ForkLog and the Hodl Hodl p2p bitcoin exchange announce the start of a raffle of two tickets to the largest European Bitcoin conference Baltic Honeybadger 2019 in Europe, which will be held September 14-15 in Riga, Latvia. Baltic Honeybadger is one of the most important global events in the bitcoin industry, which is based on the movement of cipher banks. It does not discuss altcoins, ICOs or corporate blockchain solutions; instead, visitors are waiting […]
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Bitcoin Core developer Peter Velle introduced Miniscript, a new programming language to simplify the development of smart contracts for the Bitcoin network. After publishing the corresponding message in the newsletter for Bitcoin developers, Peter Velle noted that the work on Miniscript lasted almost a year, and Andrew Poelstra and Sanket Sanyalkar also participated in it. Just announced our Miniscript project website on the bitcoin-dev […]
Founders of the bitcoin exchange Gemini Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are negotiating a possible entry into the ranks of the Libra Association, which is developing the digital currency Libra from the social network Facebook. They reported this in an interview with the Boss Files podcast on CNN. According to the brothers, they expect that their long-standing conflict with Mark Zuckerberg will not stand in the way of a potential mutually beneficial […]
The notorious Twitter account @Bitcoin, to the surprise of many members of the community, again “changed its orientation” and instead of the project supported by Roger Ver, Bitcoin Cash now again points to bitcoin.org. Earlier, the description of Bitcoin for a long time contained a link to the Bitcoin.com website, which is also known as one of the main mouthpieces of Bitcoin Cash. Reasons why an account with almost […]
Bank of America, the second largest financial institution in the United States, is patenting a multi-level digital wallet security system. The corresponding application was filed in February 2018 and published by the US Patent and Trademark Office last week. The document describes the principle of creating a multi-level interface for a cryptocurrency wallet in a decentralized peer-to-peer network. By entering one of several correct […]
The developers of the non-custodian cryptocurrency wallet ZenGo have implemented support for the digital currency test network Libra from Facebook. Hello Libra! Very excited to bring you the first consumer-grade mobile wallet for Libra (test net). You can send, receive, backup, restore, all without private keys, passwords or even KYC. We even provide you your first Libra Coins (LBR). Have funhttps: //t.co/6szJf4sthl […]
Investors in the Telegram Open Network (TON) ICO campaign get rid of project tokens by selling them on the secondary market. According to CoinDesk, there are several over-the-counter platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and at least one investment fund among the sellers. The price for one Gram token in the secondary market ranges between $ 1.60 and $ 2. The benefit for sellers is obvious, given that during the first […]
The blockchain of the second Ethereum cryptocurrency capitalization is almost full, and scalability is one of the most problematic sections of the network. Such recognition in an interview with The Toronto Star was made by the co-founder of this popular smart contract platform Vitalik Buterin. That, he said, is today one of the biggest hurdles for large organizations interested in the Ethereum ecosystem. “Scalability is […]
By the end of 2019, Silvergate Bank, California, will begin issuing loans secured by digital assets to selected institutional clients. This is stated in S1 form, which the parent company Silvergate Capital Corporation filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in anticipation of the IPO. So, the bank found a demand for loans for the purchase of cryptocurrencies. The new service involves […]
Charlie Lee, creator of the Litecoin cryptocurrency, said he had invested in the American company Casa. The latter is known as a developer of a multi-signature scheme, which requires signing tools on three hardware devices, a Keymaster key manager, as well as a hardware bitcoin node with support for the Lightning Network. According to Charlie Lee, what Casa does is very important for the entire cryptocurrency industry, and today […]