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April 10, 2018, 01:29:49 AM |
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🥦🥦It was a busy week for the Ethereum community.First, Buterin joked about limiting the issuance of crypto currency, and then Bitmain announced the start of sales of ASIC-miner for Ethereum.And while the network users were discussing whether they needed a hard disk to fight ASIC, Buterin and Co. decided to start developing the Casper update quickly, so as soon as possible to translate the air to POS-mining 🌲🌲
🌲Not the best week for Paul Durov.Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit against Telegram and demands to limit the work of the messenger in the territory of the Russian Federation, because of the refusal to hand over the keys to decipher the FSB messages.Telegram was reminded of the technical inability to comply with the FSB requirement and are preparing to prove it in court.Also, the Iranian authorities intend to block the Telegram messenger because of ICO TON.They are afraid of the negative impact of the Gram token on the national currency of the country.✅✅
Weekly digest:
(1) Crypto-exchange Coinbase applied for a broker license, which will allow them to significantly expand the list of tradable assets.Coinbase also set up a $ 15 million venture fund to support crypto-cash start-ups and promised to develop a service for the withdrawal of bitcoins from bitcoins💥💥💥💥💥
(2)Bloomberg: George Soros Foundation plans to start trading in crypto-currencies.And the Fortune publication reports that Rockefeller's venture company was interested in the crypto currency market🚀
(3)Financial regulators in India and Pakistan have forbidden controlled banks and payment systems to work with crypto-currency companies.There is no ban on crypto-currencies themselves in the countries🎸🎸🎸🎸
(4)John McAfee admitted that for one advertising tweet about the crypto currency or ICO takes $ 105,000 💪
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(5)South Korea's capital Seoul is working to create its own S-Coin crypto currency🚲🚲🚲
(6)Organizers ICO Centra Tech, previously promoted by boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, are detained by US SEC decree and accused of fraud
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(7) The president and vice-president of the NEM Foundation retired on the same day and are now cooperating with the project as consultants
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(8)Since April 3, Australian crypto-exchanges have moved to new AML / CTF standards: mandatory identification of all users and notification of law enforcement officers about suspicious transactions
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(9)Bloomberg: Since early 2018, hedge funds have incurred a loss of 23% because of a decline in the value of the crypto currency, at least 9 of them were forced to close⛱⛱⛱⛱
(10)The Bancor ICO project, which raised $ 140 million in three hours, introduced the Bancor Wallet mobile crypto device with support for the decentralized exchange of crypto-currencies and tokens.Currently, there are 75 crypto assets🏠🏠🏠🏠
(11)Hackers took advantage of the vulnerability in the Verre code and for several hours coined coins for almost $ 1 million⛰⛰⛰🏝🏝
(12)The US Federal Reserve considers crypto-currencies as extremely volatile assets, but does not see them as a threat to the country's economy.A similar position is held in the Central Bank of Japan.They propose not to prohibit crypto-currencies, but to try to work with them🏖🗼🗼🗼🗼
(13)Business Insider: 2018 beats records on theft of crypto-currency.Since the beginning of the year, there have been stolen $ 670 million in crypto-currencies, which is 40% of the $ 1.7 billion total stolen by hackers since June 2011⚓️⚓️⚓️🚢
(14)The Monero team conducted a hardframe on block 1546000 to counteract the production of crypto currency by new ASICs from Bitmain for the CryptoNight algorithm.Part of the community did not support this decision and announced the creation of a new crypto currency Monero Classic🚧🚧🚧🚧
(15) The UK Financial Regulator (FCA) announced the need to license companies operating in the market of crypto-currency derivatives (futures, options, contracts for difference in value, etc.).
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