Li Xiaolai, the billionaire founder of the BitFund crypto-venture fund, announced that he was leaving the industry because of the increased regulatory pressure in China. In a recent post on Weibo, Xiaolai said that he had finished investing in crypto-space. "I, Li Xiaolai, will not personally invest in any projects, blocking projects or projects in the early stages of development. If you see that my name is placed next to a project (I am credited to a million projects without it, 99% is not a hyperbole), then just ignore it. " Xiaolai founded BitFund in mid-2013 with a capital of…
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Another news about DEX – Stellar (XLM) launched the decentralized stock exchange StellarX. The debut took place on September 28, and for several days the playground has been working quite successfully. It offers transactions without commissions, converting Fiat on the fly and all kinds of tokens, according to the team. StellarX is launched-free trades, fiat onramp, all kinds of tokens! Still lots to do. But here's where we are going. https://t.co/BnHGwxD8E0 StellarX (@stellarxhq) September 28, 2018 The most noticeable competitive advantage is absolutely free trading and use of the site: there is no commission for transactions and there is no…
The two leading global consortium consortiums Hyperledger Project and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) announced an unprecedented partnership that provides for the creation of unified standards for corporate distributed networks developed by the participants of these two organizations. As stated in the joint statement of Hyperledger Project and EEA, based on the principles of adherence to open source cross-platform cooperation will help accelerate the mass adoption of blocking technologies in the business environment. Great to see @brianbehlendorf & Ron Resnick of EEA standing together at Hyperledger's Member Summit while announcing that they have joined each other's organizations as Associate Members! https://t.co/29rfsUabwG…
The Coinbase exchange has introduced a new function to attract investors – Coinbase Bundles. This service allows you to buy "baskets" from five crypto-currencies: BTC, ETH, DCH, LTC, ETC. "Basket" will serve as a starting package for new or casual investors. Instead of suffering the choice of what kind of currency to buy, they can buy several at once. In the "basket" the share of kriptovalyut weighted by market capitalization at the time of purchase. The cost of packages starts from $ 25. For buyers from Europe and the UK, respectively, from 25 euros and 25 pounds sterling. This is…
Parity Technologies has integrated an early version of the Casper update into its Substrate sub -platform, reports CoinDesk . The code for the experimental solution called Shasper appeared on GitHub yesterday. Its peculiarity is that it combines sharding and PoS-update Casper. "Shasper is a combination of Casper and shading. Immediately after its implementation, we will see significant improvements in the performance of Ethereum-transactions , "said developer Wei Tang. He also stressed that the new solution is still only a "basic framework" and it has not been sufficiently tested. Created by Ethereum developer and founder of Parity Gavin Wood, the Substrate…
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will consider this week draft law No. 9083-1 on introducing amendments to the Tax Code, which provides for the release of market participants from the taxation of taxes until the end of 2029. This is reported by RBC-Ukraine. The initiator of the draft law is Yuriy Derevianko, representing the party "Rukh Novykh Sil". In the Verkhovna Rada Derevyanko is a non-factional deputy. [embedded content] According to the deputy, in addition to tax holidays, the bill also presupposes the definition of the terms "token", "crypto-currency", "virtual asset issuer", "mining", "transactions with virtual currency", etc. Also, the…
In the crypto community of EOS, a new scandal related to corruption broke out. Block.one, which supports EOS, is trying to fight off attacks. The ill-wishers say that the Chinese crypto-whales have united to maintain control over the blockade. Last week an anonymous source merged an internal document with rather sinister accusations. It says that "collusion, general voting and payment for this" is a common place among the block producers of EOS. And among them is the crypto-exchange Huobi. The essence of the accusations is that Huobi and other powerful producers jointly vote for each other to maintain status and…
On November 7 and 8, a large international forum Blockchain Life will be held in St. Petersburg dedicated to the blockade, crypto-currency, ICO and mining in Russia and Eastern Europe. Presentations will be made by representatives of Bitmain, Kraken, OKEx, EXMO. Speakers: Martin Kuvandzhiev, co-founder of Bitcoin Gold. Vyacheslav Bredikhin, foreign marketing specialist of Bitmain; Wit Jedlicka, President of Liberland; Maximilian Marenbach, Director of Development of the Kraken Exchange; Ivan Petukhovsky, co-founder of the EXMO exchange; Alik Arslanov and Artem Popov, creators of the Telegram-channel "10 dollars of Buffett"; Aldrich Viktorino, Director of Stock Exchange Development OKEx; Topics of panel…
The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation "Rosatom" plans to introduce block-based solutions, Internet technologies of things and artificial intelligence into the projects being developed. The publication "Country Rosatom" writes about this. According to the head of the information technology department of state corporation Yevgeny Abakumov, the use of "technology 4.0" will have a positive impact on production processes. "Digital technologies, unlike automation, should give an explosive growth in production efficiency," said Yevgeny Abakumov. He also noted that the country lacks specialists in digital technologies. Let's note, last year the head of the Center for Strategic Research Alexei Kudrin said that…
October October top 3 crypto currency starts in the same price range, which has been trading for more than a week. Bitcoin and Ethereum are compressed between the moving averages on the four-hour chart, and Ripple, in this case, enjoys freedom, but the trend line from annual minima is strong enough and technically meaningful. Next, consider the analysis and forecast for each of the crypto-currencies in more detail. Content BTC / USD 240-Min BTC / USD currently trades at a price level of $ 6,600, just below the simple moving average SMA200 and is closely supported by the exponential moving…