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Large technological and financial corporations are looking for their way into the world of the blockchain. Another evidence is the IBM project to create LedgerConnect. LedgerConnect is a kind of "store of blockchain applications," in which the banks of Barclays and Citi takes part. The created platform will host blockchain solutions from different providers, which may be needed by various credit organizations. The main areas of application of the blockchain are the process of verification of bank customers, the verification of companies to ... Read more about " IBM is launching "blockchain apps store" for banks " on coinatory.com

The giant of mining Bitmain promised to publish once a month to report on what kind of mining capacities it has and what kind of hashrate is controlled by the company. We are talking about data on three algorithms: SHA256, ETHASH and SCRYPT. The bitcoin-mining giant Bitmain informed that they will publish regular reports on the size of the internal mining operations within the framework of the general course on transparency necessary to enter the placement of shares in 2015. Bitmain reported that the company owns the mining capacity for ... Read more about " Bitmain controls up to 4% of the bitcoin hashrate " on coinatory.com

Malta became the first jurisdiction in the world with the official status of the cryptocurrency. The Parliament of the island state adopted three bills related to the development of the industry - the Law on Digital Innovation, the Law on Innovative Technological Agreements and Services and the Law on Virtual Financial Assets. It is reported that the new rules are designed to eliminate legal uncertainty and improve the investment climate in the country. The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) noted that at present, blockchain ... Read more about " The Government of Malta is developing a legal framework for cryptocurrency companies " on coinatory.com

A major Japanese company, Hitachi, is launching a joint project with a telecom giant KDDI. The blockchain system developed by Hitachi with Hyperledger Fabric technology is combined with the biometric verification of Hitachi and the KDDI coupon system. Hitachi explains that when customers agree to use the system, they register their coupon loans and biometric information, which are then coded into a line of encrypted data and stored in the blockchain. By initiating a transaction in a retail store that accepts these coupons and ... Read more about " Hitachi will launch a blockchain payments verified with a fingerprint " on coinatory.com

A new ICO: "ERN - The Earn Audio Sharing Platform" was added to Coinatory ICO List. Check the ratings and read more about " ERN - The Earn Audio Sharing Platform " on coinatory.com

The Irish Medical Project AID:Tech in association with Dutch PharmAccess implemented the first ever birth registration of a baby (from Tanzania) in the blockchain. The AID:Tech project is aimed at providing humanitarian assistance to the poor population around the world and supporting refugees. The organization uses blockchain technology to digitally register people and refugees who need money, guaranteeing direct collection of funds to everyone who has an identification number on the platform. Since recently, AID:Tech has also been ... Read more about " For the first time in history, the birth of a child was registered with the help of the blockchain " on coinatory.com

The Watts Miners company has released three innovative cryptocurrency miners, which support several algorithms and are easy to use. With their help, you can mine Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Monero and Dash. Three new miners called Watts Mini, Watts Miner and Watts Rack use ASIC technology and several mining algorithms. According to experts, the miners will pay off in just a month! They differ from competitors in low power consumption and high hashrate. Before the sale, all devices were tested under various extreme conditions and were ... Read more about " Watts Miners - single miner for multiple algorithms " on coinatory.com

Together with the legalization of betting on sports events, the authorities of India give green light to cryptocurrencies as well. According to the document published by the Legal Commission of India, for the betting on sports, it will be possible to use all kinds of digital money, including cryptocurrencies. "Sports betting should be made non-cash, using electronic means of payment, such as credit cards, debit cards, net-banking, virtual currencies," the report of the Commission says. Also, the Commission notes that the betting ... Read more about " India partially legalizes cryptocurrencies " on coinatory.com

One of the many questions that have become philosophical, which for a long time causes discussions in the crypto community: Will the central banks of the whole world unite and create their own regulated cryptocurrency, as a replacement for existing decentralized coins? However, this issue is unlikely to emerge from nowhere, as digital payments, according to various estimates, will reach a quantitative mark of 726 billion by 2020, as digital payment systems are rapidly gaining momentum, presenting an increasing threat to traditional cash ... Read more about " Why central banks don"t care about bitcoin? " on coinatory.com

