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On Wednesday, May 15, the average commission for a transaction on the Bitcoin network reached $ 2.32. The last time such values were recorded February 24, 2018. This is due to a significant increase in the number of unconfirmed transactions in the Bitcoin memory. At the time of writing, according to Blockchain.com, about 67 thousand transactions were stuck in the memo. On the graph of the total value of daily transactional commissions for miners […]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined entrepreneur and co-author of the bestseller Blockchain Revolution Alex Tapscott, reports CoinDesk. Representatives of the agency say that the Canadian fund NextBlock, which specializes in crypto-investments, issued unregistered securities and provided false data in the project description, misleading investors. SEC has appointed NextBlock founder Alex Tapscott a $ 25,000 fine. […]

On May 6, the third issue of the Cryptographic Analysis video tutorial was released on the ForkLog YouTube channel. On the air of Xena.Exchange CEO, Anton Kravchenko spoke about the Steblecoin Tether, the future of cryptobirth and the secret blockchain project of Facebook. The purpose of the rubric is to conduct a fundamental analysis of the industry and talk about trends that affect the cryptocurrency market. New issues are published every two weeks. Editorial ForkLog chose […]

Sidechain Lumino, created on top of the main Bitcoin network, is a third-level payment solution with support for Ethereum smart contracts, officially launched. This was reported on Tuesday, May 14 at the Consensus 2019 conference in New York by the head of the research and innovation department of the Argentine company RIF Labs, Sergio Lerner. Work on Lumino, which in some ways can be compared with the network of the Lightning Network, was carried out on […]

Taiwanese electronics maker HTC has added support for cryptocurrency swaps to its EXODUS 1 blockchain smartphones, reports Coindesk. The function was realized thanks to the partnership with the Kyber Network startup, the liquidity protocol of which NTS has integrated into its Zion Vault wallet. Now EXODUS 1 users can perform swaps between ERC-20 tokens, such as Brave's Basic Attention Token and DAI Steabcocoin […]