Cryptocurrencies

A blockchain platform has been launched in Switzerland that allows users to acquire a share in real estate in the form of tokens. So the tokenization of real assets appears to be becoming a new trend in the global economy...

On the night of Wednesday, December 19, the difficulty of mining Bitcoin fell by 9.5%, which increased the profitability of mining the cryptocurrency. At the beginning of winter, the mining difficulty of Bitcoin underwent the second largest drop in its entire history — by 15%...

At present, 90% of all Monero has already been mined. What next? Next comes an emission period called Tail Emission. The issuance of coins will not stop, but the block reward will decrease and will amount to 0.3 XMR per minute...

The other day, while using NVidia GTX 1060 3 GB graphics cards for mining rigs, a problem was discovered - these graphics cards have simply stopped mining ETC and will soon be done with Ethereum. And this situation is sad also because, at current exchange rates, a rig of even eight GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards earns

On December 17, Western Union Global Money Transfer, a company specializing in providing money intermediary services, announced its readiness to work with cryptocurrencies to facilitate international payments. Odilon Almeida, president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, said that Western Union is ready to make

In the run-up to the New Year, hackers appear to be working tirelessly, releasing ever more new kinds of malicious software. Just recently researchers discovered a new variety of cryptojacking malware called L0rdix...

Israel's largest financial services company, GMT, has joined the Ripple network. Founded in 2001, GMT has 250 branches in Israel alone, specializing in money transfers, medical insurance for tourists and foreign workers, currency exchange, prepaid card issuance, and other financial services...

At the end of October, a software update of the Zcash cryptocurrency network took place. The developers implemented new transaction-processing algorithms, which made it possible to significantly increase their speed and security. However, according to statements by analysts of the BL Blockspur service, which tracks

The application being developed will make it possible to use bidirectional payment channels in the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. The start of the development process for the new feature was announced by Chris Pacia, who published a post on the Medium portal, where he shared some details of the development...

Intel has registered a patent for a processor and a hardware accelerator developed specifically for the SHA-256 encryption algorithm used in Bitcoin mining. This equipment is tailored for mining the leading cryptocurrency and is designed to make it more efficient and less energy-intensive...