Startups AIKON and Hadron decided to use the blockchain for processing the data for from the Hubble Space Telescope. AIKON specialists will provide astronomers from the Institute of Space Telescopes (STScI) an interface through which scientists receive photos from the Hubble. And Hadron"s blockchain-network will help in the processing and visualization of these data. Josh Peake, an astronomer from STScI, said that processing data from space telescopes requires a lot of CPU time. However, the blockchain-based solution will allow the more ... Read more about " Blockchain for astronomy " on coinatory.com

A new ICO: "SVPER - Instant Real-World Meetings" was added to Coinatory ICO List. Check the ratings and read more about " SVPER - Instant Real-World Meetings " on coinatory.com

American company Bitwise Asset Management has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) an application for the registration of a cryptocurrency index fund (ETF). This was said in a statement. It is assumed that the fund will work with the index HOLD 10, consisting of the ten largest cryptocurrencies. At the same time, the company will provide access to the ETF index fund not only to institutional investors but also to retail investors. To date, HOLD 10 includes bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Ethereum Classic, Monero, ZCash, ... Read more about " Bitwise filed an application for registration of the cryptocurrency ETF " on coinatory.com

A new ICO: "CVerification - Blockchain-based Recruitment" was added to Coinatory ICO List. Check the ratings and read more about " CVerification - Blockchain-based Recruitment " on coinatory.com

Who buried the cryptocurrency when bitcoin fell below six thousand? This morning bitcoin is back on the horse - and this hasn"t happened for quite a time. At the moment, the price is a little over $ 8200. Let it be far from the marks reached in November - December, but still much better than it was in recent months. The prices of other popular cryptocurrencies also slightly increased: Ether costs about $ 470, Bitcoin Cash - about $ 840. The reasons for this growth, as usual, can not be explained easily. There hasn"t been much positive news ... Read more about " Bitcoin: What happened? We know the answer! " on coinatory.com

Canadian company Hut 8, engaged in bitcoin mining, in its press release announced the completion of construction of its second mining division in Medicine Hat, which was completed ahead of schedule, set in September. The new mining area is ready to begin work together with the facility, which is located in Drumheller. Thus, the total capacity of both mining facilities is 487.5 petahashes per second (PH / s), which makes Hut 8 the world"s largest miner, listed on the stock exchange. The launch of the new mining site was carried out jointly ... Read more about " Hut 8 the world"s largest miner listed on the stock exchange " on coinatory.com

State cryptocurrencies can decrease the risks in the current crypto market. On behalf of the Committee of the European Parliament on Economics and Monetary Affairs (ECON), a report appeared on the state of competition in the cryptocurrency market. According to the researchers, the state cryptocurrencies issued by central banks (CBDC), whose development is supported by MasterCard, can revive the competition in this market and stimulate its development in the "right direction": "the arrival of authorized cryptocurrencies, which are promoted ... Read more about " European Parliament: CB intends to increase the competition in the crypto market " on coinatory.com

South Korean company Samsung, which is one of the world leaders in the development and production of telecommunications equipment, home appliances, and audio and video devices, will sell its products to customers in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and Kaunas for the cryptocurrency. According to the Lithuanian platform of cryptocurrency payments CopPay, Samsung branded outlets will accept payments in bitcoin, litecoin, Ether, XRP, Dash, NEM and Steem. In addition, in the near future, cryptocurrencies will begin to be accepted as a settlement ... Read more about " Samsung sells its products for the cryptocurrency in the Baltic States " on coinatory.com

Not so long ago, the largest miners manufacturer Bitmain started shipping the first batch of Antminer E3, as a competitor in the face of Innosilicon introduced its ASIC-miner for the Ethereum. The name is A10 ETHMaster and the device is available in three versions: 365, 432 and 485 MH / s. Judging by the prices, that are 3800, 4400 and 5000 USD respectively, the device looks quite attractive. The whole fault is the claimed power consumption of ASIC-miners because A10 ETHMaster consumes only 650, 740 and 850 watts. If we take a ... Read more about " A10 ETHMaster ASIC-miner for the Ethereum by Innosilicon " on coinatory.com

