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 […]
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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 […]
Jessie Powell, Kraken cryptocurrency exchange CEO, expressed the view that the growth in Tether's supply of steylcoins can influence the price of bitcoin by attracting new money to the cryptoindustry, but is not the main reason for the growth. He stated this in an interview with TD Ameritrade Network. #Bitcoin has the latest surge in #bitcoin. Watch as […]
The Russian Sberbank decided to leave the ranks of the Masterchain blockchain project launched with the support of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In the commentary of CoinDesk, the head of the blockchain-lab of Sberbank, Oleg Abdrashitov, declared dissatisfaction with the speed, safety and overall efficiency of the platform. According to him, as an alternative, the organization is considering corporate blockchain-platform Hyperledger Fabric from IMB and Quorum from JPMorgan. "Masterchain" does not meet the requirements that make cases […]
Last week, Tokenomica launched the Sandbox version of the platform for the production and sale of security tokens (STIP), with which any user can launch their own STO campaign on the Waves Testnet blockchain. You can invest in test STO campaigns using Waves Testnet tokens. 50 tokens will be automatically sent to users after they try to invest in any available campaign or create […]