ASIC-miners mine 85.2% of all blocks in the network of Monero cryptocurrency oriented to increased privacy. This is the conclusion reached by a researcher under the nickname MoneroCrusher, studying the selection of nones (arbitrary numbers) by miners. As noted by MoneroCrusher, the nonsense value is random and ranges from 0 to 2³². Nevertheless, between blocks # 1,500,000 and # 1,546,500 on the graph of the distribution of the noses clearly […]
The CEO of the Binance Crypto Exchange Changpeng Zhao in his Twitter announced the start date of the public testing…
The chief strategic director of Californian fintech startup Ripple Corey Johnson left the organization, reports The Block. “Last year, Corey successfully represented our company to investors, the press and regulators. However, in connection with the prevailing market conditions, a decision was made to abolish the position, ”the press service stressed. Note that Johnson also removed the mention of his position from his Twitter account. AT […]
has begun The Tron Foundation has announced the launch of the airdrop BitTorrent (BTT) coin. Free distribution of tokens will…
The head of Twitter and Square Payment service, Jack Dorsey, said that he considered it only a matter of time to integrate the Bitcoin microtransaction protocol into the Cash App, Cointelegraph reports. He said this in an interview for a podcast about Bitcoin, which is conducted by Stefan Leiver. Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, was another interviewee for the presenter. SLP52 @jack (CEO @square) & @starkness […]
The popular Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX stated that its impressive insurance fund, which today amounts to more than 21,000 BTC (about $ 75 million), is necessary to provide support for the margin trading model offered to users. In its blog, the company describes the principles of this model and the “unique challenges” that it faces when working outside the institutional financial system. The BitMEX […]
The total computing power of Bitcoin mining equipment (BTC) has increased to the values of November last year. The hash…
Bitcoin micropay network Lightning Network continues to grow steadily. Thus, according to 1ml, over the past 30 days, the number of active nodes has grown by almost 15% and currently has 6090 already. Over the same period, the number of channels has risen to 24,680 (+ 27.4%), the network capacity has increased to 657.14 BTC or almost $ 2.4 million at the current rate of […]
Analytical company Fundstrat Global Advisors has presented a new forecast, according to which in 2019, Bitcoin is waiting for a new price increase. Ironically, its publication almost coincided with an unexpectedly sharp increase in the market on Friday, February 8th. As the leading analyst of the company Thomas Lee wrote in his recent tweet, 2018 can really be considered the year of “hangover” after historical heights […]
TradeBlock researchers have concluded that investor interest in bitcoin futures on the US stock exchanges CME and Cboe is gradually fading. We published a new report analyzing #bitcoin futures trading activity over the past year: https://t.co/3udwo6wQie pic.twitter.com/uMBDffnsnx – TradeBlock (@TradeBlock) 7 January 2019 p. Regulated futures contracts were launched almost overnight – […]