China Central Bank Warns of Cryptocurrency, ICO Risks in Public Notice
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the country’s central bank, has issued a public notice urging investors of risks in cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings (ICOs).

The Shanghai branch of the PBoC issued a public notice on Tuesday to “remind” consumers and investors to increase their risk awareness of ICOs – a radical form of fundraising powered by cryptocurrencies, urging investors to avoid speculative trading in cryptocurrencies and steer away from overseas operators issuing ICOs.

It’s been a year since the PBoC issued a blanket ban on all ICOs, outlawing it as an illegal practice of fundraising.

In its notice today, the central bank heralded the ban as a success, stating:

“[T]he global share of domestic virtual currency transactions has dropped from the initial 90% to less than 5%, effectively avoiding the virtual currency bubble caused by skyrocketing global virtual currency prices in the second half of last year in China’s financial market. The impact has been highly recognized by the community.”

Still, by the PBoC’s own admission, cryptocurrency trading activity among domestic investors continued to thrive in offshore exchanges despite the mainland ban. In August, CCN reported that an internet authority run by central bank officials is targeting up to 124 offshore cryptocurrency trading platforms serving China’s citizens by blocking their IP addresses.

The central bank, in its notice today, said it will continue to monitor the offshore servers of these 124 platforms in a continuing clampdown against the sector that still finds ways to evade the blockade.

In response, the PBoC said it will “closely monitor ICOs and its multiple variants, strengthen research and judgement, proactively fight and prevent concerns.”

It added:

“In addition, it [the internet authority] has also strengthened the disposal of domestic ICO and virtual currency transaction related websites, public numbers, social media etc., and permanently blocked some public numbers suspected of releasing ICO and virtual currency trading hype information.”
https://www.ccn.com/china-central-bank-warns-of-cryptocurrency-ico-risks/

Stellar Startup Merges with Chain, to Reborn as Interstellar

San Francisco-based distributed ledger technology company Chain has been acquired by Lightyear, an entity powered by the Stellar network in an undisclosed agreement.

Announced last week, Lightyear will be re-named to Interstellar concurrent with the merger, a company release states. Chain, that builds enterprise-grade blockchain products backed by financial giants Visa, Nasdaq, and Citigroup, will offer its cloud product, Sequence, to Interstellar’s portfolio, allowing organizations to track assets while moving between private ledgers and the Stellar network, it added.

Jed McCaleb, co-founded of the Stellar Development Foundation and Lightyear, will be CTO of Interstellar. According to him, the merger will “help organizations build on Stellar.” He further said:

“Chain’s team has led the market for enterprise adoption of blockchain technology, which is a critical component of building a future where money and digital assets move over open protocols.”

At present, Stellar (XLM) ranks as the world’s sixth-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $3.6 billion. With the acquisition, Interstellar will receive Chain’s enterprise products and customer base, enabling organizations to issue, exchange, and manage assets on a public network.

Chain had previously raised more than $43 million from a variety of financial institutions including Capital One, Citigroup, as well as tech-focused funds such as Khosla Ventures, Blockchain Capital, and Pantera Capital.

Interstellar will ease enterprises to create financial services and products with the help of the Stellar open network. Chain’s CEO Adam Ludwin will serve as the CEO of new Interstellar. He stated,

“Chain has worked from inside the enterprise while Stellar has focused on the network between organizations. As a single team we will have a complete view and set of capabilities to make value-over-IP a reality.”
https://www.ccn.com/stellar-startup-merges-with-chain-to-reborn-as-interstellar/

Ethereum-разработчики представили технологию масштабирования второго уровня сети

Разработчик Ethereum Влад Замфир создал первый успешный экспериментальный вариант технологии масштабирования второго уровня под названием шардинг (англ. – sharding) при участии своих коллег Тима Бейко и Джона Марлинга.

На одном из крупнейших Ethereum-хакатонов ETH Berlin Замфир дал интервью Coindesk, где сообщил, что разработчики смогут запустить вариант технологии на своих компьютерах в ближайшие недели, но он по-прежнему представляет собой прототип, который даже не близок к тому, чтобы быть запущенным в основной сети Ethereum.

