Daily Archives: 17/05/2021

Cryptwerk: Monero is growing in popularity for payments

More than 950 merchants around the world accept confidential cryptocurrencies to pay for goods and services, despite growing interest in XMR from regulators. According to updated data from Cryptwerk – an online directory of companies, websites, stores and services that support payments for goods and services in cryptoassets – the adoption of XMR for payments is growing. According to CoinMarketCap, Monero is one of the most famous and popular cryptocurrencies, with a market cap close…

Ethereum Developers will postpone the activation of the “complexity bomb” until December

Ethereum developers have agreed to postpone the activation of the “difficulty bomb” scheduled for this summer until December, when the merger of ETH1 and ETH2 is to take place. At the end of last week, Ethereum developers agreed on how to delay the activation of the “difficulty bomb”, which, if left unchecked, will begin to slow down the network this summer. Difficulty Bomb is an old piece of code that makes Ethereum mining slower and…