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), […]
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Enero de 2019 estuvo marcado no solo por la continuación de la tendencia bajista en el mercado de la criptomoneda , sino también por el lanzamiento de dos nuevos proyectos…
Cryptanalyst Murad Makhmudov notes that currently the average daily number of Twitter posts on Bitcoin is at the 2014 level. 1 / This screams bearish. Tweets about 2014 It is an absolute disaster for the price in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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,” […]