Olaoluva Osuntokun, Technical Director of Lightning Labs and ACINQ, confirmed the cases of practical exploitation of the vulnerability in the Lightning Network protocol, the existence of which became known at the end of August. In a message on the Linux Foundation portal, Osuntokun noted that cases of exploitation of the vulnerability in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database were indeed recorded, and again reminded of the need to update clients to […]
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Europol and the Portuguese police arrested one of the largest counterfeiters in Europe. Europe's second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web taken down by @PJudiciaria with Europol's support: 5 individuals arrested and 1,833 counterfeit banknotes seized totalling € 69,930. Read our press release here: https://t.co/OKTzYR5jtn pic .twitter.com / zDyhEUAuqF – Europol (@Europol) September 9, 2019 Attackers sold […]
Gemini cryptocurrency exchange launched a custodial service. Gemini Custody will allow customers to trade assets that are stored offline through instant loans, according to a press release. The service, operated by the regulated custodian of Gemini Trust Company, supports multi-signature technology, white lists of addresses for withdrawal, additional accounts with different access levels, and also provides access to auditors. Users of the service are available Bitcoin, Ethereum, […]
The non-profit organization Stellar Development Foundation will conduct an airdrop of 2 billion XLM tokens (approximately $ 118 million) among users of the Keybase messenger. Today we're excited to announce we've partnered with @KeybaseIO for our largest distribution ever! Read the full announcement: https: //t.co/WV6XUmpRfx – Stellar (@StellarOrg) September 9, 2019 According to Stellar representatives, this is the largest coin distribution in the history of the project. […]
El equipo de desarrollo de uno de los proyectos de criptomonedas más esperados en el otoño de 2019 está entrando en la etapa final de las pruebas de prueba de…
Despite the unconvincing dynamics of the BTC price, the hashrate of the first cryptocurrency once again updated the historical maximum. If a little more than a week ago, the total computing network of Bitcoin was at around 83.526 EH / s, by now this figure is already 94.779 EH / s. As it usually happens, the mining complexity has grown along with the hashrate: Well-known Twitter user Hodlonaut noted that […]
La compañía de Bitcoin Casa anunció que la aplicación Sats, que es una billetera de Bitcoin, ahora está disponible para dispositivos en iOS y Android. Los representantes de Casa dijeron…
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRS), said that his department is monitoring the field of crypto assets, but does not plan to issue its own digital currency. Highlight: “We are following the whole question of digital currencies,” says Fed Chair Jerome Powell. “It's not something that we are actively considering. For us, it raises significant issues that we […]
Hudson Jameson, Ethereum Foundation's community manager, said Istanbul’s hard fork will be activated on the test network on October 2, according to CoinDesk. Initially, the testnet upgrade was planned for September 4. Nevertheless, the update had to be postponed due to the large number of proposals for improving Ethereum (EIP), as well as the unavailability of the Parity team. To date, the developers have already decided on the block number, […]
The developers of the Telegram Open Network reached the final stage before the full-scale launch of the project, introducing software for nodes and a block explorer for a test network. Initially, the release was planned for September 1, but was postponed for several days for unknown reasons. According to Dmitry Goroshevsky, Technical Director of TON Labs, about 100 […]