3M international research company announced the launch of a digitalization initiative for the loyalty program and plans to transfer customer interaction to the blockchain. This is reported in the press release of the company. The 3M project will be implemented on the basis of the Verisium solution, which uses the Quorum blockchain platform from JPMorgan and the Microsoft architectural services complex. As part of the initiative, a number of 3M products for the auto repair business […]
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Binance Exchange announced hardfork core network Binance Chain. It is reported that the validators have agreed to upgrade on July 15 at block 20,300,000. and operators of full nodes will have to upgrade to version 0.6.0 by July 10, in order to synchronize further […]
Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange has announced the transition from the OMNI addresses of USDT tokens to the addresses of the ERC-20 standard. In this regard, for some time the possibility of input / output of Tether steylcoin will be unavailable. #Binance Will Change $ USDT Deposits & Withdrawals to be ERC20-basedhttps: //t.co/3rNcVEWJ59 pic.twitter.com/WeVR195qrF – Binance (@binance) July 3, 2019 In particular, the transition will take place on Thursday, July 4 and some operations […]
The developer of Blockstream, under the name of grubles, told in his blog that users of the Liquid Sidebar could open the Lightning Network payment channels using c-lightning implementation. This makes it possible to conduct quick and private transactions with the Liquid-BTC asset (L-BTC). In the future, the developer notes, this function, along with Confidential Transactions, will work with all the assets of the Liquid network through payment channels […]
Cuban authorities are exploring the possibility of cryptocurrency to bypass US sanctions and mitigate the effects of the economic crisis, reports Reuters. “We are exploring options for using cryptocurrency in our national and international commercial transactions. We are working on this together with scientists, ”said Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil Fernandez. However, according to the official, cryptocurrencies are considered only as one of the components of a broad plan […]
London-based hedge fund Prime Factor Capital has become the first cryptocurrency investment firm to be approved by the UK Financial Supervision Authority, Bloomberg reports. The company will be regulated by the British financial regulator as a full-fledged manager of an alternative investment fund, and will also be subject to the laws of the European Union. Thus, Prime Factor Capital will be able to hold assets of more than 100 million euros under management. "We […]
Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange announced the beginning of the repayment of debt to its affiliated company Tether. As part of the Bitfinex process, the first $ 100 million was transferred to the Tether account. Bitfinex Repays $ 100M of Outstanding Loan Facility to Tether.https: //t.co/NIcUAehGtY – Bitfinex (@bitfinex) July 2, 2019 Recall that at the end of April the Prosecutor General’s Office New York brought Bitfinex accusations that, having suffered losses in […]
Jessie Powell, Kraken cryptocurrency exchange CEO, expressed the view that the growth in Tether's supply of steylcoins can influence the price of bitcoin by attracting new money to the cryptoindustry, but is not the main reason for the growth. He stated this in an interview with TD Ameritrade Network. #Bitcoin has the latest surge in #bitcoin. Watch as […]
The Russian Sberbank decided to leave the ranks of the Masterchain blockchain project launched with the support of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In the commentary of CoinDesk, the head of the blockchain-lab of Sberbank, Oleg Abdrashitov, declared dissatisfaction with the speed, safety and overall efficiency of the platform. According to him, as an alternative, the organization is considering corporate blockchain-platform Hyperledger Fabric from IMB and Quorum from JPMorgan. "Masterchain" does not meet the requirements that make cases […]
The Ukrainian cryptocurrency exchange Kuna has littered the Paytomat (PTI) token. Trading in PTI / BTC and PTI / UAH pairs is already available to customers of the site. In honor of the launch of trading, Paytomat holds a campaign, in which the 10 most active traders will share a prize fund of 500 thousand PTI among themselves, another 500 traders will receive 500 PTI each. "To take part in the trading […]