Cryptocurrencies

The altcoin Waves has been added to the instant conversion service of the British startup Wirex. The company's crypto wallet is linked to a Visa debit card, so users who have a balance in any of the cryptocurrencies BTC, LTC, XRP, ETH and Waves can make any purchases and withdraw cash from an ATM with the Wirex Visa

Over the past 20 years the system of traditional currencies has undergone many changes, however none of them proved as significant as the appearance of bitcoin on January 3, 2009. And that is why advocates of digital currencies firmly believe that bitcoin will one day displace traditional money and become the world's

Despite the fact that the ProgPoW (Programmatic Proof-of-Work) algorithm existed earlier as well, until recently it did not generate such a buzz around itself. However, after Ethereum's (ETH) decision to switch from Ethash to ProgPoW in the near future, interest in this algorithm is beginning to grow...

Experts from the analytics company LongHash compared the activity of mining pools on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. As it turned out, Bitcoin is the most decentralized cryptocurrency among the compared cryptocurrencies...

An attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain was noticed by Coinbase staff on the evening of January 5. As a result of the investigation it was revealed that the network fell victim to a so-called 51% attack, during which 219,000 ETC was stolen - approximately $1.1 million. In response, Coinbase froze all transactions

From now on, customers of Parisian tobacco shops will be able to buy not only cigarettes, cigars, lottery tickets and other items, but also the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. As the Reuters agency reports, for now, with the support of the fintech company Keplerk, bitcoins will be available in six tobacco stores in Paris...

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the Beam Wallet crypto wallet. This was reported by the development team of the Beam cryptocurrency. The identified vulnerability poses a risk to users of all desktop and CLI versions of the application...

Ripple may overtake Bitcoin in market capitalization. Such a statement was made by analysts at Weiss Ratings. The analytics agency Weiss Ratings published a ranking of promising cryptocurrencies, in which the XRP token climbed several positions...

The Ethereum hard fork – Constantinople – is due to take place from January 14 to 18. Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, Hotbit, BitMart, ABCC, Bittrex, Huobi, EtherFlyer, TOK, BitForex and others have announced their readiness to support the upcoming Ethereum Constantinople hard fork...