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The research startup Amberdata analyzed the activity of the Ethereum network in the last 24 hours and, like the media, found five transactions with an abnormally high commission. History by @TaylorJDawson_ https://t.co/fw3iQUyPXF – epheph (@epheph) February 20, 2019 It turned out that all five transfers were made from one address. Within four hours the owner of the address […]

The Sparkpool mining pool received a payment of more than 2000 ETH for the extraction of block # 7 238 290. This is 600 times higher than the standard net remuneration of 3 ETH. This is evidenced by data from the Blocks block browser. So, the pool included in block 210 transactions and received 2103,1485 ETH. This incident is instantly overgrown with different versions. Co-founder of the decentralized IOST application […]

Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of mining equipment, introduced a 7-nanometer ASIC chip called BM1397, focused on the SHA256 algorithm [primarily Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash]. We’re proud of our 7nm ASIC to mine cryptocurrencies using the SHA256 PoW, thus far our most efficient ASIC. Learn more: https://t.co/cW3Sh2IgNL Follow @Antminer_main and stay tuned for # AntminerS17 […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, like several other leading developers of the platform, does not see a serious security threat in the bug that was identified in the code of the upcoming Constantinople system upgrade. Earlier it was reported that the detected vulnerability affects some smart contracts with the possibility of self-destruction. In particular, the function called Create2, assigned to EIP-1014, can replace a self-destructed smart contract by simultaneously changing the ones specified in […]