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Having successfully guessed weakly protected private keys in the Ethereum blockchain, an unknown attacker kidnapped about 45,000 ETH. Wired wrote about this citing a study conducted by the cybersecurity company Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). Adrian Bednarek, senior security analyst at ISE, a hacker who was nicknamed Blockchain Bendit, was discovered by accident. Assuming that the combination of characters […]

The creator of Ethereum, Vitaly Buterin, published on GitHub a proposal on changing the reward scheme to validators after the transition to the second most capitalized cryptocurrency to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism (PoS). According to the formula proposed by Buterin, if PoS-validators, for example, fix 1,000,000 ETH, then the annual yield will be 18.1%. The more assets are fixed for validation, the lower the interest rate. So, […]

A well-known developer from the ETCDEV team, Donald McIntyre, said that the mutual integration of Ethereum Classic with Ethereum would create a truly safe and effective blockchain. He spoke about this in an interview with CryptoGlobe. “ETH can be viewed as a sports car, and ETC as armored. ETH means scaling and performance, and ETC means high cost and security, ”stressed […]

Dmitry Gurkovsky, leading analyst of RoboForex, tells about further possible scenarios for the movement of the price of Bitcoin and several popular altcoins. The cryptocurrency market continues to trade near the local maximum area. However, a reluctance to move higher and break through important resistance levels may indicate the beginning of a downward correction. In the case of continued growth and updating of the highs, we can safely talk about the resumption of the qualitative upward trend. […]