The leader of the United Russia faction in the State Duma announced that the draft law “On digital financial assets” will be considered during the spring session in 2019. It is reported IA REGNUM. The State Duma continues to adhere to its plan and will consider the draft law “On digital financial assets” in the spring of 2019. This information during the briefing of the representatives of the faction was reported by the head of the faction “United Russia” in the State Duma Sergey Neverov. According to the deputy, the problem of digitization of the Russian economy is still relevant…
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The Crypto Investment and Infrastructure Platform Layer1 announced the closing of a $ 2.1 million initial financing round, supported by such well-known investors as PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Digital Currency Group (DCG). A San Francisco-based company, as its CEO Alexander Ligl says, has a long-term approach to cryptoactive assets with promising technologies and a network effect, allocating capital and resources to improve their fundamental value and support broader market acceptance. Here's a difference. https://t.co/Vw2CGarHRp – Alexander Liegl (@alexanderliegl) December 19, 2018 In particular, Layer1 pays increased attention to programmable money and store-of-value applications, which the company believes have the…
Anniversary year for the first cryptocurrency was not entirely festive. Since January, the total capitalization of the crypto market has fallen by about 8 times. However, if you do not compare the current market position with the anomalies of the end of 2017, and evaluate it as a very young, in fact, only an emerging industry, the conclusions will be much broader and more favorable than just a multi-billion dollar FUD. “I believe that the breakthrough that this technology will bring cannot be fully realized in just one year ,” says Max Cordec, CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency Lisk, Of…
Prysmatic Labs, ChainSafe Systems and Sigma Prime blockchain startups received unexpected donations of 1,000 ETH each (in total about $ 300,000) from the creator of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin. Thus, he supported the developers of the updated version of the Ethereum 2.0 ecosystem, complaining about the lack of funding, CoinDesk writes. On the problems of startups Buterin learned from the Twitter thread. In particular, the co-founder of Prysmatic Labs, Preston Van Loon, who works on the scalability of the Ethereum network, said that he was not able to pay developers a full rate. The Biggest a distraction Our @prylabs is That…
California-based Coinbase no longer claims a patent for the BUIDL trademark, it follows from the updated application status on the website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. As stated in the accompanying comment, the application was withdrawn at the request of the applicant. As follows from the document, it was withdrawn on December 14th. The most obvious reason for the withdrawal of the application was the criticism that Coinbase underwent on social networks after it became aware of the company's plans to patent this term earlier this month. The term “buidl”, popular in the cryptocurrency community, is derived…
The latest study by the Russian company Kaspersky Lab, which specializes in cyber security, says that in 2018 the number of hidden mining cases increased by 400%. It clarifies the CCN portal, the scale of the spread of hidden mining through Internet browsers is increasing against the background of the great popularity of cryptocurrencies . If last year only 3.5 million cases of so-called cryptodikeking (hidden mining) were recorded, this year analysts have identified more than 13 million such cases. The number of cases of hidden mining of cryptocurrency through Internet browsers and infection of users' computers jumped immediately by…
Analysts of the American financial holding JPMorgan Chase & Co said that the long-term stagnation of the cryptocurrency market scares the industry of institutional investors, reports Bloomberg . "The interest of financial institutions to trade in Bitcoin, apparently, is fading away," JPMorgan said. According to analysts, the performance of key metrics showed a negative trend in the Bitcoin futures market. In particular, in November at the Chicago Stock Exchange of Options (CBOE) there was a decrease in the number of open positions – activity on Bitcoin futures was equivalent to December last year at the time of the tool launch.…
Roskomnadzor can introduce a new technology to combat banned sites and services, one of which is the Telegram messenger, already in 2019. The authorities of Russia are allegedly ready to allocate up to 20 billion rubles for the implementation of new developments, the BBC Russian Service reports, citing well-informed sources. As the newspaper notes, a new technology is created on the basis of deep packet analysis or DPI. Internet providers presumably use special software and hardware to analyze traffic, isolate and delete packets, specific to specific sites or applications, in this case forbidden. Now Roskomnadzor does not actually fight against…
Dmitry Gurkovsky, leading analyst of RoboForex, tells about further possible scenarios for the movement of the price of bitcoin and several popular altcoins. The current week on the cryptocurrency market is under the “fanfare” of a developing correction. Previously, we have repeatedly drawn attention to the slowing downward dynamics, the formation of convergence and attempts to storm the highs. And as a result of this long and thorough preparation for the rollback, the beginning of the week showed bright bullish moods of market participants. The current technical picture suggests the possibility of developing a correction for the medium term. If…
Odilon Almeida, President of Western Union Global Money Transfer, said that Western Union's money transfer platform is “fully ready” to work with cryptocurrencies to secure international payments. Almeida said that Western Union is ready to make maximum use of the blockchain and cryptocurrency technology in its work, as it specializes in international payments and “knows well” what it is. Yesterday, on its Twitter page, WU published a video stating that the company “is uniquely positioned to connect the monetary and digital world.” It is also reported that at present the service has access to "billions of bank accounts" worldwide, and…