Visa, Ebay, Stripe and Mastercard, following PayPal, together announced their decision to leave the Libra Association from Facebook and, in…
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 hype surrounding the Libra cryptocurrency project has led the EU to set about creating new regulatory frameworks for the…
The head of the largest social network Facebook Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the Committee on financial services of the US House of Representatives. This was reported on the website of the department. Hearings on “studying the impact of Facebook on financial services and housing” will be held on October 23. Zuckerberg will be the only witness to them. In July, the head of the financial services committee, Maxim Waters, demanded to suspend […]
A German programmer hacked the Muhstik ransomware virus distributor server after paying 0.09 BTC to restore access to files. In a message on the Bleeping Computer forum, Tobias Fromel, under the nickname battleck, wrote that he managed to get the entire database of encryption keys and a decryptor program, which he posted free of charge to the network for 2858 victims of the attacker. Fromel […]
US Congressmen Bill Foster and French Hill asked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to consider issuing the United States National…
The developers of the Telegram Open Network (TON) network published the first version of the rules for using the Gram token wallet, in which the participation of the Telegram messenger team in the development of the project was officially confirmed for the first time. Earlier, neither Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, nor any other company representative made public statements regarding the Telegram Open Network. According to a published document, a wallet for storing Gram tokens […]
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has asked the UK Financial Regulatory and Supervisory Authority (FCA) not to ban the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives to retail investors. The WFE has asked @TheFCA not to ban the sale of crypto derivatives to retail consumers while supporting the regulator's desire to better protect vulnerable consumers. Read more here: https://t.co/mIPIEXfN8n – WFE (@TheWFE) October 7, […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) still believes that the first cryptocurrency is not a security. According to The Block, Cipher Technologies Bitcoin Fund has applied for registration of a closed interval fund and an investment company. The submitted documents indicate that Bitcoin is a security. SEC staff did not agree with this information, citing the test […]
Representatives of the company Libra officially refused to participate in the crypto project Libra from Facebook. The PayPal representative noted…