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Users of the blockchain-smartphone Finney from Sirin Labs will be able to buy cryptocurrency with a credit card. This was made possible through partnership with Simplex processing, RBC reports citing representatives of the project. At the same time, in the wallet built into Finney, the functionality of reading QR codes was improved and new languages were added: Turkish, Vietnamese, Hindi, Tagalog, Italian, Romanian, Slovenian and German. […]

According to the Diar report, with an increase in the total computing power of the Bitcoin network, the share of unknown mining pools in it increases. At the same time, the share of pools associated with the Chinese giant Bitmain, which previously had almost a monopoly position, is gradually decreasing. The researchers note that in this way the network of the first cryptocurrency becomes more decentralized. For example, if the share of unknown Bitcoin-miners in early 2018 […]

The US Senate Banking Committee has demanded Facebook Inc. provide information about a secret cryptocurrency project codenamed Libra. Lawmakers are interested in exactly how the company intends to process the personal data of users of this proposed payment system. Representatives of the committee stressed that last year, Facebook requested data about its users from US banks. They added that many experts believe […]