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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 […]

The popular LocalBitcoins p2p platform has ceased to provide its services to Iranian users. The likely reason for such a decision could be US sanctions, although the service representatives did not state this directly, reports CoinDesk. It is noteworthy that within a few weeks, trading volumes in Iranian rials on LocalBitcoins increased significantly, eventually reaching the figures for January 2018 (45.64 billion Iranian rials in a week). […]

Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange reported the details of the first initial exchange placement (IEO), which will be held on June 13 at the new Tokinex platform launched jointly with Ethfinex. We can now reveal your first tokinex is … Ampleforth! Find out why we’re excited for the first IEO, and then you’re here: https://t.co/KRC4rda4MD […]

Innosilicon semiconductor chip developer enters the Russian market with mining equipment. Innosilicon manufactures microchips for memory cards, USB controllers and other devices, and also produces ASIC chips for mining BTC, ETH, LTC, ZEC and other cryptocurrencies. In addition, the company developed the first miners for the Cuckatoo algorithm on the GRIN network. According to the press release of Innosilicon, the official distributor in […]