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Hundreds of multi-sig wallets managed by Parity Technologies have been frozen as a result of a code vulnerability discovered earlier this week. This incident has locked at least $152 million in Ether tokens, much of which is funds raised for ICOs. Parity is one of the most popular wallet platforms, managing an estimated twenty percent…

Reduction in international remittance charges and the elimination of the unnecessary fees is one of the widely celebrated solutions that the peer-to-peer system of transaction offers humankind by the implementation of blockchain technology. Payment systems have experienced significant improvements since the emergence and propagation of blockchain technology and peer-to-peer transaction systems. However, there still exists a…

Earlier today, officials from several companies who had cosigned the New York Agreement (NYA, Barry Silbert Agreement) back in July, including Jihan Wu from Bitmain and Erik Voorhees from ShapeShift, as well as Wences Casares, Jeff Garzik & Peter Smith, have announced they no longer plan to hard-fork Bitcoin to a 2 MB block size…

Blockchain development is a novelty in the tech world, but has been around long enough to see platforms such as Ethereum give birth to a myriad of decentralized applications. These dApps aim to solve some of the world's problems, challenges, or to create new marketplaces. Hyperledger is a blockchain project started by the Linux Foundation in…

Update November 8th: The hard-fork has been called off, as reported by Crypto-News here. SegWit2x plans to split off the Bitcoin network at block 494784, which is expected to be mined in: Current block number: (updated once per minute) After the previous chain-splits in August (Bitcoin Cash, BCH) and October…

Bitcoin’s recent breakout above $7,000 is dominating the crypto news cycle, but behind these numbers are other actions worth examining. Notably, although altcoin prices have been volatile, altcoin development and adoption has been surging. Major platforms such as Dash, NEM, Bitshares and Neo are quietly taking steps designed to bring them into the mainstream. Given…

The rally for Bitcoin is leaving behind a trail of altcoin bagholders. The majority of good cryptocurrencies have support in fiat equivalent but their price against Bitcoin have reached lows not seen since February of this year. Doge for example, was trading at an all-time low of 16 Satoshis when Bitcoin was trying to surmount…

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Following the massive price surges of October, the month of November started positively for Bitcoin. On Friday, the digital currency managed to skyrocket past the threshold of $7,400 thus reaching a new all-time high. Currently, the new ATH held by BTC is of $7,454, following the 6% increase in price. At this time, numerous economic analysts…