Thousands of office computers in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as in other US cities, were attacked by hackers who demanded to pay them $ 100,000 in Bitcoins. It is noteworthy that they used for this purpose the EternalBlue program, which was developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), writes The New York Times. Unknown attackers began to operate on May 7, blocking thousands of office computers […]
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The HitBTC cryptocurrency exchange reacted to the recent reports of its probable insolvency, stating that such statements do not correspond to reality. The exchange also clarified its position regarding strict AML / KYC procedures, which many users accuse of it. As a member of the board of the exchange Joan Geld writes in the company's blog, HitBTC was one of the first in the industry of trading platforms, starting its […]
More than half of the full nodes in the main Bitcoin network still have not installed the Bitcoin Core client update, which eliminated a critical vulnerability that allowed sabotaging the work of 90% of the nodes for double spending. This was reported at the beginning of the month by the Cointelegraph, citing developer Luke Dash Jr. However, today the situation has not changed. 44.3% […]
On May 23, an unknown user made a transaction at 8.881 LTC, but paid a commission in the amount of 200.00360600 LTC (about $ 20 thousand at the time of writing). This was probably done by mistake. Thus, the commission for KB of data in the block was 83.2 LTC. This triggered a temporary increase in commissions on the network to the highs of December 2017 – around $ 0.70. Note, […]
The major holders of the tokens of the Polkadot and Dfinity projects sell significant amounts of these assets in over-the-counter markets. It is reported by The Block, citing cryptocurrency funds and investors who were offered to buy coins. So, to be precise, the original investors put up for sale SAFT-contracts, giving ownership of the not yet issued tokens. The publication claims that at the moment […]
Large mining pools BTC.com and BTC.top carried out a “51% attack” to cancel the transaction of another miner who tried to gain access to funds that did not belong to him, reports CoinDesk. Thus, during the last hard forks, which took place on May 15, an unknown attacker took advantage of the vulnerability in the Bitcoin Cash protocol and provoked the chain fork into two alternatives. This led to the fact that miners […]
The Russian State Duma has prepared proposals for the regulation of cryptocurrencies, prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). About this on Friday, May 24, announced the head of the State Duma Committee on the financial market, Anatoly Aksakov, reports TASS. “Recently there was a FATF session, which proposed to resolve the issue related to cryptocurrency, and therefore we slowed down a bit [with consideration […]
In the network of Monero cryptocurrency oriented privacy, a new PoW consensus algorithm called RandomX from the developer of decentralized Internet Arweave can be implemented. It all depends on the results of the audit of the new protocol, according to Cointelegraph. At the moment, Monero developers implement hard forks every six months to avoid network capture by ASIC miners, however, this approach is considered controversial in the community. So, Arweave […]
Telegram, un servicio destinado al intercambio de información, pretende lanzar su plataforma darknet basada en la cadena abierta de telegramas (TON) de blockchain en el tercer trimestre de este año.…
The popular LocalBitcoins p2p platform has ceased to provide its services to Iranian users. The likely reason for such a decision could be US sanctions, although the service representatives did not state this directly, reports CoinDesk. It is noteworthy that within a few weeks, trading volumes in Iranian rials on LocalBitcoins increased significantly, eventually reaching the figures for January 2018 (45.64 billion Iranian rials in a week). […]