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Bakkt cryptocurrency platform can launch Bakkt Pay mobile wallet for digital currencies for several months. To do this, the company, which is a division of the financial corporation Intercontinental Exchange, hired the famous UX-consultant Chris Peterson, who previously worked for Google. It is reported by The Block, citing informed sources. Initially it was assumed that Bakkt would become a platform for trading in supply bitcoin futures […]

Coinbase Security and Google security researcher Samuel Gross discovered a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox browser that could manipulate Javascript objects. It has already been used to attack users of cryptocurrency. This is reported on Medium. The zero-day vulnerability received a CVE-2019-11707 identifier, and in Firefox, the bug was assigned a critical or highest threat level. "Critical vulnerability – it can be used […]

The well-known cryptonews website CCN.com announced the closure after a significant reduction in the decline in mobile traffic. According to representatives of the news resource, the share of traffic from mobile devices declined by 71% soon after the June update of Google Core Update. “CCN was founded in the summer of 2013, its former name is CryptoCoinsNews. We existed for six years, being a kryptonovost site with the highest traffic. […]

Interest in cryptocurrencies is growing again – in May, the number of search queries for the word “bitcoin” increased sharply, exceeding the values for the entire previous year. This is evidenced by Google Trends. According to statistics, the greatest interest in Bitcoin is shown in Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana, followed by Austria and the Netherlands. It is also noteworthy that in May Bitcoin was searched more often, […]

Roskomnadzor threatened Google corporation with a new fine due to the fact that in May the search engine reduced the intensity of filtering content that is prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation. This was the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov told Interfax. According to him, in April the company deleted up to 80% of such information, and in May this figure dropped to 67.5%. “We informed them:“ Colleagues, it was 80%, it was 67.5%. […]