The growing momentum of large companies previously announced as partners of the Libra digital currency project from Facebook is directly related to their fears about the proposed project not meeting regulatory requirements. Such a statement in an interview with CNBC made US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin. Libra realized that they are not ready, that they are not up to par, says @ stevenmnuchin1 about […]
The leadership of the Belarusian High-Tech Park (HTP) is developing a Decree on HTP 3.0. The document passed the first discussion with the country's president, Alexander Lukashenko. This was announced on his Facebook page by IT-businessman, founder of VP Capital, Viktor Prokopenya. The main task of the new document, according to him, will be to increase educational programs for the training of IT-personnel throughout the country. "The world is changing. All […]
La semana pasada fue recordada por eventos dramáticos en el espacio de las criptomonedas: se presentaron $ 1.4 trillones contra Tether y Bitfinex por manipulación del mercado, la SEC acusó…
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 […]
Después de que el servicio de pago de PayPal fue el primero en abandonar el proyecto de criptomonedas Libra , muchos hablaron sobre la posibilidad de un "efecto dominó". Esto…
The Central Bank of Ireland granted Coinbase a license for e-money transactions. According to CEO of the British division Zeeshan Feroz (Zeeshan Feroz), the expansion is necessary in order to provide services to residents of the EU and Eurozone countries after Brexit. The company opened an office in Dublin in October 2018. Recall that the British license Coinbase received in March last year. Subscribe to […]
Visa, Ebay, Stripe y Mastercard, siguiendo a PayPal, anunciaron juntas su decisión de abandonar la Asociación Libra de Facebook y, de hecho, no participar en el desarrollo de la moneda…
Payment companies Mercado Pago, Visa, Stripe, Mastercard and the eBay online trading platform have left the digital currency project Libra, the largest social network Facebook, according to the Financial Times. “We respect the vision of the Libra Association. However, eBay decided not to move forward as a founding member. Currently, we are focused on introducing the managed payment option for our users, ”said representatives […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the adoption of “emergency measures and restrictions” in relation to two offshore companies associated with the Telegram Open Network (TON) token sale. This was reported on the website of the department. The Commission believes that Telegram illegally distributed unregistered digital tokens in the US and abroad, so the company managed to raise $ 1.7 […]
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" […]