Digest news - main events Bitcoin industry this week.
PRICE Bitcoin
Bitcoin exchange rate in the last seven days remained generally calm, and speak about the extraordinary oscillations is not necessary. Trade was in the hallway between $ 575 and $ 600. The highest point of this segment was reached on Thursday, August 11 after the resumption of trading on the stock exchange Bitfinex, however, return to the parameters that can be seen until it stops working due to the theft of 120,000 of BTC, cryptocurrency and failed.
Nevertheless, a number of analysts and experts have suggested that the period of relative calm coming to an end, predicting a new rally.
Bitcoin market capitalization today is estimated at $ 9.2 billion.
SAGA OF ETHEREUM CLASSIC
Community Ethereum Classic officially presented a document entitled "Declaration of Independence Ethereum Classic". In particular, the document states that since the advent of blokcheyna Ethereum he states as "a decentralized platform for applications that need to be performed and the way it has been programmed without any fraud, censorship or intervention of third parties." However, recent events, the authors Dekalratsii state led to the fact that the community came together spontaneously to protect blokcheyna Ethereum from his own creators, especially from Ethereum Foundation.
Meanwhile Ethereum Foundation developers group called Robin Hood Team, accused of organizing the theft of funds of venture fund The DAO. According to the portal Cointimes, the team transferred 500 000 ETC to the accounts at the exchange Poloniex and 250 thousand ETC on accounts opened in the Kraken Exchange. Thanks to the joint coordinated actions, exchanges administration froze all funds received by him.
Known kriptobloger David Seaman said in his blog in the Huffington Post about the possible involvement of CEO of the investment company Digital Currency Group (DCG) Barry Silbert to the latest developments around the Ethereum Classic. Referring to the unnameable source, he also claims that the publication CoinDesk, which earlier this year was bought by the DCG, is promoting Ethereum Classic.
Also, a discussion in the community about the possible assignment of coins belonging to customers three popular ETC kriptovalyutnymi exchanges: Exmo, Livecoin and BTC-e. ForkLog made its own analysis of the events.
Despite all the rumors and ambiguous statements about Ethereum Classic, token ETC continues to enjoy popularity in the markets. On this week's launch of ETC trades reported the largest South Korean kriptovalyutnaya Exchange Korbit. This allows clients to exchange trade cryptocurrency Ethereum Classic on the Korean won and vice versa.
It will be interesting to look at and a seven-day course schedule ETC. Here you can see the general trend to reduce the cost to the deepest subsidence on Thursday, August 11 (1 ETC / 0.00265 BTC). By the end of the week I played a few token lost ground and was trading at the time of publication in the area of 0.0033 BTC ($ 1.95).
BITFINEX resume work
On Wednesday, August 10, kriptovalyutnaya Bitfinex Exchange announced the resumption of work by activating the possibility of making new deposits and cashouts. Recall, the work of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was halted last week after the administration of the platform reported a burglary and theft of funds. Later it became known that as a result of malicious acts Bitfinex lost nearly 120,000 BTC.
As stated in stock exchange statement, the restoration work was preceded by serious work to ensure the security of the platform.
At the same time the administration Bitfinex declared its readiness to pay a reward to anyone who can help with the return of stolen Bitcoins on last week. The representative exchange Zane Tekket confirmed that the market is ready to allocate for these purposes 5% of these funds (about BTC 6000 or more than $ 3.5 million).
Meanwhile, a number of sources reported that during the first two days of the users derived from the stock exchange about 90 000 BTC.
NEW AUCTION Bitcoin SILK ROAD
United States Marshals Service (USMS) announced the holding of a new auction for the sale of Bitcoin confiscated in several criminal cases, including the case of the Silk Road illegal online store. The auction will take place on 22 August. In total, the sale will be put up in 2719 BTC (about $ 1.6 million at the current market rate).
ROADMAP MYCELIUM WALLET
Team kriptovalyutnogo purse Mycelium has published an updated version of the draft road map. It assumed several stages, and one of the first innovations will be the previously announced integration cryptocurrency Dash. It is also expected to integrate Waves and announced support protocol Colu colored coins.
The JAXX WALLET WILL DASH
Decentral Canadian company announced the upcoming integration to the popular Dash cryptocurrency Jaxx purse. In addition to Bitcoin, Jaxx supports tokens Ethereum and TheDAO and is available on most popular operating systems.
