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On August 18, 2022, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty increased again after the 1.74% rise two weeks ago on August 4. At block height 749,952 at 7:07 a.m. (EST) the network’s mining difficulty rose by 0.63% from 28.17 trillion to 28.35 trillion Thursday morning. Bitcoin Network Records Second Consecutive Difficulty Increase Since August
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Ether (ETH), the native token of the Ethereum blockchain, has suffered its biggest monthly price decline since March 2020, tumbling alongside bitcoin in one of worst-ever starts to a year in cryptocurrency markets.Ether is down 31% in January, while bitcoin (BTC) has fallen 22%.The sell-off also claimed some of the
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Bitcoin is becoming more difficult to buy, according to analysts at Glassnode. The amount of BTC received and spend among entities is decreasing, which means the liquidity is declining.If Bitcoin (BTC) liquidity is low, it means there is less BTC available to buy and sell. In the medium term, this
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Enterprise blockchain solutions in Russia have to get their cryptographic elements certification with the FSB, the counter-espionage agencyThe process can take several years to complete and up to $100,000Some foreign-developed blockchains can’t satisfy the requirement without a forkRussian-made systems might end up isolated from the global market due to distrust
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Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is at a record high, Singapore’s central bank digital currency could find commercial use and Chinese firms are going in on Filecoin. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe
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[sociallocker id="55298"] Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has its eyes on the popular bitcoin privacy tool Wasabi Wallet, documents verified by CryptoX show. Marked for “law enforcement only,” a two-part report by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) analyzed the privacy tool’s impact on using the Bitcoin blockchain to investigate
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There's a lot of action happening in enterprise-grade blockchains. Big Blue's preferred chain, Hyperledger, is being tapped by three energy grid operators, a new consortium to establish digital identities for public and private organizations and has been shown to perform better than expected in a medical supply chain pilot.You're reading Blockchain
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were a testament to mankind’s craft and ingenuity, creations so colossal that people would travel for thousands of miles to set eyes on them. Despite the decades spent painstakingly assembling them, today just one of those structures – the Great Pyramids of Giza
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Neil Wals, chief of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Cybercrime Program, warned that cryptocurrencies have made combating money laundering significantly harder.Australian news outlet ABC reported on Aug. 29 that Wals said cryptocurrencies make fighting cybercrime, money laundering and financing of terrorism harder. Wals expressed the idea
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