Russian banks got acquainted with the statistics of financial fraud for 2018 and received recommendations for protection against cyber threats. The corresponding report was published by the Center of monitoring and response to computer attacks of the Bank of Russia FinCERT. According to the study, 177 of the 687 hacker attacks on banks recorded in 2018 were aimed at gaining financial gain. About one third are also aimed at embezzling funds […]
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The provider of cryptocurrency loans Nexo announced that it will start accepting the Gram token of the Telegram messenger as security, reports CoinDesk. According to representatives of the company, users will be able to provide a new token as collateral for loans after the Gram listing on the Liquid Exchange, scheduled for July 10. According to representatives of Nexo, the togram of the Telegram messenger “has the potential to […]
The network of the first cryptocurrency consumes more electricity than small countries such as Switzerland or Kuwait. This is evidenced by data from an online tool from researchers at the University of Cambridge. This tool, in particular, allows you to see the total power consumption of the Bitcoin network and make comparisons both with various countries of the world and with other objects. According to the service, today the Bitcoin network consumes 7.49 […]
Bitcoin and the Facebook-announced Libra coin are most popular among Twitter users in the United States. This is evidenced by research data cryptocurrency platform The TIE. 1 / A Geographic Breakdown of Crypto Twitter??? Overall 38.9% of total Bitcoin tweets come from the US and 10.5% from the UK. The top five countries where Bitcoin is discussed on Twitter are […]
The developers of the popular Electrum wallet are preparing a major release with support for the Lightning Network. This was announced by the project's creator, Thomas Vogtlin, during a panel discussion at the BIP001 conference in Odessa. The lead developer, however, did not give the exact release date. Note that a new version of the Electrum wallet (v3.3.7) has recently been released, which contains a number of fixes and improvements. Electrum 3.3.7 was just […]
The price of bitcoin can easily fly up to the levels of $ 50-100 thousand in the next two years. This was stated by the head of the institutional fund for managing digital assets of Morgan Creek Digital Mark Jusko in an interview with BlockTV. He bases his conviction in the coming rally of the first cryptocurrency on Metcalf's law. "If you think about the growth of the network in terms of the law of Metcalf, then you can […]
Binance Exchange announced hardfork core network Binance Chain. It is reported that the validators have agreed to upgrade on July 15 at block 20,300,000. and operators of full nodes will have to upgrade to version 0.6.0 by July 10, in order to synchronize further […]
The head of the blockchain division of Facebook, David Marcus, attempted to allay the concerns of regulators and legislators regarding the implications of the launch of the Libra project. In a note on Facebook, Markus touched on a number of Libra-related questions that, in his opinion, cause misunderstandings. Also, the representative of the largest social network confirmed that this month he will speak before the Senate Banking Committee and the Financial Services Committee […]
The developer of Blockstream, under the name of grubles, told in his blog that users of the Liquid Sidebar could open the Lightning Network payment channels using c-lightning implementation. This makes it possible to conduct quick and private transactions with the Liquid-BTC asset (L-BTC). In the future, the developer notes, this function, along with Confidential Transactions, will work with all the assets of the Liquid network through payment channels […]
South Group's third largest conglomerate, SK Group, has invested $ 10 million in leading Ethereum-based solutions developer ConsenSys. This is reported by the local news agency Chosun. As noted, in his today's speech during the technology event in Seoul, the chairman of the board of SK Group and the owner of the third largest state ($ 3.4 billion) in South Korea Whose […]