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Anton Valletas

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Computer Engineer and Cryptocurrency enthusiast! I love talking and posting about anything tech-related! Follow me for updates!

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 23, 2018, 4:07 PM UTC

More than 200 Bitcoin Mining ASICs seized by Chinese Authorities

Even though the price per kWh of electricity in China is one of the cheapest in the whole world, there are still people who opt for stealing electricity for their mining hardware instead of paying fo…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 20, 2018, 11:24 PM UTC

$30M USD Bithumb hack. A somewhat still sketchy event.

After yesterday's large scale hack on Bithumb, South Korea's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, the company is still trying to protect the remaining part of users funds. Reports indicate that over $30…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 20, 2018, 5:23 PM UTC

Nishiawakura, the first municipal ICO in Japan.

Japanese city of Nishiawakura, announced last Wednesday the 13th of June, that it would be holding an ICO round. The first ICO to be pushed forward thanks to the involvement of a Japanese municipal g…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 19, 2018, 7:21 PM UTC

Crypto Tales #3: Sia, Siacoin and the beginning of decentralized file storage.

Origins Sia was first conceived back in September 2013 by two undergraduate Computer Science students named David Vorick and Luke Champine at the HackMIT 2013 convention. Most cryptocurrency projects…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 18, 2018, 12:14 PM UTC

Are we on a 2014 trend?

If you go ahead and take a look at the BTC chart right now, it might sound familiar if you have been intro crypto for a while. Yes, it is practically the same as the chart from 2014. If BTC follows t…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 17, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

EOS Blockchain running once again after yesterdays disaster!

The recently launched EOS mainnet had sort of a hiccup yesterday June 16th after "technical difficulties" were detected on the network that prevented block producers from producing said blocks. The n…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 17, 2018, 12:01 PM UTC

A single wrong character almost kills Icon's ($ICX) blockchain

Yesterday a smart contract bug in ICX ERC-20 tokens was found. A != instead of an ==. Yeah, you heard right, only one character. "!" instead of "=". THIS almost caused Icons blockchain to fail. This…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 17, 2018, 10:54 AM UTC

Judge orders BitGrail's BTC to be seized.

Yesterday a judge from the Tribunal of Florence ordered to seize all the BTC assets of the fallen BitGrail Italian Cryptocurrency exchange. BitGrail did not inform about the total ammount of BTC that…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 16, 2018, 4:54 PM UTC

India considering 18% TAX RETROACTIVELY on Cryptocurrencies!

As reported today by news agency Bloomberg, the Indian Government is considering taxing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with an 18% GST (Goods and Services Tax) and moreover it will be doing so re…

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Anton Valletas
@antonvalletas Jun 16, 2018, 4:14 PM UTC

Bitcoin 0.16.1 was released yesterday. What changes?

Bitcoin Core version 0.16.1 was just released yesterday and is already available for download, here I will try to summarize the main and most important changes and updates: - An attack vector for DDo…

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