Top 7 major events in the bitcoin and blockchain-industry (19.06.17 — 25.06.17)
In the Sunday review: the bitcoin community in anticipation of key dates August 1, the network failure Etherem, a new hypothesis about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto and other major events this week.
Let's start:
- Support SegWit2x on the part of the miners reached 80%
Less than two days were required to offer scalability bitcoin SegWit2x to enlist the support of more than 80% of the computing power of the miners.
Alarm in support SegWit2x started on Monday, and after Tuesday, June 20, blocks marked as NYA began to extract pools BTCC and Batpool required threshold of 80% was overcome. Earlier support for the proposal was expressed by AntPool, Bitcoin.com, Bixin, BTC.com, BTC.top, F2Pool, ViaBTC and BW Pool.
- Problems in Ethereum.
Start ICO Singapore blockchain startup Status was not as smooth as was expected by the creators of the project, and led to a mass crash Ethereum.
ICO project was launched in the evening of 20 June, but from the first minute at the start began to appear that the transaction specified by the organizers Ethereum-wallet are not. Soon began to experience problems and Etherscan.io Explorer, blocks of Ethereum. At some point, the site even went offline.
The situation even forced several exchanges to suspend withdrawals. In particular, this is BTC-e, Bitfinex and CEX.io. Events around ICO Status display and price Ether: from Tuesday evening she went down sharply.
- Blockchain.info – new investments of $40 million
Thursday, June 22, a popular bitcoin wallet and analytical services Blockchain.info announced the closing of the investment round, B series, during which he managed to attract funds amounting to $40 million.
The funding round is participated by such well-known venture capital and investment companies as Google Ventures, Lakestar, Digital Currency Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Prudence Holdings. Also contributing to the development Blockchain.info made by the famous British entrepreneur and founder of multinational conglomerate Virgin Group sir Richard Branson.
- A new hypothesis about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
The true author of bitcoin is probably the Creator of Litecoin Charlie Lee. This assumption is expressed in the portal, Trading View user MonocoleDundee, citing in his favor a few arguments.
In his entry MonocoleDundee mentions a mysterious Litecoin-project, which, as we learned this week, is preparing to launch Massachusetsky Institute of technology (MIT), and also lists a few other thoughts, which led him to this conclusion.
As the saying MonocoleDundee, he is 80% sure that Satoshi Nakamoto is Charlie Lee.
- The Saga of the hacking of The DAO and the hard forks Ethereum continues
On Tuesday, June 20, publishing Bitcoin.com said his editors were contacted who asked not to reveal his name Australian resident who had previously asked the Commission for securities and investments (ASIC) concerning possible violations of financial regulation during a break-in at The DAO and the subsequent hard forks Ethereum in the summer of 2016.
Additionally, similar requests were sent to the financial regulators in Germany, France and other EU countries, and the governments of Switzerland, as Ethereum Foundation registered in the Canton of Zug.
- Chainalysis established the whereabouts of the disappeared bitcoins MtGox
Representatives of the new York blockchain startup Chainalysis claim that they know the whereabouts of 650,000 BTC (about $1.7 billion at current exchange rates) disappeared from the accounts of the sad well-known exchange MtGox. It is reported Bitcoin.com.
The announcement was made in early June at a hearing of the Subcommittee on combating terrorism and illicit Finance of the U.S. house of representatives, which was attended by representatives Chainalysis.
- Symbol of bitcoin appeared in Unicode.
After a long wait, the symbol of bitcoin, finally appeared in Unicode. It was implemented in version 10.0. In total the new version of Unicode augmented 8518 new characters and 56 new Emoji characters.
Unicode is a standard character encoding that allows to represent the characters of nearly all written languages. The documents can coexist Unicode Chinese characters, mathematical symbols, Greek letters, Latin and Cyrillic characters, when it becomes unnecessary switching code pages.
56 new Emoji characters:
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