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Analytical firm Elliptic, employees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and IBM corporation used methods to determine the share of criminal transactions related to the Bitcoin network. So, the researchers studied 203,769 transactions, the total cost of which amounted to about $ 6 billion. It turned out that only 2% of these transfers are related to illegal activities. The share of "net transactions" is 21%, and […]

Ethereum founder Vitaly Buterin believes that the future of cryptocurrencies is in their “diversity and pluralism”, thus making it clear that he supports the Blockade Games developer’s proposal to merge the second bitcoin layer of the Lightning Network with the Ethereum blockchain. Earlier this week, the team Blockade Games, which is working on the game Neon District, described in its blog the process of implementing the Lightning Network […]

The service for replenishing mobile accounts Bitrefill promoting Lightning Network technology has added the ability to purchase gift cards for cryptocurrency from more than 100 Russian companies. “Now Russians will be able to shop for Bitcoin (2% discount when using Lightning), Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash and Dogecoin. Digital gift card codes are delivered instantly, as before, ”according to a company blog. In the picture below […]

On September 20, Kiev will host the seventh international BlockchainUA conference dedicated to the development of decentralized technologies, which will bring together more than 60 speakers from around the world. The event will be divided into three main streams: Technical Stage, Product Stage and Investment Stage. Among the invited speakers: Shelf.Network founder Lasha Antadze; CEO of Radenia AG, Alexander Radchenko; Head of Kuna Exchange, Mikhail Chobanyan; chief architect of Blockchain […]

Lightning Labs introduced the Lndmon tool for monitoring activity on the Lightning Network. According to developer Valentine Wallace, Lndmon provides users with visual information about various aspects of the LN network, including commissions and information about payment channels and nodes. According to him, the new tool can bring a small material benefit to users who support Lightning-nodes. Also Lndmon can be useful […]

US prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Russian Alexander Vinnik, whose extradition Washington is seeking from Greece, and the now-defunct BTC cryptoborg, demanding a refund of $ 100 million for violating the provisions of the Banking Secrecy Law. Reports about it TASS. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday, July 25th. The American authorities are demanding that Winnik pay a fine of $ 12 million. With […]

The founder of the Chinese technology giant Huawei, Ren Zhenfei, said that China should not wait until someone launches a digital currency like Libra. In his opinion, the state is always stronger than any Internet company. This is reported by the traditional supplier of news from China, with reference to local media. Founder of Huawei: China can just issue our own version of Libra. Why should […]