Today at China time ~3:30PM, Jihan Whu’s good friend and former legal representative of Bitmain Luyao LIU was arrested by Beijing police. In the morning, Micree was at the Industry and Commerce Bureau of Beijing office, to get his Beijing Bitmain corp license. Jihan Whu is leading supporter of first major Bitcoin fork, Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
Blockstream has churned out BlockstreamSatellite 2.0 that brings a new transmission protocol, more bandwidth, a larger coverage area, and the much requested ability to sync a Bitcoin node from the genesis block up to the latest block.
BitMex has issued a notice on its website that starting 23:00 JST 30th April 2020, users from Japan will not be able to trade or place orders on BitMex platform. If there are any existing open positions, BitMex would not be cancelling them and they will continue in accordance with your contract.
Purse.io, a popular niche website that allowed users to spend their Amazon Gift cards and in return they used to get Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash. Today, Purse has made an announcement that it is going to close its doors on June 26th 2020.
BitGo has announced on its social media accounts that it has acquired Lumina which is a cryptocurrency native financial platform. At the same time, BitGo has completed 1st phase of product integration as well.
Bitcoin Gold halving is going to be happening in five days from now. BTG’s block reward will be cut in half at block 630,000, cutting inflation to under 1.8%. This means the Bitcoin Gold’s inflation rate will drop from 3.6 percent to mere 1.8 percent.
A quick glance at fork.lol confirms that Bitcoin Cash miners are having a hard time justifying mining Bitcoin Cash (BCH) instead of Bitcoin (BTC). Infact, BTC.com which is owned by Bitcoin is simply mining Bitcoin Cash just to maintain BCH‘s hash rate.
Folks at Kraken Security Labs have discovered a way to empty bitcoin and other crypto funds from the Coolwallet S hardware wallet when connected to its Android app.
About 1.5 years back in 2018, Bitcoin Gold blockchain was compromised and blocks were rearranged.
Coinbase may soon allow you to send Bitcoin using email. As odd as it sounds but Coinbase, the most popular fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchange has been granted a patent for sending bitcoin (btc) via email.