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...

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the Beam Wallet crypto wallet. This was reported by the development team of the Beam cryptocurrency. The identified vulnerability poses a risk to users of all desktop and CLI versions of the application...

Ripple may overtake Bitcoin in market capitalization. Such a statement was made by analysts at Weiss Ratings. The analytics agency Weiss Ratings published a ranking of promising cryptocurrencies, in which the XRP token climbed several positions...

The Ethereum hard fork – Constantinople – is due to take place from January 14 to 18. Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, Hotbit, BitMart, ABCC, Bittrex, Huobi, EtherFlyer, TOK, BitForex and others have announced their readiness to support the upcoming Ethereum Constantinople hard fork...