BITWALA MESSENGER
Kriptovalyutny payment service Bitwala announced the release of its own messenger, with the help of which users can not only communicate with each other, but also to send each other money. The new app will be useful in cases where you need to be accompanied by a payment to any comment, reminder, or personal message. At the same time right in the messenger can send funds.
BITFURY IN UKRAINE
BitFury Group, a leading global provider blokcheyn infrastructure, has chosen Juscutum as its official legal representative in Ukraine. Juscutum will accompany the development of the company, as well as to promote the implementation of blokcheyn technologies.
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"We will convince the authorities that need to be spent not on yesterday's technology, and build management system blokcheyne" -
said Artyom Afyan, managing partner Juscutum.
And BLOKCHEYN FINTEH
Russian payment system Qiwi announced its intention to transfer its processing at blokcheyn. However, to raise questions stated time - reportedly works in the direction of the Internet and finance will be completed by 2021. By the time the process train can go far enough.
Monetary Authority of Singapore reported on the inclusion of the International Advisory Council for Technology such famous people as CEO Digital Asset Holding Blythe Masters, CEO SolidX Daniel Gellensi and Managing Director R3CEV Tim Grant. The council also includes the Director of Innovation and Technology's leading financial institutions, leaders finteh business, venture capitalists, and other leaders in the field of technology and innovation. The aim of the organization is to advise the Monetary Authority of Singapore in terms of international achievements in the field of finteh industry and the possibility of introducing new technologies in Singapore.
Bank consortium R3CEV announced the successful completion of the test blokcheyn technology in the field of settlement of international financial transactions. In experiments involving 15 leading banks studied the possibility of private blokcheyna Corda regarding invoices for accounts receivable and a letter of credit transactions.
The European Council on Payment Systems published the results of a survey EU citizens about their attitudes toward blokcheyna technology as a payment instrument.
According to the survey, 90% of respondents believe that by 2025 blokcheyn will have a serious impact on the payments industry.
Blokcheyn technology also radically change the management of financial institutions business. This is stated in the report "The Future of the financial infrastructure," published by the World Economic Forum.
Isle of Man Government has announced work on a new project using blokcheyn technology, within which to create prototype solutions for the identification of the Internet of Things devices (Iot). The project is implemented in partnership with local startups finteh Credits.
The combination of the Internet of things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and blokcheyn technology creates enormous opportunities. Such an opinion was expressed by Director General of the consulting firm Deloitte Global Punit Rungis.
On Thursday, August 11, at the New York meeting of representatives of the "Big Four audit", which discussed the establishment blokcheyn Consortium. The event was supported startup Consensys. In a series of discussions, representatives of the companies Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC have tried to come to an understanding that the audit market leaders can do for the development of new standards for the use of blokcheyna in your industry and how technology can improve the efficiency of their work.
Australia Post explores at least three areas of possible application blokcheyn technology, the main of which must be a procedure for the identification of customers. Two other areas of application technology - the creation of various registers and electronic voting services.
Some time ago ForkLog already wrote about the amazing experiment using blokcheyna, held in Moscow on the farm Kolionovo. Now here is the head and founder of the farm, Mikhail Shlyapnikov told that as a result of transfer of farm activities blokcheyn managed to halve the retail price for regular customers.
REGULATION
Bombshell produced a message that the Russian authorities have refused to introduce criminal liability for the purchase, sale or other use cryptocurrency, meaning primarily Bitcoin. Official posts, however, have not yet received - the news spread the news agency "Interfax", citing its own source close to the financial and economic bloc of the government. Is this true, we are likely to learn in the near future, but so far the Russian followers Bitcoins can be cautiously congratulated on the small victory.
In the meantime, I found a reason to drink champagne and representatives of California Bitcoin community. Under the pressure of a new edition of the draft law on the regulation of kriptovalyutnyh companies it has been withdrawn and will be filed for a new trial in the next year. The document aroused fierce opposition in the first place because of the ambiguity of wording and feared his opponents, a serious blow to many companies and start-ups.
The European Banking Association (EBA) called upon to provide more detailed information on plans to tighten control over the activities of kriptovalyutnyh exchanges and providers of digital wallets. Proposed in July, the EU Directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for terrorist financing involves the creation of a central database of information about users Bitcoin and other digital currencies.
Also joined the list of countries planning to tighten the turnover cryptocurrency, and Australia. According to the representatives of the country's financial intelligence unit, the anonymity kriptovalyutnyh payments makes them very attractive for the financing of terrorist organizations. We can only remind all supporters of the crackdown that Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous in the full sense of the word.