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The developer of the ZCash cryptocurrency company Electric Coin Company (ECC) will issue a “boxed” ZEC token for the Ethereum blockchain. This was announced at the Ethereum Devcon5 Developer Conference by ECC Vice President of Marketing and Business Development Josh Swihart, CoinDesk reports. According to him, a new token will be issued in the next six months. It is expected that it will provide enhanced functionality for the use of automated loans and […]

Bitcoin is still the preferred cryptocurrency for cybercriminals, Europol stated in the annual report “Assessing the threats of organized crime on the Internet” (IOCTA 2019). “Although we previously reported a slight shift towards more private cryptocurrencies such as Monero, bitcoin is still the currency of choice for both legal and criminal use,” the organization said. In previous IOCTA reports […]

The author of the initiative to create an alternative version of the digital currency Libra incorrectly provided information about some of the project participants. So, representatives of Tendermint, Chainlink, Web3 Foundation and Hashed denied their participation in it, CoinDesk reports. Earlier this week, during the Devcon5 conference in Osaka, Wireline co-founder Lucas Geiger introduced the OpenLibra initiative, designed to become the "non-corporate version of Libra" […]

The xCurrent payment system and the xVia corporate payment API from fintech company Ripple are included in the single RippleNet brand. At the same time, a California-based company invested $ 750,000 in a BRD wallet, which will now add support for the XRP token. Representatives of Ripple reported on the rebranding of the existing product line in an interview with the Japanese edition of Morningstar. XRapid cross-border payment system based on the XRP token […]

The Washington District Attorney's Office has charged a Singapore citizen with stealing computing power and cloud mining services for cryptocurrency mining for a total of $ 5 million. Together, he faces up to 32 years in prison. According to the prosecutor’s statement, from October 2017 to February 2018, 29-year-old Matthew Ho conducted a “large-scale cryptocurrency mining operation,” […]

Ethereum cryptocurrency is a commodity, not a security, and soon you can expect the emergence of regulated futures on its basis. The chairman of the Commission on the derivatives trading (CFTC) of the United States, Heath Tarbert, said at a Yahoo Finance summit. “We have very clearly stated that bitcoin is a commodity. But so far they have not said anything about Ethereum. I'm like […]