Weekly report of CoinWise: AntPool Vcash merged mining is now online! (August 19-August 27)

The picture shows the weekly dynamics of mainstream currencies from August 19 to August 27, 2019

Weekly News

The full text of Satoshi Nakamoto’s self-certification (Part 1): The origin of Bitcoin and the name Satoshi Nakamoto

I am Satoshi Nakamoto.

I have always believed in freedom and liberation for common people. That is why I started my journey with Bitcoin. But the irony is that I got stuck in something that is hard to get myself out of.

It took me 8-9 years to understand and to have the courage to fight myself and get out of this false notion that this world’s view of the truth is because the truth is always stranger than fiction.

Hal Finney, one of my closest ally and mentor, said in a March 2013 post on Bitcointalk that “when Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he received a skeptical response at best.” This is absolutely true.

Ant Pool Announcement | Vcash Merged Mining is now online!

Dear AntPool users,

AntPool will support Vcash merged mining starting from August 20, 2019. The ratio of mining BTC to Vcash is about 1:4, and the specific amount is subject to daily distribution.

Ant Pool launches new coins | DERO launches with 0 fee in August

DERO, Chinese name: Derocoin, uses the CryptoNight algorithm, the same algorithm as ETN and XMC. DERO uses a series of advanced anonymous technologies such as BlockDAG technology, CryptoNote framework, Bulletproofs technology and Monero ring signature, aiming to make transactions and contracts anonymous, prevent 51% attacks, and become the fastest anonymous blockchain project in the world.

Sichuan rainstorm forced miners to stop operations, and BTC network computing power has begun to decline

Long-term heavy rains in Sichuan Province have caused serious land mudslides, forcing some local hydropower stations and Bitcoin miners to stop operations. According to social media reports from the local government, heavy rains have hit Aba Prefecture in Sichuan since Monday, and landslides have affected 17 counties in the region, with Wenchuan County being the worst hit.

According to China Daily, the mudslides have destroyed local power supply and communication infrastructure and killed at least seven people.

According to a video clip posted by an unnamed cryptocurrency mining farm operator, his mining facility in Wenchuan was damaged and some Bitcoin mining machines were covered in mud.

Mining Trojans reappear, 140,000 Linux-based devices attacked, Guangdong Province is the hardest hit

According to the news from the mining website, yesterday (August 21), Tencent Yujian Threat Intelligence Center released a message that Tencent security experts found that the Tencent Yujie advanced threat detection system deployed by a certain enterprise customer had SSH service compromise information during routine security inspections for a certain enterprise customer. After investigation, it was found that the attack was launched by the large mining botnet WannaMine: after the attacker successfully cracked the SSH weak password, the shell backdoor and brootkit backdoor program were implanted, and spread horizontally in the intranet through SSH. The victim machine received remote commands to install (including but not limited to) mining trojans and DDoS attack modules.