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This week, the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange carried out the largest dollar-denominated transaction in the history of Bitcoin in the amount of 161,500 BTC or about $1.1 billion. The transaction fee was only 0.00010019 BTC or $0.68, TheCryptoAssociate writes. The transaction was carried out on...

The China Electronic Information Industry Development (CCID) has published the next 17th cryptocurrency rating in a row, in which EOS still ranked first. Bitcoin (BTC) moved down to rank 14, skipping ahead Cosmos (ATOM), Stellar (XLM) and DASH. The three leaders in comparison with the previous...

The New York-based hybrid powerhouse Greenidge Generation has entered into its first regulated contract to sell computing power for Bitcoin mining. The buyer, who acquired a hash rate of 106 petaheshes, was an unnamed institutional investor. The purpose of such contracts, according to the broker...

Binance decided to enlarge support for fiat money by adding 5 more currencies. It seems that the platform plan to introduce 180 fiat currencies before the end of 2020 is being implemented successfully. On April 10, the exchange published that now owners of Colombian pesos (COP), South Korean won...

Smartphone maker HTC has announced a partnership with Midas Labs ASIC device developer, so EXODUS 1S owners will be able to mine Monero in the DeMiner application. It is reported by The Block. According to the main blockchain developer of HTC Phil Chen, the upcoming application in the second...

Bitcoin receives support from Visa corporation, which started collaborating with the Fold startup to create a credit card with a BTC cashback. CEO of the startup Will Reeves stated that Bitcoin users would be rewarded with up to 10% of purchases made using Fold and Visa credit cards. He believes...

Chinese mining corporation Canaan Creative proclaimed a net loss of $148.6 million for 2019. On Thursday, April 9, the organization published its initial income report since the IPO on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in November. After an IPO of $90M, the value of the company's shares fell significantly...

Residents of 25 European countries will be able to use the BUX Crypto application from the Dutch fintech company BUX to trade bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in euros and with zero commission for holders of native tokens. We’re proud to announce that BUX Crypto is LIVE 🎉 To celebrate the...

On the night of April 10, the first halving took place on the BSV network. As a result, the reward for miners was reduced from 12.5 BSV to 6.25 BSV. The halving took place at block #630000 00:48 UTC. The indicated block was found by the SBICrypto.com pool, which is part of the structure of the...

According to the results of the IV quarter of 2019, the crypto bank of billionaire Mike Novogratz Galaxy Digital received a loss of $32.9 million. The company disclosed financial indicators in a press release. In the framework of the conference call, after the publication of the reports, the head...

As a result of another recalculation, the complexity of mining of BTC has grown by almost 3.5% from 13.9 to 14.4 trillion hashes. On March 26, the indicator experienced the second-largest decline in history, falling immediately by 15.95%. This was the result of a sharp reduction in the hash rate of...

Shorter than a day after the halving in the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) system, the computing power unexpectedly dropped to a minimum. A surge in the activity of miners was recorded a few days before the halving. BCH hashrate exceeded 4.3 exhash per second (EH/s) in early April. After reducing the block...

Late in the evening of April 7, DEX Bisq suddenly shut down trading after it discovered a “critical security vulnerability.” Bisq sounded the alarm, determining that the hacker took advantage of the vulnerability of the exchange software and stole cryptos worth more than $250,000 from users....

Numerous crypto exchanges expect a rush in interest in bitcoin thanks to the halving (drop in the reward of miners). A recent statement from the Gemini platform notes that after halving, many people's attitudes toward cryptocurrency will change. They will see that Bitcoin technology is independent...

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft decided to help hospitals and protect them from extortion attacks. Microsoft has identified dozens of healthcare facilities with vulnerable VPNs and other publicly accessible gateway applications. The company explained: “When organizations switched to remote...

Paxful’s P2P platform for bitcoin trading has allowed customers to make transactions for the purchase and sale of the first cryptocurrency for physical gold. The company announced this on its blog. Site CEO Ray Youssef sees growing interest in gold as a safe investment in light of the recession...

Tesla, an electric car manufacturer, became one of the participants in a pilot test of a blockchain application designed to accelerate the import of goods into China. The project was led by a Hong Kong-based supplier of supply chain technology, CargoSmart Limited. In addition to Tesla, COSCO...

Analyst Coinmetrics considers that the current market supply of BTC at 18.3 million coins doesn't reflect real liquidity. According to the information, 2.3M BTC is forever lost or concentrated in the hands of long-term investors. These coins did not move for more than five years. A similar...