The Bitcoin Fork Litecoin (LTC), also known as Digital Silver, celebrated its 8th birthday on Sunday, October 13th. One of the oldest cryptocurrencies in the space, today Litecoin takes the sixth place by capitalization in the CoinMarketCap rating. The network was launched on October 13, 2011, and this date is considered the official reference point for the history of LTC. The source code of the project is its creator Charlie Lee […]
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Rosseti North Caucasus found in Ingushetia a large-scale theft of electricity for mining cryptocurrencies. The amount of stolen electricity would be enough to provide one of the regions of Ingushetia for two weeks or a month's work of a republican hospital, the company’s website says. During the planned work in the city of Sunzha, experts identified illegally connected equipment for the extraction of cryptocurrencies. The amount of stolen electricity is estimated […]
The leadership of the Belarusian High-Tech Park (HTP) is developing a Decree on HTP 3.0. The document passed the first discussion with the country's president, Alexander Lukashenko. This was announced on his Facebook page by IT-businessman, founder of VP Capital, Viktor Prokopenya. The main task of the new document, according to him, will be to increase educational programs for the training of IT-personnel throughout the country. "The world is changing. All […]
The developer of the ZCash cryptocurrency company Electric Coin Company (ECC) will issue a “boxed” ZEC token for the Ethereum blockchain. This was announced at the Ethereum Devcon5 Developer Conference by ECC Vice President of Marketing and Business Development Josh Swihart, CoinDesk reports. According to him, a new token will be issued in the next six months. It is expected that it will provide enhanced functionality for the use of automated loans and […]
The author of the initiative to create an alternative version of the digital currency Libra incorrectly provided information about some of the project participants. So, representatives of Tendermint, Chainlink, Web3 Foundation and Hashed denied their participation in it, CoinDesk reports. Earlier this week, during the Devcon5 conference in Osaka, Wireline co-founder Lucas Geiger introduced the OpenLibra initiative, designed to become the "non-corporate version of Libra" […]
Just a week after the launch, the SAFU Wallet browser extension wallet was removed from the Google Chrome store, and the project site became unavailable. It happened after reports that this oriented to work with BEP2 tokens based on Binance Chain contains malicious code that steals user funds. In particular, the CEO of ZenGo cryptocurrency wallet was informed about the dangers of using SAFU Wallet […]
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin tried to dispel community doubts about the long-term future platform by shedding light on some details of the upcoming transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and the final transition to Ethereum 2.0. This question was one of the most discussed at the Devcon5 conference in Osaka, which is taking place these days, but there have been no clear answers for a long time […]
OKEx Korea cryptocurrency exchange has suspended the process of withdrawing from the auction two coins with a focus on user privacy. In particular, ZCash and Dash will undergo additional study, reports CoinDesk with reference to the statement of the exchange. At the same time, the decision regarding Monero, Horizen and Super Bitcoin, about which OKEx Korea reported delisting in September, remains in force and […]
The Masterchain blockchain platform received a certificate from the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation that it uses Russian cryptography standards and meets information security requirements. This was reported by representatives of the FinTech Association. In addition, the mechanism of embedding the platform in a decentralized depository system (DDS) was approved. “Masterchain certification allows us to talk about the platform’s readiness for industrial operation. Currently, DDS is being launched to account for electronic mortgages for […]
DAI's stable collateral multi-collateral borrowing system will be launched on November 18. The date was named by MakerDAO Foundation CEO Rune Christensen at Devcon. Everything you need to know about the upcoming launch of Multi-Collateral #Dai on November 18th! https://t.co/9TSXCaTrJL – Maker (@MakerDAO) October 9, 2019 According to him, work on multi-collateral DAI (MCD) lasted five years. At this […]