blockchain

Large mining pools BTC.com and BTC.top carried out a “51% attack” to cancel the transaction of another miner who tried to gain access to funds that did not belong to him, reports CoinDesk. Thus, during the last hard forks, which took place on May 15, an unknown attacker took advantage of the vulnerability in the Bitcoin Cash protocol and provoked the chain fork into two alternatives. This led to the fact that miners […]

Coinbase, the largest US cryptocurrency company, announced the addition of a stable DAI coin to its platform, as well as to mobile apps for iOS and Android. DAI is now live at https://t.co/wHvnDs40HG and Android apps. Coinbase customers can buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store DAI. – Coinbase (@coinbase) […]

Operator of the world's largest social network Facebook Inc. will launch a new payment network based on its own cryptocurrency in the “dozen countries” in the first quarter of 2020, the BBC reports. The publication claims that Facebook consults with representatives of the US Treasury Department and the Bank of England manager Marc Carney regarding the regulation of the initiative, code-named Libra. At the same time, the Financial Times […]

The blockchain platform Telegram Open Network (TON) will be launched in the third quarter of 2019. It is reported by The Block, citing investors of the project, who allegedly received letters with this information. According to the documents received, the platform has been successfully tested. His results confirmed the conformity of the blockchain and the consensus algorithm to the goals stated in white paper. "The testing period reaffirmed the confidence in […]

State Corporation Rostec has presented a roadmap for the development of the blockchain in Russia as part of the state program "Digital Economy". The Novosibirsk Institute of Software Systems (NIPS) and the Waves team took part in creating the document. According to preliminary estimates, the implementation of distributed registry technology in state systems may require up to 85 billion rubles, Kommersant reports. Thus, according to the document, the blockchain is proposed to be used in all […]

The San Francisco-based blockchain-startup Unstoppable Domains declares its mission to fight for Internet freedom, at least in part, control over the registered domains. Now the company’s famous Bitcoin enthusiast Tim Draper Draper Associates has made an important contribution to this initiative, CoinDesk writes. Unstoppable. https://t.co/upx2GcwhPS – Adam Draper ? ? ? (@AdamDraper) May 23, 2019 Draper Associates led the round of financing […]

The Russian blockchain platform Waves will be the general sponsor of the World Series trading tournament (WSOC), which will be held on the Waves DEX exchange soon. The prize fund of the contest will be over $ 33,000 in Waves tokens. Participation in the competition is free. Registration of participants opens on May 23 and will continue until June 12. The tournament itself will begin at 14:00 Moscow time (UTC + 3) […]