The non-profit organization Web3 Foundation launched the first phase of the core blockchain network of the Polkadot blockchain after more than three years of development. The Polkadot protocol using sharding is designed to provide interoperability between various blockchains. https://twitter.com/polkadotnetwork/status/1265334623086751745?s=20 At...

The financial administration of the Chinese province of Sichuan issued a notification to the controlled departments demanding an "orderly termination of mining activity." https://twitter.com/PANewsOfficial/status/1263677038755528705?s=20 According to PANews, almost 10% of the global bitcoin hash is generated in Sichuan rich in...

Last week, supercomputer security systems in many institutions of higher education in Europe recorded cyber attacks attacks. Universities and computer centers in the UK, Germany and Switzerland reported incidents, and a computer center in Spain is also rumored to have been attacked. Attackers infected...

Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, announced that Telegram has stopped working on the Telegram Open Network blockchain platform. He emphasized that he was unlikely to support alternative networks based on the development of his team. Durov wrote that TON has been developed for...

Today, May 10, the price of the first cryptocurrency suddenly fell below $9,000, breaking the uptrend. The chart below shows that a sharp decline in prices was accompanied by a significant surge in trading volumes: Source: Bitstamp four-hour BTC/USD chart