Having successfully guessed weakly protected private keys in the Ethereum blockchain, an unknown attacker kidnapped about 45,000 ETH. Wired wrote about this citing a study conducted by the cybersecurity company Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). As stated by Adrian Bednarek, senior security analyst at ISE, the hacker, who was nicknamed Blockchain Bandit, was discovered by accident. Assuming that the combination of characters […]
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The creator of Ethereum, Vitaly Buterin, published on GitHub a proposal on changing the reward scheme to validators after the transition to the second most capitalized cryptocurrency to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism (PoS). According to the formula proposed by Buterin, if PoS-validators, for example, fix 1,000,000 ETH, then the annual yield will be 18.1%. The more assets are fixed for validation, the lower the interest rate. So, […]
Analysts ask themselves: Has the first cryptocurrency struck the “bottom”? Willy Vu, a specialist in technical analysis of the cryptocurrency…
A well-known developer from the ETCDEV team, Donald McIntyre, said that the mutual integration of Ethereum Classic with Ethereum would create a truly safe and effective blockchain. He spoke about this in an interview with CryptoGlobe. “ETH can be viewed as a sports car, and ETC as armored. ETH means scaling and performance, and ETC means high cost and security, ”stressed […]
The founder of the Ethereum smart contract platform, Vitaly Buterin, cited an interesting fact from his biography, saying that in 2013 he wanted to get an internship at the California-based company OpenCoin, which was later renamed Ripple Labs. According to him, this happened in the middle of 2013, when he lived in Canada. He, however, was denied a visa, because according to […]
The internal token of the Binance exchange has grown by more than 15% over the past 24 hours and rose on Saturday, April 20, above $ 25, thereby updating the historical maximum relative to the USD. Also, the price of BNB has risen to record levels against BTC – at some point 0.00479217 BTC was offered for a token. The previous historical maximum of the BNB token was recorded 12 […]
Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange officially announced the launch of the main network of its own blockchain Binance Chain. “Binance Chain launches…
The Cardano (ADA) coin, which took the 10th place in the cryptocurrency rating with a market capitalization of $ 2.159…
The business publication Forbes presented a list of companies implementing blockchain technology that operate in the US market and have…
Bitcoin dominance at CoinMarketCap reaches a two-month high as the altcoin lag is restored. The unique growth of BTC /…