Bitcoin Gold Suffers Another 51% Attack with $72,000 Double-Spent

Bitcoin Gold (BTG) has suffered another 51% network exploit with the attacker reportedly double-spending $75,000 in BTG tokens. Details of the Bitcoin Gold 51% Attack According to MIT crypto researcher James Lovejoy, Bitcoin Gold, one of the Bitcoin hard forks is once again the victim of a 51% attack. дальше »

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Rare Bitcoin Stale Block Event Sees $3 Double-Spend

The Bitcoin network has seen its first stale block event since October 2019 resulting in a $3 double spend. With mining difficulty at an all-time high (ATH) and hash rate distributed among major players, Bitcoin mining is even now more competitive than ever. дальше »

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Monero Price Analysis - Random X removes ASICs but has led to mining pool centralization

Following the implementation of a new consensus algorithm, as part of a network wide hard fork in November, Monero's hash rate has hit a new all time high. The new RandomX algorithm offers CPU mining at a competitive advantage over both GPUs and ASICs. дальше »

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Staking ecosystem surges to $8 billion valuation

The total amount of staked cryptocurrency has spiked to an all-time-high over $8 billion. Holders of proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies are choosing to stake their coins to support the network in exchange for income. дальше »

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XinFin appoints Copper for blockchain asset custody

Institutional blockchain asset custody and prime brokerage firm, Copper, today announced support to the trade finance-focused blockchain network XinFin. Their bespoke custody solution will facilitate XinFin and TradeFinex’s institutional and crypto hedge fund customers to store native digital asset token XDCe. дальше »

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Bitcoin Gold (BTG) Suffers 51 Percent Attack with Barely Anyone Noticing

The latest attack highlights the vulnerability of the Bitcoin Gold network дальше »

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Bitcoin Gold 51% Attacked – Network Loses $70,000 in Double Spends

The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) network suffered another set of 51% attacks on January 23-24, as roughly 29 blocks were removed in two deep blockchain reorganizations (reorgs). Reports indicate that more than 7,000 BTG was double spent as the chain suffered a loss of $70,000 in two days. дальше »

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Will Jack Dorsey Help Propel Bitcoin to $250,000?

Jack Dorsey is working on a kit that can help integrate Lightning Network to bitcoin wallets, thereby boosting scalability and BTC's value. The post Will Jack Dorsey Help Propel Bitcoin to $250,000? appeared first on CCN.com дальше »

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Harmony To Start Rolling Out ONE Token Swap To Native Blockchain

Holders of Harmony’s ONE token who want to participate in the network activities should prepare to swap their BEP-2 (Binance chain) and ERC-20 (Ethereum) tokens for Harmony’s native blockchain coin. The announcement that the Harmony’s token swap is ready to start was made on a blog post Thursday and it said: “The native ONE token […] дальше »

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Ethereum compatibility can boost DApp deployment on ETC: Bob Summerwill

Ethereum Classic [ETC] recently underwent a successful network upgrade on 12 January. The Agharta hardfork included features from the Ethereum Constantinople opcodes, with the same contributing signifThe post Ethereum compatibility can boost DApp deployment on ETC: Bob Summerwill appeared first on AMBCrypto. дальше »

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Litecoin Founder Charlie Lee Proposes 1% Block Reward Funding Plan To Rake in $1.5 Million

Litecoin founder Charlie Lee proposed a donation program to fund the Litecoin network. The donation of just 1% of block rewards amounting to 0. 125 LTC by every miner would generate a fund of $1. 5 million yearly. дальше »

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Ripple Chief Bashes Bitcoin While XRP Tumbles Again

Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse has been bashing Bitcoin again on its potential for becoming a major payments network. Meanwhile, the company’s own digital currency, XRP, has added to its losses this week. дальше »

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Celsius to Implement Compounding Interest on Cryptocurrencies Deposited in Its Wallet

Borrowing and crypto lending platform Celsius's Founder, Alex Mashinsky announced, that starting February 1st, they will begin applying compound interest for their customer's wallets. https://t. co/6taHtJ5jeF — Celsius Network (@CelsiusNetwork) January 22, 2020 The news came in a Twitter AMA (Ask Me Anything), with some other updates also mentioned. дальше »

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Are Mining Death Spiral Believers Holding Bitcoin’s Price From Jumping?

