The Reserve Bank of South Africa began to search for a contractor to test the state-owned cryptocurrency produced by the Central Bank (CBDC), which will surprise with its properties. South Africa, a country that is part of an informal association of states called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), will be the first to launch its own state-owned steklokoin – this follows from the documentation posted on the website of the regulator. Reserve Bank of South Africa is currently in search of a contractor, that is, a private organization that will help the regulator to approach this issue…
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In REU named after G.V. Plekhanov held a meeting of the Commission on the Legal Support of the Digital Economy at the Moscow branch of the Russian Association of Lawyers. The members of the Commission discussed the draft laws “On digital financial assets” and “On attracting investments using investment platforms” (“On crowdfunding”) adopted by the State Duma in the first reading. Recently, the Civil Code was also amended, in which “digital rights” to blockchain tokens were introduced. Commission experts consider the changes to the Civil Code to be justified in practice: now the owners of cryptoactive assets have received protection…
OKEx's cryptographic operations head Andy Cheung is confident that the current Bitcoin price rally has residual strength to retest a maximum of $ 20,000. At the same time, he called this level a “conservative forecast,” hinting that most speculators are less likely to go out of long positions on Bitcoin. The OKEx manager also reminded about the bitcoin halving , which historically has put increasing pressure on the price of cryptocurrency. “$ 20,000 is a conservative bitcoin price forecast in 2019, as I said last year. The rally will not stop here, because more and more institutional investors are coming…
The return of Bitcoin to the levels of August 2018 coincided with an increase in the number of wallets, the remainder in which is from 1,000 to 10,000 BTC, the analytical portal Diar draws attention. In total, about 450,000 BTC were collected on BTC-wallets of “crypto whales” for 9 months, with which the share of their assets in the total volume exceeded 26%, which is equivalent to $ 36 billion at the current rate. In August 2018, such wallets accounted for less than 20% of the total Bitcoin emissions. According to Diar, this group of wallets grew faster than the…
Globalcoin cryptocurrency, which is developed by the company Facebook, according to the reports of the research company Diar, may face a shortage of investors. This assumption is due to the fact that the majority of Facebook users are representatives of the older generation. As numerous sociological polls show, such people hardly understand how the blockchain technology and cryptocurrency as a whole work, and also how a new financial instrument can be used. Meanwhile, young Facebook users are well informed about the benefits of using cryptocurrency, but their “meager” material wealth is not supposed to allow them to significantly invest in…
The digital asset platform NEO announced the upcoming network upgrade, after which all consensus-supporting nodes should upgrade to client version neo-cli v2.10.2. As stated in the blog developers, the update will take place next Monday, June 3, at 09:00 GMT. ?NEO MainNet Upgrade Notice !!! Please find the details below, https: //t.co/c95BWLsdA3 pic.twitter.com/tYB5nsCgRd – NEO Smart Economy (@NEO_Blockchain) May […]
Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange announced on Wednesday, May 29, the start of margin trading in pairs with its own UNUS SED LEO token. Bitfinex utility token, UNUS SED LEO. To view UNUS SED LEO Markets, visit https://t.co/CupYKc4vBI. pic.twitter.com/r6UX74esJC – Bitfinex (@bitfinex) May 29, 2019 According to a statement […]
American cryptobirge Gemini has announced a partnership with payment startup Flexa. Gemini co-founder and early crypto investor Tyler Winkloss claims that thanks to this collaboration, the following American retailers will accept cryptocurrency payments: Barnes & Noble, Baskin Robbins, GameStop, Jamba Juice, Lowe's, Nordstrom, Office Depot & OfficeMax, Petco, Reg. Cinemas, Whole Foods Market and Amazon. Let us see why this step has become an important stage in the growing crypto-industry. In mid-May, Tyler Winkloss wrote in his blog for Medium that the old slogan “ HODL ” should be replaced by the new call for “SPEDN” for the crypto community,…
Co-founder and managing partner of Kenetic Capital, Jehan Chu, in an interview with Bloomberg, pointed out three main factors by which the price of Bitcoin will reach $ 30,000 by 2020. First of all, Chu drew attention to the entry into the cryptospace of major players in traditional business areas, including Fidelity Investment with a platform for institutional crypto-trading, JPMorgan and Facebook with projects to release JPM Coin and GlobalCoin . “You don't have to take my word for it.” This is Facebook, this is Jamie Dimon, this is Rakuten, this is Fidelity. All come into space either through the…
The beta version of the social network on the blockchain Taklimakan Network received an update and launched a campaign to attract new users. This is reported in the press release of the company. Taklimakan Network is a social network on the blockchain for content aggregation, e-commerce, collecting market intelligence and training. Taklimakan Network is in beta. The task of the platform is to give users a space for sharing knowledge, communicating […]