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According to a survey conducted by CivicScience, the overwhelming majority of US residents do not inspire confidence in the upcoming digital currency, Libra. The survey involved 1799 adults in the United States. Only 2% of respondents said they trust the Libra project more than Bitcoin. It also turned out that 40% of respondents feed the most confidence in the first cryptocurrency and altcoins. At the same time, 19% of survey participants stated […]

The volume of bitcoins that have been without movement for more than five years has reached a historic maximum. CoinMetrics researchers pay attention to this. Thus, the new issue of the weekly distribution of the State of the Network states that the share of such coins is 21.6% of the total supply of digital gold. As of July 19, 3,847,859 BTC are lying motionless: Stable growth in volume […]

The largest social network Facebook has gained the support of the lobbying firms Sternhell Group, Cypress Group, OB-C Group, as well as law firms BakerHostetler and Davis Polk, which specialize in the field of finance, to help launch and eliminate regulatory issues around the cryptocurrency project Libra. This is reported by Politico. Efforts of lobbyists will be directed to the legislators of the state of Washington in order to achieve a better understanding of the technology […]

A working group with the Indian government headed by economic secretary Subhas Chandra Garga recommended that the authorities ban all cryptocurrencies except for digital tokens issued by the central bank. Reported by Reuters. Thus, the penalty for using cryptocurrency involves fines of up to 250 million rupees ($ 3.63 million) or imprisonment of up to 10 years. Also the group filed for […]

After the sudden transfer of lunch by TRON founder Justin San and legendary investor Warren Buffet, in the 21st Century Business Herald, China, there was news that an entrepreneur was under investigation and could not leave the territory of China, and the version about kidney stones was only a cover. San denied some rumors in a subsequent publication on Weibo, but then […]

Last weekend, the cumulative computational power of the Bitcoin network once again updated the historical maximum, reaching 79.752 EH / s. The peak figure, according to Blockchain.com, was on Saturday, July 20th. On Sunday, the last day for which statistics are available, the hashrate fell slightly and today stands at 67.136 EH / s. Recall the previous record of 74,548 EH / s was […]

Over the past two days, a number of Asian media have announced the release of PayMon gold-backed “cryptocurrency” in Iran. All of them refer to the news agency Mehr News, which on July 13 published a small note that said that the payment instrument would soon be released. It is worth noting that for the first time about PayMon (from the Persian "covenant") it became known […]

On July 13, unknown hackers broke into the server of the Moscow IT company “Sytek” and posted a so-called “job-face” on its website. It is assumed that hackers deleted 7.5 terabytes of data, but before that they partially copied them. Then they shared them with journalists from several publications. Following the results of familiarization with the archives, the Russian service of the BBC concluded that “Sitek” is a non-public contractor for the Russian special services. Mosquito, […]