blockchain

On the evening of Saturday, July 13, the steeblecoin issuer Tether unexpectedly released 5 billion USDT tokens on the TRON blockchain. Almost immediately released tokens were burned, and instead of them 50 million tokens were issued, which were intended for the Poloniex Bitcoin Exchange. Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Bitfinex, affiliated with Tether, commented on the situation as follows: “In the process of preparing to transfer emissions from Omni […]

The complexity of the extraction of the first cryptocurrency has reached an absolute historical maximum at around 9.06 trillion. Thus, when recalculating, the growth was 14%. It happened on July 9th. At that moment, the hashrate was slightly below the historical record reached earlier, at 69.3 EH / s. At the time of writing, the aggregate computing power in the Bitcoin network has decreased to 58.1 EH / s, reflecting the price movement of the asset. […]

Former chairman of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), Zhou Xiaochuan, believes that the concept of a global digital currency that can be exchanged for Fiat, which was introduced by Facebook, threatens existing cross-border payment systems and may weaken the position of national currencies. He stated this at an event in Beijing, reports the South China Morning Post. In his opinion, the Chinese authorities need to strengthen the national currency […]

Large venture capital firms Multicoin Capital and Coinbase Ventures made two joint investments in start-ups NEAR and Textile. A Series A round of financing for NEAR was led by Metastable and Accomplice. Other participants include Pantera Capital, ACapital and Xpring from Ripple, as well as well-known business angels Nawal Ravikant, Andrew Keyes and Balaji Srinivasan. In total, the startup managed […]

As part of the e-voting experiment to be held at the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Council of the seventh convocation in the fall, the accounting of ballots will be transferred to the blockchain system. Today, July 11, the system is tested by students of Moscow universities. This was stated by Deputy Head of the Information Technology Department of Moscow Artem Kostyrko, reports TASS. “The key difference of our electronic voting system from all others is that the human voice […]

On August 8, the International Blockchain Baikal Summit will take place in Irkutsk, where more than 20 leading experts representing blockchain-making market leaders will speak. The program of the event includes discussion panels and master classes, during which the current situation in the blockchain market, development priorities and successful business cases will be discussed. Each year, the summit attracts many key people of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry – for example, […]