Mining
Nervos and Cardano launched a research initiative to improve the security of smart contracts by improving the system of unspent transaction outputs (UTXO). Nervos and the Cardano development team (IOHK), will co-author research papers on how to improve the UTXO model…
Denis Beau, Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, spoke about the progress made in the development of the digital euro as well as about possible changes in the regulatory framework. Bo said that as part of the Central Bank’s experiment…
November was a very successful month for sites providing options trading services on Efirium – last month trading volumes tripled to $1.76 billion.In November, trading volumes on Ethereum options increased by 153% compared to the results of October – then this…
The price of the third largest digital asset XRP from Ripple fell on the night of Sunday, December 13, below $0.50, updating the minimum from the end of November. The decline occurred against the background of the upcoming Flare Network airdrop,…
More than 85,000 MySQL databases obtained by hackers as a result of cyber attacks are put up for sale in the darknet. Attackers demand a ransom of about $550 in BTC for each database.Hackers hack MySQL databases, download tables, delete originals…
Co-founder of Efirium Vitalik Buterin called the security of cryptocurrency wallets one of the main problems of the industry. At the Latin American Bitcoin Conference, Buterin said that wallets are still difficult to use for those who do not have technical…
Co-founder of Efirium Vitalik Buterin believes that in the future state digital currencies can be easily exchanged for cryptocurrencies. i In his speech at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 conference, Buterin said that in the next ten years a variety of…
The developers of MyEtherWallet, one of the most popular purses of Etherium, added access to ETH 2.0 steaking through the Staked service.As part of a partnership with the Staked node hosting service, MyEtherWallet offers wallet users the ability to block ETH…
The servers of one of the Foxconn electronics factories were under attack by the DoppelPaymer encryption virus. Hackers demand a ransom of 1,804 BTC from the company.The attack on the Foxconn factory in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez was carried…
Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs and former economic adviser to President Donald Trump, believes that Bitcoin has no long-term prospects for investors.In his interview, Gary Cohn said Bitcoin lacks “the integrity of the real market due to a lack…
Australian cryptocurrency exchange BTC Markets accidentally revealed the full names and email addresses of its customers during a mass newsletter.The exchange sent emails to its customers yesterday. The newsletter indicated that from December 3, BTC Markets will post pairs for USDT,…
On November 30, the Bitcoin exchange rate peaked in three years, exceeding $1 9 8 6 0. Against this background, over-the-counter trading platforms recorded record trading volumes, mainly from institutional investors.At the end of 2 0 1 7, when Bitcoin reached…