According to analyst firm Glassnode, about 93% of all BTC addresses contain “profitable” bitcoins after the price of the cryptocurrency exceeded $ 11,000. According to Glassnode, these addresses contain bitcoins, which have increased in value since they were transferred to the wallet. Now the number of such addresses has exceeded 93% of all BTC addresses. Moreover, on July 20, there were no more than 72% of such addresses. The last time over 90% of addresses

Iran has allowed large-scale BTC mining operations at power plants. Interested businesses will have to follow certain rules, some of them have already applied for mining. According to local Irna News, Iran has allowed the country’s largest power plant operators to deploy and operate Bitcoin mining farms subject to certain rules. Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, deputy head of Iran’s national electricity council, Tavanir, said power plants can mine BTC if they comply with regulatory requirements, obtain

Over the past three days, Tether has issued USDT stablecoins totaling $ 540 million on the Tron and Ethereum blockchains, according to Whale Alert. According to the analytical service Whale Alert, on July 29, USDT worth $ 300 million was issued on the Tron blockchain. In addition, on July 22 and 23, the service recorded two more operations to issue USDT stablecoins on the Ethereum blockchain. Each of them was the equivalent of $ 120

According to analysts, 892,000 BTC are associated with illegal activities and are in the darknet markets, in the hands of scammers or hackers. That being said, most of these BTC end up on cryptocurrency exchanges. According to the analytical company Chainalysis, there are about 585,000 BTC on the darknet markets, cryptocurrency scammers control about 99,000 BTC, and 205,000 BTC were stolen by cybercriminals. Another 3,000 BTC is controlled by other users associated with criminal activity.

R3’s Corda Enterprise platform integrates the Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) smart contract language developed by American startup Digital Asset. Currently, Corda developers can only create applications using the Kotlin language created by JetBrains. The code of this programming language is executed in Javascript and the Java virtual machine. DAML was created in 2016. It is intended for financial institutions, and is used to draw up and execute agreements using distributed ledger technology. Digital Asset

The Chinese TON community announced the launch of the TON Community blockchain test network, created on the basis of Telegram developments, and the distribution of 10 million TONcoins. Chinese TON Community project founder Tooz Wu said the testnet is called “testnet3” and is based on the official Telegram Open Network (TON) test network, often called “testnet2”. Since the developer of TON said that the platform’s testnet would be closed by August 1, 2020, the Chinese

The Dash Core Group recently released Dash Platform v0.14, and are planning to roll out another update to the platform towards the end of August. The Dash Core Group announced Dash Platform v0.14 on their blog last week. This release was the third in the updated regulated development process, and the fifth overall. According to the developers, new functionality will be added approximately every six weeks, and the next update will be released between August

The Free TON blockchain with the native TON Crystal token is ready to continue the story of Pavel Durov’s failed project. At the end of May, it became known that Telegram was stopping work on the TON project and the GRAM cryptocurrency due to pressure from the SEC, the US stock market regulator. Developers from TON Labs, together with other companies, decided to continue working on the launch of the network, but under a different

Broker-dealer Watchdog Capital, regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is preparing to launch the Gladius platform for issuing stock tokens. Watchdog said in a statement that the platform will be able to provide companies with better access to capital as well as better opportunities for investors. Gladius was developed to comply with regulatory requirements and US securities laws and is currently in beta mode. Bruce Fenton, CEO of Watchdog parent company Chainstone

Equivalent $ 180 million bitcoins are locked on the Ethereum blockchain – mostly in WBTC, sBTC and renBTC tokens. Of these, about 1000 BTC are blocked on the Lightning Network. According to Dune Analytics, some $ 180 million worth of BTC is currently locked on the Ethereum blockchain. Mainly in Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) tokens, sBTC Synthetix and renBTC Ren Project – stablecoins fully backed by Bitcoin. As a reminder, 4,800 BTC were transferred to Ethereum