Cryptocurrency News

The transaction volume in the Ethereum network in December 2018 reached $115 million, which according to specialists of the analytics company Diar is the maximum value over the entire existence of the Ethereum project...

A special virus has been discovered in China aimed at attacking mining equipment created by the company Bitmain. It is noted that the virus attacks Antminer from Bitmain and extorts 10 BTC from their owners under the threat of overheating the device and causing it to fail...

As early as next month, cryptocurrencies may set a record for the longest bear market. The cryptocurrency bear market has already lasted almost 400 days. The last time this happened was in 2014-2015, and this will be the longest bear market in the history of cryptocurrencies...

According to data from Coin ATM Radar, on average four Bitcoin ATMs are installed worldwide every day. And as of January 1, 2019, 4128 crypto ATMs have already been installed worldwide, which is 8 times more than were installed at the beginning of 2016...

A new update for the EOS cryptocurrency platform will increase its throughput capacity by more than 30%. The development team noted that the update to the platform's software should significantly increase its throughput, which will reduce transaction processing time and sharply increase their total number...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network will probably be activated at the end of February. This decision was made during a conference call on the morning of January 18. The Ethereum developers proposed carrying out the transition of the Ethereum network to the new software between February 26 and 28...

Interest in cryptocurrency in general and Bitcoin in particular is not waning. Today you can buy Bitcoin on cryptocurrency exchanges or on payment services, and more than a hundred Bitcoin exchangers are operating. And now Americans will soon be able to buy Bitcoin in grocery stores for cash...

On January 14, HTC finally began the shipments of the long-awaited "blockchain smartphone" Exodus 1, which had been planned back in December. The main difference between the Exodus 1 and ordinary smartphones is that it runs on the Exodus blockchain and has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet...

Bitcoin has once again begun to bring profit to miners. The BTC hashrate has continued to grow since the final stage of last year and has already risen by 35% over the past three months. Thus, in November 2018 the productivity of mining pools was 32 million TH/s, and today it has grown to 43.5 million TH/s...