As a result of the next recalculation, the complexity of mining Bitcoin has risen to a new historical maximum, reaching a figure of 7.459 T. This is slightly higher than the previous record figure of 7.45 T, recorded in early October 2018. In general, according to the portal coinwarz.com, over the past seven days, the complexity of extracting the first cryptocurrency has increased by 11.26%, over the past 30 days, an increase […]
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The Japanese House of Representatives by a majority vote approved a bill providing for the amendment of national legislation in the field of regulation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This writes the Cointelegraph. The new law, which prepared the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA), provides for amendments to the two existing regulations on cryptocurrency assets. In particular, we are talking about the “Law on Financial Settlements” and the “Law on […]
One of the world's largest consulting companies, Ernst & Young (EY), published a code of its own solution for implementing private transactions in the Ethereum network on GitHub. Thus, the Nightfall Ethereum solution is based on smart contracts and evidence with zero disclosure in the implementation of ZoKrates. This will allow translating tokens of the standard ERC-20 and ERC-721, while maintaining complete privacy, the developers say. In EY […]
The mining pool operator Slush Pool and software developer Braiins Systems announced the rebranding. The corresponding letter was posted on Medium. Now the logos of Slush Pool and its operator will be designed in the same style. Braiins Systems stated that the changes should ensure a uniform brand of all solutions offered by the company. In addition, the letter announced the update services Braiins Systems […]
On Thursday, May 30, the price of Bitcoin overcame the mark of $ 9000, updating the annual maximum, but then a rapid correction began. As a result, the first cryptocurrency lost in the order of 5%, the decline stopped in the region of $ 8,200- $ 8,300. Nevertheless, bears can push the price up to a 30-day MA at $ 7342, says Omkar Godboul, an analyst at CoinDesk Markets. He stressed that […]
Since Monday, the largest provider of cryptocurrency wallets, Blockchain, will allow users to swap between digital assets and Paxos Standard (PAX) steklokoin directly in a mobile application. Also, Blockchain is considering the possibility of adding fiatnyh assets, reports CoinDesk, citing company representatives. According to Peter Smith, the CEO and founder of Blockchain, his wallet is responsible for 22% of all online transactions […]
The largest US cryptocurrency company Coinbase announced the addition of support for EOS cryptocurrency to the Coinbase.com platform, as well as to mobile apps based on iOS and Android. EOS is now live at https://t.co/wHvnDs40HG and Android apps. Coinbase customers can buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store EOS. – Coinbase […]
The Tendermint team, working on the Cosmos project, reported on successful implementation of hard forks on the core network after a critical vulnerability was discovered. ? Attn: Cosmos Hub ? There was a critical security vulnerability found on #CosmosSDK two days ago. A patch was subsequently released (https://t.co/amiidL3vUl). All nodes are recommended to upgrade to the latest version. […]
Bitcoin mixing service Bitcoin Blender ceased operations shortly after asking all users to withdraw funds to third-party wallets. At the moment, the onion address of the service on the Tor network is unavailable, reports Bleeping Computer. Note that Bitcoin Blender was launched in 2014. Representatives of the project did not disclose the reason for the closure, but it may be related to the situation around a similar […]
North Korea uses cyber attacks to circumvent international sanctions. This statement was made by Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI for cybersecurity, information technology and intelligence Tonya Ugoretts at a conference from the Aspen Institute, reports The Korea Herald. In particular, Ugoretz stressed that North Korean hackers hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment systems in 2014, robbed Bangladesh Bank in 2016, and […]