«Это доказательство концепции самого базового компонента в разработанной мною дорожной карте шардинга. Оно предотвращает межшардовую атомарную ошибку или, если точнее, предотвращает завершённость межшардовой атомарной ошибки. Таким образом функция отправки никогда не будет завершена, если не будет завершена функция получения», — сказал Замфир, добавив, что программное обеспечение будет тестироваться на протяжении ближайших недель. «Мы продолжаем работать над интеграцией. Проверьте снова через неделю. К этому времени должны появиться инструкции, которым вы сможете следовать, чтобы осуществить запуск на своём компьютере».
https://cryptocurrency.tech/ethereum-razrabotchiki-predstavili-tehnologiyu-masshtabirovaniya-vtorogo-urovnya-seti/

Ethereum Co-Founder Invested in Bitcoin at $1 in 2011, What’s Changed?
Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum and Cardano, entered the cryptocurrency sector when Bitcoin was valued at just over $1. Since then, the infrastructure supporting the market and blockchain systems has changed drastically, at an exponential rate.
In an interview with Mpho Dagada, Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, a technology company that leads the development of Cardano (ADA) and Ethereum Classic (ETC), said that he first engaged in the cryptocurrency sector by mining Bitcoin in 2011, when the dominant cryptocurrency was worth about $1.

In 2013, as the price of Bitcoin increased by 250-fold from $1 to $250, Hoskinson decided to be involved in the sector, with passion to lead major projects.

Meeting Vitalik Buterin, After Differences With EOS CTO Dan Larimer
Initially, Hoskinson revealed that he was approached a Chinese entrepreneur to create a stablecoin for $500,000 in funding. At the time, Tether (USDT) was not around, and there were no stablecoins in the market investors could utilize to hedge the value of cryptocurrencies to that of the US dollar.

After rejecting the offer, Hoskinson met Dan Larimer, the creator of BitShares, to work on the first decentralized cryptocurrency exchange platform. However, Hoskinson eventually left the company due to the differences between himself and Larimer, and met Anthony Di Iorio and Vitalik Buterin to create Ethereum.
https://www.ccn.com/ethereum-co-founder-invested-in-bitcoin-at-1-in-2011-whats-changed/

Two EOS Gambling Platforms Fall Prey to $260,000 Hack
Smart contracts on two EOS gambling platforms have been hacked in the last four days to the tune of more than a quarter of a million dollars, with another platform paying out $600,000 to one user in an unusual-looking jackpot which EOSBet insists was simply luck.

DEOSGames Hacked — $24,000 Stolen
The first and more minor hack occurred on Sept. 9 when a DEOSGames user named runningsnail went on what appeared to be quite the winning streak, with $1,000 payments made dozens of times. The user would deposit 10 EOS and then win the jackpot 30 seconds later, like clockwork, a suspiciously-automated process which can be seen here in the user’s eosflare account overview.

DEOSGames confirmed that its smart contract had been hacked, spinning the malicious exploit as “a good stress test” in a short statement released on social media.

EOSBet Hacked — $236,000 Stolen
EOS cryptocurrency

Yesterday, /u/EOSBetCasino released a statement on Reddit explaining the nature and scale of a smart contract hack resulting in a major loss of funds.

“Dear EOSBet Community,

On September 14th around 3:00AM UTC we experienced a hack and breach of our bankroll, resulting in a theft of 44,427.4302 EOS before our contracts were taken offline by the development team. The remaining 463,745 EOS in our EOSBETDICE11 and EOSBETCASINO contracts are safe, the vulnerability is patched, and we are back online. We want to be as transparent as possible in explaining this breach and addressing any concerns the community might have.”
https://www.ccn.com/two-eos-gambling-platforms-fall-prey-to-260000-hack/

Sharding, True USD Launches and More Custody Players: This Week in Crypto
Make sure you check out our previous edition here, now let’s go over what happened in crypto this week. Also, make sure you subscribe for this week’s edition of The CCN Podcast on iTunes, TuneIn, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.

