Blockchain News

Blockstream developer Rusty Russell has revealed more details about the Lightning Network vulnerability, which first became known in late August. As Russell wrote, the vulnerability arose during the creation and replenishment of its channels. In particular, when creating a channel, the recipient...

RSK a Bitcoin smart contract startup, which describes itself as the “first open-source smart contract platform secured by the bitcoin network”, announced that it is buying Spanish social media platform Taringa. The connection of two companies will let users share their content and get rewards...

The founders of the cryptocurrency trading platform My Crypto Trade (MCT) completed an exit scam by stealing user funds from the platform. The total damage, according to minimal estimates, amounted to 100 thousand euros in cryptocurrency. Being the moderator of MCT Discord chat for over a year and...

The most long-awaited IT conference of the year will be held in Armenia. It will also cover the topic of using the blockchain technology. WCIT 2019 will be held in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan from October 6 to 9. The conference is held in Armenia with the support and under the high patronage of...

On Tuesday, September 17, a public beta of the Hedera Hashgraph PoS blockchain was launched with a declared bandwidth of 10,000 Tps. We did it. The trust layer of the internet is here. What future will you build? https://t.co/gTWBCGxSv1 #HelloFuture #BREAKING #BreakingNews...

Coinme, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency ATM provider, raised $1.5 million. We are thrilled to announce our that @Ripple's #Xpring and the newly established #Blockchain Finance Fund have made investments as part of our recently opened A-1 funding round.Full Release: https://t.co/yjNH4JiQpR...

EOS block manufacturers have decided to activate version 1.8 of the EOSIO protocol on Monday, September 23. This will be the first hard fork and the biggest update in the project history. Coming out of today's 1.8 status call, EOS Upgrade Status is still green - on track for successful upgrade...

The developer of the blockchain system of electronic voting at the elections to the Moscow City Duma, the company "CryptoPRO" called the cause of its failure - a violation of the rules of operation of the equipment. This was announced by RBC. According to representatives of the company,...

Telegram Open Network the most foreseen project of the famous messenger app is being openly tested. It’s declared that TON is going to be designed so it can adapt to Ethereum. This option is going to facilitate users porting smart contracts into the innovative system. Telegram is one of the fast...

A new report by McAfee Labs says that the number of attacks using hidden miners in the first quarter of this year increased by 29% compared to the previous period. According to the researchers, users of various operating systems are susceptible to attacks: both Microsoft's Windows and macOS from...

At the beginning of the year, automotive supplier Continental revealed a telematics platform, which collects data on the blockchain - and this move would give drivers more control over the data the manufacturer might share with third parties. Data Monetization Platform (DMP) eases the process of...

Binance exchange launched the Binance X initiative, in which it intends to attract third-party developers to create open-source projects based on its ecosystem of the site. So, Binance offers developers to “learn”, “collaborate” and “grow”. For training, there are already libraries...

A VMware pick and shovel company helps numerous enterprise outfits incorporate the technology made famous for underpinning bitcoin in a decentralized and scalable manner. The journey of this company began by doing its own work on the technology only then developing own model of operating. Pratima...

Ethereum’s digital ledger, which was thought to be a greater version of Bitcoin, is running out of capacity. Co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin warned that the price of processing transactions performed in the digital token Ether on the underlying blockchain may become too expensive for some...

The Chinese giant Bitmain allegedly placed an application for the purchase of 600,000 mining chips, which in the future could bring the company an additional $1.2 billion in profit. This was reported by the Block. The information came from a source close to TSMC, Taiwan's largest semiconductor...

In the Chinese province of Sichuan as a result of heavy rains began floods and landslides, as a result of which a large mining farm was destroyed. A video of the incident has already been posted online. A local mining farm based in Sichuan, China was DEVASTATED by the recent heavy rainfall in the...

For becoming more open and productive, Vodafone, a telecom titan, started a collaboration with IBM. Involving blockchain technology, IBM began its path to supplier compliance improvement and simplification. The project is named Trust Your Supplier and it involves numerous leader...

French cryptographer Pierreck Godry hacked the Internet voting system developed by the Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT), which put some of its components in the public domain, inviting everyone to find vulnerabilities, Meduza reports. So, the developers of DIT published encrypted...