Various reports claim that the current bitcoin shortage could have its origin in Paypal's entry into the cryptocurrency market.
The firm Pantera Capital ensures that the digital payment company would be collecting the bitcoins that are currently being mined.
In its first weeks, this new service…
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Russia to ban miners from receiving crypto rewards
Russia is one of the countries where the issue of cryptocurrencies and its regulatory framework has been very controversial. Just a month ago, President Vladimir Putin gave his approval to the Digital Financial Assets (DFA) law. A reform to…
Chile inaugurates academy to promote blockchain education in the country
The non-profit organization dedicated to cryptocurrencies, NGO Bitcoin Chile, has managed to consolidate a project to promote education about blockchain technology in the region and will reach the Chilean population through courses that…
Ecuador exports its first shipment of gold
The Canadian company Lundin Gold, based in Vancouver, Canada, and with administrative office in Quito, Ecuador, has sent its first shipment of gold exceeding more than 177 tons of concentrated gold, as reported by the Ministry of Natural…
Microsft is on alert for attacks increase
Microsoft alerted the community about the growth of BlueKeep vulnerability attacks, which take advantage of a failure in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). It allows the connection between two computers with Windows system with the…
Bitcoin mining shows electricity consumption efficiency
During this year the high rate of efficiency in energy consumption has been reflected in the wide increase presented by the unit of measurement of the bitcoin "hash rate" network processing power below 70 terawatts per hour, lower to what…
Mozilla Firefox offers new security and privacy features
Thus the navigation company offers its users more reliability and security against cryptominers; known as the process in which transactions for various cryptocurrencies are verified and added to the blockchain digital accounting book and…
Republic of Georgia exempts cryptocurrencies from value added tax
The finance minister of Georgia, Nodar Khaduri, approved a bill to regulate the taxation of entities that trade or mine cryptocurrencies. The bill came into effect at the end of June.
The definition of decentralized currency that the bill…
Venezuela launches National Mining Plan 2019-2025
This Wednesday, during a general transmission in the media, Nicolás Maduro made the announcement of the National Mining Plan 2019-2025, whose main objective is to position the mining engine, strengthen its strengths and potentialities as…
Young man arrested for cheating with fake bitcoin mining
The Dutch police arrested Barry van Mourik, who is being accused for having achieved 100 million euros through a fake bitcoin mining company.
According to the report of the case, Mourik tricked his clients into believing that they would be…
Germany will create the European Blockchain Institute
The purpose of the European Blockchain Institute is to investigate everything related to this technology and open the way to its application. In this regard, the government of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) announced the…
Cryptocurrencies are an alternative to hyperinflation in Venezuela
The mining of digital currencies and their commercialization allows Venezuelan people to get significant gains in currencies and opportunities to preserve the value of money.
The increase in production and transactions with cryptoactives…