Several users of the BlockFi cryptocurrency loan service unexpectedly received gifts in bitcoins One of the users received more than $ 28 million. According to the rules of the promotion, bonuses are paid “as a lump sum in the form of GUSD”. It looks like the BlockFi programmers got it wrong and some users got Bitcoin bonuses. One of them shared a screenshot with over 700 BTC credited, which at the current exchange rate is…
The Ethereum Foundation has released information on the vulnerability fixed in the Berlin hard fork. The vulnerability was discovered back in 2019 and could lead to the shutdown of the Ethereum blockchain. According to a blog post by the Ethereum Foundation, a vulnerability was discovered two years ago that posed a “serious threat to Ethereum” and was fixed after the Berlin hard fork was activated last month. The threat was a “public knowledge” and the…
The authorities in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia are urging local residents to report illegal activities of cryptocurrency miners in order to reduce electricity consumption. Regulators in Inner Mongolia have long been trying to tighten controls over the mining industry. In March, regulators proposed to completely ban the mining of cryptocurrencies in the province to save electricity. In another attempt to “crowd out” miners, the Inner Mongolia Development and Reform Commission (DRC) has presented…
The ten largest Bitcoin mining pools have signaled in favor of activating Taproot. In general, the update was supported by pools that control over 87% of the network hashrate. To activate, it remains to collect only 3%. The vote to roll out Taproot, the largest Bitcoin update in years, continues. All ten largest Bitcoin mining pools have expressed support for the upgrade. Preparations for activating Taproot began as planned on May 5th. Mining pools, representing…
According to Galaxy Digital researchers, the traditional banking system and the gold mining industry each separately consume twice as much electricity as the Bitcoin network. Specialists of the mining division of Galaxy Digital, owned by Michael Novogratz, published a report “On Energy Consumption by Bitcoin Miners: A Quantitative Approach to a Subjective Question.” According to their estimates, the annual electricity consumption for bitcoin mining is 113.89 TWh. This includes the energy consumed by miners, pools…
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 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…
The Central Bank of Bahrain announced a partnership with the American bank JPMorgan Chase and the Arab Banking Corporation BSC (Bank ABC) to test the blockchain for international settlements. The central bank of Bahrain has announced that a pilot project will be launched with these banks to implement a blockchain-based solution for instant cross-border payments. They will be carried out in US dollars between Bahrain and US buyers and suppliers. During testing, banks plan to…
Samsung has added support for Ledger Nano hardware wallets to the Samsung Blockchain Wallet that ships with Galaxy smartphones. In 2019, the Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone received a key store for cryptocurrency wallets. Samsung Blockchain Wallet supports BTC, ETH, TRX, as well as ERC-20 and TRC-20 tokens. The Decentralized Application Developer Kit (SDK) allows third parties to create applications, including services for paying for goods and services in cryptocurrencies, by scanning a merchant’s QR code.…
Ether capitalization exceeded $ 500 billion at a rate of $ 4370. This mark became the next historical maximum of the ether, but after reaching it, it immediately went into correction. Over the past day, ETH has grown by more than 6.4%, and over the past seven days it has shown an increase of about 30%. As a result of such a surge in the exchange rate, the capitalization of ether crossed the “round mark”,…
