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The developer of Zcash, the Electric Coin Company (ECC), intends to make radical changes to the architecture of this cryptocurrency user-oriented privacy, reports the Decrypt publication. The ambitious plans of the creators of the project provide that the network Zcash will be able to handle "thousands or even millions of transactions per second." To implement them, you may need to switch to a completely new blockchain with support for sharding technology. […]

France, which chairs the G-7 (G7), will set up a working group on stablecoins, Reuters reported, citing the head of the central bank, Villeroy de Galo. For example, a group of G7 headed by a member of the governing board of the ECB, Benoit Kur. In addition to directly steyblkoinov, she will be engaged in the study of the digital currency Libra, which is presented on Facebook on June 18. White paper is published cryptocurrency from Facebook, and […]

A senior researcher at nChain, Craig Wright, who for several years has been trying to prove to the community that it was he who created Bitcoin, revealed some details regarding the Tulip Trust, a blind trust that allegedly holds 1 million BTC. He provided this information to a federal court in the Southern District of Florida within the framework of the sensational Kleiman v. Wright process. So, in the edited court documents […]

Member of the US House of Representatives Maxine Waters for the second time stated that Facebook should suspend the development of the Libra digital currency so that US regulators can understand the nature of the new network. She announced this on CNBC. “They must stop immediately so that we can sort it out.” We must protect our customers. We cannot allow […]

During the videoconference on Thursday, June 20, Ethereum Classic developers came to an uneasy consensus on hard forks of a network called Atlantis, CoinDesk reports. Despite certain differences, it was agreed that the update will take place at block 8,772,000. As expected, it will be found around 12:00 UTC on September 17 of this year. In May, the ETC developers broke up […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin commented live on the need to isolate the Russian segment of the Internet. Amiran Sardarov, author of the popular YouTube channel “Hach Diary,” asked the head of state a question during the “Direct Line”. So, Sardarov said that bloggers and Internet users are wondering why they need a law on sovereign runet. He noted that “from the outside it looks as if we are trying again […]

Bancor Decentralized Exchange has announced that it will soon stop providing services for US residents. In a statement, the company notes that it is forced to take this step due to the uncertainty surrounding the regulation of cryptocurrency in this country. New rules will come into force on Monday, July 8th. Beginning July 8, 2019 (09:00 AM EST) US citizens, domiciliaries or […]

Facebook representatives will take part in the meeting of the Senate Committee on Banking, during which they will answer questions from legislators concerned about the company's plans to create its own digital currency. About this writes Reuters. The hearing will be held on July 16 and will be devoted to the launch of the Libra project and the associated risks, including the security of personal data of users, the committee said […]