[ad_2][ad_1] Tether’s growth is reaching new all-time highs across multiple blockchains, but the first protocol to support Tether is being left behind. Omni Layer, based on Bitcoin, has experienced negative growth in Tether transactions for the past 12 consecutive months. Tether’s offering on the Omni Layer also dropped by more …
Read More »Bitcoin, Ripple and Litecoin – American Wrap: 5/5/2020
[ad_2][ad_1] Bitcoin Price Analysis: Is There Still Buying Conviction at These Levels? Bitcoin stutters at the 9K level as there appears to be a lull in the cryptocurrency market on Tuesday. The volume looks subtle and the candles are doji of an indecisive nature. The price also fell below the …
Read More »Litecoin Mimblewimble Integration sees test builds and Codebase Progress
[ad_2][ad_1] The lead developer of the Litecoin Mimblewimble (MW) project, David Burkett, has now created a functional testing framework and has begun to integrate development work done so far into the Litecoin code base. According to a May 1 report on Litecointalk forums, the project to implement MW’s privacy enhancements …
Read More »Hackers plant crypto miners by exploiting the flaw in the popular Salt Framework server
[ad_2][ad_1] A group of hackers installed crypto mining malware on a corporate server due to a weak point in Salt, a popular infrastructure tool used by IBM, LinkedIn and eBay. Blogging platform Ghost said on Sunday that an attacker successfully infiltrated its Salt-based server infrastructure and implemented a crypto-mining virus. …
Read More »Why hackers moving to Monero can improve the legitimacy of bitcoins
[ad_2][ad_1] Sign up for our daily cybersecurity briefing for free today. SmartBrief on Cybersecurity recently covered an intriguing story: A group of hackers announced they are switching to Monero, a form of cryptocurrency that may be impossible to track. No longer satisfied with stealing from ordinary people at random, the …
Read More »Iran licenses Bitcoin mining firm for $ 7.3 million, move to ease US sanctions
[ad_2][ad_1] Iran has issued a license to mine bitcoin to Iminer, a company based in Turkey. Iminer will operate up to 6,000 rigs, with a computing power of 96,000 terahash per second (TH / s) in total. According to media reports, the miner spent $ 7.3 million on the creation …
Read More »9 countries show huge growth in interest in cryptocurrencies: Coinmarketcap
[ad_2][ad_1] Coinmarketcap revealed the top countries with the largest increase in the number of users. One segment shows the countries with the highest user growth in the first quarter include India, Pakistan, Colombia, Canada, and Nigeria. The countries with the highest growth in female users include Greece and Romania. 46% …
Read More »Binance groups the mining game among centralization concerns
[ad_2][ad_1] This week marked the launch of Binance Pool, a mining platform powered by one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coming less than a month after Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed rumors of this upcoming addition to his company’s product family born of an idea, the announcement …
Read More »Bitcoin chain data suggests miners expect halving to raise BTC price
[ad_2][ad_1] As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold and new signs of blocks slowly starting to lift in Europe, all eyes in the crypto community have returned to the Bitcoin (BTC) halving. There are only 10 days left until the event and Bitcoin’s price appears to be acting accordingly, having …
Read More »Ripple’s XRP sales drop to $ 1.75 million as ODL network volume triples
[ad_2][ad_1] Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) payment network tripled in transaction volume in the last quarter according to the just released Q1 2020 XRP Markets report. The dollar value traded using ODL increased by over 294% which is good news for token holders with the report describing XRP liquidity as the …
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