Apple Inc. based in Cupertino reported to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the observance of human rights in a global network of suppliers of raw materials for production. At the same time, the document states that Apple was involved in the development of the Blockchain Handbook for the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) initiative in mineral supply chains. […]
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Coinsquare, the largest Canadian bitcoin exchange, has acquired the decentralized StellarX exchange. The deal became a natural continuation of the BlockEQ XLM purse purchase in December 2018. StellarX has a new home! Read more: https: //t. Note that the playground is not […]
The cryptocurrency privacy-oriented development team Beam has published a plan to create a Mimblewimble-compatible Lightning Network protocol. Mimblewimble compatible Lightning Network https://t.co/2bCa4409nt #mimblewimble #SovereigntyByDesign – @Beamprivacy (@beamprivacy) February 12, 2019 So, representatives of the project claim that transaction processing speed in the Beam network three times higher than that of […]
The largest daily trading volume, Binance, has announced the upcoming delisting of the following cryptocurrencies: CLOAK (CloakCoin), Modum (MOD), SALT, Substratum (SUB) and WINGS. #Binance Will Delist CLOAK, MOD, SALT, SUB and WINGShttps: //t.co/eTAqN4g5dU pic.twitter.com/Am4oXmUJE3 – Binance (@binance) February 15, 2019 All trades will be automatically stopped on February 22 at 10:00 UTC, after which tokens will be excluded from […]
Poloniex Cryptocurrency Exchange has announced the beginning of support for the privacy-oriented users of Grin cryptocurrency. GrinMW @ GrinMW @grincouncil #grin #mimblewimble https://t.co/A7YBRhzj59 – Poloniex Exchange 14, 2019 Trades will be available in BTC / GRIN and USDC / GRIN pairs. […]
A group of investors filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York on the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, its US division of HBUS and on the ICO-startup Elastos, reports Cryptobriefing. The reason for the suit was the alleged violation of securities laws. In particular, the main plaintiff Mark Owen is sure that the initial offer of the Elastos project coins, which took place last year, violates Section 5 of the Law on Valuable […]
The Japanese financial corporation Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and the American content delivery system Akamai are working to create a blockchain-based Global Open Network payment system. This is stated in the official press release. Partners hope that the new platform will "significantly reduce transaction costs for all types of payment services and will significantly increase the number of processed transactions." Promote the project MUFG […]
The developers of the Ethereum Foundation reported a new bug in the upcoming Constantinople network update. According to Trustnodes, the detected vulnerability affects some smart contracts with the possibility of self-destruction. Thus, a function called Create2 can replace a self-destructed smart contract, simultaneously changing the rules specified in it, which could potentially lead to loss of funds. "The function of self-destruction does not carry additional risks in the current […]
ASIC-miners mine 85.2% of all blocks in the network of Monero cryptocurrency oriented to increased privacy. This is the conclusion reached by a researcher under the nickname MoneroCrusher, studying the selection of nones (arbitrary numbers) by miners. As noted by MoneroCrusher, the nonsense value is random and ranges from 0 to 2³². Nevertheless, between blocks # 1,500,000 and # 1,546,500 on the graph of the distribution of the noses clearly […]
Venture capital firm Morgan Creek Capital launched a cryptocurrency-oriented fund and raised $ 40 million under its operations. It is noteworthy that the main investors were public pension funds. This was our new public pensions. The institutions aren't coming. They're already here. ? – […]