QTUM PLATFORM ADDED THE FUNCTION OF ATOMIC SWAPS WITH BTC Qtum service has added the function of atomic swaps, and now users can directly exchange different cryptocurrencies. This was possible thanks to the technology of the Hashed TimeLock Contracts (HTLC). Atomic swaps –  technology that…

WINKLEVOSS BROTHERS ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP BITCOIN ETF The founders of the Gemini exchange brothers Tyler and Cameron Winkelvoss “determined to make a bitcoin ETF a reality.” They said this during a session of Ask Me Anything on Reddit. According…

EXCHANGE KRAKEN RECEIVED 475 REQUESTS FROM THE AUTHORITIES OVER THE PAST YEAR Kraken has published an infographic with statistics regarding the complaints received from law enforcement agencies and regulators for 2018. According to the data presented, last year the number of requests…

YEAR OF BITCOIN IN NUMBERS AND EVENTS After taking off in 2017, bitcoin spent a year disappointing crypto investors: from a record $20,000, the cryptocurrency fell below $4,000. Let’s see what happened with bitcoin from January 1 to the end of December….

A MINI-SATELLITE IN EARTH ORBIT WILL SEND BITCOINS TO ENTHUSIASTS WHO ARE IN THE SPACE A team of students from Idaho launched a mini-satellite that will send bitcoins from orbit to enthusiasts who are in the space. The project of students from…

THE BITCOIN CORE TEAM HAS RELEASED AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE BITCOIN CORE 0.17.1 The Bitcoin Core team congratulated bitcoin enthusiasts on Christmas by releasing an updated Bitcoin client “Bitcoin Core 0.17.1”original version. The developers noted that the version does not contain…

THE DEVELOPERS OF BITCOIN PRIVATE COMMENTED ON THE COINMETRICS REPORT After the release of a report from Coinmetrics, the Bitcoin Private team, focused on the increased privacy of the bitcoin fork, conducted its own investigation into the incident with a hidden increase…

IN 2018, THE NUMBER OF AVAILABLE NODES IN THE BITCOIN NETWORK DECREASED BY 19% According to the Bitnodes, the number of available nodes in the bitcoin blockchain network decreased by 19%, from 11845 to 9597, for the current year. At the same…

DEVELOPERS ARE TESTING THE PROTOCOL FOR ERC-20 TOKENS EXCHANGE TO BTC IN LIGHTNING NETWORK On December 12th, the R&d reported that research laboratory of the TenX startup tested the cross-chain Protocol for the transfer of ERC20 tokens to BTC in the Lightning…

BITCOIN-FRIENDLY CASH APP BYPASSED PAYPAL IN THE NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS ON GOOGLE PLAY Mobile payment service Cash App, developed by Square Inc.,  which allows users to purchase bitcoin, has reached a key stage of development towards the popularization of bitcoin and has…

THE NUMBER OF BITCOIN COMMUNITY SUBSCRIBERS IN REDDIT HAS REACHED 1 MILLION Today, interest in Bitcoin remains and grows day by day. Despite the fall of the cryptocurrency market, interest in Bitcoin does not decrease. On the contrary, the number of subscribers…

THE NUMBER OF SHORT POSITIONS ON BITCOIN HAS EXTREMELY INCREASED On Thursday, December 6, the number of short positions on bitcoin updated the six-week high, reaching 37 891, on the popular Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex. Last time, the indicator reached such high values…

THE NUMBER OF NODES IN THE NETWORK LIGHTNING IS MORE THAN 16 000 The Lightning network (launched as a second layer solution to make bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper), after launching in January, is continuously growing and has reached 16,000 nodes. Now…

  CANADIAN JEWELRY RETAILER BIRKS STARTED ACCEPTING BITCOINS Jewelry store Birks, one of the largest jewelry and watch manufacturers in Canada, has entered into a partnership agreement with BitPay to accept bitcoins for payment. Founded in Montreal in 1879, the Birks Group…

THE US TREASURY ADDED BITCOIN WALLETS OF IRANIAN HACKERS TO THE SANCTIONS BLACK LIST The US Treasury Department officially added bitcoin addresses to its individual sanctions list, for the first time in history. On Wednesday, the Department of the Treasury’s office of…

THE SEC COMMISSIONER HAS CONFIRMED THE INEVITABILITY OF ACCEPTING BITCOIN ETF Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Hester Peirce confirmed that the adoption of bitcoin ETF is definitely possible. The most famous supporter of bitcoin Hester Peirce, also known as “crypto mama”,…

OHIO – THE US SECOND STATE TO ACCEPT BTC FOR TAX PAYMENTS According to the latest news, US businesses in Ohio soon will be able to pay their taxes online by using Bitcoin. The promotion will be offered to personal taxpayers at…

MIKE NOVOGRATZ: IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DEVELOP A CRYPTOCURRENCY BUSINESS IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT Billionaire and CEO of Galaxy Digital, Mike Novogratz said in an interview to Financial Times that his own cryptocurrency trading bank faced serious difficulties, which are not…

LOU KERNER COMPARED BITCOIN TO AMAZON The partner of venture capital firm CryptoOracle Lou Kerner, in the program “Worldwide Exchange” that goes on CNBC, compared the current recession of courses of virtual currencies with the bursting of the dot-com bubble in the…