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ForkLog 6 23.09.2020

Bank of Canada ties crypto investments to financial illiteracy

Canadians with low financial literacy are more likely to invest in cryptocurrencies than their economically literate counterparts. The central bank's study notes this.

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ForkLog 15 22.09.2020

Survey: 90% of institutional investors plan to buy more Bitcoin

Forty-five of 50 pension funds and insurers in the United Kingdom and the United States, with assets of $78.4 billion, are expected to increase investments in cryptocurrencies over the next five years, according to a survey by Evertas and Pureprofile reported by DeCrypt.

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ForkLog 10 22.09.2020

CoinGecko survey: Most yield farmers increased investments by more than 500%.

Most DeFi protocol users managed to multiply their capital by more than 500% through yield farming, but 40% do not know how to read smart-contract code. The CoinGecko survey of 1,347 respondents shows this.

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ForkLog 10 21.09.2020

Survey finds 10% of Russian bank clients want to invest in cryptocurrencies

The vast majority of Russian bank depositors are not yet ready to invest in cryptocurrencies, according to a survey by IDF.

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ForkLog 14 18.09.2020

Poll: 16% of Russian women prefer to invest in Bitcoin

Russia ranked second in the world for the number of women investors during 2018–2020. A sixth of them prefer to invest in cryptocurrency, Forbes writes citing a study by Investing.com.

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ForkLog 10 17.09.2020

A tenth of all bitcoin transactions are attributed to residents of Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe accounts for 12% of all cryptocurrency transactions conducted between July 2019 and June 2020, according to Chainalysis.

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ForkLog 21 15.09.2020

Chainalysis: Eastern Europe leads darknet-market activity

Eastern Europe leads darknet-market activity among regions worldwide, according to a Chainalysis study.

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ForkLog 18 14.09.2020

Study finds overwhelming share of cloud-server attacks target cryptojacking

95% of attacks on compromised cloud servers are aimed at covert cryptocurrency mining, according to a report by Aqua Security.

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ForkLog 19 07.09.2020

Researchers describe a new method of laundering money through Bitcoin.

Researchers from the Blockchain Research Lab published a paper describing a growing method of laundering money through cryptocurrency. The mechanism has been named 'exclusive mining'.

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ForkLog 9 02.09.2020

Ministry of Digital Transformation: Ukraine tops the world in cryptocurrency usage

Ukrainian citizens are the world's most active cryptocurrency users. The local Ministry of Digital Transformation says this, citing a study by the analytics firm Chainalysis. Experts from the cryptocurrency community told ForkLog that the analysts' official report has not yet been published.

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ForkLog 41 01.09.2020

Researcher uncovers how Satoshi Nakamoto mined his first million bitcoins.

Sergio Lerner, head of the innovation department at IOV Labs and developer of the RSK platform, explained how Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, mined his first million bitcoins. The study found that the miner could have used a multithreaded hashing method not included in the earliest version of the client.

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ForkLog 11 31.08.2020

Study: Pending Ethereum Transactions Vulnerable to Bots

Arbitrage bots monitor pending transactions in the Ethereum mempool and exploit arising opportunities to profit from its architecture, according to a blog post by Dan Robinson, a developer at the Paradigm hedge fund, in collaboration with colleague Georgios Konstantopoulos.

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