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PARITY RECEIVED $5 MILLION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ETHEREUM 2.0 The Ethereum Foundation has allocated a grant of $5 million to the company Parity, which will develop solutions for the global update of Ethereum 2.0. The list of developments includes the introduction…
INVESTMENTS IN THE FINTECH INDUSTRY IN GERMANY FOR THE FIRST TIME EXCEEDED $1 BILLION Investments in German FINTECH companies last year reached a record value of $ 1.1 billion, according to a study by Barkow Consulting. Last year was marked by large…
BRAZILIAN AUTHORITIES CANCELED THE PROJECT FOR THE CREATION OF CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE Jair Messias Bolsonaro, new President of Brazil, criticized the investment projects adopted under his predecessor and announced the abolition of the state contract for the creation of cryptocurrency for…
JAPAN MAY APPROVE THE CRYPTOCURRENCY ETFs Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is considering to approve exchange traded investment funds (ETFs) that track digital assets. According to the recent reports, the financial regulator is currently studying the sector’s interest in cryptocurrency ETFs. It…
IGNIS SCALING SOLUTION LAUNCHED ON THE ETHEREUM TEST NETWORK Ethereum Foundation developers and Matter Inc. startup released a test solution for scaling Ignis which is based on a Plasma technology and zkSNARKs. Ignis replaces the verification of SNARK transactions with confirmation of…
EXCHANGE KRAKEN RECEIVED 475 REQUESTS FROM THE AUTHORITIES OVER THE PAST YEAR Kraken has published an infographic with statistics regarding the complaints received from law enforcement agencies and regulators for 2018. According to the data presented, last year the number of requests…
COLORADO INTRODUCED A BILL THAT PROVIDES AN EXCEPTION TO THE SECURITIES LEGISLATION The deputies of the state of Colorado presented a bill on digital assets, which proposes to withdraw cryptocurrencies from the action of regional securities legislation. Meanwhile, the local financial regulator…
BLUETOOTH LEDGER NANO X HAS BEEN RELEASED The manufacturer of hardware wallets for storing bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies – Ledger introduced Ledger Nano X – an improved version of Ledger Nano S. The new model was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show…
UNKNOWN BROKE THE ETHEREUM WALLET ELECTRUM WALLET Users reported about the hacking of the Electrum Wallet application, as a result of which hackers managed to replace the project servers with malicious versions. Attackers have already stolen 200 bitcoins from users’ accounts. Hackers…
UKRAINE LAUNCHES FIRST DECENTRALIZED AGRICULTURAL EXCHANGE In the spring of 2019, the first decentralized agricultural exchange will be launched in Ukraine, Agronews reported. Trader Igor Tinkov noted that the blockchain platform will allow to unite all market participants: profile companies, agricultural holdings,…
THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LEGALIZES CRYPTOCURRENCIES SUBJECT TO STRICT REGULATION Indian authorities plan to legalize digital assets, establishing strict regulatory control over this area. According to the New Indian Express publication, the interdepartmental Committee created by the Indian Parliament to study the…
LITECOIN WILL ADVERTISE ITS CRYPTOCURRENCY DURING UFC FIGHTS Litecoin Foundation became the first representative of the blockchain industry, which will be the advertising partner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, an American mixed martial arts promotion company based in Las Vegas, organizing MMA fights. The…
JAPANESE FINANCIAL GIANT MIZUHO INTRODUCED DIGITAL CURRENCY FOR NON-CASH PAYMENTS The Japanese Bank holding company Mizuho plans to introduce a digital currency, which will be used for non-cash money transfers. The launch of the corporate cryptocurrency is scheduled for March 2019. According…
YEAR OF BITCOIN IN NUMBERS AND EVENTS After taking off in 2017, bitcoin spent a year disappointing crypto investors: from a record $20,000, the cryptocurrency fell below $4,000. Let’s see what happened with bitcoin from January 1 to the end of December….
X9 DEVELOPERS BECAME PARTNERS OF LITECOIN FOUNDATION The Litecoin Foundation has partnered with the X9 Developers team to support, fix, and strengthen Litecoin Dark (LTCD) and other applications of Lightning Network technologies. X9 Developers is an independent blockchain development team, whose founders…
INDIAN CRYPTO-EXCHANGES REGISTER RECORD TRADING VOLUMES Despite the banking limitations and the uncertainty of regulatory measures, the Indian crypto currency exchange noted an increase in trading volumes every month. The head of the Indian crypto-exchange Wazirx Nischal Shetty in an interview with…
BANK OF AMERICA PATENTS BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEM FOR CASH TRANSACTIONS The Bank of America (BoA) plans to patent a system of optimization of Fiat operations based on blockchain technology. This became known from the patent application published on December 25 on the website…
A MINI-SATELLITE IN EARTH ORBIT WILL SEND BITCOINS TO ENTHUSIASTS WHO ARE IN THE SPACE A team of students from Idaho launched a mini-satellite that will send bitcoins from orbit to enthusiasts who are in the space. The project of students from…
THE BITCOIN CORE TEAM HAS RELEASED AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE BITCOIN CORE 0.17.1 The Bitcoin Core team congratulated bitcoin enthusiasts on Christmas by releasing an updated Bitcoin client “Bitcoin Core 0.17.1”original version. The developers noted that the version does not contain…
PwC: 2019 WILL BE A POSITIVE YEAR FOR CRYPTOCURRENCIES PwS leading employee Henry Arslanyan said that in 2019, the cryptocurrency market is expected to be dominated by positive trends. Among them is the increase in the number of major players and the…
