Cryptocurrencies

Over the past 20 years the system of traditional currencies has undergone many changes, however none of them proved as significant as the appearance of bitcoin on January 3, 2009. And that is why advocates of digital currencies firmly believe that bitcoin will one day displace traditional money and become the world's means of payment...

Despite the fact that the ProgPoW (Programmatic Proof-of-Work) algorithm existed earlier as well, until recently it did not generate such a buzz around itself. However, after Ethereum's (ETH) decision to switch from Ethash to ProgPoW in the near future, interest in this algorithm is beginning to grow...

Experts from the analytics company LongHash compared the activity of mining pools on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. As it turned out, Bitcoin is the most decentralized cryptocurrency among the compared cryptocurrencies...

An attack on the Ethereum Classic blockchain was noticed by Coinbase staff on the evening of January 5. As a result of the investigation it was revealed that the network fell victim to a so-called 51% attack, during which 219,000 ETC was stolen - approximately $1.1 million. In response, Coinbase froze all transactions on the ETC blockchain. Should other cryptocurrencies worry about the possibility of a similar attack?

From now on, customers of Parisian tobacco shops will be able to buy not only cigarettes, cigars, lottery tickets and other items, but also the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. As the Reuters agency reports, for now, with the support of the fintech company Keplerk, bitcoins will be available in six tobacco stores in Paris...