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In preparation for the next Ethereum hardfork called Istanbul, the platform developers presented 28 suggestions for improving the code base, aimed, among other things, at changing the mining algorithm, executing the code, pricing mechanism and data storage process. This became known during the traditional online developer conference this week, during which it was discussed which of them could help […]

In the network of Monero cryptocurrency oriented privacy, a new PoW consensus algorithm called RandomX from the developer of decentralized Internet Arweave can be implemented. It all depends on the results of the audit of the new protocol, according to Cointelegraph. At the moment, Monero developers implement hard forks every six months to avoid network capture by ASIC miners, however, this approach is considered controversial in the community. So, Arweave […]

Innosilicon semiconductor chip developer enters the Russian market with mining equipment. Innosilicon manufactures microchips for memory cards, USB controllers and other devices, and also produces ASIC chips for mining BTC, ETH, LTC, ZEC and other cryptocurrencies. In addition, the company developed the first miners for the Cuckatoo algorithm on the GRIN network. According to the press release of Innosilicon, the official distributor in […]

Chat bots have become a part of everyday life. They are becoming increasingly popular: from sophisticated Siri and Alexa to simple bots in Telegram. Chat bots are dedicated to the special project from ForkLog and AnyCashBot “Chat bots: at the dawn of a new ecosystem”. From the special project you will learn how chat bots are arranged, whether it is possible to trust financial information in Telegram bot, what chat bots are waiting for in the future and why they […]

Experts of the antivirus company ESET have detected a massive spam attack targeting visitors to porn sites from Russia, the USA, Germany, France, Spain and the Czech Republic. Fraudsters extort bitcoins from users under the threat of publishing a video that they allegedly managed to record via the victim’s webcam while watching porn. Extortionists threaten to send a compromising record to the list of contacts if they do not receive a ransom in the amount of 0.45 […]