Having celebrated November 1, five years from the beginning of its work, today the Bitcoin exchange CEX.io informed in its mailing list that it introduces mandatory user verification. The letter of the exchange says that from the very beginning of its work on the market, it sought to ensure that the services offered met the "high standards of traditional financial companies." Guided by this, CEX.io declares that it focuses on “transparency, security and compliance with relevant regulatory requirements”, strictly adheres to the “know your customer” (KYC) policy, and has also developed “effective regulatory compliance procedures”. “Since we want to bring…
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Earlier this week, investors were delighted with the situation in the cryptocurrency market. The bull trend has sparked a new hope that Bitcoin and other digital assets will show significant growth by the end of this year. But, unfortunately, the uptrend was short-lived, as almost all digital assets began to actively fall in price. The cryptocurrency market is colored red. Bitcoin shows a decline of 0.7%, Ethereum – a decrease of 2.5%, and Ripple (XRP) – as much as 4.5%. The only exception is Dash (DASH) cryptocurrency, since its price has increased by 1.53% over the past 24 hours.…
South Korean police have detained five people for installing software for hidden mining cryptocurrency on more than six thousand computers. It is reported by CCN , citing local media. According to the police, a group of hackers sent out more than 30,000 emails containing malware. From October to December 2017, the attackers sent letters to people who at the time were looking for work. Having collected a database of email addresses on forums and job search platforms, hackers posed as human resource managers and potential employers. A file was attached to the text, which, upon opening, automatically downloaded malware onto…
In the spring of 2018, the international cryptocurrency platform Goldjob first appeared on the Russian market in open access. The project originated in England and began to be developed 3 years ago by a team of 20 IT experts and a blockchain ; in open mode, the service works for a year. [embedded content] More than a hundred professionals, over 2000 investors from 30 cities of the world, full conference rooms at open presentations in the capitals, as well as authority on leading business events. Timur Abrosiev GoldJob Freedman Club (FC) journalists interviewed Timur Ambrosiyev (Gj), one of the founders…
If the State Duma approves the bill “On digital financial assets”, then in Russia the entire system of tokenization will be under the control of the Central Bank. This opinion was expressed by the head of the interdepartmental group for assessing the risks of cryptocurrency turnover in the Russian Federation Elina Sidorenko on the Blockchain Life 2018 forum, reports IHODL. She noted that in the draft law there are no concepts of “cryptocurrency” and “mining”, however there is a reference to a certain “unit of operational accounting”. “There is only a small blot, where it is written that in some…
The developers of the hardware wallets Trezor decided to keep up with their competitors in the face of the company Ledger, which continues to delight its users with the constant addition of the number of supported cryptocurrencies, and also carried out a significant expansion of the assets available for storage. This Wednesday they announced the release of firmware version 2.0.9 for Trezor Model T devices and version 1.7.1 for Trezor One. Both firmwares can be downloaded via the Trezor beta portal . As the company explains, many aspects of the new Trezor Model T firmware have been reworked from scratch.…
You have already collected a crypto portfolio, read all the exclusive materials of our publication and are thinking about what to do with your free time? BlockchainJournal made for you a small selection of games in which cryptocurrency, blockchain and fun go alongside. In the review you can also find out where to watch the popularity rating of this or the game. Let's start with gambling According to the report of the British consulting firm Juniper Research, thanks to the increased demand for digital products, the volume of the online gambling industry will reach $ 1 trillion by 2022, and…
The Finance Committee of the French Lower House supported the plan to ease the tax burden on bitcoin operations by adjusting the tax rules to other capital gains taxes. Now profits from the sale of Bitcoin are taxed at 36.2%, while other forms of capital gains taxes are fixed at 30%. The Finance Commission approved changes to the state budget in 2019, which imposes taxing the sale of cryptocurrency assets , such as Bitcoin, at a fixed level of 30%. In order to become a law, the amendment must be approved in the final budget version by a majority of…
After the adoption of the relevant bills, the crypto-ruble may become a complete analogue of the fiat version of the currency of the Russian Federation. This was announced by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, RIA Novosti reports. “As soon as the blockchain begins to occupy a significant place in our economy, then, from my point of view, it will be necessary that the trade and economic processes be serviced using crypto-ruble, the ruble in the blockchain,” he said. The Central Bank is still cautious about the idea of issuing cryptocurrency secured by…
The State Duma promises to define the legal framework for the use of digital currencies in the Russian market before the end of this year. This was reported by "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" with reference to the Head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov. The parliamentarian said that before the end of December the legislature has the task to approve a whole package of bills on the legalization of cryptocurrency in our country. Aksakov stressed : Now there is a discussion, yet we have not come to a common denominator, but I think that by the end…