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ForkLog 13 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 31 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 20 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 23 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 17 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 92 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 15 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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ForkLog 13 26.08.2020

Study: Covert browser mining cases rose 163% in Q2 2020

In the second quarter of 2020, the number of covert browser mining incidents rose by 163% compared with the previous quarter, according to Symantec.

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ForkLog 20 20.08.2020

Study: organizers of fake YouTube giveaways moved $477,000 in XRP

Organisers of streams with fake cryptocurrency giveaways stole 1.543 million XRP (~$477,000) from duped users. This is according to data from research firm Xrplorer.

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ForkLog 3 18.08.2020

Survey: 72% of investors will hold Bitcoin, even if it falls to zero

Seven in ten cryptocurrency investors would not part with Bitcoin even if its price fell to zero, according to the results of a survey of PlanB, the author of the Stock-to-Flow model, in which 22,635 users participated.

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ForkLog 29 17.08.2020

Survey finds a third of users do not understand DeFi

32% of participants in the cryptocurrency market admitted that they do not understand the basics of decentralized finance. The data come from a Blockfolio survey of the app that tracks cryptocurrency positions.

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ForkLog 14 14.08.2020

Fed outlines research into issuing a digital dollar

The U.S. Federal Reserve is conducting experiments with a hypothetical digital dollar for research purposes, Bloomberg reports.

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