The authorities of the largest city of South Africa are forced to close the billing system and other electronic services on the city portal due to a hacker attack, according to Bloomberg. A group called Shadow Kill Hackers gained unauthorized access to the city’s information system, Johannesburg authorities confirmed. Hackers demand to pay 4 BTC (more than $ 30 thousand at the current exchange rate) until October 28, threatening to otherwise lay out […]
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Colleen Myers from the Brooklyn startup ConsenSys claims that after the launch of Ethereum 2.0, validators will be able to expect 4.6% -10.3% annual remuneration for staking, CoinDesk reports. According to him, for the validation of blocks, network participants must have at least 32 ETH (about $ 5200 at the current rate). He also develops an application to calculate the gross and net annual income of validators, taking into account […]
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin put forward a number of ideas to address some of the obstacles to the development of the Ethereum 2.0 ecosystem, which is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2020. The main differences between the new Ethereum chain are the switch to the Proof-Of-Stake algorithm, staking support and the use of sharding to increase throughput. The ability to transfer ETH between networks 1.0 and 2.0 It is assumed that with the current […]
The head of Galaxy Digital cryptocurrency bank Mike Novogratz shared a short-term forecast for the price of bitcoin and spoke about plans to launch a new cryptocurrency fund, Bloomberg reports. According to him, after yesterday's fall of more than $ 600, the price of the first cryptocurrency may drop by another 13%, having found support at around $ 6500. Then BTC will take some time to recover to […]
The data of Sberbank clients again turned out to be in open access. This time, the database contains not only personal information, but also recordings of conversations. According to Kommersant, a database is being sold on the black market, containing about a million lines with almost complete information about Sberbank's customers – passport data, registration, phone number and others. In addition, the database contains records […]
Facebook will cease membership in the Libra Association if a project to create the digital currency of the same name is launched without the consent of the regulator. The head of the world's largest social network, Mark Zuckerberg, said this on Wednesday, October 23, during a hearing in the US Congress. The hearing at the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee lasted several hours, during which Zuckerberg […]
The Binance cryptocurrency exchange announced the listing of Stacks (STX), the native token of the Blockstack project. STX trading in pairs with Bitcoin, USDT and BNB will start at 04:00 AM UTC on October 25, deposit acceptance is already open. #Binance Lists @Blockstack ($ STX) https://t.co/HjDGjHflFJ pic.twitter.com/lOXeImm0vL – Binance (@binance) October 23, 2019 As the exchange emphasizes, the listing price was 0 BNB. According to the information on the site […]
The development team focused on increased privacy of Horizen cryptocurrency users this week announced the launch of a sidechain in alpha mode, which allows developers and companies to quickly and inexpensively create their own blockchains. The project’s blog says that the Horizen sidechain is the first important milestone on the way to creating an environment with numerous applications, which will make it possible to realize all the advantages […]
El grupo de trabajo del G7, enfocado en explorar el impacto potencial de las monedas estables en la economía global, ha publicado un nuevo informe . Entre otras cosas, establece…
The head of the Russian payment service Qiwi Sergey Solonin, who is one of the investors of the Telegram Open Network (TON), is ready to wait for the settlement of the Telegram dispute with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He reported this to Izvestia. He does not know about the plans of other investors. According to lawyers interviewed by the publication, most likely share Solonin’s position and are ready to wait […]
