Michelmores LLP, a London-based law firm, conducted a survey of wealthy millennials in the UK and found that 20% of respondents invested in BTC and other cryptocurrencies. Published FXStreet ResultsThe survey showed that among Britons born between 1981 and 1996 and having investment assets worth $ 31,000 or more, 20% of respondents invested in crypto…
Startup AssetBlock launched a platform for trading commercial real estate tokenized on the Algorand blockchain. The platform provides investors with access to commercial properties, such as upscale hotels, according to AssetBlock CEO Mark Liddell. The Algorand blockchain uses ALGO cryptocurrency, but investors can not yet exchange their ALGO for shares in real estate. Liddell said…
Raphael Auer, chief economist at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), has proposed a new method for supervising fintech and blockchain companies called “built-in controls.” The meaning of the new method is automatic monitoring of tokenized markets. Now for the supervision of markets and companies, the regulator has to collect and process various reports, various…
Over the past two weeks, the average bitcoin network hash has been 85 Eh / s. According to CoinDesk estimates, the reason for the growth of the hashrate was the commissioning of more than 500,000 ASIC miners. Statistics on the BTC.com website show that, along with an increase in the hashrate of the first cryptocurrency…
Ethereum is a platform that allows you to create decentralized blockchain-based online services that operate on the basis of smart contracts. The Ethereum network also allows you to solve many problems, which Bitcoin cannot boast of. The project was implemented as a single decentralized virtual machine. The founder of the ether is Vitalik Buterin, the launch of the…
Regulators of the Chinese autonomous province of Inner Mongolia issued a notice requiring the restriction of the activities of all cryptocurrency mining companies in the province. Five government agencies of Inner Mongolia signed up to the document: the Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Finance…
Today is an important day for Libra, the digital currency that Facebook wants to launch. Representatives of the European Central Bank (ECB) and 27 other central banks are meeting with members of the Libra Association today about the risks of the project. The Libra Association is the foundation behind the crypto coin that Facebook launches….
Using the vulnerabilities of decentralized applications (dapps) to participate in gambling, the fraudster overloaded the network with leased resources and could always guarantee a winning result. how celebratecommunity members on Twitter, an attacker managed to steal more than 30,000 EOS by manipulating the winning conditions in applications. The hacker rented a huge amount of computing…
Roman Snitko is the CTO of Hodl Hodl and during the Baltic Honeybadger 2019 in Riga he made a remarkable statement. Hodl Hodl will offer the code of their exchange open source. This was received with loud applause. During the two-day event, several speakers spoke positively about this development. Why does Hodl Hodl open source?…
Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx Korea will stop trading confidential cryptocurrencies XMR, DASH, ZEC, ZEN and SBTC, as they do not comply with the recommendations issued by the FATF. Transaction support for five cryptocurrencies will end on October 10, and withdrawal services will be available until December 10. The exchange said that such a decision was made…
