One of the world's largest consulting companies, Ernst & Young (EY), published a code of its own solution for implementing private transactions in the Ethereum network on GitHub. Thus, the Nightfall Ethereum solution is based on smart contracts and evidence with zero disclosure in the implementation of ZoKrates. This will allow translating tokens of the standard ERC-20 and ERC-721, while maintaining complete privacy, the developers say. In EY […]
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On Thursday, May 30, the price of Bitcoin overcame the mark of $ 9000, updating the annual maximum, but then a rapid correction began. As a result, the first cryptocurrency lost in the order of 5%, the decline stopped in the region of $ 8,200- $ 8,300. Nevertheless, bears can push the price up to a 30-day MA at $ 7342, says Omkar Godboul, an analyst at CoinDesk Markets. He stressed that […]
Users have gained access to the test network of the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform – a preliminary version of the light client has been published. This simplified version includes only the files needed for compilation, in particular, the RocksDB database and the Abseil library. After assembling and configuring the light client, it connects to the full node of the TON test network. In addition, the site published step by step […]
The San Francisco-based blockchain-start-up 0x has partnered with the Israeli company StarkWare to develop a StarkDEX solution, with which decentralized exchanges can process about 500 transactions per second. It is reported by CoinDesk. The StarkDEX technology is based on a zero-knowledge proofs system of evidence. According to representatives of the Israeli startup, their development will contribute to the development of “scalable non-custodial […]
The manufacturer of hardware wallets Ledger has released a new version of the desktop application Ledger Live. Welcome / Bienvenue / Bienvenida / 환영 / 欢迎 / Welcome / / う こ そ to the new version (1.9.1) of Ledger Live! Experimental Features: Spanish LedgerLive pic.twitter.com/X6Vy0Y5h1m […]
On Sunday, May 26, the price of the first cryptocurrency updated the new maximum of this year, having managed to grow by several hours in price by almost $ 800 and get to the levels above $ 8800. So, on the Bitstamp exchange, as of 20:05 UTC, Bitcoin reached $ 8,802, after which it corrected to $ 8,600. The capitalization of the first cryptocurrency at the same time exceeded […]
Thousands of office computers in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as in other US cities, were attacked by hackers who demanded to pay them $ 100,000 in Bitcoins. It is noteworthy that they used for this purpose the EternalBlue program, which was developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA), writes The New York Times. Unknown attackers began to operate on May 7, blocking thousands of office computers […]
More than half of the full nodes in the main Bitcoin network still have not installed the Bitcoin Core client update, which eliminated a critical vulnerability that allowed sabotaging the work of 90% of the nodes for double spending. This was reported at the beginning of the month by the Cointelegraph, citing developer Luke Dash Jr. However, today the situation has not changed. 44.3% […]
On May 23, an unknown user made a transaction at 8.881 LTC, but paid a commission in the amount of 200.00360600 LTC (about $ 20 thousand at the time of writing). This was probably done by mistake. Thus, the commission for KB of data in the block was 83.2 LTC. This triggered a temporary increase in commissions on the network to the highs of December 2017 – around $ 0.70. Note, […]
The Russian State Duma has prepared proposals for the regulation of cryptocurrencies, prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). About this on Friday, May 24, announced the head of the State Duma Committee on the financial market, Anatoly Aksakov, reports TASS. “Recently there was a FATF session, which proposed to resolve the issue related to cryptocurrency, and therefore we slowed down a bit [with consideration […]