On Sunday in Russia there are more than six thousand elections of various levels. In Moscow, for the first time, a blockchain-based electronic voting system was introduced. However, in the morning there were reports that she had failed. According to the Campaign Insider Telegram channel, at block No. 30 (Central and South Chertanovo), recording information about votes on the blockchain hung for half an hour. […]
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The largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Binance, has announced the launch of stablecoin in the United States. The new stable Binance USD token (BUSD) has been approved by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), reports CryptoBTCmining.com . The partner in this project is the Paxos Trust Company. According to a press release, the stable Binance coin will be provided with US dollars in a 1: 1 ratio. The offer combines Paxos Standard and Gemini Dollar as a stable coin approved by NYDFS. Partnership with Paxos Verified and identified Paxos customers will be able to directly purchase BUSD…
The French manufacturer of hardware crypto-wallets Ledger announced that the Ledger Live service now supports Ethereum tokens. On the eve of the release of Ledger Live version 1.14.0, which already supports 1,250 tokens of the ERC-20 standard. Access to the updated version was received by both smartphone users and PCs. In the future, the company plans to expand the list of supported assets. A publication from Ledger notes: “Despite the fact that thanks to the support of the ERC-20 standard in Ledger Live, many new cryptocurrencies have appeared, we will continue to deal with the listing of new assets.” The…
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRS), said that his department is monitoring the field of crypto assets, but does not plan to issue its own digital currency. Highlight: “We are following the whole question of digital currencies,” says Fed Chair Jerome Powell. “It's not something that we are actively considering. For us, it raises significant issues that we […]
For quite some time, there were rumors that Amazon was planning to create its own cryptocurrency , and when everyone thought that they were not confirmed, this information appeared again. This time, the reason for this was a new survey of financial analysts: “Cindicator, an analytical company, asked a group of experts about which company will launch a cryptocurrency that can compete with Libra. 22.62% of analysts believe that it will most likely become Amazon. ” The authors of the online publication also cite data from the CCN news site, where they suggested that Amazon will launch its own digital…
In Istanbul hard fork activation will take place early next month. This was reported by Hudson Jameson, representative of the Ethereum Foundation. Ethereum developers agreed that a hard fork will be held in early October. Jameson explains that the block responsible for activating Instanbul is expected to be mined on October 2, but this event may happen one or two days earlier or later, depending on the speed of block formation on the network. Earlier this hard fork in the ETH test network was scheduled for September 4th. At the end of August, Parity representatives reported that they were not…
Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan said fiat-currencies stablecoins could adversely affect the effectiveness of monetary policy. This is reported by the Cointelegraph. “If stablecoins pegged to foreign currencies were spread in Switzerland, the effectiveness of our monetary policy could be reduced,” the head of the central bank emphasized during a speech at the University of Basel. He added that […]
Bakkt Warehouse, a qualified custodian of the Bakkt cryptocurrency platform , has begun accepting Bitcoin (BTC) for deposits from customers. The first BTC futures with physical delivery As the company announced on Twitter, Bakkt Warehouse has officially launched the deposit of funds in accordance with the plans, stated on August 28. The launch of Bakkt Warehouse takes place at a time when the company is preparing to deploy its platform for daily and monthly bitcoin futures contracts in the United States on September 23. The platform will provide two types of physically delivered bitcoin futures – with end-to-end regulated markets…
The inverse correlation of Bitcoin and RMB increases over time. This may indicate that the Chinese are increasingly considering BTC as a protective asset, according to Bloomberg. Reverse interdependence peaked at the end of August: According to Garrick Haileman, researcher at the London School of Economics and the head of the research department at Blockchain.com, this trend became more pronounced back in […]
The deputy head of the Central Bank of China officially confirmed plans to launch a national cryptocurrency , and also revealed a number of interesting details about the future coin. The digital currency of the central bank (CBDC) will be guaranteed by the central bank and will thus be as secure as paper notes issued by PBoC. Tokens can be used without an Internet connection to provide the possibility of continuing transactions even in the event of a communication network failure. China copies Libra? We began to suspect the similarity of the Chinese cryptocurrency with Libra some time ago, even…