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The gas limit in the Ethereum network was first surpassed by 8.1 million with the support of 50% of miners. Almost exactly 50% of miners are upvoting the gas limit right now; it just broke 8.1 million for the first time. pic.twitter.com/jn5jPg7dgs – Vitalik Non-giver of Ether (@VitalikButerin) September 15, 2019 Mining pools Spark Pool, F2Pool and Ethermine supported the growth of the limit by voting, […]

The hacker stole 30,000 EOS ($ 110,000) thanks to a bug in the decentralized EOSPlay application. The cost of the attack was just over 300 EOS ($ 1000), reports CryptoSlate. The attacker involved the DeFi service EOS REX, which allows leasing network resources (RAM, CPU) from other users. The hacker filled the blocks with his transactions, ensuring a constant victory in EOSPlay. The incident has already commented on CTO startup Block.one […]

The P2P exchange for the sale and purchase of Bitcoin Hodl Hodl will open the source code. This will allow everyone to create their own P2P trading platform. This was stated by CTO Roman Snitko during the Baltic Honeybadger conference. Reasons for the decision: projects are closed and the code is lost; Developing an exchange from scratch is a very expensive task; everyone has the right to manage the exchange; Hodl code Hodl tested on […]

Mastercard technology company and R3-oriented corporate clients blockchain consortium R3 have announced a strategic partnership in which they develop and test a cross-border payment solution based on distributed registry technology. According to a published press release, the future solution will initially focus on combining the global payment infrastructure and banks in the Mastercard clearing and settlement network. Combining the expertise of R3 in the field of technology […]