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Russia Proposes New Rules and Penalties for Cryptocurrency Owners
13.11.2020
The Russian Ministry of Finance has developed new amendments to the country’s cryptocurrency regulation. The proposal outlines a new set of rules for crypto owners, exchanges, and miners, as well as penalties for undeclared crypto transactions. Russia’s New Crypto Regulation...
The ‘Undo Button’ Wallet Tool Gives Users the Ability to Reverse Ethereum Transactions
12.11.2020
On Thursday, November 12, 2020, the blockchain firm Kirobo launched a tool that allows users to reverse ethereum transactions. Similarly to the replace-by-fee (RBF) protocol leveraged by bitcoin users, ethereum transactions can be reversed as well with Kirobo’s “Undo Button”...
Reversible Ethereum Transactions, Digital Oil Token + More News
12.11.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Kirobo, the Tel Aviv-based startup that created an 'undo button' for previously irreversible Bitcoin (BTC) transactions...
A New Bitcoin Mining Pool Claims It Has Tools to Censor Blockchain Transactions
12.11.2020
A blockchain and technology company claims its new bitcoin mining pool is embedded with tools that enable the pool to censure transactions in the blocks they mine. According to a statement issued by the DMG, the parent company to Blockseer mining pool, this ability allows the latter...
Israeli Firm Unveils Tech Allowing Users to ‘Undo’ Erroneous Ether Transactions
12.11.2020
Kirobo has repurposed its bitcoin transaction reversal feature to work on Ethereum
‘Slippery slope’ as new Bitcoin mining pool censors transactions
12.11.2020
The launch of a new 'censored' mining pool has some Bitcoiners worried its a harbinger of things to come
Erratic Processing Power: Bitcoin’s Hashrate Gains 45% in a Day, Then Loses 41 Exahash
11.11.2020
Seven days ago Bitcoin’s network difficulty saw the largest drop in nine years as it slid over 16% last week. Similar to the crypto asset’s price, the hashrate has been extremely volatile according to statistics. After dropping to 111 exahash per second (EH/s), the network hashrate...
Grin Network Victim of 51% Attack, Unknown Miner Commands 58% of the Hashrate
10.11.2020
The privacy-centric cryptocurrency network Grin (GRIN) has been the victim of a 51% attack according to a number of reports. Allegedly an unknown entity gained control of over 57% of the network hashrate on Saturday. According to the Grin website, the team is recommending people wait...
Hash Watch: Kraken Announces BCH Fork Plans, Bitcoin ABC Reveals Two-Pronged Effort
8.11.2020
A number of third party infrastructure providers have announced contingency plans for the upcoming Bitcoin Cash upgrade on November 15, 2020. Hitbtc has revealed the exchange’s plans to halt bitcoin cash transactions on that day, and it plans to credit all users with an additional token if...
Tether market cap surpasses $17 billion, fueling Bitcoin price rally
6.11.2020
Bitcoin’s new highs come amid lots of new money pouring in via stablecoins
Bitcoin miner revenue surges to pre-halving levels
6.11.2020
Miners are likely starting to sell some BTC at this point
US Seizes Previously Undetected Silk Road Bitcoins Worth Over $1 Billion
5.11.2020
The U.S. government has seized over $1 billion in bitcoin from previously undetected transactions associated with the Silk Road marketplace and is now seeking the forfeiture of the cryptocurrency. US Confiscates $1 Billion in Bitcoin From Silk Road The U.S. government has filed a lawsuit seeking...
Blockstream’s MuSig 2 Will Offer Less Complex, More Private Multi-Signature Transactions
4.11.2020
Made possible by Taproot, MuSig2 is designed to make multi-signature Bitcoin transactions less complex without sacrificing privacy
Ethereum fees declining as DeFi markets cool
4.11.2020
Is the DeFi bubble over? Bitcoin network activity spike may indicate that attention is shifting towards crypto's largest asset
Australian senator says blockchain can make financial compliance easier
4.11.2020
“The future is technology by blockchain,” says an Australian Liberal senator
Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Epoch Drop Since 2011
4.11.2020
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty saw the second-largest drop in history on Tuesday, as the difficulty dropped to 16.78 trillion, losing a touch over 16% since last week’s all-time difficulty high. The last time bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped so low was in October 2011, when...
Coinbase, Gemini and others join forces to combat human trafficking
3.11.2020
Leading exchanges are tracing suspicious crypto transactions to combat human trafficking
Blockchain Bites: Digital Yuan’s 4M Transactions, Bitcoin’s 33-Month High, Uniswap’s Second Governance Vote
2.11.2020
October saw the first time the total value locked in all DeFi protocols closed below the month’s starting value
China’s digital yuan pilots have processed $300M so far, says PBoC head
2.11.2020
China’s digital yuan pilot program is picking up speed
Transaction fees, explained
1.11.2020
Why do blockchains need transaction fees — and which networks allow crypto to be transferred less expensively? This explained article takes a look