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From September 6 to 8, the first Eastern European hackathon for developers on Tezos will be held in Kiev. You can register on the event website. The task for the hackathon participants is to develop a prototype of the project on the Tezos blockchain and present their idea to the project representatives. Winners will receive cash prizes from the organizers of the hackathon Everstake and Bake'n'Rolls and the support of TQ Tezos and […]

Member of the Executive Council of the European Central Bank (ECB), Yves Mersch, expressed the view that the Libra project from Facebook poses a threat to both monetary policy in the EU and consumers of digital currency. It is reported by Reuters. “Libra is able to weaken the ECB’s control over the euro, worsen the work of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, affecting the liquidity of banks in the eurozone, as well as […]

The South Korean bitcoin exchange Bithumb added a TRON cryptocurrency project coin to the listing, as well as a BitTorrent service token. Now platform users can trade TRX in pairs with bitcoin and the US dollar. #TRON will be available on @BithumbGlobal, you can trade TRX / BTC & TRX / USDT at 15:00, Sep 3, 2019 (SGT). #TRX $ TRX pic.twitter.com/egVw021or9 – Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) September 2, 2019 Coins […]

The developer of ZCash Electric Coin Company (ECC) published a new report, according to which the company, despite financial losses in a bear market, managed to avoid staff reductions. According to the document, in the first quarter of 2019, the average monthly loss of ECC was 30% – with revenues of $ 449,000 per month, expenses were on average at $ 635,000. When […]

The Telegram blockchain will be compatible with Ethereum thanks to a special compiler. This is reported by CoinDesk, citing developers of tools for the new network. TON Labs technology startup CEO Alexander Filatov said his team, in particular, is working on Solidity. This compiler will allow decentralized applications created for Ethereum to also run on the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain. "Maybe, […]

Despite the continued stagnation of the market for the second month, the hashrate of the first cryptocurrency reached record highs. So, the aggregate computing power of the Bitcoin network reached 83.526 EH / s, updating the historical maximum. An indicator of the difficulty of mining digital gold has also reached new heights: Some analysts and patrons of Twitter are sure that you should not be saddened by the unimpressive dynamics of the BTC price, but look at the situation wider, […]

The Binance cryptocurrency exchange intends to interact with regulators when launching the Venus initiative and will try to avoid the mistakes that the social network Facebook and its Libra project encountered. This was in a conversation with Bloomberg said co-founder of Binance Hye Yi. According to her, the Venus project was really inspired by various aspects of Libra, however, it is aimed primarily at Asian […]

Bitcoin developer Rusty Russell discovered a vulnerability in various Lightning Network (LN) implementations that could lead to a loss of funds. Upgrade #lightning nodes please! c-lightning <0.7.1, lnd <0.7, eclair <= 0.3 vulnerable: https: //t.co/4E2hHUy386 – TheRustyTwit (@rusty_twit) August 30, 2019 According to him, users of the Eclair wallet from French startup ACINQ, c -lightning from Blockstream and the lnd client from Lightning Labs […]

Startup Parity Technologies released a new version of the client that fixed a bug that could turn off computers running Ethereum nodes. New Parity Ethereum release 2.5.7-stable / 2.6.2-beta protect against an RPC call vulnerability. Though the only nodes potentially affected are those who have manually enabled tracing or public-facing RPC, we recommend everyone to update. https://t.co/NaniWWTFS6 – Parity […]