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2021-08-15 18:44:45 Mark Cuban revealed that he is not a supporter of DOGE, but 95% of his clients choose the meme coin as a means of payment

In a recent tweet, Billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, shared an interesting fact. The entrepreneur stated that DOGE has become a “popular way of paying,” as most of his companies' customers choose DOGE to pay for their purchases.

“I’m not a fan of DOGE. I offer products and services of my companies. In the case where we allow people to pay with ANY cryptocurrency - 95% of payments fall on DOGE. Customers CHOOSE DOGE. We can argue about anything and everything about BTC, but now DOGE is the "people's way of payment," Cuban wrote on his Twitter account.

Fun fact: if Dogecoin had limited supply, the price of 1 coin would be much bigger Open / Comment

2021-08-14 18:59:17 Polygon acquires Hermez Network for $250 million.

The management of the Polygon project, formerly known as MATIC, announced the purchase of the Hermez Network scaling project for $250 million. The project tokens will be merged together.

The merger of tokens as part of the purchase of one company by another will take place for the first time in the history of the cryptocurrency industry. According to a blog post, 26 of the 80 Hermez employees will move to the Polygon team. Open / Comment

2021-08-13 12:22:57 Cardano (ADA) becomes the third largest cryptocurrency in the world

Cardano (ADA) price rose 11.1% on the day, reaching a 12-week high of $1.99.

According to CoinGecko, the asset has grown in value by 43.1% over the past week, making it the most profitable among the leading cryptocurrencies on the market.

The growth of the coin pushed its market capitalization to $63.43 billion. At the moment, this is 3.17% of the total value of all cryptocurrencies.

Thus, ADA has overtaken Tether and Binance Coin (BNB).

LET’S GOOOOO!!! Open / Comment

2021-08-12 23:01:07 An interesting read from the Poly Network hacker…

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2021-08-11 18:45:02 Just 2 hours left… Open / Comment

2021-08-11 16:20:26 A new corridor of cross-border remittances between Thailand and Europe will be hosted on the Stellar blockchain

Using the Velo Labs financial blockchain protocol, local financial institutions Tempo Payments and Bitazza will host a cross-border money transfer service that will connect Thailand and 27 European countries.

The corridor will be hosted on the Stellar blockchain and will use Velo tokens and Velo digital credits for on-chain transactions.

The new corridor will serve about 600 million customers in Southeast Asia and Europe.

Stellar XLM moon month soon Open / Comment

2021-08-11 13:56:36 An attacker who hacked Poly Network for the amount of $611 begins to recover stolen funds

At the moment, the attacker has returned $1 million.

Hours after the attack, blockchain security company Slowmist said they had traced the hacker's IP address and email while investigating other identities regarding the attacker continued.

Slowmist posted on Weibo that the attacker used the little-known Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Hoo.

Other services also found information related to other exchanges that could help identify the hacker.

At around 4:00 UTC, the attacker wrote the following message in an Ethereum transaction:

"I am ready to return the funds!"

This message was followed by another:

“Couldn't contact Poly. I need a secure multi-signature wallet from you."

After about 20 minutes, the Poly Network team responded to the attacker through a transaction and identified three addresses to which the hacker should return the stolen funds.

At the moment, money is being sent to the specified wallets. Open / Comment

2021-08-10 22:54:46 The world's largest cinema chain will start accepting bitcoins

AMC Entertainment, the largest movie theater chain in the world, will start accepting bitcoin as payment for movie tickets. Payment in bitcoins will be possible in all American branches of the cinema network.

CEO Adam Aron said that the technology that will allow accepting cryptocurrency will be created by the end of 2021.

However, AMC did not specify what kind of technology they will use to process payments. Open / Comment

2021-08-10 17:02:33 The Poly Network Internet Protocol has been hacked. $611 million stolen

The main reason for the hack was a cryptography problem. Attackers have somehow created a fake transaction signature in order to steal funds.

Also, as a result of the hack, the O3 pool, which uses the Poly Network to exchange tokens between different blockchains, has been suspended.

Assets such as Ethereum worth $273 million were stolen, Binance Smart Chain tokens - $253 million, and $85 million USDC was withdrawn from the Polygon network.

At the moment, this is the largest hack of the De-Fi project. Open / Comment

2021-08-10 13:38:27 Cardano creator wants to organize a rally in Washington in support of cryptocurrencies

After failing to pass amendments to the cryptocurrency tax law, Charles Hoskinson tweeted that he made several phone calls to organize a rally in Washington.

“These senators, 87-year-old living fossils, showed the world that they are ready to sell the future of our country's economy,” added Hoskinson. Open / Comment