The Trezor hardware wallet team announced the launch of a built-in cryptocurrency exchanger . In addition to the current functions, users have the opportunity to exchange coins and tokens directly in their wallet. At the initial stage, ShapeShift and Changelly were chosen as an intermediary in the provision of the exchange function, who will be responsible for the whole process. Judging by the statement, in the future, the list of exchangers is planned to be expanded. The company emphasizes that Trezor Wallet will always work without KYC, since the Trezor wallet or device is not a prison sentence and if…
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Representatives of the Agency for Digital Transformations (DTA) at the Australian government concluded that at the moment other technologies are more effective in solving real business problems than the blockchain, reports ZDNet . “Blockchain is an interesting technology, but it is still at an early stage of development and at the top of the HYIP cycle. However, without standardization and further improvements, you will most likely make a choice in favor of other solutions, ”the department said. DTA noted that the strengths of the blockchain are actively promoted by companies that sell solutions based on this technology, but at the…
Before the second reading, a number of amendments were made to the draft law “On digital financial assets”. Now Russian IP and non-public companies will be able to certify interests in the capital with the help of digital financial assets (CFA). If the cryptocurrency bill prepared for the second reading in the State Duma is adopted with current amendments, the rights of individual entrepreneurs and legal entities will be checked by the Central Bank and stored in the blockchain . The new rules will apply to all joint stock companies and limited liability companies. Also in the document it is…
$ 175,000 is the annual salary if you are a Blockchain engineer Blockchain engineers are new sought-after hiring in Silicon Valley. The top executives are willing to spend up to $ 150,000, up to $ 175,000 for average salaries for these bright new crypto-platform innovators. Until last month, such a salary was reserved only for top-notch software specialists, such as artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. The latest US labor market survey reports were optimistic about hiring Blockchain engineers at major companies. Until now, banks, large multinational corporations and pharmaceutical companies have attracted these decentralized platform specialists to give them a “competitive…
Ethereum's co-founder and head of Parity Technologies, Gavin Wood, said that the release of the platform to launch blockchain Substrate will take place within a few weeks, reports CoinDesk . Thus, the tool should accelerate the development of polkadot protocol, which is focused on blockchain compatibility, and allow corporate users to quickly launch distributed registries. According to Wood, Substrate is much easier to use than the same Ethereum. At the same time, system changes in the network allegedly do not require hard forks, and management of various circuits will occur through a vote by token holders. It is worth noting…
According to Brian Kelly (Brian Kelly) from CNBC, the emergence of new important events on the crypto market may be caused by an increase in the number of crypto companies and institutional investors. Kelly also recalled that the Boston company Fidelity Investments has recently switched to cryptocurrency activities. Fidelity Investments is considered the fourth largest asset management company. It is reported that the management is $ 7.2 trillion. Despite this, the company recently moved to the cryptosphere, offering its customers various trading solutions . The creation of a subsidiary of Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS), according to Kelly, is another…
The bitcoin-dollar rate is trading at 6398 at the time of writing, which is 0.85 percent below its Sunday maximum. The pair found a stable support area at 6350-6400. But this does not signal enough purchases to break the level above the giant downward trend line. Honestly, the market is in a long-term bearish bias, so any of these conflicts when shifting in the short term can strengthen its previous sales sentiment. Hence, on the daily charts, BTC / USD can lead to a well-traded seabed direction of around 6000. There may be accumulation, as evidenced by historical price action.…
At the two-day Blockchain Life 2018 forum, which will be held on November 7-8 in St. Petersburg, speakers will discuss current topics in the format of thematic sections and panel discussions. This year, the organizers paid special attention to the state initiatives in the field of blockchain technologies. The central event of the Blockchain Life 2018 program will be the plenary session “The State and the Blockchain”. Special experts of the meeting – Advisor to the Governor of St. Petersburg Artem Sheykin and Head of the Expert Council on the Digital Economy and Blockchain Technologies in the State Duma of…
Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of mining equipment , introduced the software update for Antminer S9 products, which involves the controversial optimization algorithm AsicBoost. Also, representatives of Bitmain promised soon to release updates for all ASIC-devices based on the BM1387 chips, including models: Antminer R4, Antminer S9i, Antminer S9j, Antminer T9, Antminer T9 +. Bitmain is confident that the AsicBoost solution will increase device performance. The company also noted that at first they did not plan to release software supporting this technology due to possible patent disputes. However, the company's legal advisers assured management that AsicBoost did not have a specific…