptomoneda 5 (100%) 1 Dos semanas después del lanzamiento de la propia red social de criptomoneda de Facebook y después de la apelación de ayer de los congresistas de Estados Unidos a la compañía que exige una moratoria en su desarrollo, el director del proyecto, David Marcus, aclaró varios puntos sobre la situación en torno a Libra y los planes para su futuro. En primer lugar, destacó que además de Facebook, docenas de empresas fundadoras participan en el proyecto Calibra, y no es necesario…
The deputy head of the Bank of Japan, Masayoshi Amamiya, ruled out the likelihood of issuing a national digital currency, Reuters reported. According to the official, the issuance of such a means of payment would mean a waiver of fiat money. “Liquidation of cash will make the payment infrastructure inconvenient for the population, so the central bank will not take this step,” he stressed. In addition, Amamiya is concerned that the release of the digital yen will lead to the establishment of […]
The developers of the popular Electrum wallet are preparing a major release with support for the Lightning Network. This was announced by the project's creator, Thomas Vogtlin, during a panel discussion at the BIP001 conference in Odessa. The lead developer, however, did not give the exact release date. Note that a new version of the Electrum wallet (v3.3.7) has recently been released, which contains a number of fixes and improvements. Electrum 3.3.7 was just […]
The self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin Craig Wright could provide fake documents during the trial of the case against David Kleiman. Lawyer Stephen Palley pointed this out on his Twitter. the return path. rofl. also, June 24, 2011 was a Friday. pic.twitter.com/VClq15HRj7 – Palley (@stephendpalley) July 3, 2019 So, among the documents provided by Wright to the court, there is one dated […]