Today Cryptocurrency News 12-4-2019

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Developed in “combination with oracle technology,” the FireWall.X program helps in “preventing hackers from obtaining” user account details which may be stored in smart contracts. In order to add protection against hacks on EOS, developers must import FireWall.X’s smart contract security code libraries into the code they’re writing.

Ethereum seems to be winning the popularity contest, with its current market cap of over $17.5 billion compared to XRP’s $13.8 billion. However, a different metric used to measure the rival cryptos’ popularity shows another story.

As mentioned in Ontology’s announcement, “If the number of qualified dApps in the ranking is between 20 and 50, the top 10 will then share a prize pool of $50,000” in ONG. “From April 1st to June 30th,” the Ontology team is also ”giving a 60% dApp transaction fee rebate to developers (and 50% thereinafter).”

Michael Richo, a 37-year-old man from the US, has recently seen sentenced to one year and one day in prison for fraud in connection to a bitcoin phishing scheme he was allegedly running, designed to rob victims of their crypto holdings.