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On Tuesday, September 24, the price of bitcoin at high volumes fell from $ 9400 to $ 8070. At the same time, quotes fell by $ 1,400 in less than two hours – from 18:00 to 20:00 UTC. Losses of some altcoins at this moment reached 30-50%. For the first time since mid-June, Bitcoin dropped below $ 9,000 and is currently trading at around $ 8,500 at the time of writing. […]

Representatives of the Telegram messenger announced a competition to create smart contracts for the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform. According to the terms of the competition, participants must: – create one or more smart contracts in accordance with the description in the attached file; – offer improvements for FunC or TON virtual machine; – identify bugs and suggest corrections for the Telegram Open Network test network. Prize Fund […]

The founders of the cryptocurrency trading platform My Crypto Trade (MCT +) completed an exit scam by stealing user funds from the platform. The total damage, according to minimal estimates, amounted to 100 thousand euros in cryptocurrency. This editorial ForkLog said one of the investors of the platform under the nickname tax79. Being the moderator of Discord Chat MCT + for over a year and possessing almost complete information about the platform and process […]

The Stuttgart Stock Exchange has announced the launch of regulated spot trading in cryptocurrencies. At this stage, only one pair is represented on the site – bitcoin to the euro, writes the local business publication Onvista. Trading on the Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange (BSDEX) is carried out in accordance with the German Banking Act. Access to the trading platform, which was […]

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 […]