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 […]
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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 […]
In the network of Monero cryptocurrency oriented privacy, a new PoW consensus algorithm called RandomX from the developer of decentralized Internet Arweave can be implemented. It all depends on the results of the audit of the new protocol, according to Cointelegraph. At the moment, Monero developers implement hard forks every six months to avoid network capture by ASIC miners, however, this approach is considered controversial in the community. So, Arweave […]
Telegram, a service intended for the exchange of information, intends to launch its darknet platform based on the blockchain Telegram…