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The Russian Sberbank decided to leave the ranks of the Masterchain blockchain project launched with the support of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In the commentary of CoinDesk, the head of the blockchain-lab of Sberbank, Oleg Abdrashitov, declared dissatisfaction with the speed, safety and overall efficiency of the platform. According to him, as an alternative, the organization is considering corporate blockchain-platform Hyperledger Fabric from IMB and Quorum from JPMorgan. "Masterchain" does not meet the requirements that make cases […]

The American rating agency Weiss Ratings assigned Litecoin a B rating (“excellent”), taking into account the significant investment attractiveness and the degree of mass adoption of cryptocurrency. On the other hand, such a factor as the ratio of risk and return was estimated slightly lower than the rest of the Litecoin parameters, having been rated B-. The screenshot below shows that the overall rating of LTC is lower than that of Bitcoin and […]

On June 28, the number of daily transactions in the Ethereum network exceeded 1 million. This happened for the first time since May 2018, Cointelegraph writes. Thus, according to Etherscan, on Friday, June 28, 1,004,170 transactions were made on the network of this second largest cryptocurrency capitalization. Nevertheless, it is still below the record highs of January 4, 2018, when, for […]

Despite the fact that after a sharp rise, the price of Bitcoin faced an inevitable correction, having lost almost 17% in recent days, investment funds show very good dynamics. A striking example of the growth of institutional interest in cryptocurrency is the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), whose shares have increased by more than 300% since February. According to the Forbes report, at the moment GBTC shares […]

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to attract large and experienced investors. Another evidence of this was the news that 75-year-old billionaire Henry Kravis became an investor in the cryptocurrency fund of ParaFi Capital, reports Bloomberg. Henry Kravis is a co-founder of the global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, whose capitalization as of October 2017 was $ 16.5 billion. Personal […]