СEO PayPie Ник Чанди пишет в своем блоге что на платформе будет предусмотрена KYC варификация. Ожидается что совокупная плата за все сборы системы + KYC провайдера составят до 0.5- 1% стоимости транзакции инвойса.

Здесь наверное это необходимо, так как речь идет о финансовых сделках и рисках.

Хм, совершенно противоречивые прогнозы получаются.

Yassin, менеджер Savedroid написал что проведет еще одну сессию вопрос-ответ в следующий вторник, 5 Июня. Время: English at 5pm CET und Deutsch um 19.00 Uhr

Говорят, усердно работают над выходом на Биржу топ 5

Да, в сфере защиты интелектуальной собственности на фото с применением блокчейн появляется все больше конкурентов. Но Copytrack не сидят на месте, заключают сотрудничества, ездят на выставки, как раз сегодня проходит одна из них в Берлине.

Helbiz HBZ добавлена на биржу http://www.bleutrade.com


Доступно 4 пары: HBZ/BTC; HBZ/ETH; HBZ/USDT; HBZ/DOGE


Только сегодня узнал за 2 новые биржи, они растут как грибы).

Ответы нравятся, все четко, и цена не должна стоять на месте, ведь завтра будет релиз Sether 2.0. А в конце в Июля Sether 3.0. Если они собрались выкупать собственные токены с HitBTC сейчас отличное время. Ведь собрали 30 млн, а капитализация 4 млн.

Tomorrow 31 May 2018 should be release of Sether 2.0 platform (Release of the marketing campaign governance.), as planned in their calendar. This excellent screenshots shows a great number of marketing opportunities and triggers in dashboard. And Sether 3.0 is on the way (July 2018).

Tuesday, May 29: crypto markets are steadily rebounding with all top ten coins listed on Coinmarketcap in the green.

After hitting monthly lows yesterday, Bitcoin (BTC) is slightly up 3.94 percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $7,513 at press time.

Ethereum (ETH) has seen a more significant growth of almost 9 percent over a 24 hours period, trading at $571. Still, the major altcoin saw a major decline over the course of the past week, down 12 percent.

Total market cap has gained more than $14 bln over 24 hours, amounts to $330 bln at press time.

The biggest winners among top ten coins are Cardano (ADA) and IOTA (MIOTA) that have have gained 15-16 percent over the past 24 hours. ADA and  MIOTA are trading at $0.20 and $1.62 at press time, respectively.

EOS is up 1.9 percent over 24 hours, trading at $12.37. Earlier today, Cointelegraph reported that leading Chinese cyber security company, Qihoo 360, detected a number of vulnerabilities on the EOS blockchain network to remote attacks on EOS nodes. The launch of the EOS mainnet, which was originally set for June 2, has reportedly been postponed until the vulnerability is fixed.

Last week, blockchain venture capitalist Spencer Bogart predicted that Bitcoin will be trading “at least” above $10,000 by the end of 2018. Bogart said he would sell altcoins like Cardano, TRON, IOTA, and NEO, because he thinks they are “over-promising and under-delivering.”

Source >> https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-markets-make-slight-rebound-after-bitcoin-touched-monthly-lows

Bitcoin's lightning network may be just starting to send transactions over the blockchain, but already its developers are looking to rearchitect the technology.

That's because, while touted as a way to significantly boost bitcoin's capacity, the network itself does require users to store a significant amount of data, which makes it difficult to download and run. As such, several lightning developers – Lightning Labs co-founder 'Laolu' Osuntokun and Blockstream's Christian Decker and Rusty Russell – have published a new proposal which imagines an alternative, "simplified" way of making off-chain transactions called eltoo.

But the new proposal isn't only about condensing the amount of data users need to store, it's also about keeping users' cryptocurrency safe.

For instance, all this data poses another problem in that if users accidentally broadcast older data, they might lose money. As such, this data has been coined "toxic information."

Eltoo, on the other hand, only stores the most recent off-chain transaction data, solving the well-known "information asymmetry" problem – that is if something happens to the device you're running your lightning app on - say your smartphone - you might lose access to the whole history of data.

"With eltoo, we reduce the risk of funds being swept away. We remove this toxic information," said Decker, who noted that the proposal's name is a joke of sorts – the phonetic spelling of "L2," which stands for layer-two, what many people call technology like lightning that pushes transactions off-chain.

And this is something Decker is very interested in since he's experienced the problem personally.

"This actually happened to me," he said, adding:

"I had an old lightning node on my laptop. I restored it. I didn't know I didn't have the newest state. The guy closed the connection because they knew it was an old state! Because he could steal it. Which he did, by the way."