Decentralized platform for the formation of rates Augur has proved to the whole world its validity. In the tweeter, the project representatives told about the first payments. In total for the period of acceptance of rates the sum at a rate of $ 20 thousand was generated, which eventually was successfully transferred to users, according to the rules of the project. The platform co-founder, Joey Krag, noted the following: "We found several bugs in the user interface, which, incidentally, does not pose a serious threat to the livelihood of ... Read more about " Augur, the blockchain-totalizator, started paying money to players " on coinatory.com

Boeing has created a new division of Boeing NeXt to guide future commercial mobile solutions. Among them - navigating drones, autonomous flight, and advanced movement, modeling smart cities and exploring new market opportunities for solving future transport problems. In addition, the company in the alliance with SparkCognition develops solutions for flight control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on the technology of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI). The project is presented at the aerospace industry exhibition ... Read more about " Boeing is implementing blockchain " on coinatory.com

Baidu, the Chinese developer of the search engine of the same name, launched the Totem photo service on the basis of the private blocker Baidu XuperChain, and also released its own Totem Point tokens. The initial issue will be 4 billion tokens. The expected annual inflation rate due to the network parameters will be 4.5%. According to the idea of the creators, Totem Point tokens should encourage users to upload original images to the database. According to the Whitepaper of the project, the final number of tokens will depend on the volume ... Read more about " Baidu launched a photo service based on the blockchain and released own tokens " on coinatory.com

Let"s understand what is the reason for the mistrust of the crypto community to stable cryptocurrencies. A stable cryptocurrency, or stablecoin, is a fixed-rate cryptocurrency. The majority of currencies are determined by the market: buyers and sellers exchange tokens, and the rate is formed by supply and demand. Stable cryptocurrencies, on the contrary, try to have a fixed rate. The most famous stablecoins - Tether (USDT) and TrueUSD (TUSD). These coins are provided with fiat money, and the mechanism is fairly simple: a third party ... Read more about " Why nobody trusts in stablecoins? " on coinatory.com

Mining farms look very attractive for beginners, and it was so for the time being. But, unfortunately, in 2018, mining is not relevant, since it will pay off only after 8-10 months of use. Mining is an alternative way of buying a coin. It is not an investment strategy. The profitability of the mining itself in isolation from the growth of the coin, as a rule, is very low. What are mining farms? Mining, in fact, is the provision of computing resources that the owner a farm owns. These are the tasks that cryptocurrencies need to provide ... Read more about " Mining in June 2018 has low ROI " on coinatory.com

The American giant IBM, in partnership with the Stronghold start-up, began working on a new cryptocurrency, tied to the US dollar. Stablecoin is called Stronghold USD and will be launched on the Stellar blockchain, reports Fortune. The technology giant is a pioneer in the field of business solutions based on blockchain technology. For example, the company has developed a program with which it is possible to track the chain of international transfers in real time, and also to conduct such transactions several times faster. Recently, ... Read more about " IBM started testing its "cryptodollar" on the Stellar blockchain " on coinatory.com

The Bitcoin Cash network continues to be heavily criticized, as the "stress test" of the bitPico coders group revealed "fake decentralization". The data collected from the Bitokin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) GitHub repositories in recent weeks have led to a series of sharp contrasts in network performance by users of the series. Uploaded on Twitter on July 15, Bitcoin"s statistics show the active contributions of developers, which can not be said about the calm on the chart of ... Read more about " Fake decentralization of Bitcoin Cash " on coinatory.com

A powerful spam attack on the Ethereum network, which occurred in June, cost the company about $ 15 million a day. This was stated by the founder of the platform Vitalik Buterin: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1018990773042405376 Why this is important The problem of spam on the Ethereum network became apparent after users began to pay attention to suddenly increased fees with a relatively small number of processed transactions. According to some observations, the network was overloaded with transactions going from the ... Read more about " Vitalik Buterin estimated the damage from a spam attack on Ethereum at $ 15 million per day " on coinatory.com

