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The past week was the most active in terms of trading volume in Venezuela – almost 17.1 billion sovereign Bolivars were exchanged for bitcoins. In terms of Bitcoin, trading volume was 1 972 BTC. This is evidenced by the data site CoinDance. In turn, the Venezuelan authorities have issued the “Constitutional Decree on the Integrated System of Cryptocurrency Assets”, which regulates the activities of Bitcoin exchanges and other crypto companies. […]

The New York blockchain startup Blockstack reported on the ongoing work on a new distributed protocol called Stacks, which uses the hash power of the Bitcoin network in combination with the Proof-of-Burn mechanism (PoB). The presentation of Stacks took place in January at an event organized by a startup in Hong Kong. An explanation of the principle of the new consensus algorithm is also available in the video posted by the lead developer of the project […]

The Bellingcat research team tracked down a transaction of 0.026043 BTC dated February 1, 2016, which special prosecutor in the case of Russian intervention in the US presidential elections Robert Muller associated with the activities of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation (GRU) and the hacking of servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the USA. Want to have some fun over the weekend with blockchain, Bitcoin, and […]

The Canadian Cryptocurrency Exchange QuadrigaCX cannot access wallets with user funds worth CAD 250 million ($ 190 million), reports CoinDesk, citing the organization’s statement, previously filed with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Thus, about 115 thousand users had cryptocurrency (180 million CAD) and fiat balances (70 million CAD). As the newspaper notes, on […]