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The developer of Zcash, the Electric Coin Company (ECC), intends to make radical changes to the architecture of this cryptocurrency user-oriented privacy, reports the Decrypt publication. The ambitious plans of the creators of the project provide that the network Zcash will be able to handle "thousands or even millions of transactions per second." To implement them, you may need to switch to a completely new blockchain with support for sharding technology. […]

Immediately, several well-known politicians in Germany received letters threatening to “execute” from an anonymous author, who extorted bitcoins from them. Reports the edition about it Koelner Stadt Anzeiger. Threats were received by the mayor of Cologne, Henriette Röcker, the mayor of Altena, Andreas Holstein and several other German politicians. Unknown promises to "execute" them in 2020, if he does not receive 100 by the end of the summer […]

In the Bloomberg Terminal computer system used by professional financial market participants, debt instruments will appear on the Ethereum blockchain. It is reported by CoinDesk. The tool will be provided by Cadence, which will thus become the first supplier of financial instruments on the blockchain to receive a global financial instrument identifier (FIGI). Each FIGI record contains data on interest rate, repayment schedule, and instrument type. When […]

Charlie Bilello, an analyst at New York-based Pension Partners, said that the return on investment in the first cryptocurrency since the beginning of this year was 134%. 2019 Returns … Bitcoin $ BTC: + 134% Oil $ USO: + 27% REITs $ VNQ: + 19% MLPs $ AMLP: + 18% Nasdaq 100 $ QQQ: + 16% S & P 500 $ SPY: + 14% Small Caps $ IWM: + 13% EAFE $ EFA: + 10% Commodities $ DBC: + 8% High Yield $ HYG: […]