Wireline announces a Libra fork called OpenLibra
At the Devcon 5 conference in Japan this week, Lucas Geiger, co-founder of Wireline, announced the “OpenLibra” project. This would be an open source version of the blockchain proposed by Facebook, with a token based on the stable cryptocurrency Libra. Basically, this would be the permisionless version of the Facebook project.
“We take the Move virtual machine … and place it on Tendermint. You will be able to run the car with the Move language and get a permisionless duplicate of the original network status, “
explained Geiger, Wireline.
He also made available to the public a GitHub repository with project details.
The price of Bitcoin is approaching $ 8600
After two weeks of fluctuations in the range of $ 8000-8200, in the last 24 hours, the price of Bitcoin has exceeded the $ 8,500 threshold and is approaching the value of $ 8,600. Trading volume also registered a slight increase, which shows that traders have finally returned to the market.
The other cryptocurrencies also saw price increases between 5 and 10% yesterday, and crypto-enthusiasts are hoping that the upward trend will continue.
Zhao Dong, shareholder of Bitfinex, believes that the crypto market has the potential to reach significant peaks during the rest of 2019. He explains:
“The next three months could be the last opportunity to take advantage of the low prices. After that, the crypto market will enter the spring and then into the summer. ”
The total market value has exceeded $ 230 billion, and Bitcoin’s dominance has dropped from over 70% to 66% today.
Binance launches P2P trading option in China
Binance Exchange has launched a peer-to-peer trading (P2P) feature for users in China. It will allow those interested to make direct exchanges of BTC, ETH and USDT with the Chinese yuan.
How to account for Binance?
For now, access to the option is made only from the Android version of the application, and options for iOS and desktop will be released shortly.
Binance recently launched a number of new options, such as Binance Lending, futures trading and staking. It also added support for the Koinal app, which allows users to buy cryptocurrencies directly with credit cards.
Bitmain announces two new Antminer models
Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu has announced the launch of two new ASICs, S17 + and T17 +, at the World Summit on Digital Mining (WDMS) in Frankfurt. Bitmain claims that the new ASICs offer energy efficiency and hash rate improvements:
“Antminer S17 + has a hash rate of 73 TH / s and works with an energy efficiency of 40 J / TH + 10%. T17 + offers a hash rate of 64 TH / s and a power of 50 J / TH + 10%. “
In September, Bitmain announced a platform for connecting crypto miners with farm owners worldwide. The World Map of Digital Mining will be launched during the Frankfurt Summit. This offers the possibility of connecting the owners of mining hardware with the mining farms that will provide the available energy resources to host them for a fee.
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