The hacker who attacked Ethereum Classic gave $ 100 000 back to Gate.io exchange, Google blacklisted Ethereum, BitTorrent's former manager criticized Tron and other news.
Digital money market kept at its lowest level in 2019. Several events that have already influenced the situation in the future took place recently.
60 Millionth Token Is Mined In Litecoin Network
60 millionth token was mined in Litecoin network on January, 12th. At the moment, 71.5% of the total issue of this altocated are mined (the total issue is 84 million tokens). According to calculations, the last token will be mined in 2142.
Google Blacklisted Ethereum
Google Ads platform stopped displaying ads mentioning Ethereum. But the search engine displays requests containing «ICO», «Bitcoin» and «EOS». The company noted that it did not change anything and the problem may be related to cryptocurrency advertisement in some countries.
Former Manager of BitTorrent: Tron Will not Manage To Tokenize The Service
As the former manager of BitTorrent thinks, Tron will not deal with the volume of transactions needed for BitTorrent tokenization. He called blockchain project's initiative "a marketing ploy". He also called Justin Sun "a liar", telling that he was not suitable for a manager of technology.
Zwoop Startup Announced Bankruptcy
Zwoop project's Supervisory board started bankruptcy procedures in November, last year. Company's employees and suppliers did not get lay-off pay-the company owes 42,000 pounds to a marketing agency and 30,000 pounds to a PR firm.
In August, last year, the startup got $ 13 million from a billionaire and announced the ICO in which it was planning to get $ 30 million. After that, Zwoop's founder left the company and its employees revealed that the company owed $ 2 million.
The Hacker Who Attacked Ethereum Classic Gave $ 100 000 Back To Gate.io Exchange
Gate.io exchange representatives announced that the organizer of 51% attack on Ethereum Classic gave $ 100,000 worth of cryptocurrencies back. He did not know what the reason was. As Gate.io claimed, if the hacker attacked for the sake of wealth accumulation, then this was an ethical hacker who wanted to remind people of blockchain consensus risks and hash capacities protection.