Price Watch:
Bitcoin is up 5.46% this week to $6,500 after a somewhat tumultuous week. On Monday, we reported that despite Bitcoin’s price being at $6,300, the market was heading for a 2018 low. The price continued to appreciate slowly and oscillated between $6,300 and $6,400 on Tuesday, September 11th before declining to $6,200 later in the day. Over the next two days, the market managed to re-approach the $6,500 level and continued to approach $6,600 through Tuesday. Analysts consider these weeks move to have found stability at the $6,500 level.
Ethereum is up 16% this week to $222 after a hard drop of 31% last week, 5% the week before and drops of 11%  and 24% in the preceding weeks with single and double-digit drops going back months. The recent drops have been blamed on ICO sell offs. Vitalik has said that the days of 1000x growth are gone. A statement he clarified this week as something that pertained to the market capitalization. This week marked a turn around as Ethereum surged 9% on Thursday and it was said that last weeks prices at least represented ‘a’ bottom. In the same day, Ethereum had appreciated nearly 23% from its intraday low. The price continued to increase into the next day hitting $220 leaving the market cap over $200 billion again.
The entire coin market cap is up 6% this week following bitcoins price increase and double digit gains by Ethereum and Monero. The state of affairs has led Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz to declare that the market has bottomed out. Not everyone is so optimistic about alt coins though, with Sonny Singh, chief commercial officer at BitPay
https://www.ccn.com/sharding-true-usd-launches-and-more-custody-players-this-week-in-crypto/

Регуляторам нужно быть помягче по отношению к криптовалютам
Руководитель комиссии по торговле товарными фьючерсами США (CFTC) Кристофер Джанкарло считает, что финрегуляторы должны быть более лояльны к рынку цифровых активов.

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Финрегуляторам нужно быть более лояльными к криптоиндустрии

Чиновник сравнил начальный период развития интернета с криптовалютами. Он отметил, что оба эти явления могут развиваться практически без вмешательства властей.

«Я выступаю за такой же подход к криптовалютам и всему, что связано с этой новой цифровой революцией рынков, валют и классов активов», — заявил Джанкарло.

Кроме того, он отметил значение долгосрочного подхода ведомства в борьбе с нелегальными операциями в индустрии цифровых валют.

«Когда дело доходит до мошенничества и манипуляции, мы должны быть сильными. Когда дело доходит до разработки политики, я думаю, что нам следует действовать медленно, преднамеренно и быть хорошо информированными», — отметил чиновник.

Также он опроверг точку зрения по поводу того, что американские регуляторы не торопятся принимать законы, необходимые для криптоиндустрии. Джанкарло заявил, что CFTC председательствовал на «самых первых» регулируемых предложениях BTC-фьючерсов, запущенных в прошлом году чикагскими биржами CME и CBOE.

В начале 2018 года Комиссия по торговле товарными фьючерсами официально разрешила своим подчинённым инвестировать в биткоин.

Трейдинг также разрешён, но при условии, что сотрудники CFTC не будут использовать кредитное плечо и инсайдерскую информацию, которая может им открыться в ходе рабочего процесса. Однако приближаться к биткоин-фьючерсам, регулируемым CFTC, сотрудникам запрещено.

Как отметил генеральный консультант Комиссии Дэниел Дэвис, это решение последовало за многочисленными просьбами персонала.
https://cryptofeed.ru/news/regulyatoram-nuzhno-byt-pomyagche-po-otnosheniyu-k-kriptovalyutam/

BMW Partners Blockchain Startup to Develop Customer Lending Solution
BMW Group financial services has announced its partnership with blockchain startup Bloom in a bid to streamline its customer journey and user experience, per a Medium post.

Bloom helps to make the traditional lending process easier hence helping to reduce the risk that consumer data is exposed to. Individuals can secure their data on their local device and apply for credit without exposing data to risk, using Bloom’s blockchain-based mobile application. Anyone can take advantage of the blockchain technology because of bloom’s straightforward onboarding process. Through this move, BMW Financial Services will revolutionize the way individuals apply for financing.

