US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin said that billions of dollars are involved in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies involved in illegal activities. In his opinion, providers of digital money and traditional financial services should be equally regulated. "There are billions of bills of credit,” says Treasury Secretary […]
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Today, July 19, the so-called friendly hardfork will take place in the network of the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency ZCash, which will result in the Ycash network. This was announced by its creator Howard Lou on the ZCash community forum. Lou spoke out against increasing funding for protocol developers. At the moment, Founder's Reward system assumes that 10% of the total emissions (2.1 million ZEC) […]
Following the announcement that Waves CEO Alexander Ivanov sold the project to Vostok, the company he leads is launching a new division of Waves Enterprise, which will focus on corporate projects. This was reported to ForkLog by companies. As part of the Web3 concept, which became the basis for the development of the Waves platform, Waves Enterprise is a universal blockchain solution for corporations that need […]
The Japanese government intends to lead the initiative to create an international network for cryptocurrency payments like the interbank SWIFT system. It is reported by Reuters, citing sources familiar with the situation. Despite the fact that the details of the project are not yet known, it is reported that the development of the project will be followed by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), and the network itself will be […]
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 […]
Tether will launch the USDT token on the Algorand blockchain. Thus, the new asset will join the Tether family of steakblocks on Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS and Tron blockchains. For further development of the global digital asset space, it’s not a problem. https://t.co/fPKVqcL3JF – Tether (@Tether_to) July 17, […]
Starting July 10, delivery of GRAM token futures is available on BitForex crypto-exchange, which can be exchanged for GRAM tokens after the launch of the main TON network. This is reported in the press release BitForex. BitForex Crypto Exchange put up for sale 1 million GRAM tokens. The exchange received them in agreement with the participants of the ICO Telegram. “BitForex responds as quickly as possible to market events so that […]
Development team focused on increased privacy cryptocurrency Beam announced the first hard forks. It is expected that the network update will take place on August 15 at block # 321321. Beam First Hard Fork will be in Mid-August. Block Height 321,321. https://t.co/vzf8IEJfDq #mimblewimble #PrivacyMatters – @Beamprivacy (@beamprivacy) July 16, 2019 Hardfork is aimed at switching from the PoW-algorithm […]
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 […]
Waves CEO and Founder Alexander Ivanov sold his stake in the Vostok project to GHP Group senior partner Mark Garber. Details of the transaction were not disclosed, but both parties have already confirmed the fact of sale, according to Gazeta.ru. According to Ivanov, the reason for his decision was the desire to concentrate on the development of the main platform Waves. I decided to focus on the international […]