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In an attempt to tackle the lack of privacy Ethereum, developer Kendrick Tan developed a mixing service for the second most capitalized cryptocurrency. The basis of its development called Heiswap formed the basic specifications for such a service, described by Vitalik Buterin in May of this year. The mixer itself is available in the Ropsten test network at heiswap.exchange, and as the founder of Ethereum has already noted, this is […]

Shares of the Scottish brewery BrewDog are now available to investors for Bitcoin and almost a dozen other cryptocurrencies, according to a company press release earlier this week. Sale of shares for cryptocurrencies started in the framework of the new investment round of the Equity for Punks campaign and will last until April of next year. In addition to Bitcoin, you can also purchase them for Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, […]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to analyze the data of public blockchains. To this end, the agency is looking for a contractor who will act as the operator of the corresponding full nodes. So, first of all, SEC is interested in Bitcoin and Ethereum networks, however, it is ready to receive data on Bitcoin Cash, Stellar, Ripple, EOS, NEO and ZCash. In the future, the department is considering the possibility of analyzing others […]

Investors in the Chinese investment scheme Wave Field Super Community, which many have associated with the cryptocurrency project TRON, can lose up to 200 million yuan ($ 29 million) as a result of fraud. In social networks, they criticize Justin San's CEO of the Tron Foundation for not responding to alleged fraudsters before they managed to raise funds, hiding behind the brand […]

Russian banks got acquainted with the statistics of financial fraud for 2018 and received recommendations for protection against cyber threats. The corresponding report was published by the Center of monitoring and response to computer attacks of the Bank of Russia FinCERT. According to the study, 177 of the 687 hacker attacks on banks recorded in 2018 were aimed at gaining financial gain. About one third are also aimed at embezzling funds […]

The developers of the popular Electrum wallet are preparing a major release with support for the Lightning Network. This was announced by the project's creator, Thomas Vogtlin, during a panel discussion at the BIP001 conference in Odessa. The lead developer, however, did not give the exact release date. Note that a new version of the Electrum wallet (v3.3.7) has recently been released, which contains a number of fixes and improvements. Electrum 3.3.7 was just […]