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The cryptocurrency-friendly browser Brave was at the center of a high-profile scandal after there were found embedded referral links leading to the sites of several bitcoin exchanges and wallets in it. The corresponding function in the source code of the browser was discovered by the host of the...

The activity of miners in the BTC network increased sharply after another recalculation of complexity. This is evidenced by three key indicators indicated by venture investor Alex Thorne. Over the past week, the bitcoin hash has increased by about 30%, reaching 126.5 EH/s. Thus, this indicator was...

Moscow authorities have opened an entry to participate in online voting on constitutional amendments. The transparency of the vote will be ensured by the blockchain, the capital’s mayor’s website says. Voting will last from June 25 to 30. The message indicates that the blockchain will ensure...

Faced with a decline in income after the May halving, miners again began to sell more bitcoins than they currently earn. This is stated in a new report by Arcane Research. A metric proposed by analysts called Miner’s Rolling Inventory [MRI] tracks the difference between the number of coins that...

In April, the mining pool owned by the Binance team began work. The first block in the BTC network it got on April 24. That was announced by the head of the trading platform, Changpen Zhao. On the eve of Twitter, he posted a post in which he noted that Binance Pool took eighth place in the ranking...

OKEx has launched option contracts for ether (ETH) since June 4, and also announced the upcoming launch of options for EOS crypto on June 18. The company also announced that it has already placed 1,000 ETH in the insurance fund for new Ethereum options. An OKEx announcement says options allow you...

Recently, the Supreme Court of India lifted the Reserve Bank’s ban on crypto services by local financial organizations. Internet users took the court decision as a relaxation of pressure on the industry and sharply increased investment in bitcoin. An inflow of capital was recorded by the Paxful...

More than 50 Revolut fintech startup employees have lost their jobs. The company invited them to either write a letter of resignation by agreement of the parties with the payment of a small compensation or to be dismissed for unsatisfactory work, reports Wired. Layoffs affected Revolut employees...

The philosopher and author of the cult work “Black Swan” Nassim Taleb closed his account on the American bitcoin exchange Coinbase. He complained that his support request was ignored. I closed the @coinbase account (opened a few months ago). Like Must, they answered me (blue check) when I...

Splinterlands, the largest decentralized app on the Steem blockchain, migrated to the Hive network. This allowed the “rebel” platform to overtake its predecessor for the first time in terms of the number of transactions and the market value of the token. The Hive network was formed on March 23...

Known for her friendship with digital assets, Hester Peirce has been nominated by US President Donald Trump for a second term as Special Commissioner for the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is reported by Bloomberg. If she is approved by the US Senate, her term of office, which expires on...

Coinbase has reduced the payment of charges for storing USDC by 88%. So far, Coinbase users have received 1.25% per annum; Since June 3, remuneration has decreased to 0.15%. Coinbase did not name the reasons for this step, but it follows similar actions by large banks - Bank of America, HSBC,...

Altcoin Cardano (ADA) has fixed itself on the tenth line of the rating of the most comprehensive digital currencies according to the CoinMarketCap service. From this position, he knocked out a Tezos coin (XTZ), which for a long time, confidently stayed in the top ten. Today, Cardano's...

According to the forecasts of researchers from the company CipherTrace, 2020 will be a record year in the scale of crimes related to cryptocurrencies. The team published a report in which it drew attention to the fact that a little less than $ 1.4 billion in digital currency was stolen during the...

Venezuela has announced that gas stations nationwide will sell gas at a reduced price in exchange for the state-owned cryptocurrency Petro. However, the government immediately removed local subsidies for gasoline, as a result of which its price rose to $ 0.02 per liter. The new regime will allow...

A journalistic blockchain startup from New York Civil announced the closure after four years of operation. This was reported on the project website. According to CEO of Civil Matthew Iles, the company created an innovative product, but later it turned out that the project could not support itself...

Jack Dorsey's Square Crypto announced the allocation of another grant for the development of Bitcoin's Layer 2 network, Lightning Network's infrastructure. It was received by the Spanish developers' team Talaia, working on the service The Eye of Satoshi. The Eye of Satoshi is the so-called...

Stablecoin Tether (USDT) is now available on OMG Network, the Plasma-based Ethereum sidechain, whose public beta was launched on June 1 by the OMG team (previously OmiseGo). According to ETH Gas Station, over the past 30 days, Tether is the largest "consumer" of gas on the Ethereum...