During today's conference call, the leading developers of Ethereum decided not to include the ProgPoW proposal code in the current protocol update, which allows reducing the impact of ASIC miners on the ecosystem. It is reported by CoinDesk. According to the participants, this proposal needs a thorough audit before implementation. The latter should confirm that this solution will indeed lead to a decrease in mining efficiency on ASIC devices. ProgPoW is called for […]
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Cryptocurrency processing service CoinGate added support for XRP. The company's blog says that now 4,500 merchants can accept payments in this digital currency. Big news for #XRPcommunity and our merchants alike! We’ve launched XRP support for our customers. Proceed to our […]
Ethereum startup Aragon is exploring the possibility of launching the aragonOS platform to create smart contracts on the Polkadot protocol. This was told by the technical director of the startup Jorge Iskierdo, writes CoinDesk. According to him, the additional network will not affect the work of Aragon that started in November 2018 in the Ethereum blockchain. “The idea is to make the majority of aragonOS transactions virtually free and highly optimized,” […]
Researchers at Circle Research concluded that the past year was not a total failure. For example, the volume of investments in blockchain companies in 2018 exceeded $ 5 billion. This amount is three times more than a year earlier and is six times higher than in 2016. Cryptocurrency capitalization The volume of investments grew despite a pronounced bearish […]
A new ERC-20 standard token called Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) has been launched on the Ethereum blockchain. This is a steyblecoin, which, it is claimed, is fully endowed with bitcoin. At the launch of the project, companies like Kyber Network, Republic Protocol and BitGo accepted. In total, WBTC has 26 partners and 15 decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO). #WrappedBitcoin has been launched on the Ethereum blockchain! With […]
On January 29, in Berlin, at a meeting of developers using Parity Technologies solutions, the Airalab project team demonstrated how to launch a robot using a decentralized network based on Substrate technology. The Substrate tool is integrated with the Polkadot interoperability protocol developed by Parity and allows you to create customized blockchains for decentralized applications in a short time. “Substrate support is the most direct way to […]
The daily rewards for mining blocks in the Ethereum network have dropped from 20,000 to 15,000 ETH after the bomb has been activated. Thus, a soft version of the “ice age” was launched, which will last until the activation of the hardfork of Constantinople, expected on February 27, writes Trustnodes. After upgrading the main network of Ethereum, the reward size will decrease from 3 ETH per block to 2 ETH, and […]
According to Fluence Network, a research blockchain startup startup, the vast majority of decentralized applications (DApps) run on the Ethereum platform. This is reported by Trustnodes. 87% of applications use the Ethereum blockchain, 19% are built on EOS, and 8% are based on Tron. 6% of applications in their systems use both options at once, and 4% – all three. Researchers at the Fluence Network reported and […]
Startup BloqLabs introduced the Titan software package, which will optimize mining processes, while increasing hashing speed. This company reported in the official blog. According to the developers, for effective use of mining equipment, the solution involves intelligent configuration, as well as automated selection of the most profitable coin for mining. It is noted that the software can work with any number of machines. "The decision of Titan […]
Enero de 2019 podría aportar más claridad a los inversionistas y entusiastas de los criptógrafos acerca de la posibilidad de obtener licencias para el comercio de Bitcoin-ETF , pero detener…