The American Express financial company (AmEx) filed a patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a payment evidence system using the blockchain. The application of the subsidiary American Express Travel Related Services describes the system for obtaining a "confirmation of payment, including the transaction amount and the trade identifier." The document emphasizes the role of technology in preserving "transaction data, contract, payment documents, identification data and/or other information at will." At the same ... Read more about " AmEx is considering the use of a blockchain as the prove of the payment " on coinatory.com

EOS blockchain set another record - 1275 transactions per second when processing about half a million operations per day. The network of a well-known crypto project increases capacity. Earlier, EOS processed about 800 transactions in one second, then this indicator increased to 990 operations, and then overpassed the 1200 mark within only 1 second. Then the network again became stable, and now it is not clear how the events will develop further. It is noteworthy that the jump occurred at a time when the Ethereum network was ... Read more about " The EOS network allows up to 1200 tps " on coinatory.com

A few weeks after the announcement of the attack on the Bitcoin Cash network, a group of Bitpico hackers reported that altcoin suffers from massive centralization of nodes. A screenshot was published showing that 98% of IP addresses are physically located close to each other, according to the CCN website. Network BCH annually spends $ 1.2 million on nodes Then a group of hackers estimated that the launch of each of the nodes cost the Bitcoin Cash network approximately $ 100, while the estimated monthly costs were $ 100,000. According to ... Read more about " Bitcoin Cash network is strongly centralized " on coinatory.com

According to the vice-president of the San Francisco-based blockchain project Ashisha Birla, Ripple uses the economy of a developing country to dislodge bitcoin from the first place in the list of largest coins by the volume of market capitalization. Recall that Ripple - cryptocurrency platform for payment systems, focused on transactions with the exchange of currencies without refunds. In India, through the development of the banking sector, Ripple hopes to capture 80% of the market. To do this, they intend to conclude strategic ... Read more about " Ripple plans to dislodge bitcoin with the help of the Indian market " on coinatory.com

According to the technical director of the US exchange, the digital money market is just beginning to develop. He noted that the potential user base can grow tens of times. Technical director of Coinbase Balaji Srinivasan is sure that over time, the interest of users to the cryptocurrency market will grow 60 times. He compared the number of people in the world who own smartphones, and those that hold digital money. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1016995532898689024 It"s interesting, because there is a Project, aiming to gain ... Read more about " Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase: cryptocurrencies will be 60 times more popular " on coinatory.com

HYIP around Malta, which is concentrating on its territory crypto projects, continues to gain momentum after the announcement of the imminent emergence of a decentralized bank. One of the main stumbling blocks for the so-called "Blockchain-Islands" was the difficulty around getting crypto companies access to banking services. It seems that now the situation will change. Founders Bank will provide services to progressive financial companies. The project is a collaboration between the world"s largest crypto exchange Binance and a blockchain ... Read more about " Binance and the Government of Malta launch the first decentralized bank " on coinatory.com

Last September, the company Sirin Labs announced the release of the Finney smartphone, a smartphone named after the famous cryptographer Hal Finney. The mobile phone will appear on the shelves in November this year, and today details of its design became known. When designing the device, the engineers of the company decided to recall the form factor, such as a slider, that had lost its relevance. On the back panel, there is a retractable module with an additional display Safe Screen, responsible for cryptocurrency transactions. It is promised ... Read more about " Blockchain-smartphone Sirin Finney will offer an original design " on coinatory.com

As the blockchain industry becomes saturated, many exciting projects are still finding their way into space, promising better features than the existing networks like better-secured platform, low transaction fees, etc. An in-depth study of some of these newly released projects would reveal that a lot of them are not worth the hype, but some like the TRON project has shown signs that it will stand the test of time and deliver its promise. The TRON project came under the spotlight sometime in 2017 and has been keeping tracks since last ... Read more about " What is Tron (TRX)? A Beginner’s Guide " on coinatory.com

