News and crypto rates update from the past 12 hours to keep you informed and up to date with the latest events that shape up the cryptocurrency world.
It's the bitcoin cash hardfork special: as we eagerly await the outcome of the fork, both sides seem to be still going at it, but the ABC protocol is 50 blocks ahead.
MARKETS:
At 07:30 (GMT) total cryptocurrency market capitalization stands at $184.73 billion.
NEWS:
Bitcoin Cash activated a hard fork. Now we can officially talk about BCH splitting into two competing blockchains. The first block in the bitcoin ABC blockchain has been added by Bitcoin.com pool.
Soon after the BCH hardfork happened, the blockchain blocks of the bitcoin ABC networks have begun to fill in with thousands of small transactions, the spam invasion.
The largest BCH mining pool, CoinGeek has faced with Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack following their backing of bitcoin cash SV.
The founder & CEO of BKCM, Brian Kelly, said on FastMoney that the current crypto civil war won’t last long.
Kin Foundatoin, which is engaged in the development of the Kik messenger, will abandon ethereum blockchain in favor of stellar.
Binance asked its remaining users from Iran to withdraw their money as the cryptocurrency exchange seeks to comply with international sanctions.
One of the two GPU giants in the world, Nvidia, has plunged -17% as cryptocurrency boom ends.
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