On Jan. 22nd Bitcoin started dropping and today we went to nearly $8,200 level. Currently, we are hovering around $8,400 while managing the daily trading volume of $786 million, as per Messari. Just like price, the hash rate of the network is also staying around 118 Th/s, down from 126 Th/s on Jan. 17, the […] дальше »

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Bitcoin’s Privacy Update Schnorr/Taproot Reaches a New Milestone

One of Bitcoin’s largest to date upgrades that would bring privacy and scalability to the world’s biggest network has passed a new milestone. Earlier this week, a BitcoinCore contributor, Pieter Wuille published the update Taproot as the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal. дальше »

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Litecoin’s Network Activity Could Explode as LTC Turns Bullish

Litecoin saw a substantial amount of value transferred on its network throughout 2019. As the cryptocurrency market appears to have entered a new bull run, this year looks even more promising for LTC. дальше »

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Reebonz Luxury Goods Platform Adopts VeChain (VET)

VeChainThor (VET) a distributed ledger technology (DLT) project that claims to be focused on connecting blockchain technology with the real world, through a robust governance model and IoT integration, has been chosen as the network of choice by Singapore’s Reebonz luxury goods platform. дальше »

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Decentralized storage platform Sia adds streaming video endpoint

Sia, a decentralized blockchain storage platform, announced today the addition of a streaming endpoint. Users can now stream their favorite content from a fast, cost-effective and fully decentralized network. дальше »

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Celsius to Begin Offering Compounding Interest on Crypto Deposits

Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending platform, will begin offering compounded interest on cryptocurrency deposits

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Ethereum Staking Taking Off With Over 1 Million ETH Primed For 2.0

Ethereum prices may not be very positive at the moment but fundamentals are improving as the network gears up for proof of stake. Testnets indicate that up to a million ETH could be already staked in anticipation of Beacon Chain. дальше »

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TRON (TRX) Now Second Largest dApp Ecosystem after Ethereum 

TRON (TRX), the blockchain network powering the 12th-largest cryptocurrency in the world by market capitalization, is now the second most used DLT protocol for the development of decentralized applications (dApp), after Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum, according to the Dapp. дальше »

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Facebook: The Rise of a Giant and the Libra Cryptocurrency

Facebook has wrapped up almost 16 years of history. Founded in 2004 chiefly as a social network company, Facebook initially launched to connect Harvard University students together. The company’s first steps happened at a notorious historical moment, with the first iteration starting off in a Harvard dorm room. дальше »

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DAO for blockchain storage protocol Arweave is now live

The community and core team of Arweave, creators of a decentralized data storage protocol, announced today the live launch of ARCA, a community-governed DAO that will develop and expand the Arweave ecosystem, project, and network. дальше »

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Visa continues to dwarf Bitcoin in this important metric

Despite optimistic predictions, Bitcoin still has a long way to go before it can compete with companies such as Visa. The fiat currency giant reported transaction volume of over $11. 2 trillion in 2018, while Bitcoin network only managed to transact around $2. дальше »

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Binance launches validator node on Theta Network, joining Blockchain Ventures and gumi Cryptos

Leading crypto exchange company Binance, announced it has successfully launched their validator node on the Theta Network. a decentralized video streaming platform. By running an Enterprise Validator Node, Binance joins other global enterprises such as Blockchain Ventures and gumi Cryptos in securing the Theta blockchain and is participating directly in Theta block production. дальше »

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Open crypto liquidity network Alekmi integrates Chainlink

