The Bitcoin SV cryptocurrency network hosted a Genesis hard fork. The update was activated during the extraction of block # 620538, after which it was declared invalid because it was found by a client not updated to the hard fork. Analysts noticed that a large number of BSV nodes were not prepared for the update.
Inactive for the past month, COSS from Singapore has finally announced that it has changed ownership. The exchange promises to become better, but the funds of its users are still blocked.
The US Federal Marshals Service (USMS) will arrange an online auction of confiscated bitcoins on February 18. 4040 BTC in the amount of $ 37.3 million will go under the hammer.
In 2019, the Central Bank of Russia discovered 237 financial pyramids - this is the largest number of fraudulent organizations identified in the history of their accounting. Among such schemes, the Central Bank also named companies that offer investments in digital assets, such as Gram or Libra.
The profitability of cryptocurrency hedge funds in 2019 turned out to be higher than the traditional ones: while the indicator of the former is estimated at 16.33%, the latter - only at 10.4%.
Ethereum cryptocurrency miners mined it 75% less in 2019 than in 2018. Over the year, they managed to mine coins by only $ 935.7 million, of which $ 901.1 million is a reward for block mining, and $ 34.6 million is income from transaction fees.
At the same time, two exchanges announced the launch of new instruments: BitMEX launched perpetual swaps based on XRP, and Binance Futures added support for Zcash contracts with leverage up to 50x.
Venezuelan retailers refuse to accept El Petro's national cryptocurrency as payment for their goods. The reason for the boycott is that when exchanging a digital asset for fiat, sellers receive significantly less money than indicated in the official rate.
Head of TRON Justin Sun talked about his new MPC Torch project, implemented under the TRONZ protocol based on zk-SNARKS technology, which aims to increase user anonymity. Justin believes his project will transform the Internet.
Australian businessman Craig Wright, calling himself the true creator of Bitcoin, refused to provide the court with information about the courier who allegedly brought him the keys to the wallet with 1.1 million bitcoins, as well as information about the companies with which he worked.