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The American Exchange of Cryptocurrency Derivatives LedgerX presented a fundamentally new type of derivative contract, the payment on which will depend on the time of the next halving (halving) rewards to miners in the Bitcoin network. Announcing the world's first #Bitcoin native derivative. Read more on the @ledgerx blog: https://t.co/chqf0OOxgd – LedgerX (@ledgerx) February 6, 2019 The new product is called LedgerX Halving Contract (LXHC) and […]

A unique experiment designed to demonstrate the capabilities of the Lightning Network second-level protocol, launched in January and is gaining momentum every day, involving an increasing number of representatives of the bitcoin community. The global campaign #LightningTorch is coordinated through the social network Twitter and has reached participants from 39 countries on all six continents. It is organized on the principle of the Olympic Torch Relay – to the initial payment […]

Indian authorities confirmed the death of Gerald Kotten, the founder of the Canadian bitcoin exchange QuadrigaCX. As stated by representatives of the trading platform, it happened in early December. The relevant documents were made available to the publication CoinDesk. In India, confirmed the words of Jennifer Robertson, wife of Kotten, about his death on December 9. The funeral took place on December 12 in Halifax. Note that many representatives of the community doubted that […]

The share of the Bitmain-controlled mining pools of BTC.com and Antpool in the total bitcoin hash rate is about 29%. According to analysts of The Block, in the first half of last year, the total hashrate of these two pools was 42%. If we take into account the pool ViaBTC, the main investor of which is Bitmain, then a year ago the Chinese giant could control at least 50% of the hashrate. […]