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July 18 at the G7 meeting will discuss the regulation of cryptocurrency and the project Libra from Facebook 5 (100%) 1 French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that tomorrow, July 18, the risks associated with the spread of cryptocurrencies , including Libra from Facebook, and ways to minimize them will be discussed at a meeting of G-7 finance ministers. This was the French minister said today in an interview with the newspaper Corriere della Sera. The G7 (Group of Seven, G7) is a club of leading powers represented by Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, the USA, France and Japan.…

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PoS-blockchain Representatives of the crypto-project Tether reported that their stableblock USDT will soon be launched in Algorand blockchain. Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Tether, noted that the launch of USDT in the Algorand ecosystem is an excellent opportunity to develop blockchain compatibility. The company hopes that this cooperation will reveal the potential of other projects in a decentralized ecosystem, Tether expects that it will soon be possible to start cooperation with some of them. For further development of the global digital asset space, it’s not a problem . https://t.co/fPKVqcL3JF Tether (@Tether_to) July 17, 2019 Algorand is a blockchain protocol that provides…

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LedgerX exchange licensed by the CFTC commission launched options for BTC at $ 100,000 5 (100%) 1 Exchange cryptocurrency derivatives LedgerX launched a call option on Bitcoin (BTC) with a buyback price of $ 100,000, the contracts expire in December 2020, the company said on Twitter . A call option gives the right (but not an obligation) to the buyer to buy in the future a specified amount of the underlying asset at the price specified in the contract. As reminded by Bloomberg, LedgerX last month received a license from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch Bitcoin…

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In Kyrgyzstan, the State Service for Combating Economic Crimes (GSBEP) discovered a large mining farm that consumed about 7 megawatts of electricity – like several urban areas. This is reported on the official site GSBEP. The farm was registered under the guise of a computer lab. During the search, law enforcement officers seized more than 8,000 functioning devices for the extraction of cryptocurrencies. "According to the customs value […]

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On July 15, the public stage of the regulated ICO of the Belarusian crypto-exchange iExchange started. Closed presale ended prematurely after the sale of 100 million IEX tokens. This was reported in the press release of the project. Sale of iEXCoin tokens will take place in several stages. At the first stage of ICO, a discount of 5-15% of the nominal value of the IEX $ 0.01 token will be valid. At the second stage, the tokens will be sold on the market average […]

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The LedgerX exchange specializing in cryptocurrency derivatives added a call option to the listing, which will allow holders to purchase Bitcoin for $ 100,000 in December 2020. How much would you pay today for $ 100,000 in December 2020? $ 100k option now available to LedgerX customers, coming to all investors soon! #CenturionContract – LedgerX […]

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The American crypto platform LedgerX is going to provide retail investors with the opportunity to bet that by the end of 2020 the Bitcoin rate will reach $ 100,000. LedgerX for the first time provides retail investors with access to crypto derivatives, this became possible after the company received permission from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Institutional clients of LedgerX have had access to derivatives over the past two years. Paul Chou, CEO of LedgerX, noted that institutional clients, which account for between $ 10 million and $ 1 billion, have already shown interest in a new derivative product…

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The price of the first cryptocurrency rapidly went down shortly after the beginning of the Senate hearings of the Libra digital currency and in a short period of time first fell below $ 10,000 and then to $ 9,600. On some stock exchanges, the drop was even deeper – less than $ 9,500. Bitcoin was trading around $ 10,750. Previously, experts had already expressed […]

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to victims of a hacker attack The Japanese crypto-exchange Bitpoint is going to compensate for the damage to users who have suffered due to a recent hacker attack. Last week a hacker attack was made on the Bitpoint trading platform. Initially, Bitpoint representatives reported that the stock exchange lost ¥ 3.5 billion in cryptocurrency, that is, approximately $ 32 million. Yesterday, the company reported that the damage was much greater, and another $ 2.3 million was stolen. Genky Oda, president of Bitpoint, apologized to the users of the trading platform on the day of the incident and a few days…

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was successfully completed. Galileo update for Binance DEX successfully passed in the blockchain Binance Chain 5 (100%) 1 Binance cryptocurrency exchange announced the successful completion of the planned Galileo update in the main network of its blockchain Binance Chain. “The main Binance Chain network completed the update, and the test network services were stable from 8:00 UTC on 07/15/2019,” the company writes. Together with the update in the matching engine of the Binance DEX exchange, the concepts of maker and taker were implemented. It is assumed that such a system "will be more friendly with respect to new users and…

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