Cryptocurrencies

Intel has registered a patent for a processor and a hardware accelerator developed specifically for the SHA-256 encryption algorithm used in Bitcoin mining. This equipment is tailored for mining the leading cryptocurrency and is designed to make it more efficient and less energy-intensive...

The struggle between the long-established digital silver Litecoin and the larger-block Bitcoin fork Bitcoin Cash began the moment Bitcoin Cash appeared - in August of last year. These coins are similar in many things: their block size is larger than Bitcoin's, the purpose of their creation and their intended use is

According to research by the Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) group, only two of the twenty-five largest cryptocurrency exchanges do not artificially inflate trading volume in pairs with Bitcoin. The ranking of platforms compiled by BTI, based on real daily trading volume rather than on the data that crypto

Reflecting on privacy in the cryptocurrency environment, one can note that cryptocurrencies are often presented as anonymous means of payment, although there is also a claim that tracking the movement of digital funds is much easier than tracking the movement of fiat currencies such as the dollar. To reconcile these

The other day the Tron project reached a new milestone – 2.53 million transactions per day were recorded, and the daily growth of accounts amounted to 32,293. The project's founder and CEO, Justin Sun, noted that they achieved such high figures thanks to developers from the Ethereum and EOS networks who migrated to

The American fast-food chain Church's Chicken has started accepting payments in Dash in Venezuela. The cryptocurrency is accepted at all 10 Church's Chicken restaurants. Dash has already made its first transaction with Church's Chicken and uploaded a video about it on its official YouTube channel. The restaurant

In traditional financial systems, new banknotes are simply printed by the governments of countries whenever they need them. But digital currencies come into being differently. They are generated by computers, and this process is called mining. The essence of mining is that a multitude of computers that are not

Despite the decline in the value of cryptocurrencies that is taking place in 2018, according to the results of a study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, the number of verified cryptocurrency users has grown almost 2-fold over the first three quarters of the current year...

The developers of the Waves cryptocurrency platform have announced the addition of smart asset and smart account features to the mainnet, which significantly expand the possibilities for managing and controlling operations.

The decline in the value of cryptocurrencies — both Bitcoin and altcoins — lasted throughout 2018 and continues even now. Compared with December 2017, digital money has dropped in price many times over. And a reasonable question arises: what to do with your cryptocurrency assets so as not to regret it later?