A practical summary to get you up to date with some of the most interesting news in the crypto world.
📍The difficulty of the network Bitcoin increased by almost 10%, a fact that reflects that the security and stability of the network is stronger than ever. With a value close to 17,35 TH/s, the hash rate of the network is positioned at a new maximum according to data revealed by satoshi.info.
📍In Japan, users of cryptocurrencies, are increasing their reserves in these assets in order to counteract the devastating effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to local media, the Japanese are increasingly acquiring cryptocurrencies through the exchanges that exist in the country, being Bitcoin, Ripple y Ethereum the most requested.
(I.e.Bitcoin Gold warned of an attempt to attack 51% with which hackers intended to take control of the network. The Bitcoin Gold developers published a release in which they explained the attempted attack and how it was possible to thwart it. In addition, they called on cryptocurrency exchanges and exchanges to update their nodes to the BTC Core version 0.17.2.
📍Major telecommunications companies in Spain and Europe implement a proposal to offer better roaming services based on technology blockchain. The proposal of Telefónica, Vodafone y Deutsche Telekom It allowed companies to reduce their capital costs, know annual income and settlement in real time, improve workflow, make transactions much more efficient, observe and evaluate data discrepancies as well as update or modify data within the system immediately.
📍It seems that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) The United States Department of Justice has opened a recruitment process with which it hopes to find an analyst who will play a key role within the team investigating financial crimes that may be related to digital assets or cryptocurrencies. Let us remember that the institution develops a broad national program aimed at minimizing the occurrence of this type of acts.
(I.e.Chris Belcher, developer of Join Market, is focusing its attention on CoinSwap, arguing that this solution will allow a greater degree of privacy and security to be provided to users of the Bitcoin network when making their transactions. According to Belcher, Bitcoin's current privacy is not good at all, so CoinSwap is the next step to guarantee the privacy of the network, and even overcome some of the problems that arise in transactions. the coinjo.
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