Cryptocurrencies

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...

The other day the Tron project reached a new milestone – 2.53 million transactions per day were recorded, and the daily growth of accounts amounted to 32,293. The project's founder and CEO, Justin Sun, noted that they achieved such high figures thanks to developers from the Ethereum and EOS networks who migrated to Tron...

The American fast-food chain Church's Chicken has started accepting payments in Dash in Venezuela. The cryptocurrency is accepted at all 10 Church's Chicken restaurants. Dash has already made its first transaction with Church's Chicken and uploaded a video about it on its official YouTube channel. The restaurant claims to be the first global fast-food chain to accept "digital currency"...

In traditional financial systems, new banknotes are simply printed by the governments of countries whenever they need them. But digital currencies come into being differently. They are generated by computers, and this process is called mining. The essence of mining is that a multitude of computers that are not connected to each other, through a special program (a miner), solve mathematical computational problems necessary for the functioning of the blockchain of a particular cryptocurrency's network, and thereby generate new coins.....