Alkemi, a professional open liquidity network for cryptocurrency, announced today it has integrated with Chainlink to leverage its network of decentralized oracles. Chainlink’s protocol is facilitating trusted marketplaces for obtaining quality oracles, which is quickly becoming the de-facto standard in the Oracle-as-a-Service category. дальше »

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US Finance Giant Bottomline Testing Ripple’s Disruptive Technology

The US-based finance giant Bottomline Technologies is testing blockchain-based Ripple’s remittance network. Laurent Laborde, Solution Architect at Bottomline Technologies says the company is updating its software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, a software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to the customers, to leverage new disruptive technologies including Ripple. The recent […] дальше »

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Payment Provider Square Wins US Patent For Real-Time Crypto-To-Fiat Automatic Swaps

Square has been awarded a patent for a payment network that will allow individuals holding various types of of assets to transact with each other in real-time. The application reads: “The present technology permits a first party to pay in any currency, while permitting the second party to be paid in any currency.” According to […] дальше »

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PayPal Partners with UnionPay to Expand Its Network in China

Coinspeaker PayPal Partners with UnionPay to Expand Its Network in ChinaWithin the partnership, UnionPay cardholders will be able to add their UnionPay cards to PayPal accounts and use them in countries where PayPal is accepted. дальше »

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Draper Goren Holm lead seed round in crypto data/analytics provider LunarCRUSH

Draper Goren Holm, a venture studio focused on accelerating and incubating blockchain and crypto startups along with the Draper Venture Network, announced today it has led a seed round in crypto data/analytics provider, LunarCRUSH. дальше »

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Acala consortium forms to build cross-chain infrastructure for Polkadot

Acala Network, a consortium of decentralized financial projects has been launched this week, with the goal of creating an open cross-chain infrastructure for the Polkadot ecosystem. A work in progress, Polkadot enables cross-blockchain transfers of any type of data or asset. дальше »

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Genesis Ecology Announces Its Blockchain Network That Makes Bitcoin and Existing Blockchain Networks Seem Redundant

The blockchain and cryptocurrency are an undeniably clever invention – the brainchild of a person or group of people known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto. But since then, it has evolved into something greater. дальше »

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More BS on Lightning: Blockstream Pours Liquid on Thick

Blockstream reps have long been pushing for full implementation of the perpetually-delayed Lightning Network as the main solution for BTC scalability. With the recent announcement of “federated sidechain” Liquid’s integration with Btcpay, however, the tune seems to have changed. дальше »

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Бывший партнер Константина Малофеева приобрел криптовалюту Gram на $50 млн

Владельцем офшора Space Investments, вложившего в блокчейн-платформы Telegram Open Network (TON) $50 млн, оказался фонд InVenture Partners. Об этом пишет «Коммерсантъ» со ссылкой на данные Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC). дальше »

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Ethereum Classic Labs (ETC Labs) Supports UNICEF Innovation Fund with $1 Million 

Ethereum Classic Labs (ETC Labs), an incubator that claims to be focused on accelerating innovative projects powered by the Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain network, has announced a $1 million donation to the UNICEF Innovation Fund. дальше »

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Telegram Receives Massive Backing from Blockchain Association for Gram Token Sale Dispute

Coinspeaker Telegram Receives Massive Backing from Blockchain Association for Gram Token Sale DisputeIn the latest post, the Blockchain Association opposed the SEC's stand on blocking the launch of the Telegram Open Network. дальше »

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Ethereum 2.0 Gateway Successfully Verified

Development on Ethereum 2. 0 is continuing to break new grounds as one of the most important smart contracts for the network has just been successfully verified. Ethereum 2. 0 Deposit Contract Ready Tech startup Runtime Verification has reported the successful completion of formal verification of the Ethereum 2. дальше »

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Mining Pools Collude to Fund Bitcoin Cash Infrastructure

Jhiang Zhuoer, CEO of BTC.TOP, a major BCH mining pool, has revealed that top miners have agreed on a proposal to divert 12.5% of the network’s block rewards to infrastructure development. A Controversial Take on Development Funding  Bitcoin Cash is about to embark on yet another string of contentious decisions as the top mining pools […] The post Mining Pools Collude to Fund Bitcoin Cash Infrastructure appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »

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Эстафета по передаче Lightning-факела стартовала снова. Зачем это нужно?