Since the inception of cryptocurrencies, we are fast losing track of the number of altcoins in crypto space. Even new investors seek to create their own digital currency for various purposes, and the result is simply more altcoins. True, the prospect of creating your own digital currency may seem a little complicated for someone who is not skilled in programming and coding, and even more complicated for a computer rookie. To meet these needs, a platform has been developed to help an average individual with no knowledge whatsoever in ... Read more about " What is Waves Platform (WAVES)? " on coinatory.com

Blockchain everywhere! The technology has already found applications in various aspects of the business world, making its union with virtual reality (another revolutionary technology), a match made in heaven. We all saw it coming, but Decentraland is driving the bandwagon. So what is Decentraland? Decentraland is a player in the virtual reality world that has adopted this blockchain technology for users to acquire digital plots of land to build on and even earn money or token called Mana coin. In the virtual reality space, ... Read more about " What is Decentraland (MANA)? A Beginner’s Guide " on coinatory.com

Against the background of how rapidly the industry develops, the emergence of new ways to raise funds for investing in projects - like a sip of cool water in the heart of the Sahara desert. Today it became known that the blockchain start-up Palladium, with the support of the Bittrex crypto exchange, is launching the world"s first initial convertible coins offering, abbreviated ICCO. Some usefulness. What is ICCO? The main difference between ICCO and all the usual initial placement of ICO tokens lies in the fact that within three years ... Read more about " Palladium - the world"s first ICCO " on coinatory.com

An exciting and promising deal for both parties means that the Litecoin Foundation has acquired TokenPay’s original 9.9% stake in Germany’s WEG Bank. According to the official information, provided to Coinatory, Litecoin receives the stake "in exchange for a broad and comprehensive marketing and technology service agreement to benefit TokenPay" and its variety of blockchain initiatives with regards to the WEG bank. TokenPay will now rely on Litecoin’s blockchain expertise to achieve projects such as TPAY Cryptocurrency, eFin Decen ... Read more about " TokenPay and Litecoin: Extensive Crypto Strategic Partnership " on coinatory.com

According to scientists of the Imperial College of London, cryptocurrencies are "the next natural step" in the development of the world economy, according to an article on the portal Newsbtc.com. The study, described by the Independent, presents the results of Professor William Nottenbelt and Dr. Zeynep Gurguk. They argue that digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have already passed one out of three fundamental tests in order to become a real currency: to act as a monetary contribution. They refer to three main criteria for the ... Read more about " Bitcoin can replace traditional currency within a decade " on coinatory.com

Cryptocurrency service BitGo announced the addition of support for 57 new assets on Ethereum. Taking into account the growing need for reliable solutions to protect private keys, BitGo decided to expand the offer of its custodial service, a company spokesman said in a conversation with CoinDesk. BitGo was founded in 2013 and has become one of the leading providers of storage services for bitcoins. It works within the framework of the model "security as a service" and uses it"s own innovative technology of multi-signatures to protect ... Read more about " BitGo will add support for 57 Ethereum tokens " on coinatory.com

Vice Chairman of the People"s Bank of China, Ban Gongsheng once again warned the organizers of the ICO, who had moved head offices to other jurisdictions, from working with investors from China. He stated this at a meeting of the working group on financial transformation on the Internet on Monday. Why this is important After the introduction of the ban on cryptocurrency activities in China, the most popular WeChat messenger had limited support for payment functions for users selling digital money. WeChat was not the only service that ... Read more about " The People"s Bank of China declared war on foreign ICO " on coinatory.com

Bitcoin grew by 6.3% last week, rising above $ 6 800 and strengthening for the second week in a row. The global positive news is gradually giving confidence to market participants. The American regulator SEC is quite loyal to the registration of Exchange-traded funds (ETF) based on Bitcoin. South Korean authorities are planning to weaken measures to regulate the market of cryptocurrencies in accordance with the recommendations of the group of countries participating in the G20. The Coinbase Exchange is implementing the Coinbase Custody ... Read more about " BTC: what to expect this week " on coinatory.com

