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The largest social network Facebook has registered Libra Networks in Switzerland, Switzerland, Reuters reports. Thus, in the register of business entities of Geneva it is indicated that Libra Networks is registered on May 2 by the company Facebook Global Holdings. “Purpose: the provision of services in the field of finance and technology, as well as the development of infrastructure and software, in particular, related to investment activities, payment transactions, financing, […]

Ethereum customers who fail to upgrade to fix known vulnerabilities are a threat to the entire network. This is stated in a new study based in Berlin Security Research Labs. Blockchain technology assumes that participants take rational actions. Among all blockchain users: https://t.co/oBWTudCqZR#blockchain #cryptocurrency #ethereum #SRLabs #patchgap […]

Hodl Hodl, the global P2P Bitcoin exchange, recently announced support for the Lightning Network on its platform, and Lightning contracts are already available on the test network. As stated in the Hodl Hodl blog, the possibility of buying test bitcoins and getting them into your Lightning wallet is open to all users. Lightning powered trades available on Hodl Hodl's TESTNET http: //t.co/e6o5XINu7N – Hodl Hodl (@hodlhodl) May […]

On Wednesday, May 15, the average commission for a transaction on the Bitcoin network reached $ 2.32. The last time such values were recorded February 24, 2018. This is due to a significant increase in the number of unconfirmed transactions in the Bitcoin memory. At the time of writing, according to Blockchain.com, about 67 thousand transactions were stuck in the memo. On the graph of the total value of daily transactional commissions for miners […]

376 addresses, which are probably not exchanges and other service providers, control 33% of all currently existing Ethereum coins. Nevertheless, these whales are responsible only for 7% of all transactions on the network and have little effect on quotes, although they may temporarily spur volatility with massive sales. This is stated in the report of the analytical company Chainalysis. Note, […]

Today, May 15, the planned hard forks took place in the Bitcoin Cash network. However, according to BitMEX researchers, the network soon encountered technical problems after the upgrade. At first, as expected, the Bitcoin ABC 0.18.2 client declared the chain incorrect from block 582680. As expected, Bitcoin ABC 0.18.2 is reporting 582,680 pic.twitter.com/llFgUXvrsw – BitMEX Research […]

On May 6, the third issue of the Cryptographic Analysis video tutorial was released on the ForkLog YouTube channel. On the air of Xena.Exchange CEO, Anton Kravchenko spoke about the Steblecoin Tether, the future of cryptobirth and the secret blockchain project of Facebook. The purpose of the rubric is to conduct a fundamental analysis of the industry and talk about trends that affect the cryptocurrency market. New issues are published every two weeks. Editorial ForkLog chose […]

Sidechain Lumino, created on top of the main Bitcoin network, is a third-level payment solution with support for Ethereum smart contracts, officially launched. This was reported on Tuesday, May 14 at the Consensus 2019 conference in New York by the head of the research and innovation department of the Argentine company RIF Labs, Sergio Lerner. Work on Lumino, which in some ways can be compared with the network of the Lightning Network, was carried out on […]

Taiwanese electronics maker HTC has added support for cryptocurrency swaps to its EXODUS 1 blockchain smartphones, reports Coindesk. The function was realized thanks to the partnership with the Kyber Network startup, the liquidity protocol of which NTS has integrated into its Zion Vault wallet. Now EXODUS 1 users can perform swaps between ERC-20 tokens, such as Brave's Basic Attention Token and DAI Steabcocoin […]