Bitfinex technical director Paolo Ardoino posted a tweet that allegedly indicated the maximum leverage for derivatives preparing for launch. ?? pic.twitter.com/kBgPsGyOL3 – Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) 24 June 201 r. This tweet caused a flurry of user comments. However, thanks to one of them, it became known that, at first, isolated margin would be used in Bitfinex, allowing […]
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Unknown attackers introduced the MinerGate software into the “Unified Judicial Information and Telecommunication System” of the judicial administration of Ukraine and the server equipment of the “Information Judicial Systems” GP, using their capabilities for mining cryptocurrency. It is reported 368.media with reference to the materials of the criminal proceedings of the State Bureau of Investigation (RRG) of Ukraine. The program for mining was discovered during the search for the reasons why […]
The developer of Zcash, the Electric Coin Company (ECC), intends to make radical changes to the architecture of this cryptocurrency user-oriented privacy, reports the Decrypt publication. The ambitious plans of the creators of the project provide that the network Zcash will be able to handle "thousands or even millions of transactions per second." To implement them, you may need to switch to a completely new blockchain with support for sharding technology. […]
As reported by CoinDesk, two proposals for improving Ethereum (EIP) have been approved for inclusion in the next large-scale update of the second most capitalized cryptocurrency. EIP 2024 and EIP 1702 – officially approved code changes for the expected in October hard forks Istanbul. During yesterday’s conference call, the developers approved only two of the code changes from about 30 EIPs under consideration. So, […]
Bitfinex, a popular Bitcoin exchange, has announced technical work that can take up to seven hours and will be aimed at improving the experience of user interaction with the platform in the trading process. Among other things, this means creating the foundation for launching derivative instruments. Maintenance is scheduled for the next Wednesday, June 26, but this date may be postponed to a later date at […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin commented live on the need to isolate the Russian segment of the Internet. Amiran Sardarov, author of the popular YouTube channel “Hach Diary,” asked the head of state a question during the “Direct Line”. So, Sardarov said that bloggers and Internet users are wondering why they need a law on sovereign runet. He noted that “from the outside it looks as if we are trying again […]
The world's leading developer of blockchain solutions, Digital Asset Holdings, has made DAML smart contract programming language compatible with the Corda platform from the R3 consortium, the Hyperledger Fabric framework, and the Amazon Aurora cloud database. DAML integrations announced for @Hyperledger Fabric, @ inside_r3 @Cordablockchain and @awscloud Aurora! Read the press release https://t.co/INhUjU9ICR pic.twitter.com/eFUl0wkRUM – DAML (@DAMLdriven) June 18, 2019 Early support […]
The leading developer of solutions for the Ethereum ecosystem, Parity Technologies, presented the first alternative client for cryptocurrency Zcash. Today we released ? Zebra, the first alternative #Zcash client, in collaboration with @ZcashFoundation! Check it out at https://t.co/41Tz0CUfRj Learn more: https://t.co/scGwFkmtaL pic.twitter.com/MMBu2hCcit – Parity Technologies (@ParityTech) June 17, 2019 A new client called Zebra is called increase safety […]
A draft departmental order of Roskomnadzor has been published on the government’s website, which describes in detail the rules for isolating the Russian segment of the Internet. The document says that in the event of a threat, a centralized Internet traffic control regime is introduced. Directing traffic outside of Russia will be prohibited, except when it affects communications between users from the Kaliningrad region and other regions of the Russian Federation. Also proposed to make an exception […]
Russia plans to require international payment systems to transfer the authentication function of bank customers for online payments to the National Payment Card System (NSPK). This is stated in the amendments to the law "On the national payment system," awaiting a second reading. This is a 3D Secure protocol that provides additional security when making online purchases and other cash transactions. An SMS, […]