Публичное тестирование возможностей сети Lightning Network возобновилось. Всё верно, тот самый Lightning-факел снова с нами. Напомним, в январе прошлого года криптоэнтузиаст под ником Hodlonaut начал флешмоб с передачей эстафеты. дальше »

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Lightning Network: как я променял рынок ценных бумаг на Биткойн

Я заядлый игрок на рынках. Я один из тех, кто физически зависим от наблюдения за ростом и падением цен на активы, кто постоянно пытается анализировать причину и последствия каждого движения на земле. дальше »

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Sign-up Early to Get Free Access to the Insights Online Summit

What is the Insights Summit? The all online summit co-hosted by FinNexus and Wanchain features expert speakers from top blockchain projects such as Polkadot, Band Protocol, Kava Labs, NKN, Longhash, Nuo Network, Chainlayer, and more! The presentations cover a wide array of topics including those related to blockchain development, technology, marketing, adoption, analysis, media, and […] The post Sign-up Early to Get Free Access to the Insights Online Summit appeared first on NullTX. дальше »

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Polkadot Will Finally Launch This Year – But Is the Multi-Chain Network too Late to Catch Ethereum?

Remember Polkadot? It’s the multi-chain network that raised $145 million in 2017 and hasn’t been seen since. But unlike many of the blockchain projects from that era, Polkadot hasn’t taken the money and run. дальше »

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Bitcoin Cash Miners Preparing Controversial “Miner Tax” to Reward Devs

Miners on the Bitcoin Cash network appear to be preparing a plan to finance the protocol’s development using their own block rewards. The controversial plan would see 12. 5 percent of the total BCH coinbase go towards those building on the network. дальше »

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Bitcoin Confirmation Times Have Dropped 20% Since Q4 2019

A financial publication recently gathered data on Bitcoin transaction times, payment network reliability, and transaction performance — and the results speak positively of the digital currency. Bitcoin’s execution time has been steadily decreasing and improvements in the technology emphasize how cryptocurrencies outdo banks by a considerable margin. дальше »

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Bitmain’s Alleged Connection With Crypto Ponzi Scheme, BitClub, Could Hinder U.S. IPO Plans

Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain Technologies, is in the news again for something negative. This time around, there are reports that the bitcoin mining company is involved with a crypto Ponzi scheme, BitClub Network, causing the company to come under the radar of the U. дальше »

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Centric Launches New Dual Token Economic Model

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Centric Launches New Dual Token Economic Model

Centric is a dual cryptocurrency payment network.

Centric Launches New Dual Token Economic Model

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Bitcoin Nodes Go Ultra Private Thanks to TOR Network

According to recent data from Bitnodes, 2020 has brought a large new movement of anonymity within Bitcoin nodes, many of which went anonymous thanks to the TOR Network. Privacy is Back On Trend 2020 is going to be a big year for Bitcoin for a number of reasons. дальше »

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Jack Dorsey’s Square Wins Patent for Fiat-to-Crypto Payments Network

Square's newly awarded patent enables seamless transactions between a number of potential asset types including crypto. дальше »

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CoinField seeks to develop crypto exchange franchises in 15 countries

European crypto exchange company CoinField, announced today it is launching a global franchise network. With the new franchise model, CoinField will provide business partners with access to its fully regulated and licensed fiat-to-crypto exchange based in the EU. дальше »

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Square разрабатывает инструменты для интеграции Lightning Network

Криптовалютное подразделение Square объявило о создании набора инструментов, который позволит разработчикам кошельков биткоина интегрировать поддержку Lightning Network в свои продукты. дальше »

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