Cryptocurrencies

The application being developed will make it possible to use bidirectional payment channels in the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. The start of the development process for the new feature was announced by Chris Pacia, who published a post on the Medium portal, where he shared some details of the development...

Intel has registered a patent for a processor and a hardware accelerator developed specifically for the SHA-256 encryption algorithm used in Bitcoin mining. This equipment is tailored for mining the leading cryptocurrency and is designed to make it more efficient and less energy-intensive...

The struggle between the long-established digital silver Litecoin and the larger-block Bitcoin fork Bitcoin Cash began the moment Bitcoin Cash appeared - in August of last year. These coins are similar in many things: their block size is larger than Bitcoin's, the purpose of their creation and their intended use is purely Keynesian, and they are also better suited for adoption in trade and other commerce...

According to research by the Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) group, only two of the twenty-five largest cryptocurrency exchanges do not artificially inflate trading volume in pairs with Bitcoin. The ranking of platforms compiled by BTI, based on real daily trading volume rather than on the data that crypto exchanges provide to CoinMarketCap (CMC), was topped by Binance...

Reflecting on privacy in the cryptocurrency environment, one can note that cryptocurrencies are often presented as anonymous means of payment, although there is also a claim that tracking the movement of digital funds is much easier than tracking the movement of fiat currencies such as the dollar. To reconcile these two claims, it is first of all necessary to understand what privacy means in the cryptocurrency world...