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The People's Bank of China (PBoC) has denied media reports about the launch of the national digital currency in November and the participating organizations. This is written by the Global Times. In August, information appeared that the launch of the digital currency of the Central Bank (CBDC) of China will occur no later than November 11. It was also reported that the exclusive right to distribute the national digital currency will receive seven organizations: the four largest commercial […]

The Northern Ireland auction house Wilsons Auctions will hold two cryptocurrency auctions for approximately 500 thousand pounds (about $ 621 thousand). Coins were confiscated by UK police from a criminal. Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and other cryptocurrencies will be sold at the highest price at auctions without a reserve. This means that the minimum sale price is not set for traded assets. Online auction will begin […]

Chinese mining giant Bitmain will present a detailed report analyzing data on global mining farms at the World Digital Mining Summit in October. This is stated in the press release of the company. In the document, Bitmain will offer a comprehensive analysis of the mining industry, including data on existing mining farms, their energy costs, features of choosing a place to create a farm and construction costs. Report […]

The first formal review of the Lightning Network (LN) network specification for security yielded positive results, CoinDesk writes. In their work entitled A Composable Security Treatment of the Lightning Network, which was also attended by IOHK, researchers at the University of Edinburgh Aggelos Kiyaias and Orfeas Litos used mathematical methods to evaluate safety. They studied the fundamental cryptography created for […]

In the new version of the Bitcoin Core client (0.19.0), they proposed to get rid of the BIP70 scheme and implement the default generation. Soon: Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 – Good things from r / Bitcoin BIP70 is a payment protocol that assigns a wallet URL instead of a simple address. This URL responds to the Get request, after which the merchant server sends the address and payment amount. BIP70 introduces a requirement for […]