“Bloom is excited to participate in such a forward-thinking initiative. I’m excited to be working with the BMW Financial Services team to build a streamlined and easy lending experience to improve the customer journey,” said Anne Ching, Head of Partnerships at Bloom.

Ian Smith, the CEO of BMW Group Financial Services USA, also added that BMW is “looking to examine any and all methods of how blockchain ledgers could support the transformation of current data warehousing, payment, and customer information tracking.”

According to Smith, BMW’s goal is to automate a large part of their processing and focus more on tracking and securing of information.

This initiative is part of the BMW collaboration Lab 2018 which involves six startups that will be participating in a 10-week lab at BMW Financial Services’ offices in Hilliard, Ohio. The program will focus on some critical areas including building a blockchain strategy, data analytics, and insights, digitalizing the customer journey and wildcard.

BMW has been trialing the blockchain technology to solve a range of problems. The automobile giant is also one of the founding members of the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI), alongside Ford, GM and others. The initiative was created to accelerate the adoption of distributed ledgers and related technologies in the automobile industry.

Other car manufacturers that have developed blockchain-based customer financing include Daimler AG who acquired PayCAsh Europe SA last year in a bid to launch its electronic payment services platform which includes a number of payment options, including Bitcoin. The payment service platform was part of Daimler’s “mobility and digitization strategy” which enable customers to pay for Daimler’s services via a smartphone device.
https://www.ccn.com/bmw-partners-blockchain-startup-to-develop-customer-lending-solution/

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Ethereum, Monero Lead Crypto Market Recovery with 17% Gains, Each

The cryptocurrency market capitalization on Thursday recovered by almost 6.8 percent after establishing its yearly low just yesterday.
All the top coins recorded decent bullish corrections, with Ethereum and Monero leading the charts with maximum gains. of 17 percent each. Dash, Cardano, IOTA, Tron, and Litecoin closely followed with a double-digit percentage rise in their respective values. Bitcoin, on the other hand, surged comparatively lower than its peers – around 3 percent.

The upsurge has added $12.7 billion back to the cryptocurrency industry since its bottom formation around $186 billion. There are no fundamental factors behind the impressive upside correction – not at the time of this writing. That clearly indicates that the price action could be a result of day traders attempting to make intraday profits.

That said, the market continues to stay inside a bearish bias until the top coins attempt to invalidate their respective giant descending triangles to the upside. Let’s have a look at our top performers to understand it in depth:

The ETH/USD appreciated more than 23 percent from its intraday low near 167-fiat – and is still counting the gains. The impressive price action, however, should not be confused with a return-of-the-bulls bugle. The pair has lost more than 80 percent already to the reports of ICO failures. Fundamentally, the ETH/USD is on an accurate downtrend that could attempt a substantial pullback only after the market’s bad actors exit. The descending trendline technically represents the trend in the chart above that needs breaking up to confirm at least a medium-term bull bias.

That said, a fundamentally weak Ethereum will likely resume its downtrend until the descending trendline is broken to the upside.
https://www.ccn.com/ethereum-monero-lead-crypto-market-recovery-with-17-gains-each/

Создатели фитнес-приложения Lympo Run заключили партнерское соглашение с организаторами марафона в Вильнюсе, проспонсировав спортивное мероприятие и предложив бегунам приложение для зарабатывания криптовалют.

Основатель и глава компании Ада Йонуше в своем блоге в Medium отметил положительные результаты кампании по продвижению своего стартапа:

«Невероятно вдохновляюще видеть, как люди, наконец, наслаждаются приложением и получают награды за достижение целей. Перед нами еще много задач, но это был на самом деле отличный старт и важнейшая веха в истории Lympo»
https://bitnovosti.com/2018/09/13/beguny-litovskogo-marafona-poluchili-kriptovalyuty/

Japan’s Regulator Adds Personnel to Review Crypto Exchange License Applications
Japan’s primary financial regulator is expanding its team of 30 individuals screening license applications from cryptocurrency exchange operators to meet soaring interest at a time when mainstream companies like Yahoo, Rakuten and LINE are entering the sector.

