On June 26 at 07:00 UTC in the Binance Chain test network took place a planned hard fork at block 24.020.000 in order to activate the Galileo update. Upgrade of the main network will take place in a few weeks. BNB holders are not required to take any action in connection with the hard fork, unless...
The Kyiv-registered company "СпецХеш" (SpetsHash) won a trial at the local customs, which more than tripled the VAT on the clearance of four ASIC miners. This reports the Youtube channel BlockchainTalk. In April 2018, SpetsHash bought four Antminer S9 devices at a price of $350...
The public and governments scrutiny of Facebook’s influence increases, so Mark Zuckerberg decided to speak on the Aspen Ideas Festival today and explain all privacy and regulation details. His speech is set at 4:30 pm ET. As Aspen reports, Zuckerberg is going to speak with Harvard Professor Cass...
The decentralized blockchain-ecosystem Waves Platform has launched its own programming language RIDE on the core network. With its help, developers will be able to create smart contracts and full-fledged decentralized applications, site representatives told ForkLog. According to the developers,...
VeChain blockchain project together with one of the world's largest consulting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and American retailer Walmart will launch a project to ensure food safety in China. In particular, Walmart will be engaged in the supply of products to China, and VeChain will provide...
A new botnet for cryptocurrency and mining has been identified utilising Android Debug Bridge ports, a system created to determine app defects connected to a majority of Android phones and tablets. Trend Micro reported that the botnet malware has been found in 21 countries and is most prevalent in...
Bitfinex, a popular Bitcoin exchange, has announced technical work that can take up to seven hours and will be aimed at improving the experience of user interaction with the platform in the trading process. Among other things, this means creating the foundation for launching derivative instruments....
One of the world's largest producers of mining equipment, Bitmain, is preparing to submit another application for an IPO, but this time in the US, not Hong Kong, Bloomberg reports, citing well-informed sources. Thus, the company, the investment valuation of which in 2018, according to various...
Popular Japanese instant messenger Line, whose user base has more than 200 million people, can get a license to launch a crypto exchange in Japan as early as this month. It is reported by Bloomberg, citing informed sources. According to the publication, the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA)...
Two of the world’s greatest software corporations flocked to a Hyperledger consortium. After this event, the corporation from the Linux Foundation began gathering more steam. It was reported this week that 8 large enterprises would start their blockchain path by joining Hyperledger. Besides two...
The Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and OJSC Russian Railways came into an agreement according to which there will be created a blockchain platform for issuing discount tickets for suburban routes. This is reported by the Gudok. The new system will be created in the framework of the...
Digital Asset is a software company that is operating on a blockchain. It has its smart contract programming language, which is known as Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) and now it’s going to be integrated with R3 Corda, Amazon’s database service AWS Aurora and Hyperledger Fabric. At the...
Finextra published that starting from March 2020 The Italian Banking Association (ABI) is going to deploy blockchain technology to manage reconciliations. The primary thing that’ll be implemented in the banking system of Italy is the distributed ledger technology for agreements acceleration....
A data sharing arrangement was made between 100 influential Japanese corporations. There are corporations among these 100, that are globally known, like Mitsubishi Electric or Yaskawa Electric. This project was specially designed to advance productivity, decrease risks of info leaks and make...
Breez is presenting an iOS version of their application. According to information provided by the corporation, this’s going to be the primary app that runs on Neutrino, a lightning network client for Bitcoin. Roy Sheinfeld, the founder of Breez, announced that the corporation has fixed the puzzle...
Bram Cohen, the author of BitTorrent, has become the CEO of Chia Network. The company had two co-founders Bram Cohen and Ryan Singer, last-mentioned stepped away from his position to focus on family priorities. In August 2017, Bram Cohen moved from his first project BitTorrent to create an...
Several banks all over the world have already tried themselves in the usage of blockchain technologies. Commonly, they are implementing systems on permissioned ledgers that only invited participants can join, but Poland’s Alior bank took the game to a higher level. Alior bank declared that it...
Two blockchain-based startup companies are cooperating for enabling Amazon shopping with Ether. CLIC Technology declared its alliance with Opporty platform on June 14. They are teaming up for developing an app-like extension for browser, which is going to let Amazon buyers pay for goods with Ether,...