Continue reading >> https://www.coindesk.com/new-twist-lightning-tech-coming-soon-bitcoin/

The South African Police said today it has launched an investigation into an alleged fraud that has claimed more than one billion Rand ($80 million) in bitcoin from 30,000 investors.

Funds manager of BTC Global, Steven Twain, disappeared on February 18 leaving admin staff and clients at a loss for funds.

Ponzi Scheme Head Vanishes

A statement on the BTC Global website said:

“The admin team cannot locate him. If anyone has ANY information on how we can get in contact with him please get in touch and let us know. Until Steven Twain resurfaces or is found there is nothing the admin team can do.”

The statement included a request for threats towards the leaders and admins to stop, suggesting legal proceedings as an alternative. It said that all of the admin staff had funded him independently and that they were missing a week’s worth of pay. It does also acknowledge that the staff had only two ways of contacting him.

In an email statement, the police said:

“Members of the public are believed to have been targeted as part of the scam and encouraged by BTC Global agents to invest with promises of 2 percent interest per day, 14 percent per week and ultimately 50 percent per month.”

A ponzi, or pyramid, scheme is a business model that requires a constantly expanding supply of new members. They are illegal in many countries because while they can result in big profits for the founding members, the high numbers of new members lose out when the scheme collapses.

Continue reading >> https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/05/25/south-african-police-investigate-80-million-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme/

2nd Ama session, held by F. Burca, SETHER`s CTO is planned for Tuesday, the 29 of May,  4PM EEST. Community managers are quite active  in telegram, despite of this fact, the number of members slowly decreasing, price recovery needed.

The Harare High Court has lifted a ban by the central bank which barred all banks and financial institutions from offering services to cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) failed to appear for court proceedings in a case in which Zimbabwe crypto exchange, Golix is seeking reversal of the central bank’s directive that it stop virtual currency trading in the country.

Golix had applied to the High Court seeking that it reverse the ban instituted by the central bank this month. The RBZ had also banned banks from processing transactions involving crypto-currency trades.

“The ban was lifted,” Nhlalwenhle Ngwenya, communications manager at Golix told CCN on Thursday afternoon.

He said a statement would follow. However, it has emerged that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe officials, including the governor, John Mangudya, did not turn up for court proceedings. This prompted the High Court in Harare to issue a default ruling that essentially lifted the Zimbabwean central bank’s ban.

“We are hoping that we can immediately go back to doing business and processing the order book,” said an official.

Golix had stopped the order book on Thursday as it sought to deal with the disruption to its operations after the central bank ban, the exchange said in a notice to members Thursday morning.

A Relief to Crypto Traders

The news brought relief to bitcoin and other crypto traders and investors in Zimbabwe who were now unable to trade on an exchange platform. Golix runs an online crypto exchange platform as a well as a bitcoin ATM in central Harare.

“Where is the party,” proclaimed one trader on Telegram as news of the lifting of the ban spread. “RBZ ban on cryptos lifted by the High Court. Administrative justice is alive and well in this jurisdiction. Section 68 of the Constitution is our best friend,” tweeted lawyer, Fadzai Mahere.

In its application against the central bank’s move, Golix said “the ban in effect outlaws and classifies as illegal Applicant’s operations”.

“The Respondents are in fact purporting to classify the trade in cryptocurrency as illegal,” it added.

Respondents were cited as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and central bank governor, John Mangudya.

Golix further argues in its court application that the decision taken by the central bank to ban it from cryptocurrency trading in the country amounts to “lawmaking, a function that belongs to the legislature” and not the central bank.

After banning banks from processing cryptocurrency transactions in the country, the central bank of Zimbabwe subsequently wrote to Golix last week, ordering it to shut down its operations.

“All cryptocurrency exchange houses operating in the country, including Bitfinance (Private) Limited (also known as Golix), are required to cease all virtual currency exchange operations,” wrote Norman Mataruke, the central bank’s registrar of banking in a letter to Golix dated May 15.

Mataruke also directed that cryptocurrency exchange platforms in Zimbabwe were “required to take all the necessary steps to close the cryptocurrency accounts or ‘wallets’ of your customers and to make good any funds currently held on behalf of customers” trading and investing virtual currencies.

Source >> https://www.ccn.com/breaking-zimbabwe-court-lifts-central-banks-banking-ban-on-bitcoin-exchanges/

"Invox Finance will be the first third party service provider via Celsius wallet. This will allow to offer low interest loans to small businesses."

What about PayPay or Populous, as i know they also work with loans for small business, are Invox platform will compete with them?

Billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz said that he is optimistic that the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recently-launched probe into allegations of bitcoin price manipulation will contribute to the long-term health of the cryptocurrency market.

Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg, Novogratz — the founder of $250 million cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital — said that this increased oversight will help weed out bad actors from the nascent ecosystem.

“Weeding out the bad actors is a good thing, not a bad thing for the health of the market,” Novogratz said. “Plenty of exchanges have these inflated volume numbers to create some sense of excitement around coins.”

As CCN reported, the DOJ is scrutinizing whether cryptocurrency traders and other market actors have engaged in illegal activities to manipulate the bitcoin price, as well as the value of other prominent cryptocurrencies.

Novogratz’s optimistic comments on the probe are not unique among Wall Street’s cryptocurrency bulls.

Cameron Winklevoss, who co-founded cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, told the publication that the company welcomes “any inquiry that serves to foster rules-based marketplaces and deter bad actors.” Gemini, incidentally, recently struck a deal with Nasdaq to use the stock exchange operator’s surveillance technology to flag unusual trading patterns in real time.

Similarly, Tom Lee — founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors — said that the investigation was “really welcome news” because it will bring “adult supervision” to the cryptocurrency markets. Fundstrat has predicted that the bitcoin price will reach $25,000 before the end of the year, an outlook it has not wavered from despite the recent downturn.

The bitcoin price traded sideways in the 24 hours before this article was written, despite significant intraday volatility that caused the flagship cryptocurrency to plunge from $7,738 to $7,331 in a span of just four hours. Bitcoin has since stabilized at a present value of $7,554 on Bitfinex.

https://www.ccn.com/dojs-bitcoin-price-manipulation-probe-a-good-thing-mike-novogratz/

Japanese IT giant GMO Internet is set to roll out the world's first bitcoin mining device based on 7nm chips within the year.

According to an announcement on Wednesday, the firm said it is launching the new B2 miner on June 6 with mass production to follow and shipment starting by the end of October.

The launch comes following a months-long testing period since the firm initially revealed it was researching and developing the new ASIC processor in September 2017. While the device should provide high-levels of hashing power with lower electricity demands, the firm said it will provide details of the B2's price and performance at the June launch.

According to the announcement, in addition to selling the B2 to other miners, GMO also plans to utilize the new product at its existing mining facilities.

As previously reported by CoinDesk, the publicly listed Japanese firm made a notable leap into bitcoin mining business last year with a $90-million budget to back explorations in the space, including chip making and its own mining farms.

GMO's mining facilities have been up running since the end of 2017 and, as per a report released earlier this month, the firm has already mined 906 bitcoin and 537 bitcoin cash as of last month.

While the cost of production remains unknown, the total value of those mining rewards amounts to nearly $8 million based on the latest CoinDesk prices.

Meanwhile, GMO isn't the only one major tech firm planning to carve out a slice of the bitcoin mining industry by introducing more advanced mining chips. Notably, Samsung is also starting a "risk production" of 7nm chips in 2018, according to a report by CoinDesk in February.

In addition, GMO announced in October of last year that it would sell its bitcoin mining equipment in 2018 via an initial coin offering. A representative told CoinDesk today that the firm is still considering the idea, but could not disclose more information due to the early stage of the plan.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech-giant-gmo-to-roll-out-worlds-first-7nm-bitcoin-miner/

Team stated they have done everything possible to enter the  exchanges, but unfortunately they can't to influence the speed of consideration of applications, so they expect action from the exchanges.

Пусть высокие свечи и были, но основная маса народу закупалась по 0.000032 ETH. Первые единичные покупатели явно сгоряча начали закупаться, не оценив потенциал падения цены и историю торгов на других биржах.

The cybercrime division of the State Attorney’s office of Hebron, Israel indicted local resident Hilmi Git on Monday for allegedly using over 800 Israeli credit cards to carry out 20,000 fraudulent transactions and laundering the money using bitcoin.

The indictment, filed in the Tel Aviv district courts, alleges that the transactions they claim Git made amount to over $280,000 and that he laundered over $8 million over the course of ten years. The $8 million dollars was stored in the form of bitcoin, and the state seized at least 1,071 BTC — funds that will be confiscated pending conviction.

Git’s alleged operation spanned 10 years and many different forums and websites which the State Prosecutor claims he set up to launder money, facilitate credit card fraud through a wide network of criminals, instruct others how to remotely access computers to rob funds, and defraud unwitting visitors to his sites.

Through one scam he apparently pretended to sell cheap mobile phones but would block users from the website after receiving payment and cut off contact with them. He would then take over the user’s profile and post messages in their name seeming to confirm receipt of their goods, luring in more victims.

