The year 2018 has become difficult for most cryptocurrency exchanges and the industry as a whole. As billionaire investor Warren…
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Andrei Kostin, head of one of the largest Russian banks VTB, joined the ranks of crypto skeptics. The banker believes…
The share of the Bitmain-controlled mining pools of BTC.com and Antpool in the total bitcoin hash rate is about 29%. According to analysts of The Block, in the first half of last year, the total hashrate of these two pools was 42%. If we take into account the pool ViaBTC, the main investor of which is Bitmain, then a year ago the Chinese giant could control at least 50% of the hashrate. […]
In the US state of Wyoming last week passed a bill on digital assets, which was submitted to support cryptocurrency…
The past week was the most active in terms of trading volume in Venezuela – almost 17.1 billion sovereign Bolivars were exchanged for bitcoins. In terms of Bitcoin, trading volume was 1 972 BTC. This is evidenced by the data site CoinDance. In turn, the Venezuelan authorities have issued the “Constitutional Decree on the Integrated System of Cryptocurrency Assets”, which regulates the activities of Bitcoin exchanges and other crypto companies. […]
The cryptocurrency market starts the week with a bearish mood. Bitcoin and some altcoins suffer minor losses. The total value…
The New York blockchain startup Blockstack reported on the ongoing work on a new distributed protocol called Stacks, which uses the hash power of the Bitcoin network in combination with the Proof-of-Burn mechanism (PoB). The presentation of Stacks took place in January at an event organized by a startup in Hong Kong. An explanation of the principle of the new consensus algorithm is also available in the video posted by the lead developer of the project […]
We bring to your attention an interview with Andrei Pogorely, a well-known expert in the cryptocurrency market and the founder…
The Bellingcat research team tracked down a transaction of 0.026043 BTC dated February 1, 2016, which special prosecutor in the case of Russian intervention in the US presidential elections Robert Muller associated with the activities of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation (GRU) and the hacking of servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party of the USA. Want to have some fun over the weekend with blockchain, Bitcoin, and […]
The Canadian Cryptocurrency Exchange QuadrigaCX cannot access wallets with user funds worth CAD 250 million ($ 190 million), reports CoinDesk, citing the organization’s statement, previously filed with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. Thus, about 115 thousand users had cryptocurrency (180 million CAD) and fiat balances (70 million CAD). As the newspaper notes, on […]