The developers of Firo, a cryptocurrency formerly known as Zcoin, today posted a notice of a 51% attack on their network.
We are under 51% attack at the moment. We recommend not to make transactions during this time until the network returns to a normal state. We will post updates when we have them. Note this is not a coding error but a nature of PoW. $ XZC $ FIRO
– Firo (formerly Zcoin)…
Bitfinex and Tether ask court to extend deadline for transferring documents to New York prosecutors
January 20, 2021
iFinex Inc, the parent company of crypto exchange Bitfinex and the issuer of stablecoin Tether (USDT), has asked the New York Supreme Court to postpone the upcoming trial date. In a January 19 statement, iFinex asked for 30 days to submit the documents requested by the New…
According to Bitnodes.io, the number of available Bitcoin nodes (nodes) has reached a record high. Now there are 11,602 active nodes on the network.
Moreover, according to another service Coin Dance, this figure has already grown to 11 613. For comparison, in January 2020…
An unknown trader earned $ 150 thousand in cryptocurrency in one operation, having invested only $ 13 thousand.It happened yesterday, January 19, on the DeFi platform Saddle.finance immediately after its launch, writes RBC Crypto.
The new service offers the possibility of exchange between synthetic bitcoins – derivatives, the rate of which is tied to the BTC rate.
Saddle.finance added the…
According to Bitnodes.io, the number of available Bitcoin nodes (nodes) has reached a record high. Now there are 11,602 active nodes on the network. Moreover, according to another service Coin Dance, this figure has already grown to 11 613. For comparison, in January 2020…
On the afternoon of January 19, the Ethereum rate renewed its all-time high, reaching $ 1440, after which the coin was near the $ 1400 level. The last wave of growth in the value of the cryptocurrency began on January 11 with a local minimum of about $ 900. Such a drawdown…
Donald Trump did not include Ross Ulbricht in the list of pardoned persons
January 20, 2021
President Trump announced the pardon on the last full day of his presidential term. The list of those pardoned includes rapper Lil Wayne and Ken Carson, a former member of the Ripple board of directors and founder of the crypto publication Modern Consensus. Earlier, the media reported that Trump may pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now defunct marketplace on the Silk Road darknet, who is…
BTC / USD
Hourly EMA55 served as a support level yesterday morning for buyers and tried to break through the orange resistance of 37300.00 USD. The daily maximum was set around 37875.00 USD, but the recovery failed.
Over the past night, the pair rolled back slightly below…
The Russian wanted to make money on mining, but in the end he lost 45,000 rubles
January 20, 2021
The victim of the scammer was a resident of Usolye-Sibirskoe (Irkutsk region), who wanted to start mining cryptocurrency. The regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that a 39-year-old Russian found an advertisement on the Internet for the sale of a…
Researchers from the Chainalysis company found that the share of the criminal use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has significantly decreased in 2020.
However, such tools are still very popular among criminals due to the fact that they can be used to send funds anonymously, the analysts said in a report.
The share of the criminal use of cryptocurrency fell to 0.34% or to $ 10 billion…