blockchain

According to an official announcement on the website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency is looking for a supplier who can provide him with the opportunity to analyze blockchain data of leading cryptocurrencies, Coingape reports. The application was published on January 31, and according to it, the opportunity is open to companies that will ensure the extraction of data from blockchains and their translation into readable […]

The New York blockchain startup Blockstack reported on the ongoing work on a new distributed protocol called Stacks, which uses the hash power of the Bitcoin network in combination with the Proof-of-Burn mechanism (PoB). The presentation of Stacks took place in January at an event organized by a startup in Hong Kong. An explanation of the principle of the new consensus algorithm is also available in the video posted by the lead developer of the project […]

The Bellingcat research team tracked down a transaction of 0.026043 BTC dated February 1, 2016, which special prosecutor in the case of Russian intervention in the US presidential elections Robert Muller associated with the activities of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation (GRU) and the hacking of servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the USA. Want to have some fun over the weekend with blockchain, Bitcoin, and […]

Ethereum startup Aragon is exploring the possibility of launching the aragonOS platform to create smart contracts on the Polkadot protocol. This was told by the technical director of the startup Jorge Iskierdo, writes CoinDesk. According to him, the additional network will not affect the work of Aragon that started in November 2018 in the Ethereum blockchain. “The idea is to make the majority of aragonOS transactions virtually free and highly optimized,” […]

Based in Las Vegas, Hosho laid off more than 30 employees, reducing staff numbers by 80%. It is reported by CoinDesk. The company claims that in the 17 months of its existence Hosho conducted an audit of so many smart contracts that any other firm from the blockchain industry could hardly make. “In conducting an audit of many ICOs, we thought that we were going to go […]