Calibra CEO David Marcus said Libra does not threaten the monetary sovereignty of states, as it is about the payment system, not about creating new money. The latter remains strictly the prerogative of central banks, he assured. “Libra is designed to become the best payment network and system working on top of existing currencies and providing tangible value to consumers around the world,” wrote […]
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The gas limit in the Ethereum network was first surpassed by 8.1 million with the support of 50% of miners. Almost exactly 50% of miners are upvoting the gas limit right now; it just broke 8.1 million for the first time. pic.twitter.com/jn5jPg7dgs – Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) September 15, 2019 Mining pools Spark Pool, F2Pool and Ethermine supported the growth of the limit by voting, […]
The hacker stole 30,000 EOS ($ 110,000) thanks to a bug in the decentralized EOSPlay application. The cost of the attack was just over 300 EOS ($ 1000), reports CryptoSlate. The attacker involved the DeFi service EOS REX, which allows leasing network resources (RAM, CPU) from other users. The hacker filled the blocks with his transactions, ensuring a constant victory in EOSPlay. The incident has already commented on CTO startup Block.one […]
U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Segal Mandelker said cryptocurrencies could be the next frontier in the fight against terrorism. Today, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker addressed the 19th Annual International Conference on Counterterrorism. https://t.co/YHDAbFRwd5 – Treasury Department (@USTreasury) September 11, 2019 “Terrorist organizations and their supporters are constantly looking for new ways […]
The P2P exchange for the sale and purchase of Bitcoin Hodl Hodl will open the source code. This will allow everyone to create their own P2P trading platform. This was stated by CTO Roman Snitko during the Baltic Honeybadger conference. Reasons for the decision: projects are closed and the code is lost; Developing an exchange from scratch is a very expensive task; everyone has the right to manage the exchange; Hodl code Hodl tested on […]
Coinme, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency ATM provider, raised $ 1.5 million. We are thrilled to announce our that @ Ripple's #Xpring and the newly established #Blockchain Finance Fund have made investments as part of our recently opened A-1 funding round. Full Release: https://t.co/yjNH4JiQpR pic.twitter.com/qCkrgICUjg – Coinme (@CoinmeATM) September 13, 2019 In the financing round of Series A-1 participated an investment […]
EOS block manufacturers have decided to activate version 1.8 of the EOSIO protocol on Monday, September 23. This will be the first hard fork and the biggest update in project history. Coming out of today's 1.8 status call, EOS Upgrade Status is still green – on track for successful upgrade ✅? 27/30 top BPs are confirmed upgraded and ready and there have been […]
The Ethereum Classic network hosted the Atlantis hard fork aimed at increasing interoperability with Ethereum. So, we have arrived in Atlantis! Looking good so far. Classic Geth, Parity and MultiGeth are in consensus, now 23 blocks after the fork. There is some mining on the old chain, with 2 blocks produced so far. @ InputOutputHK Mantis has dropped off […]
TON Labs, the developer of the infrastructure for the Telegram Open Network ecosystem, has announced the public launch of TON Labs Node Startup Edition, a complete set of development tools for the TON blockchain. This edition of ForkLog said company representatives. According to the developers, the source code of the TON blockchain, published on September 6, is an implementation of the Proof-of-Stake algorithm with sharding from Telegram. TON Labs […]
Mastercard technology company and R3-oriented corporate clients blockchain consortium R3 have announced a strategic partnership in which they develop and test a cross-border payment solution based on distributed registry technology. According to a published press release, the future solution will initially focus on combining the global payment infrastructure and banks in the Mastercard clearing and settlement network. Combining the expertise of R3 in the field of technology […]