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Experts of the antivirus company ESET have detected a massive spam attack targeting visitors to porn sites from Russia, the USA, Germany, France, Spain and the Czech Republic. Fraudsters extort bitcoins from users under the threat of publishing a video that they allegedly managed to record via the victim’s webcam while watching porn. Extortionists threaten to send a compromising record to the list of contacts if they do not receive a ransom in the amount of 0.45 […]

In the traditional Sunday digest, Bitcoin attempts to break the downward trend, change of leadership at Bitmain, the final formation of the third venture fund from Pantera Capital and other key events of the week. Attempt not torture This week, Bitcoin again gave hope for a rapid recovery, breaking the mark of $ 4000 on the Bitstamp exchange. According to the CoinMarketCap analytical resource, on Saturday […]

The last few years between the blockchain developers and manufacturers of ASIC miners is a technological race. Developers seek to limit the profitability of ASIC in their systems, manufacturers – to make more efficient devices. In the new special project from ForkLog and æternity “Struggle with ASIC: the present and the future of mining cryptocurrency” we told what was behind this struggle and what it would lead the blockchain industry. To compose […]