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On the evening of January 13, the PeckShield situational awareness platform detected large fluctuations in the computing power of the ETC public chain. Follow-up analysis by PeckShield security personnel found that the huge ETC block reward observed by the media was actually caused by the high miner fees of certain transactions, and the block reward itself remained unchanged, still at 4 ETC. The data shows that from 12:00 midnight on January 13, 2019, Beijing time, addresses starting with 0xb71EE62 initiated multiple transfers of extremely high transaction fees (105 ETC). The purpose of these ultra-high transaction fee transfers is not yet clear. Based on the recent security status of ETC and possible continuous fluctuations in computing power, PeckShield recommends that relevant digital currency exchanges wait for at least 400 block confirmations when conducting ETC transactions, and remain vigilant.
digital currency
digital currency
Dash core team: I believe 51% attacks will not happen
The Dash core team published an article on its official forum, stating that the Dash core team had previously discovered that several Dash wallet addresses had more than 51% of the computing power. After several days of evaluation, they believed that the owners of these wallets did not initiate 51% % plan or idea of attack because their mining started at least 4 months ago and the blocks are fully public. The team stated that Dash has an InstantSend function, and a transaction successfully locked through InstantSend needs to reorganize at least 24 blocks to successfully double spend. In addition, the Dash network will include an innovative technology called ChainLocks in the next update, which will make 51% attacks more difficult, because you need to control 51% of the masternodes to achieve it.
Latin American cryptocurrency market sees significant growth
The Latin American P2P cryptocurrency market saw significant growth in December 2018. Local bitcoin markets in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela all saw record volumes in both fiat and bitcoin terms. In recent weeks, the P2P trading markets in Argentina, Dominican Republic and Mexico have also set records.
Twitter survey: 12% of people invest more than $100,000 in Bitcoin
According to Chaindigg data monitoring, at around 8:00 pm on January 13, 2019, there were 5 large-value transfers of BTC, with a total of about 34,900 BTC transferred out, worth about 860 million yuan. It is worth mentioning that there is a difference of 500 BTC between the transfer-out address and the transfer-in address of the 5 transfers. The outgoing BTC amounts of the 5 transfers were 7480, 6980, 6480, 7980, and 5980 respectively, while the incoming addresses received 6980, 6480, 5980, 7480, and 5480 respectively.
Blockchain industry
Blockchain industry
On the evening of January 12, Fan Huaping, vice governor of Hainan Province and director of the Provincial Public Security Department, met respectively in Sanya with Ma Huateng, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tencent, and Zhang Jianfeng, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group. , artificial intelligence, blockchain and other aspects of advanced planning, and continuously improve the level of Hainan police informatization and intelligent construction.
On January 13, the Second Session of the 12th Sichuan Provincial Political Consultative Conference opened. In response to the rapid development of Internet finance such as third-party payment, online crowdfunding, and big data finance, some committee members suggested that the construction of Internet financial laws and regulations should be improved as soon as possible, a unified credit reporting standard and sharing mechanism should be established, the regulatory system should be innovated, and industry self-discipline should be strengthened. Emerging technologies such as blockchain.
Hangzhou High-tech Zone will promote the development of industrial clusters such as blockchain
At the fifth plenary (expanded) meeting of the fifth session of the Hangzhou High-tech Zone Committee held recently, the high-tech zone (Binjiang) proposed to strive to achieve 300 billion yuan in digital economy revenue for the year, while promoting digital security, e-commerce, communication equipment, The development of ten industrial clusters including information software, cultural creativity, artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data applications, biomedicine and health, new energy and new materials has formed a new industrial realm of thousands of trees and pear blossoms in spring.
In 2019, Xiaoshan will accelerate the deployment of blockchain and other cutting-edge industries
Blockchain developers are earning more than they did six months ago, according to a report by management consulting firm Janco Associates. Over the past six months, annual salaries for blockchain developers have increased by more than $4,000. Blockchain developers also earn a much higher median annual salary than other software developers, at around $132,000. Experienced developers earn more, about $176,000 a year, especially if they change employers.
global policy
global policy
Malaysian government has yet to decide whether to legalize digital currencies
On January 11, the Hebei Xiongan New Area Management Committee issued the Xiongan New Area Engineering Construction Project Bidding Management Measures (Trial), of which Article 47 includes the construction of enterprises and individuals based on big data and blockchain Integrity evaluation system, which publishes the credit information and credit evaluation index of all parties in real time. Article 50 is to establish a network trusted identity authentication system and license database based on blockchain technology, and information such as project information, enterprise information, personnel information, file transfer, and capital payment are encrypted and backed up through blockchain technology.
Character·Voice
Character·Voice
Morgan Creek founder: The cryptocurrency market may continue to be low
Anthony Pomp Pompliano, founder of Morgan Creek, said in an interview about the future of the digital currency industry that BTC may not fall further, but the entire market will continue to suffer for a period of time, and cryptocurrencies may temporarily deviate from the right path.
Ambrosus CEO: Blockchain is the best solution so far in many fields
Regarding the McKinsey report’s accusation of blockchain technology, Angel Versetti, CEO of blockchain supply chain company Ambrosus, believes that blockchain hype has indeed reached the point where it is prohibitive, but in many application areas, blockchain is indeed the best so far. s solution.
Canaan Zhizhi Shao Jianliang: Canaan Zhizhis sales revenue in 2018 exceeded 4 billion yuan
On January 13, at the Blockchain Industry Development Forum of the City University of Hong Kong, Shao Jianliang, head of Canaan’s blockchain division, revealed that Canaan’s sales revenue exceeded RMB 4 billion last year. According to the previous prospectus documents submitted by Bitmain and Ebang International to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Bitmain’s revenue in the first half of 2018 was US$2.845 billion (approximately RMB 19 billion), and Ebang International’s revenue in the first half of last year was RMB 2.1 billion.
Wall Street financial analyst and Bitcoin supporter Max Keiser recently said that although cryptocurrencies are now in a bear market, his investment in the field of cryptocurrencies is 10 to 100 times that of 2011, and he believes that Bitcoin is still profitable. But other experts and analysts said that Bitcoin has not yet bottomed out, and that the lowest price in 2019 may be $3,000.
In the DApp market and smart contract development market, the rise of new applications such as Dfinity and Cosmos may challenge Ethereums dominance in the field, said Kyle Samani, co-founder of crypto hedge fund Multicoin Capital.
