The Bank of America Merrill Lynch Investment Bank (BAML) has awarded Bitcoin the title of Best Asset of the Decade. BAML estimates that $ 1 invested in bitcoin in 2010 today has turned into $ 90,026.
Director of investment company Pulte Capital Partners, billionaire Bill Pulte, boasted that he had bought 11 BTC. His fortune is estimated at $ 11 billion. Previously, he was already interested in cryptocurrencies.
The deputy director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NCCTC) Nikolai Murashov said that hackers began to more often use the devices of state institutions and large companies to implement hidden miners.
As the launch date for Ethereum 2.0, developer Justin Drake proposed July 30, 2020 - the fifth birthday of the blockchain.
The Simplecoin mining pool and the Bitcoin Chopcoin gaming platform have decided to close due to the Fifth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which will enter into force on European territory on January 10, 2020. They will stop working on January 1st.
The number of Bitcoin nodes in the world has reached 9547. Almost 50% of them are located in the USA and Germany. Thus, 2457 nodes (25.74% of the total number) operate in the USA, and in Germany - 1906 (19.96%). The number of nodes in the Ethereum network is 7007, 25.83% of which also fall on the United States.
Suspicious activity has been noticed on the Litecoin cryptocurrency network: once a week, the average number of active addresses on the network, usually 40,000, jumps to 70,000, and then decreases again. Developer Franklin Richards believes that the hacker who organized the dust attack in August is to blame.
The main US crypto exchange Coinbase has become the largest validator of the Tezos network thanks to the XTZ cryptocurrency staking. Previously, most Tezos transactions were confirmed by Polichain Labs.
Yang Zuoxing, head of China's MicroBT mining equipment manufacturer, has been re-arrested by local police for allegedly stealing 100,000 yuan ($ 14,300). He was already detained in November on suspicion of violating the intellectual property rights of Bitmain. It is not yet announced whose funds were appropriated by the founder of MicroBT.
A court in Shenzhen City decided to block 4.7 million yuan ($ 676,000) in the accounts of the mining giant Bitmain, a Century Cloud company. Funds are frozen at the request of electronic parts supplier Dongguan Yongjiang Electronics, which is suing Century Cloud. The plaintiff will receive this money if the process wins.