American hip-hop artist Akon has supported Bitcoin , trying to refute the notion that cryptocurrency has no fundamental value. In…
Olaoluva Osuntokun, Technical Director of Lightning Labs and ACINQ, confirmed the cases of practical exploitation of the vulnerability in the Lightning Network protocol, the existence of which became known at the end of August. In a message on the Linux Foundation portal, Osuntokun noted that cases of exploitation of the vulnerability in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database were indeed recorded, and again reminded of the need to update clients to […]
Many miners again began to return to bitcoin mining against the backdrop of the restoration of the coin's exchange rate…
Tether launches a new stablecoin called CNHT. The company announced this on Monday on its Twitter. CNHT will be tied…
Bitmain, the largest producer of mining equipment, has released two new ASIC models for Bitcoin mining . Should I buy…
The non-profit organization Stellar Development Foundation will conduct an airdrop of 2 billion XLM tokens (approximately $ 118 million) among users of the Keybase messenger. Today we're excited to announce we've partnered with @KeybaseIO for our largest distribution ever! Read the full announcement: https: //t.co/WV6XUmpRfx – Stellar (@StellarOrg) September 9, 2019 According to Stellar representatives, this is the largest coin distribution in the history of the project. […]
Despite the unconvincing dynamics of the BTC price, the hashrate of the first cryptocurrency once again updated the historical maximum. If a little more than a week ago, the total computing network of Bitcoin was at around 83.526 EH / s, by now this figure is already 94.779 EH / s. As it usually happens, the mining complexity has grown along with the hashrate: Well-known Twitter user Hodlonaut noted that […]
Financial crimes, including in the field of cryptocurrencies, have reached enormous proportions comparable to the spread of the epidemic. A corresponding warning was made by the chairman of the board of the British Financial Regulatory Authority (FCA), Charles Randall. According to Randall, schemes for tricking individual investors are of particular concern. He did not give specific figures, however, in the Crime Report in England and Wales […]
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRS), said that his department is monitoring the field of crypto assets, but does not plan to issue its own digital currency. Highlight: “We are following the whole question of digital currencies,” says Fed Chair Jerome Powell. “It's not something that we are actively considering. For us, it raises significant issues that we […]
Bakkt Warehouse, a qualified custodian of the Bakkt cryptocurrency platform , has begun accepting Bitcoin (BTC) for deposits from customers.…