BTC and securities of Elon Musk’s company first appeared on trading floors in July 2010. Which of the assets to consider for buying and the price of which may collapse the day after tomorrow? Elon Max’s company Tesla in the crypto community began to be called the bitcoin of the stock market. The reason for this lies in the explosive rise in value. The electric car maker was first listed on the stock exchange in

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit will prohibit the trading of fiat currencies to foreign traders and will focus on serving local users due to regulatory uncertainty. Upbit, a South Korean exchange, is concerned that the marketplace is having difficulties in bringing digital and fiat currency trading to international users. The key problem is the impossibility of securing uncontrolled trading in fiat currencies using verified bank accounts. Upbit announced that it has entered into a

Despite the decrease in energy consumption of BTC miners shortly after the halving, when inefficient AISC miners began to disconnect from the network, this figure has now started to rise again. After bitcoin halving in May, when the reward for mining a block for miners fell from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC, many unprofitable and inefficient ASIC miners left the network. Then it was reported that the energy consumption of Bitcoin miners decreased by 24%,

Binance wants to consolidate more hashrate of the Bitcoin network from Russia and Central Asia in its pool by deploying a physical server node at the BitRiver mining site in Bratsk. As reported by Binance and BitRiver, the initiative will allow BitRiver ASIC miners who decide to switch to Binance to get a better connection and direct routing to the mining pool. In turn, Binance will have access to clients who manage devices hosted on

In the anonymous Zcash cryptocurrency blockchain, the Heartwood hard fork is activated on block 903,000. The update will ensure mining privacy. Heartwood is the fourth update to the Zcash network since the advent of this cryptocurrency in 2016. Heartwood was activated with the support of the Zcash Foundation and the Electric Coin Company (ECC), supporting the development of the Zcash cryptocurrency. The update contains two suggestions for improving Zcash (ZIP): “Shielded Coinbase” (ZIP 213), which

ESET specialists discovered the GMERA Trojan, which steals cryptocurrencies from traders. The software is distributed under the guise of crypto asset trading applications on Apple MacOS. ESET, a cybersecurity company, said malware has been integrated into fake cryptocurrency trading applications. After installing these extensions, it begins to steal digital assets from user wallets. Attackers impersonate the Kattana trading platform. They copied the site of the service and promote their software under the guise of four

Bitcoin Core team member Jeremy Rubin is working on a new smart contract language for Bitcoin that will increase user control over their BTC. Jeremy Rubin showed off the new Sapio language on Saturday at the RecklessVR virtual reality presentation meeting, which many audience members joined in VR headsets. He plans to release a programming language as part of his new research organization, Judica. Stateful smart contracts that fix state enable users to save money

Head of Audit Firm Quantstamp Richard Ma announced that he is ready to launch the Prysm client to upgrade Ethereum 2.0. Prysm got the approval of the auditor after the Ethereum developers started discussing the launch date of the zero-stage update last week. Justin Drake suggested that it will be released no earlier than January 3, 2021, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin insists that its deployment begin this year. To date, nine clients using different

The Ethereum developer has proposed introducing stateless clients into the current version of Ethereum to scale the network with minimal security damage. The amount of account balances supported by network nodes, called state, continues to increase as applications and projects interact. An independent developer Alexei Akhunov may have a solution to this problem, the idea of ​​which he borrowed from the Cosmos project. The new proposal, dubbed ReGenesis, was published on EthResearch in June. It

The custodial service BitGo integrates a tool into cryptocurrency wallets that ensures compliance with the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force on Combating Money Laundering (FATF). BitGo company announced that it was the first cryptocurrency wallet operator with a built-in API that will allow you to transfer additional information about users and their transactions. The new BitGo tool aims to increase transparency and meet the requirements for virtual asset service providers (VASPs). According to