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The developers of MetaMask, a browser extension to interact with decentralized Ethereum applications, have published information about user activity collected during a recent study of their behavioral metrics. The study involved 275,000 users who agreed to provide developers with access to their basic metrics. 104 thousand users, however, refused to participate in the study. Thus, the research results reflect 72.6% of the MetaMask user base. […]

On May 23, an unknown user made a transaction at 8.881 LTC, but paid a commission in the amount of 200.00360600 LTC (about $ 20 thousand at the time of writing). This was probably done by mistake. Thus, the commission for KB of data in the block was 83.2 LTC. This triggered a temporary increase in commissions on the network to the highs of December 2017 – around $ 0.70. Note, […]

Ethereum founder Vitaly Buterin suggested allowing users to mix transactions to hide addresses when sending fixed amounts. According to him, the introduction of such an architecture will not require changes at the level of the main protocol. He wrote about this on Hackmd. So, explained Buterin, at the moment there are only two options for transactions available to users: from one address (all activity can be easily tracked […]

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 […]

376 addresses, which are probably not exchanges and other service providers, control 33% of all currently existing Ethereum coins. Nevertheless, these whales are responsible only for 7% of all transactions on the network and have little effect on quotes, although they may temporarily spur volatility with massive sales. This is stated in the report of the analytical company Chainalysis. Note, […]