Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief and head of Forbes Media, supported Libra's cryptocurrency project from Facebook, suggesting that the new coin could replace the US dollar as a world currency and “overshadow Bitcoin”. He wrote about this in an open letter to the head of the world's largest social network Mark Zuckerberg. In particular, Steve Forbes said that although the idea of creating a company of his own […]
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The authorities of the city of Lake City, Fla., Paid $ 500,000 in Bitcoins to extortionists who infected the municipality's computer systems with an unnamed encryption virus. This is reported in the official press release. The attack occurred on June 10, after one of the employees of the City Hall opened a letter containing a malicious file. “Despite the fact that the IT specialists of the administration turned off all vulnerable systems within ten […]
South Korean technology giant Kakao launched the Klaytn blockchain platform's main network. Several large companies have already joined it, including LG Electronics, Cointelegraph reports. Kakao’s blockchain-based CEO Han Zhe Song said that the total value of companies using Klaytn is $ 64.8 billion. Currently, nine decentralized applications (dApps) are available on the platform. Among them, for example, an application that rewards visitors […]
The Web3 Foundation announced the successful completion of a private tokensale, whose goal was to raise funds for the development of the Polkadot protocol, a blockchain project by one of the founders of Ethereum and Gavin Wood. It is reported by CoinDesk. According to a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, a total of 500,000 DOT tokens were sold (5% of the total issue), after which the capitalization of the project rose to […]
The cryptocurrency initiative of Facebook began to doubt not only the authorities of different countries, but also its partners. Their concerns are mainly related to the regulatory pressure on the project, reports The New York Times. A wide partnership network consisting of such large companies as Visa, Mastercard and Uber is considered one of the keys to Facebook’s success in implementing its Libra project. […]
June 26 at 07:00 UTC in the Binance Chain test network at block 24 020 000 a planned hard forks took place in order to activate the Galileo update. Upgrade the main network will take place in a few weeks. BNB holders are not required to take any action in connection with the hard forks unless they receive instructions from exchanges or wallets that work with tokens. […]
The decentralized blockchain-ecosystem Waves Platform has launched its own programming language RIDE on the core network. With its help, developers will be able to create smart contracts and full-fledged decentralized applications, site representatives told ForkLog. According to the developers, the writing of smart contracts based on the Waves blockchain is superior to similar solutions from Ethereum, EOS and TRON. Among the advantages: an easy to learn programming language, the possibility of formal verification […]
VeChain blockchain project together with one of the world's largest consulting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and American retailer Walmart will launch a project to ensure food safety in China. I really wanna wait for official release. And PwC Fellows are quite proud for what we have achieved together. https://t.co/inYlxpo9nO – Sunny LU, VeChain (@ sunshinelu24) June 25, 2019 […]
On July 17, the Financial Services Committee of the US House of Representatives will hold a meeting on the Libra digital currency. It is reported by The Hill, with reference to the head of the committee, Maxim Waters. It is noteworthy that among US lawmakers, it was Waters who became the most active public critic of the Facebook initiative and a number of large companies that formed the Libra Association in Geneva, Switzerland. In particular, she […]
The scammers created a website that, at first glance, is indistinguishable from the official page of the Calibra wallet of the largest social network Facebook, reports The Next Web. Using Unicode, Calìbra.com was created. It is extremely difficult to distinguish it from the present with the naked eye, since the difference is only in one symbol: Another distinctive detail is that in the right corner of the fake website there is an invitation to participate in […]