Even more serious was the credit card fraud operation through which Git allegedly offered free and premium memberships to clients buying access to credit cards from Git to commit fraud. The report also claims that he published guides on his site instructing users on how to hack and rob people online as well as offering tools enabling them to do so. Local media outlet Calcalist reports that Git’s indictment contained a quote from him saying:

“We are thieves. Anywhere we can take money, we’ll take it, whether it’s from Israel, the US, or even the moon.”

The state will file to continue holding Git in custody to prevent him from regaining control of his online crime empire, stating that internet access will “enable him to continue carrying out the criminal enterprise he established over the past decade,” saying Git will “not hesitate to commit fraudulent offenses against innocent victims.”

The wallet seizure marks the first time in Israeli history that bitcoin funds have been seized by police, and upon conviction a legal precedent may be set for the state confiscation of cryptocurrency assets.

Other countries have already handled illicit bitcoins in the same way, with the US government seizing 512 BTC and 512 BCH in January from a drug dealer on the dark web and auctioning off the currency and other assets. A similar incident took place in Finland in February where 2000 bitcoins were seized from an alleged drug dealer.

Source >> https://www.ccn.com/1000-bitcoins-seized-in-landmark-israeli-money-laundering-case/

The top US markets regulator has issued new guidance to exchanges and other trading platforms that are interested in listing bitcoin futures and other cryptocurrency derivatives products.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released this new guidance on Monday, providing exchanges with a set of best practices to follow as they develop and launch these nascent cryptocurrency derivatives products.

Specifically, the CFTC advised trading venues that they must have the ability to monitor the integrity of the underlying spot markets that supply their pricing data, coordinate closely with CFTC staff, solicit comments from industry participants prior to launch, and engage in large trader reporting.

“The CFTC staff is committed to providing regulatory clarity as much as possible,” said Amir Zaidi, the director of the commission’s division of market oversight. “As the virtual currency market continues to evolve, CFTC staff will seek to provide additional guidance to help market participants keep pace with innovation while complying with CFTC regulations.”

“CFTC staff is providing this information, in part, to aid market participants in their efforts to design risk management programs that address the new risks imposed by virtual currency products,” added Brian Bussey, the director of the commission’s division of clearing and risk. “In addition, the guidance is designed to help ensure that market participants follow appropriate governance processes with respect to the launch of these products.”

The new guidance appears to be a response to industry criticism that the CFTC had failed to sufficiently scrutinize the first bitcoin futures products prior to their launch in December. To date, those markets have behaved in an orderly fashion, but critics fear that this could change as volume increases and exchanges launch products for smaller cryptocurrencies such as ether (ETH), and ripple (XRP).

As CCN reported, CME — the largest US exchange that offers bitcoin futures trading — recently partnered with several cryptocurrency exchanges to create a benchmark price for ether, leading to speculation that the platform will soon become the first US venue to offer an ethereum futures product.

Source >> https://www.ccn.com/cftc-issues-new-guidance-on-cryptocurrency-derivatives/

On 17 May, 2010, a computer programmer from Florida set out to prove that bitcoin could be used as a real-world currency. At the time, one unit of the cryptocurrency was only worth $0.008, so Laszlo Hanyecz proposed buying two pizzas for what would today be an extraordinary sum of bitcoins.

“I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas,” Mr Hanyecz said on a bitcoin forum. “Maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day. I like having left over pizza to nibble on later.”

He signed off the post: “If you’re interested please let me know and we can work out a deal.”

Most members of the forum were interested in the experiment but some saw it as a bid to get a free meal from a technology that was unknown beyond a small subset of free market libertarians and so-called cypher-punks.

“Good luck on getting your free pizza,” one user commented, to which Mr Hanyecz replied: “I just think it would be interesting if I could say that I paid for a pizza in bitcoins.”

Five days later Mr Hanyecz posted a picture of two pizzas to the same forum, alongside a comment saying he had successfully traded 10,000 bitcoins to acquire them.

On 22 May, 2010, the first ever real-world bitcoin transaction took place. Lazlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins – the equivalent of $82 million at today's prices (Lazlo Hanyecz)

Within a couple of months the price of bitcoin had risen 10-fold, forcing the computer programmer to rescind an open offer to exchange bitcoins for pizza.

Continue reading >> https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-pizza-day-cryptocurrency-value-price-exchange-rate-papa-john-a8362941.html

Можно сказать что сейчас цена находится на уровне ICO (собрали 40 млн, сейчас 37), для проекта конца 2018 очень хороший показатель, ведь цена многих ICO сдулась в 2-3 раза от первоначальных вложений. Главное чтобы результат закрепился, токен и так рос последние дни против всего рынка.