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By the end of 2019, the total cost of the internal token Gram of the blockgram-project Telegram Open Network (TON) could reach $ 29.5 billion. The Bell reports with reference to the report HASH Crypto Investment Bank. According to the investment company, the target cost of 1 Gram token by the end of 2019 is estimated at $ 5.9. That is the cost indicated in the note for investors […]

A unique experiment designed to demonstrate the capabilities of the Lightning Network second-level protocol, launched in January and is gaining momentum every day, involving an increasing number of representatives of the bitcoin community. The global campaign #LightningTorch is coordinated through the social network Twitter and has reached participants from 39 countries on all six continents. It is organized on the principle of the Olympic Torch Relay – to the initial payment […]

Specialists from the blockchain-startup Parity Technologies have discovered a vulnerability in the JSONRPC protocol that threatens the security of the entire Ethereum ecosystem. In particular, MyEtherWallet, MyCrypto and Infura services are under threat of hacking. The fix is out — please update your nodes ASAP. https://t.co/t2bJLNuyZV While the vulnerability only directly affects the public service (eg, Infura, MEW, MyCrypto, etc), […]

According to Bitcoin Visuals, the volume of transactions on the Bitcoin network reached the end of November 2017. Then, just a month before the historical maximum, the first cryptocurrency was trading above $ 8,000. In November 2017, as well as at present, the Bitcoin network processed about 330 thousand transactions a day: Despite the growth in blockchain activity, the share of SegWit transactions gradually decreases […]

The share of the Bitmain-controlled mining pools of BTC.com and Antpool in the total bitcoin hash rate is about 29%. According to analysts of The Block, in the first half of last year, the total hashrate of these two pools was 42%. If we take into account the pool ViaBTC, the main investor of which is Bitmain, then a year ago the Chinese giant could control at least 50% of the hashrate. […]

The New York blockchain startup Blockstack reported on the ongoing work on a new distributed protocol called Stacks, which uses the hash power of the Bitcoin network in combination with the Proof-of-Burn mechanism (PoB). The presentation of Stacks took place in January at an event organized by a startup in Hong Kong. An explanation of the principle of the new consensus algorithm is also available in the video posted by the lead developer of the project […]

The Bellingcat research team tracked down a transaction of 0.026043 BTC dated February 1, 2016, which special prosecutor in the case of Russian intervention in the US presidential elections Robert Muller associated with the activities of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation (GRU) and the hacking of servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the USA. Want to have some fun over the weekend with blockchain, Bitcoin, and […]