The leading cryptocurrency began the week at $64,000. On Wednesday, August 28, digital gold fell below<\/a> the psychological threshold of $60,000, only to briefly recover.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $58,200.<\/p>\n All top-10 digital assets by market capitalization ended the week in the “red zone.” Solana lost the most (-15.9%).<\/p>\n The total cryptocurrency market capitalization stands at $2.12 trillion. Bitcoin’s dominance index is 57.4%.<\/p>\n On August 28, approximately 96 hours after his detention, Pavel Durov was released<\/a> under judicial supervision with a \u20ac5 million bail and an obligation to report to the police twice a week. He is prohibited from leaving France.<\/p>\n The Telegram founder faces six charges:<\/p>\n According to Politico, French authorities issued arrest warrants<\/a> for Pavel and his older brother Nikolai on March 25 for ignoring law enforcement requests.<\/p>\n On August 28, false information about Durov’s release spread<\/a> in the crypto community. A letter supporting him gathered<\/a> over 2.5 million signatures.<\/p>\n According to The Wall Street Journal, French and UAE intelligence hacked<\/a> the Telegram founder’s iPhone in 2017 as part of an operation codenamed “Purple Music.”<\/p>\n Galaxy Research analysts believe Durov’s arrest is unlikely to be the last<\/a> major arrest of a company leader “for failing to adequately control their platform.”<\/p>\n The team behind the clicker game Hamster Kombat announced that the TGE<\/span> and airdrop of the meme token HMSTR are scheduled for September 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cryptocurrency exchange OKX will list<\/a> it.<\/p>\n The initial coin distribution was planned<\/a> for July but was postponed. The team cited technical difficulties as the reason for the delay.<\/p>\n Following the latest recalculation, the mining difficulty of the leading cryptocurrency increased by 2.99%<\/a> to 89.47 T.<\/p>\n The interval between blocks since the previous adjustment shortened to less than nine minutes, with the average hash rate reaching a peak of 718.28 EH\/s.<\/p>\n This indicates that Bitcoin miners continue to connect high-performance equipment of the latest generations to the network.\u00a0<\/p>\n On August 28, TON developers restarted the network after an outage<\/a> in block generation, which lasted about six hours. The issue arose due to abnormal load, the team explained.<\/p>\n \n“Several validators cannot clear the database of old transactions, leading to a loss of consensus,” the statement said.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The solution was to restart the nodes at 04:00 UTC (07:00 Kyiv\/MSK) “with specific flags.”<\/p>\n TON Foundation’s Investment Director Justin Heon clarified that the network overload was caused by “junk” operations with DOGS.<\/p>\n On August 29, the TON network experienced block production issues<\/a> for several hours due to a repeat outage.<\/p>\n Also on ForkLog:<\/p>\n Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin disclosed<\/a> his salary at the Ethereum Foundation \u2014 182,000 Singapore dollars (~$140,000) per year.<\/p>\n The information was positively received by the community. A user named Dark Crypto Larp noted that leaders in other major organizations earn significantly more.<\/p>\n Buterin’s comment was published in response to information about an upcoming Ethereum Foundation report. The organization plans to share financial data for 2022 and 2023 ahead of the upcoming Devcon SEA event.<\/p>\n This week, ForkLog explored how the Dogecoin infrastructure<\/a> is organized and how AI is transforming<\/a> brain-computer interfaces.<\/p>\n In the traditional digest, we compiled the main events of the week in cybersecurity<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Snimok-ekrana-2024-09-01-v-18.59.28\"](\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2024-09-01-v-18.59.28-1024x640.png\")
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Durov Released on \u20ac5 Million Bail, Banned from Leaving France<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Hamster Kombat Developers Announce Airdrop Date<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Rises Nearly 3%<\/strong><\/h2>\n
TON Team Resolves Two Blockchain Outages in a Week<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Vitalik Buterin Reveals His Salary<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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