Cryptocurrencies

Despite the fact that the ProgPoW (Programmatic Proof-of-Work) algorithm existed earlier as well, until recently it did not generate such a buzz around itself. However, after Ethereum's (ETH) decision to switch from Ethash to ProgPoW in the near future, interest in this algorithm is beginning to grow...

Experts from the analytics company LongHash compared the activity of mining pools on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. As it turned out, Bitcoin is the most decentralized cryptocurrency among the compared cryptocurrencies...

An attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain was noticed by Coinbase staff on the evening of January 5. As a result of the investigation it was revealed that the network fell victim to a so-called 51% attack, during which 219,000 ETC was stolen - approximately $1.1 million. In response, Coinbase froze all transactions

From now on, customers of Parisian tobacco shops will be able to buy not only cigarettes, cigars, lottery tickets and other items, but also the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. As the Reuters agency reports, for now, with the support of the fintech company Keplerk, bitcoins will be available in six tobacco stores in Paris...

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the Beam Wallet crypto wallet. This was reported by the development team of the Beam cryptocurrency. The identified vulnerability poses a risk to users of all desktop and CLI versions of the application...

Ripple may overtake Bitcoin in market capitalization. Such a statement was made by analysts at Weiss Ratings. The analytics agency Weiss Ratings published a ranking of promising cryptocurrencies, in which the XRP token climbed several positions...

The Ethereum hard fork – Constantinople – is due to take place from January 14 to 18. Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, Hotbit, BitMart, ABCC, Bittrex, Huobi, EtherFlyer, TOK, BitForex and others have announced their readiness to support the upcoming Ethereum Constantinople hard fork...

The Kodak company has reported the successful testing of the KODAKOne blockchain platform for image rights management. Since October 2018, when the KODAKOne blockchain platform began beta testing, it has processed 1667 applications and identified cases of copyright infringement on photographs amounting to $1 million...

The response to the Ethereum developers' decision to block ASIC miners' access to the Ethereum network was the intention of the Chinese mining company Linzhi to develop a new ASIC miner that will make it possible to mine Ethereum (ETH) using a new algorithm – ProgPoW...

Which cryptocurrencies are promising? Which cryptocurrency to invest in? A well-known cryptocurrency investor has presented his own system for identifying cryptocurrencies worth investing in. In his opinion, the criteria described should form the basis of the fundamental analysis of any crypto market player, and