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Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm’s partner Spencer Bogart, is confident that Facebook’s initiative to launch its own stablecock will significantly speed up the massive adoption of cryptocurrencies. He stated this in an interview with Bloomberg. In particular, he noted that after the launch of cryptocurrencies from the largest social network in the world, the number of holders of digital assets will increase two to three times. “It's like using the Internet. People can move away […]

The largest social network Facebook has updated the advertising policy. Now users can post ads related to blockchain solutions and information about industry events without prior approval from the social network. However, to advertise cryptocurrency, users still need to obtain the appropriate permission. In addition, there is a complete ban on advertising of primary offers of coins (ICO), binary options and contracts for difference (CFD) […]

Another 14 companies and services, including Huobi Global and Bitfinex, have become users of the Blockstream sidechain Liquid Network. The #LiquidNetwork has added 14 new members, including @HuobiGlobal, @OpenNodeCo & @officialpoolin. Also, @Bitfinex has opened LBTC deposits / Liquidation with @BitMEXdotcom is almost finished, & issuance of USDT & USDS coming soon! ? […]

Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange published the whitepaper LEO token, with which it intends to raise $ 1 billion during the initial exchange offer (IEO). It is expected that this amount will allow to fill the previously formed deficit of $ 850 million – the site operator will redeem tokens monthly for an amount of 27% of the profits. Private stage tokenseyl end May 11. If by this time […]

Litecoin developers have introduced a new version of Litecoin Core v0.17.1 client. Among the main improvements are reduced commissions and advanced privacy settings. If you run Litecoin Core (litecoind) please update to v0.17.1 asap! Available at: https://t.co/qjm8bQ5gOt https://t.co/bjw8CjfH8N – litecoin (@litecoin) May 7, 2019 Thus, the minimum transaction transfer fee was reduced to 0.0001 LTC / kB – then […]

The leading manufacturer of mining equipment Bitmain in the past 30 days has reduced the amount of computing power for bitcoin mining by 88%. This is evidenced by data reporting, which the company publishes monthly. Thus, as of May 7, the total hashrate of the equipment used by Bitmain for the extraction of cryptocurrencies using the SHA-256 algorithm (Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash) is 237.29 PH / s. At the same time, all […]

Startup Prysmatic Labs has launched a test network for Ethereum 2.0 based on the Casper PoS protocol with support for staking. The developers implemented the fourth version of the specifications for the main circuit from the Ethereum Research team. ? Prysm Phase 0 Testnet is here! ?https: //t.co/scQHLcLhY0 – Prysmatic Labs (@prylabs) May 7, 2019 So, in order to run the validating node, you need to install the Prysm client, […]

The Maker Foundation, a non-profit organization in partnership with Coinbase and the Zeppelin platform, conducted a second round of an audit of a smart contract to vote on the MakerDAO network, during which a critical vulnerability was discovered. The developers initiated an urgent upgrade. In collaboration with the @coinbase & @ZeppelinOrg we have been engaged in the 2nd round of audits of the Voting Contract. During the process, we […]