Cryptocurrencies

On January 14, HTC finally began the shipments of the long-awaited "blockchain smartphone" Exodus 1, which had been planned back in December. The main difference between the Exodus 1 and ordinary smartphones is that it runs on the Exodus blockchain and has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet...

Bitcoin has once again begun to bring profit to miners. The BTC hashrate has continued to grow since the final stage of last year and has already risen by 35% over the past three months. Thus, in November 2018 the productivity of mining pools was 32 million TH/s, and today it has grown to 43.5 million TH/s...

The developers of the PixEOS project are creating a decentralized application that will give creative people and collectors an ecosystem where collaborative creativity and development in a game-based economy is possible, where everyone can contribute to a canvas of pixels...

The Chinese crypto industry giant BitMain is to this day the largest manufacturer of ASIC miners and the largest player in cryptocurrency mining, despite the fact that its share declined by the end of 2018 — the share of pools affiliated with BitMain fell from 53% to 39% of Bitcoin's hashrate...

The Constantinople hard fork on the Ethereum network is being postponed. The decision to postpone the hard fork was made by the Ethereum developers because of a critical vulnerability found in one of the upcoming upgrades...

The research company Diar has presented an analytical report on the results achieved in the cryptocurrency market in 2018. The report lists the achievements and declines that occurred in the crypto market in 2018...

Specialists of a new division of the company Ethereum Classic Labs will address security and performance issues of the blockchain of the cryptocurrency ETC (Ethereum Classic). The new division, established by Ethereum Classic Labs, has been named ETC Labs Core...

Using Facebook Messenger it is now possible to send cryptocurrency. The interface of this service was created by the Lite.IM wallet from a Swiss cryptocurrency company. The virtual bot program works with three assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin, and work with its own token ZTX is also supported...

On January 14, 2019, the New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia was hacked. The platform's team confirmed the security breach and stated that the exchange's losses are "significant". The Cryptopia crypto exchange is currently carrying out "unscheduled system maintenance"...