Brazil proposes to issue diplomas on the blockchain

LDV Bank announces a 1 ETH giveway this weekend

The LDV Bank Exchange has announced that it will make a 1 Ethereum giveway this weekend. Those interested should follow three steps:

• Share the post on the giveway on Facebook Story
• Give like and follow for the LDV Bank Crypto Exchange Facebook page
• Comment with “giveaway”, “Ether” or “participant” to sign up and tag 3 friends in the comment (multiple comments allowed).

The winner will be chosen through random.org on Sunday, March 8, and will be announced on the LDV Crypto Bank page.

Currently, ETH is trading at about $ 240 according to CoinMarketCap.

OKEx announces expansion plans in Russia

Alysa Xu, strategy director of OKEx, said that next year the company will place a special emphasis on expanding the Russian market. The statement was made in an interview given to the crypto news site DeCenter.

Xu presented a bold plan for 2020, which will involve expanding the exchange activity in a variety of sectors. She discussed the ongoing development of the OKEx token, which will include options for use in smart contracts. The company also plans to launch a decentralized exchange.

However, the most important objective is to support the growth of cryptocurrency adoption in Russia:

“It is no secret that Russia has become a key market for OKEx this year. For some time, I have noticed an increasing volume of transactions in this region, even despite a low marketing activity and a weak presence of our brand. In the short term, we are looking for strong local partners with whom we can successfully develop on the Russian market ”.

Xu said.

One of the measures that will be implemented will be the development of the option to purchase cryptocurrencies with rubles. Such action should involve partnerships with Russian banks, but Xu did not provide further details.

The Brazilian Ministry of Education proposes to issue diplomas on the blockchain

In an attempt to combat the falsification of university diplomas, the Brazilian Ministry of Education proposes to issue diplomas on the blockchain.

According to Cointelegraph Brazil, the Minister of Education said that interested educational institutions must participate in the financing of such a project. Also, participating universities should create an independent department that is responsible for managing the blockchain platform.

Local media reports that at least 14 private universities have expressed interest in the government’s proposal to implement such technology.

Omni implements a fixed bug for duplicate transactions

Omni Core has announced that it has released version 0.8.0 to fix a bug that caused some transactions to be performed twice.

“An issue has been identified that affects an earlier version of Omni Core, which may result in executing transactions twice. This has been addressed and solved in this version ”

is mentioned in an official post on the project blog.

The error came from a 2019 update of Omni Core 0.6 and affects all versions 0.6 and above. As a result, the system could credit and debit the same tokens multiple times and therefore display the wrong balances.

The Omni team identified seven blocks containing duplicate transactions and presented on the blog two remedial methods for exchanges, wallet operators and other users.