The COVID-19 pandemic is making cash-based societies all over the world sink into oblivion with the help of decentralized technologies. Technology has always been one of the main drivers that has boosted social changes. Of course, there have been other reasons: wars, natural cataclysms and disasters, plague pandemics and more. Speaking of such, the current […]
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A single mining pool managed to mine six consecutive blocks on the Bitcoin network, raising the question of whether that’s a challenge to security or an improbable coincidence? Questions about Bitcoin’s security cropped up on May 18, when the F2Pool mining pool mined six consecutive blocks on the BTC blockchain, covering block numbers 630804 to […]
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John McAfee’s anonymity-oriented Ghost project plagiarizes PIVX blockchain in “at least 20 of the 26 total pages” of its whitepaper, PIVX developers claim. John McAfee’s anonymity-oriented Ghost project has largely plagiarized its whitepaper, according to developers of privacy coin PIVX. “After a detailed investigation, it is obvious the GHOST whitepaper was plagiarized extensively from an […]
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Free TON launches first community contests, planning to distribute thousands of TON Crystals among winners and participants. Free TON, a decentralized blockchain network derived from Telegram’s TON blockchain, is launching the first community contests to power its network. Starting Monday, users, developers and validators are invited to participate in three separate contests, with Free TON […]
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Crypto fans witnessed another episode of Billions featuring a plot focused on a Bitcoin mining operation. The world of cryptocurrencies figured prominently in the newest episode of the Showtime series Billions, which was broadcast on Sunday. The story revolved around a crypto mining scheme in a preparatory school. Notably, the episode was written by Ben Mezrich, […]
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According to Anthony “The Pomp” Pompliano, we can expect a recession that will be far worse than the Great Depression of 1929 and the early 1930s. He reports that unemployment numbers at best have a one-week lag time, and on the ground, it looks far worse. States anticipate an explosion in economic data after reopening […]
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Huobi Group rebranded its derivatives trading platform as Huobi Futures in a bid to attract more investors to cryptocurrency derivates trading. Huobi Group has rebranded its cryptocurrency derivatives exchange platform Huobi DM to Huobi Futures. According to the announcement from spokesperson and head of Huobi global business Ciara Sun the new name of the exchange […]
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Top Chinese digital bank WeBank is partnering with OpenNodes to drive blockchain innovation among Singaporean universities. China’s top digital bank, WeBank, has partnered with OpenNodes, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform by Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority. Through the new partnership, WeBank will provide the FISCO BCOS blockchain platform to Singaporean academics to innovate and […]
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Only 95 blocks were generated on the Bitcoin blockchain on Sunday due to the recent halving, an analyst argues. There were only 95 blocks generated on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain on May 18, according to data presented by pseudonymous Bitcoin analyst digitalik.net. “In [the] last 10 years we had only 8 days with less than […]
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Ethereum is posting higher lows against its Bitcoin pair in recent weeks and this is a bullish sign for a possible breakout for ETH price. While the focus has been on Bitcoin (BTC) price recently, it is slowly shifting towards different projects. There’s a straightforward reason for that: the halving has passed by, so the […]
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