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Boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled, as well as two employees of the cryptocurrency project Centra Tech were excluded from the number of defendants in the lawsuit related to the deception of investors during the ICO. It is reported by CoinDesk. Mayweather and DJ Khaled promoted the Centra Tech ICO campaign on social networks, but federal judge Robert Scola considered it unproven that the plaintiffs had bought […]

On May 6, the third issue of the Cryptographic Analysis video tutorial was released on the ForkLog YouTube channel. On the air of Xena.Exchange CEO, Anton Kravchenko spoke about the Steblecoin Tether, the future of cryptobirth and the secret blockchain project of Facebook. The purpose of the rubric is to conduct a fundamental analysis of the industry and talk about trends that affect the cryptocurrency market. New issues are published every two weeks. Editorial ForkLog chose […]

Sidechain Lumino, created on top of the main Bitcoin network, is a third-level payment solution with support for Ethereum smart contracts, officially launched. This was reported on Tuesday, May 14 at the Consensus 2019 conference in New York by the head of the research and innovation department of the Argentine company RIF Labs, Sergio Lerner. Work on Lumino, which in some ways can be compared with the network of the Lightning Network, was carried out on […]

In the third quarter of 2019, Taiwanese electronics maker HTC will launch the EXODUS 1s blockchain smartphone with full Bitcoin node functionality, Bitcoin Magazine reports. “In the EXODUS 1 model, we allowed people to manage their private keys, now we want to provide the opportunity to deploy a full node. This is technology for the free world, ”said company top manager Phil Chen. At the moment, the blockchain […]

The US Senate Banking Committee has demanded Facebook Inc. provide information about a secret cryptocurrency project codenamed Libra. Lawmakers are interested in exactly how the company intends to process the personal data of users of this proposed payment system. Representatives of the committee stressed that last year, Facebook requested data about its users from US banks. They added that many experts believe […]

The operator of the same name blockchain platform tZERO, a subsidiary of the retail giant Overstock, has closed a $ 5 million financing round from Hong Kong venture capital firm GSR Capital. Initially it was assumed that the company will receive $ 400 million, reports CoinDesk. Last summer, Overstock and GSR Capital signed an agreement under which GSR pledged to acquire a stake in tZERO in the amount of $ 270 million, Overstock shares for $ 104.55 […]

The largest social network Facebook can announce the launch of its own cryptocurrency in the third quarter of this year, reports Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the situation. The first country where the new steyblecoin will be tested is supposed to be India. Here, ordinary payments are already being tested on the basis of WhatsApp Pay's Facebook service. In addition, it is reported that to work on the project the company […]