Paolo Ardoino, CTO de Bitfinex, ha confirmado la información de que el proyecto de cifrado de Tether está lanzando su criptomoneda estable USDT en la cadena de bloques de EOS.…
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As a result of the next recalculation, the complexity of mining Bitcoin has risen to a new historical maximum, reaching a figure of 7.459 T. This is slightly higher than the previous record figure of 7.45 T, recorded in early October 2018. In general, according to the portal coinwarz.com, over the past seven days, the complexity of extracting the first cryptocurrency has increased by 11.26%, over the past 30 days, an increase […]
One of the world's largest consulting companies, Ernst & Young (EY), published a code of its own solution for implementing private transactions in the Ethereum network on GitHub. Thus, the Nightfall Ethereum solution is based on smart contracts and evidence with zero disclosure in the implementation of ZoKrates. This will allow translating tokens of the standard ERC-20 and ERC-721, while maintaining complete privacy, the developers say. In EY […]
During the first four months of 2019, only 1.3% of online transactions in the Bitcoin network were implemented on the merchant side. Thus, the recent growth and increased volatility in general push enterprises away from using the first cryptocurrency in the calculations, reports Bloomberg, citing analytical firm Chainalysis. The company stressed that the HODL strategy, involving the retention of digital assets for a long time […]
The ityternity project, which is developing a blockchain protocol for creating decentralized applications and scalable smart contracts, announced a second hardfork Fortuna. Hardfork will be held on June 5, 2019 at block # 90800. The main innovation of Fortuna fork is universal accounts (Generalized Accounts). Such accounts allow using different user authorization schemes. With universal accounts, users will be able to: create multi-signature wallets; restore access to accounts; set […]
Tether will launch the USDT token on the EOS blockchain. Thus, the new asset will join the Tether family of stablecocks on the bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron blockchains. This was stated by Paolo Ardoino, technical director of Bitfinex exchange affiliated with Tether, in a conversation with CCN. According to the Bitfinex service station, the reason for this decision was the need for Tether to implement native support for the USDT […]
Since Monday, the largest provider of cryptocurrency wallets, Blockchain, will allow users to swap between digital assets and Paxos Standard (PAX) steklokoin directly in a mobile application. Also, Blockchain is considering the possibility of adding fiatnyh assets, reports CoinDesk, citing company representatives. According to Peter Smith, the CEO and founder of Blockchain, his wallet is responsible for 22% of all online transactions […]
The Tendermint team, working on the Cosmos project, reported on successful implementation of hard forks on the core network after a critical vulnerability was discovered. ? Attn: Cosmos Hub ? There was a critical security vulnerability found on #CosmosSDK two days ago. A patch was subsequently released (https://t.co/amiidL3vUl). All nodes are recommended to upgrade to the latest version. […]
Bitcoin mixing service Bitcoin Blender ceased operations shortly after asking all users to withdraw funds to third-party wallets. At the moment, the onion address of the service on the Tor network is unavailable, reports Bleeping Computer. Note that Bitcoin Blender was launched in 2014. Representatives of the project did not disclose the reason for the closure, but it may be related to the situation around a similar […]
The Chinese APT grouping injects cryptocurrency miners and rootkits into MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Windows servers around the world. According to specialists from Guardicore Labs, since February 2019, attackers have been able to compromise more than 50,000 servers. The malicious campaign was named Nansh0u. The attackers hack Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers using brute-force, and then infect them with malware. […]