Among all the EOS block miners, there are two very powerful players in the crypto cryptocurrency - Bitfinex and Bitmain, whose daily combined revenue is only about $ 16,000 on EOS blocks. Launched recently and not without problems, the EOS blockchain continues to evolve. But the crypto community, for the most part, is inclined to believe that the development of EOS is moving towards centralization, which completely does not correspond to the initial development rate. Owners of EOS tokens, when voting for block miners, voted for such big ... Read more about " EOS: centralize everything! " on coinatory.com

The team released a new language Vyper. Vyper offers an alternative to Solidity for developers with changes that make it an upgrade. Testing Vyper is compiled into EVM bytecode - Ethereum Virtual Machine, very similar to Solidity. Nevertheless, the whole process will become more simple and convenient for users. It aims to simplify the understanding of smart contracts with greater transparency and fewer attack points. For smart contracts to do the job perfectly and efficiently, the code is very important. If it is not highly ... Read more about " Ethereum: new level of security - Vyper " on coinatory.com

Despite the fact that bitcoin is experiencing bad times and has fallen by 70% in the last 7 months - many experts believe that cryptocurrency is in its infancy, and its subsequent development may lead to it"s wider spread. The HYIP around cryptocurrency has just begun and has not even come close to the degree of fever, "said David Sapper, the operating director of the Australian Blockbid exchange. "HYIP around bitcoin and other cryptocurrency is just beginning. Only 1% of the world"s population owns a cryptocurrency and monitors the ... Read more about " Cryptomania hasn"t even started yet! " on coinatory.com

Senior Global Data analyst Gary Barnett spoke very harshly about cryptocurrencies. He considers them unprofitable, unreasonably expensive, slow and essentially false. This is stated in the report on the digital money market. According to Barnett, the statements of the supporters of cryptocurrency are far from reality, and the advantages of virtual money are greatly exaggerated. "We are told that cryptocurrencies accelerate transactions, help to remove intermediaries and are free of costs, but none of these points are true," Barnett ... Read more about " Global Data Analyst: crypto supporters are liars. But are they? " on coinatory.com

Tech Crunch recently interviewed co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin and two other developers. We present to your attention an excerpt from this interview. What was your reaction - the economic reaction - when you realized that the network was overloaded due to CryptoKitties? For me, this once again stressed that the demand for public blockchains is very high and we need to step up our work on scalability. It seems that bitcoin is a little stuck in its development. This cryptocurrency has no guidance and the community is not able ... Read more about " Vitalik Buterin: centralized exchanges will burn in hell " on coinatory.com

The party of the Indian National Congress accused the ruling People"s Party of machinations through the bitcoins. According to politicians, the BJP unit in the state of Gujarat laundries money through the cryptocurrency, Hindustantimes reports. Representatives of the Indian National Congress demanded an investigation into this issue under the supervision of the Supreme Court. In their opinion, participation in the "mega-bitcoin-scam" brought the leadership of the BJP from 727 million dollars to 12.7 billion dollars. Member of INC Shaktisin ... Read more about " The ruling party of India is accused in fraud with cryptocurrencies " on coinatory.com

For a week, we observed violent price changes on the market: negative movements were followed by sudden growth, which, in turn, was also corrected. And today"s day for cryptocurrency is clearly the best. Many analysts associate the new drawdowns with the approach of the weekend, as usual, for the weekend the situation on cryptomarket significantly worsens. Nevertheless, in the midst of general unrest and falling prices, one altcoin stands out, which confidently goes against the current. This is the Ethereum Classic (ETC), which boldly ... Read more about " Ethereum Classic grows despite the market " on coinatory.com

Microsoft Taiwan, a subsidiary of the giant Microsoft, has concluded a contract for blockchain cooperation with Hot Cool and Digital China. The joint work will be aimed at the implementation of blockchain technology in the spheres of entertainment, finance, and e-commerce. "There are talented developers and engineers working in Taiwan, and their innovative thinking cannot be underestimated. In this region, there are all conditions for the development of blockchain applications, "commented the general manager of Microsoft Taiwan Sun ... Read more about " Microsoft enters into an agreement on blockchain cooperation with Taiwanese companies " on coinatory.com