The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is studying the structure of the Libra digital currency project and intends to determine whether it has the characteristics of a stock exchange traded fund (ETF). It is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the situation. In the event that the Commission recognizes Libra as an ETF, Facebook will be forced to get permission from the department […]
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Prasos, a bitcoin broker based in Finland, announced it has obtained a license from a payment organization, which will enable it to offer additional payment services in fiat currencies both for users of its Coinmotion platform and in other countries of the European Economic Area (EEA). As emphasized in the statement of Prasos, the company has become the only third organization in Europe that has received such a license. Big news! […]
The complexity of the extraction of the first cryptocurrency has reached an absolute historical maximum at around 9.06 trillion. Thus, when recalculating, the growth was 14%. It happened on July 9th. At that moment, the hashrate was slightly below the historical record reached earlier, at 69.3 EH / s. At the time of writing, the aggregate computing power in the Bitcoin network has decreased to 58.1 EH / s, reflecting the price movement of the asset. […]
Large venture capital firms Multicoin Capital and Coinbase Ventures made two joint investments in start-ups NEAR and Textile. A Series A round of financing for NEAR was led by Metastable and Accomplice. Other participants include Pantera Capital, ACapital and Xpring from Ripple, as well as well-known business angels Nawal Ravikant, Andrew Keyes and Balaji Srinivasan. In total, the startup managed […]
As part of the e-voting experiment to be held at the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Council of the seventh convocation in the fall, the accounting of ballots will be transferred to the blockchain system. Today, July 11, the system is tested by students of Moscow universities. This was stated by Deputy Head of the Information Technology Department of Moscow Artem Kostyrko, reports TASS. “The key difference of our electronic voting system from all others is that the human voice […]
The founders of Winklevoss Capital and the Gemini Bitcoin Exchange, the Winklevoss brothers, are considering joining the Libra Association consortium. They stated this in a conversation with CoinDesk. “We are definitely looking at this [Facebook initiative] with all seriousness, and we are delighted with the project,” said Cameron Winklevoss. The brothers are confident that the launch of digital tokens by other large companies is only […]
Jerome Powell, chairman of the United States Federal Reserve System (FRS), believes that the Libra Facebook project to create its own digital currency cannot be launched until the world's largest social network answers the “questions of concern to everyone”. Reported by Reuters. Speaking on Wednesday to the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Powell specifically stated: “Libra […]
Shell, one of the five largest oil and gas companies in the world, has invested an unnamed amount in an energy blockchain-startup LO3, Forbes reports. LO3 based in New York is known as the developer of the Exergy platform, which uses the Ethereum blockchain to track power consumption. For Shell, this is the fourth public investment in blockchain projects. Earlier, the Dutch company has invested in platforms Vakt, Komgo and […]
A new network of futuristic capsule hotels Monotel plans to launch in Ukraine by the end of the summer, while cryptocurrency is also indicated among the methods of payment for services. According to Monotel, the project is being created in the image of already working high-tech Asian capsule hotels. There will be an online check-in, digitally controlled capsules, and you can order any services without the need to communicate with the staff. […]
South Korean giant LG Electronics is presumably working to create a cryptocurrency wallet, as evidenced by the application on the website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The application states that the corporation registers the ThinQ Wallet trademark, which involves several usage scenarios, including a “software computer platform for the blockchain”, a “mobile electronic wallet for cryptocurrencies” and a “payment application for mobile phones”. Remarkably, […]