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The rapid growth of Bitcoin this week may have slowed down, having passed the generally expected correction stage, but this did not prevent the popular stock exchange of derivatives BitMEX from setting two new records this week. Thus, the head of the company, Arthur Hayes, wrote on Twitter that the total trading volume on the platform over the past year exceeded $ 1 trillion. One Trillion Dollars traded […]

On June 28, the number of daily transactions in the Ethereum network exceeded 1 million. This happened for the first time since May 2018, Cointelegraph writes. Thus, according to Etherscan, on Friday, June 28, 1,004,170 transactions were made on the network of this second largest cryptocurrency capitalization. Nevertheless, it is still below the record highs of January 4, 2018, when, for […]

The popular Bitcoin exchange Poloniex announced that it had become the first trading platform that now offers its users the possibility of staking the Cosmos cryptocurrency (ATOM) with daily income payments. Cosmos staking is live! Simply deposit @ cosmos $ ATOM to Poloniex and begin earning daily staking rewards today! With no lock-up period (non-US customers only) […]

The editorial staff of ForkLog magazine conducts a traditional survey “Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in our life”. Every year we launch it with one goal – to do independent research among ForkLog readers, who are not indifferent to the development of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain. We will certainly share the results of the survey with the community in the very near future. Together we make history! Start How old are you? Less than 18 […]

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to attract large and experienced investors. Another evidence of this was the news that 75-year-old billionaire Henry Kravis became an investor in the cryptocurrency fund of ParaFi Capital, reports Bloomberg. Henry Kravis is a co-founder of the global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, whose capitalization as of October 2017 was $ 16.5 billion. Personal […]

The blockchain development roadmap in Russia, developed by the Novosibirsk Institute of Software Systems (NIPS) and the Waves team as part of the state program “Digital Economy”, appeared in an open access in one of the Telegram channels. As the author of the channel points out, the “secret document” could be “merged due to an oversight,” since the link to it was allegedly discovered via the Pastebin web application. The document is available […]

Legendary trader and technical analyst Peter Brandt believes that, unlike the 2017 bull rally, when many other cryptocurrencies also rose in price against the background of rapidly growing bitcoin, today such a scenario is unlikely. “Cryptomaniac expects altcoins to repeat the same thing, but they can be very disappointed,” he wrote on Twitter. Many altcoins benefited from […]

South Korean technology giant Kakao launched the Klaytn blockchain platform's main network. Several large companies have already joined it, including LG Electronics, Cointelegraph reports. Kakao’s blockchain-based CEO Han Zhe Song said that the total value of companies using Klaytn is $ 64.8 billion. Currently, nine decentralized applications (dApps) are available on the platform. Among them, for example, an application that rewards visitors […]

The Web3 Foundation announced the successful completion of a private tokensale, whose goal was to raise funds for the development of the Polkadot protocol, a blockchain project by one of the founders of Ethereum and Gavin Wood. It is reported by CoinDesk. According to a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, a total of 500,000 DOT tokens were sold (5% of the total issue), after which the capitalization of the project rose to […]