The social network VKontakte is exploring the possibility of creating its own cryptocurrency , although a final decision on its…
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In the traditional Sunday digest – Bitcoin continues to flat near the $ 4,000 mark, the hash rate has grown, Parity has released a new client for the ZCash network and other key events of the outgoing week. Flat without borders During the week, the weighted average rate of Bitcoin, according to CoinMarketCap, was in the range of $ 4,000- $ 4,095. At the same time, on Friday the trading volumes of the first cryptocurrency and steyblecoin USDT updated […]
According to the mayor of Chicago, Emanuel Ram, the mass adoption of cryptocurrency is inevitable due to increasing global instability and financial crises in various countries. This is reported by Forbes. In his speech on the prospects for the development of the fintech industry, Ram noted the following: “National states are falling apart and experiencing crises. Cities are evolving, political systems are changing, against which we all grew up. Perhaps somewhere […]
The developers of the popular hardware wallets Trezor commented on the statement by competitor Ledger about a number of vulnerabilities in their products. In response to Ledger's presentation at #MITBitcoinExpo, we have mitigated the mentioned vulnerabilities. Read our official response at https://t.co/5IvMrMm9bQ pic.twitter.com/1rPovxsYjt – Trezor (@Trezor) March 12, 2019 So, in Trezor stressed that you can fake any device, commenting on the attack on […]
By the end of March, the US investment company Shuttle Holdings will launch a beta version of the custodial service for digital assets based on a private cloud and IBM encryption technologies. It is reported by CoinDesk. The developers of the new service will abandon the “cold storage” model in favor of a solution that “will provide quick access to assets and a compromise level of protection based on hardware security modules (HSM)”. In other ways […]
A FPGA (user-programmable gate array) is a cryptocurrency mining equipment that is very similar to an ASIC except for one…
January 2019 was marked not only by the continuation of the bearish trend in the cryptocurrency market, but also by…
The New York blockchain startup Blockstack reported on the ongoing work on a new distributed protocol called Stacks, which uses the hash power of the Bitcoin network in combination with the Proof-of-Burn mechanism (PoB). The presentation of Stacks took place in January at an event organized by a startup in Hong Kong. An explanation of the principle of the new consensus algorithm is also available in the video posted by the lead developer of the project […]
January 2019 could bring more clarity to investors and crypto enthusiasts about questions about the possibility of obtaining licenses for…
Cryptobirge Huobi plans to release its own steblecoin this year as part of its roadmap, Cointelegraph writes. During a presentation…