Speaking during a study group meeting centered on cryptocurrency on Wednesday, Financial Services Agency (FSA) vice commissioner for policy coordination Kiyotaka Sasaki revealed the agency’s “biggest problem” is in the way it deals with new operators vying for licenses to establish cryptocurrency exchanges in the country.

As Reuters Japan reports, the regulator expects in excess of 160 applications from companies looking to launch crypto exchange platforms in a regulated market. The FSA currently staffs 30 individuals in a team that monitors crypto trading, unregistered operators and the review process of new applications.

With a focused policy to specifically allocate personnel to the registration review process, Sasaki revealed the agency is tacking its understaffing concerns by adding 12 additional members to the team.

According to the FSA’s own statistics released in April this year, Japan has over 3.5 million active cryptocurrency traders in the country with annual trading in bitcoin alone totaling $97 billion in 2017. Ethereum, ripple (XRP), bitcoin cash (BCH) and litecoin (LTC) are also among the most-traded coins in Japan.

After pioneering legislation that recognized bitcoin as a legal method of payment in April 2017, Japanese law mandated all new cryptocurrency exchanges – domestic or international- with a presence in Japan to register and earn a license from the FSA.

The FSA has been ramping up its scrutiny into the sector following the infamous $530 million hack of unlicensed Tokyo-based exchange Coincheck, in January, going so far as to crack the whip at six already-licensed cryptocurrency exchanges with business improvement orders. The regulator also issued its first-ever rejection of a crypto exchange license application in June.
https://www.ccn.com/japans-regulator-adds-personnel-to-review-crypto-exchange-license-applications/

От музыки до авиации: Пять успешных блокчейн-стартапов из Индии
12 сентября 2018, 18:37

В Индии достаточно успешно развивается сектор блокчейна, подтверждением чему служит пятёрка стартапов, о которых рассказывает сайт Cryptocurrencyguide.

MinersINC
P2p-платформа MinersINC даёт возможность сотрудничества создателям и потребителям развлекательного контента (фильмов, музыки и игр). Блокчейн-решение возвращает творцам контроль над их произведениями и позволяет создавать экосистему, взаимодействие в которой носит более непосредственный, простой и эффективный характер.

Coinsecure
Криптобиржа в Дели, работающая под лозунгом «связывая Индию с биткоином». Coinsecure намерена стать «универсамом», в котором покупатель сумеет удовлетворить любые потребности, относящиеся к биткоину и блокчейну. На пути к этой цели биржа заключила несколько партнёрских соглашений с компаниями по всему миру.

К сожалению, недавно Coinsecure была ограблена и сейчас занята тем, что компенсирует клиентам ущерб.
https://coinspot.io/china-and-asia/ot-muzyki-do-aviacii-pyat-uspeshnyh-blokchejn-startapov-iz-indii/

SEC Hits Two Cryptocurrency Firms With Formal Charges
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has slapped a crypto asset hedge fund and an ‘ICO Superstore’ with penalties.

A digital asset hedge fund manager was charged with misrepresentations and registration failures, marking the SEC’s first-ever enforcement action finding an investment company registration violation by a hedge fund manager based on its investments in digital assets.

Crypto Asset Management LP or CAM allegedly marketed itself falsely as the “first regulated crypto asset fund in the United States” while actually operating as an unregistered investment company. California-based Timothy Enneking raised $3.6 million in 4 months during an unregistered public offering which Enneking falsely claimed at the time was SEC regulated. By doing this and then investing over 40% of the fund’s assets in cryptocurrencies, Enneking broke multiple SEC regulations and was served with a cease and desist letter. The company halted operations and offered buybacks to investors. CAM and Enneking agreed to pay a $200,000 fine.

The second company to be hit by the SEC was an “ICO Superstore” called Token Lot. In another milestone case, this is the first case charging unregistered broker-dealers for selling digital tokens after the DAO Report was published in 2017 advising dealers and investors that digital securities must be federally compliant.

