51% attack and what threatens crypto investors?
2021-05-01
Decentralization is at the heart of most projects in the cryptocurrency market. However, blockchain, like other technologies, exists with some flaws. Among them is the well-known 51% attack.
China plans to check the consumption of electricity by miners
2021-04-30
An audit is planned in Beijing to reveal the impact of cryptocurrency mining on energy consumption. In particular, the Bureau of Economic and IT Technologies demanded data from datacenters on whether they are involved in mining and other operations related to cryptocurrency turnover.
New service for the resumption of stuck operations implemented by the Ethereum system
2020-06-30
Blockchain Startup Rockside, located in Paris, demonstrated new software with a free version, with which it is possible to free mempool from operations that were not confirmed by miners due to the low cost of the commission. The company intends to make DeFi projects its clients. In these projects, stuck operations are the cause of system and protocol failures.
With the help of the Bitcoin payment system, an operation was made for a total amount of $ 1.3 billion
2020-06-11
In just two minutes on the night of June 11, 2020, an unknown user performed an operation to move bitcoins in the amount of 132,255, which in the equivalent at the exchange rate amounted to $ 1.3 billion. According to Blockchain.com, this transfer was divided into three operations with the number of bitcoins: 44085, 44235, 43935, respectively.
Ripple Money Transfers Surge in Europe
2020-05-27
In European countries, the number of remittances involving the Ripple platform and the ODL (On-Demand Liquidity) payment system has increased dramatically. In Europe, this direction took the second place in the popularity of money transfers using this system.
The Simpsons talked about Blockchain
2020-02-24
The screenwriters of the beloved animated series The Simpsons have created an entire episode dedicated to cryptocurrency.
Ethereum developers want to activate ProgPoW code in July
2020-02-23
Crypto Briefing reported that the creators of Ethereum have agreed to activate the ProgPoW code.
Cardano network has OBFT hard fork
2020-02-21
Cardano creators talk about successful split Ouroboros Byzantine Fault-Tolerant