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In a recent post on the Coinbase blog, security engineer Mark Nesbitt says the company has detected a deep chain reorganization of the Ethereum Classic blockchain. As of January 7, 10:27pm Pacific Time, Coinbase says the reorganizations were used to perform double spends totaling 219,500 ETC (about $1.095 million at the time of writing).
Last week, we wrote about Monero appearing as a payment option in the official merchandise store of Fortnite, an extremely popular battle royale video game developed by Epic Games. Tim Sweeney, the company’s founder, recently quelled the excitement, saying that Monero being featured in the Fortnite merch store was an oversight.
Ethereum development studio Consensys has partnered with investment firm Halo Holdings and computer hardware manufacturer AMD to develop datacenter solutions that support blockchain applications for governments and businesses.
As 2019 gets underway, this week represents a great opportunity for teams to display their commitment to ongoing development and making a significant contribution to the blockchain economy. This week’s choices are projects taking the opportunity to get ahead of their competition by implementing significant upgrades and launches that should result in an increased amount of attention and help to build a positive sentiment.
One year ago, XRP reached its all-time high valuation of $3.50 which was the culmination of an immense rally that began in the first week of December 2017, when XRP was trading at around $0.25. The run up was answered by an equally explosive crash, as XRP fell to about $0.73 in early February.
Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, has announced it will be holding a new token sale in each month of 2019 through their Binance Launchpad program.
The Bitcoin whitepaper authored by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto was published on October 31, 2008. About two months later, on January 3, 2009, the Bitcoin blockchain actually became a reality when the first Bitcoin block was mined.
Monero, the world’s largest privacy-focused cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is now the exclusive cryptocurrency payment option in the official Fortnite merchandise store.
DX.Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange powered by order matching technology provided by Nasdaq, will allow users to trade digital tokens that represent shares in 10 companies listed on Nasdaq: Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft Corporation, Tesla, Netflix, Baidu, Intel Corporation and Nvidia.
On December 27, a U.S. federal court rejected Craig Wright's motion to dismiss "the billion-dollar Bitcoin lawsuit". The high-profile BTC lawsuit, plagued with various discrepancies and conflicting allegations, is set to proceed.
