Facebook will cease membership in the Libra Association if a project to create the digital currency of the same name is launched without the consent of the regulator. The head of the world's largest social network, Mark Zuckerberg, said this on Wednesday, October 23, during a hearing in the US Congress. The hearing at the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee lasted several hours, during which Zuckerberg […]
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Since 2020, Rospatent plans to launch new projects based on decentralized technologies. This was told to journalists by the head…
US Rep. Warren Davidson said adding Bitcoin (BTC) to Calibra's wallet would be a “better idea” than creating social media…
Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell said that people calling for a bitcoin hard fork to provide protection against a “51% attack” demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the first cryptocurrency. Greg Maxwell responds to the question: “Why not hard-fork Bitcoin to make it less vulnerable to 51% attacks?” (HT @AlyseKilleen) pic.twitter.com/k9yb9KBc9I – Tuur Demeester (@TuurDemeester) October 6, 2019 He explained , Oh really […]
The year 2019 was pretty depressing in terms of privacy. Constantly heard news of hacks, penalties for violation of confidentiality,…
On Sunday in Russia there are more than six thousand elections of various levels. In Moscow, for the first time, a blockchain-based electronic voting system was introduced. However, in the morning there were reports that she had failed. According to the Campaign Insider Telegram channel, at block No. 30 (Central and South Chertanovo), recording information about votes on the blockchain hung for half an hour. […]
“We are doing serious research. The danger of zombies is real and the world must pay attention. We demand $ 100 million from John McAfee for the damage caused to our work. He has put the world at risk, ”said a statement from the South China Zombie Research Center project, which appears to be issuing the Zombie Coin. Whether this is a joke is still unknown. We are sue […]
A well-known Bitcoin supporter, Patrick Byrne, has announced his resignation as executive director of retail giant Overstock, the company he founded and led for 20 years. As official reasons for such a decision, Patrick Byrne calls investors “certain issues related to the government” in today's letter, making it clear that it is directly related to the recent recognition in […]
French cryptographer Pierreck Godry hacked the Internet voting system developed by the Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT), which put some of its components in the public domain, inviting everyone to find vulnerabilities, Meduza reports. On September 8, residents of three districts in Moscow will be able to vote in elections through the Internet. Three weeks before the election, it turned out that the voting system is unreliable – it is quite simple […]
Representatives of Goldman Sachs on the eve gave a bullish forecast for the BTC cryptocurrency – analysts believe that the…