Ran by Lenny Kugel and Eli L. Lewitt, Token Lot was marketed as a way of buying ICO tokens and partake in trading afterward. The company processed orders from 6,100 different investors and dealt in over 200 different digital assets, some of which have now been determined to be securities by the SEC.
https://www.ccn.com/sec-hits-two-cryptocurrency-firms-with-formal-charges/

Ripple, R3 Reach Settlement in Multibillion Dollar Cryptocurrency Lawsuit
Blockchain companies Ripple and R3 have reached an undisclosed settlement on “all outstanding litigation,” putting an end to a legal spat involving a tranche of cryptocurrency tokens once worth as much as $19 billion.

In a brief statement published on Monday, the San Francisco-based Ripple announced the settlement, stating that the terms would remain confidential.

“R3 HoldCo LLC, R3 LLC, Ripple Labs Inc. and XRP II, LLC announce that they have reached a settlement of all outstanding litigation between the parties. The terms of the agreement will remain confidential and both sides look forward to putting these disputes behind them.”

The undisclosed settlement is the culmination of approximately one year of litigation between the two firms, a dispute which began after the two once-allied companies had a falling out over the terms of a partnership agreement.

Enterprise blockchain startup R3 originally sued Ripple in Sept. 2017, alleging in complaints filed in both Delaware and New York that Ripple had violated a stipulation in the partnership agreement that gave R3 the right to purchase up to 5 billion XRP tokens at $0.0085 per unit through the end of 2019.

At present, XRP is trading at just over $0.26, representing a nearly 3,000 percent increase from the price quoted to R3. Consequently, the New York-based firm could purchase the entire tranche — now worth more than $1.3 billion — for just $42.5 million. In early January, XRP peaked as high as $3.84, nominally valuing those tokens at more than $19 billion.

https://www.ccn.com/ripple-r3-reach-settlement-in-multibillion-dollar-cryptocurrency-lawsuit/

она как выросла, так и вросла уже в пол. это дети балуются

если в принципе, то все богатыми могут быть. ресурсов море, переизбыток, перепроизводство товаров и еды, все на всех хватит и еще сто раз останется. мысль, что чего-то кому-то не хватит, внушается специально, чтобы управлять стадом. Вопрос, кто же будет работать, совсем из другой плоскости. Человек раскрывается и самореализуется, занимаясь любимым делом, получает от этого мощнейшую энергетику, но это дискуссия для другого форума.

One of the World’s Wealthiest Football Clubs is Launching a Cryptocurrency
French soccer giant Paris Saint-Germain football club (PSG) will launch its own cryptocurrency with a token offering  that aims to incentivize its supporters over a blockchain.

The development sees a new partnership between top French Ligue 1 club, Paris Saint Germain (PSG) and blockchain company Socios.com which is based in Malta. The partnership is based on the ‘socios’ concept that already exists between football fans of Real Madrid and Barcelona.

PSG plays in the highest tier of France’s soccer league and has been hailed as the country’s “most popular” team. The club is owned and bankrolled by a Qatar state investment firm and holds the record for the highest transfer fee paid with the $263 million purchase of Brazilian football star Neymar from Barcelona in 2017.

Socios describes itself as a digitized, tokenized form of the “Socios” crowd-management concept of Real Madrid & FC Barcelona — “socios” means member or associate in Spanish. The platform is powered by a sports blockchain venture dubbed chiliZ, which has the backing of high profile crypto industry players that include crypto exchange Binance. chiliZ has raised $66 million in funding to date, according to sources.

Speaking exclusively to CCN, Chilliz CEO Alex Dreyfus explained that the platform was looking forward to further collaboration with other top soccer clubs.

“We are focusing on onboarding the biggest clubs in Europe and in the coming weeks, we will announce other big clubs who will also be joining our platform. Outside of France, our priority is clubs in the UK, Italy, Spain and Germany.”
https://www.ccn.com/paris-saint-germain-cryptocurrency/

а ты че, не помнишь? 1917-й   Отнять и разделить!!! На всех!! Поровну!!!  Кто был ничто, тот станет фсё!! ( нарушение  законов физики, из ничего получается только ничего, то что имеем). А не захотят отдавать, расстрелять нах ентих буратинов.

Hello. Why does the table have no company signature?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n389AllBdI9KzHwI8rtybo8oGMfH75AHx48XlIHol2k/edit#gid=430648213