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Ticket Monster, which sells tickets and is one of the largest companies in the e-commerce sector of South Korea, said in a press release on August 29 that it closed its round of financing at $ 32 million. These funds will go to the development of the new Terra stablecoin. Ticket Monster company, whose total sales is $ 4 billion, plans to create an internal cryptocurrency in addition to the already existing Luna token, which serves as collateral for its blockchain platform. This round of funding was attended by several well-known ... Read more about " South Korean startup attracted $ 32 million to create stablecoin with the support of Binance, OKEx and Huobi " on coinatory.com

Microsoft in cooperation with the Indian company Tech Mahindra is going to create a blockchain platform for fighting spam calls. Partners expect to launch an appropriate service for local telecom operators. The Indian regulator TRAI (Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of India) considers unsolicited commercial communications (Unsolicited commercial communication - UCC) a serious problem for the clients of telecom companies. The agency is trying to solve this problem with the involvement of all interested players, and a month ago ... Read more about " Microsoft uses blockchain in India to solve problems with spam calls " on coinatory.com

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The report, published by the Next Web on August 28, states that some applications for cryptocurrency mining are still on the Google Play Market despite a ban by the technology giant. July 27 Google officially banned any applications for the extraction of digital currency in the Play Market. The statement said: "We prohibit applications from mining the cryptocurrency on users" devices." The corporation gave the developers exactly 30 days to review the policy of their products so that the latter meet the new conditions. The period has ... Read more about " Next Web: mining applications remain in the Play Market " on coinatory.com

It was reported earlier that the Iranian authorities could issue their own sovereign cryptocurrency, with the help of which they try to circumvent the economic sanctions imposed by the United States. As it was recently revealed, the work on the preparation for launching the national cryptocurrency of Iran is almost complete. According to the available information, the Iranian cryptocurrency will be released on the Hyperledger blockchain platform. The authorities have already prepared a document detailing his plans to create a national ... Read more about " Iran disclosed details of the national cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

More than 80% of the world"s companies realizing or implemented blockchain projects in varying degrees, with a quarter of them have already launched pilot projects or fully completed their implementation, according to a study by the consulting company PwC. The PwC study "Blockchain is here. What"s your next move? "Is based on a survey of 600 executives from 15 countries and territories: Australia, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, UAE, UK and USA. Respondents were asked questions ... Read more about " PwC: More than 80% of companies in the world implement blockchain projects " on coinatory.com

According to a report published by the South Korean State Development Bank of Korea (KDB), which finances and manages large industrial facilities in the south of the country, Pyongyang has begun to search for blockchain and plans to create its own exchange platform. KDB said that Chosun Expo, a North Korean IT company, received government permission to develop a site for exchange. According to the report, Pyongyang is interested in research on technology blockchain, as cryptocurrencies can be "anonymous, hard-to-trace and easily ... Read more about " North Korea wants to join the world of cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

In Russia, there is a system for buying jet fuel through the blockchain established. It was launched by the operator of the aviation kerosene market Gazpromneft-Aero, the airline S7 Airlines and Alfa-Bank. As reported in the press release on the site of Gazprom Neft, for instant payment of aviation fuel at the time of refueling, smart contracts are used on the Hyperledger blockchain-platform. Refueling is as follows: the airline pre-passes to the fuel company the data on the planned refueling of the future flight, electronic documents ... Read more about " Aviation fuel smart contracts " on coinatory.com

Bitcoin Cash was created just a little over a year ago as a result of a hard fork amid a heated debate over the scaling of the original bitcoin. Gradually among fork developers began to grow disagreement over the further development of Bitcoin Cash. The recently released Bitcoin ABC client release was perceived by some representatives of the crypto community as the beginning of a real war in the development environment. However, some representatives of the Bitcoin Cash community categorically do not support these changes. Another ... Read more about " Conflict among Bitcoin Cash developers can split the cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

Lately, we can note a lot of successful projects that launched by XRP Ripple Labs. The founder and current general director of the company B. Garlinghouse earlier mentioned that a large wave of institutional investors is going to enter cryptomarket in the 3rd quarter current year. "The third quarter of this year, of course, will be a period of the emergence of many institutional companies in the markets and they will participate in the purchase of XRP," he said. But those companies that already buy and apply a token do not affect its ... Read more about " Weiss Ratings: Ripple can attract lots of attention this year " on coinatory.com

The Iranian state press reported that the Central Bank will soon launch a sovereign cryptocurrency, which is 100% premined and expects the "command" of President Hassan Ruhani. Explanations on the use and rules for the exchange of state tokens will be explained by the country"s regulator as early as the beginning of September. The sovereign cryptocurrency will help Iran avoid US sanctions restricting the sale of oil, so experts draw analogies with Venezuela"s option. The Bolivarian Republic issued El Petro, radically replacing local ... Read more about " Iran is 100% ready to launch its own cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

Washington: The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that they will consider the decision of their employees to block nine exchange-traded funds that work with Bitcoin. This was reported by the commission"s representatives on its official website. "The SEC staff delegated authority to decide on such applications, which means that the commissars and the SEC chairman have the authority to review decisions if they want to," the SEC said. Virtual currency can be used to quickly move money around the world with relative ... Read more about " SEC will consider a decision to reject Bitcoin " on coinatory.com

On Thursday, August 23, the bitcoin rate closed with a slight increase against the US currency. Eight days the price is traded in a sideways trend between $ 6200 - $ 6650 with a range of 7%. The current bitcoin rate is $ 6,528. The price recovers after falling to $ 6231 on the decision of the SEC to reject applications for five bitcoin-ETFs from Direxion, two from GraniteShares and two from ProShares. Just like last time, the main reason for the refusal of applications was insufficient actions of exchanges to prevent fraudulent actions and ... Read more about " Technically, bitcoin is ready for growth, but will it? " on coinatory.com

Many members of the blockchain community have questioned the sufficient decentralization of the Ripple protocol. These doubts were dispelled by the technical director of Ripple, David Schwartz. In his opinion, the distributed ledger of XRP is more decentralized than Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin and Ethereum are currently viewed as the gold standard for decentralization — meaning they are architected in a way that no single individual or minority group can dictate rules or rewrite transaction history (the power of blockchain!). Since these b ... Read more about " David Schwartz: Ripple is more decentralized than bitcoin and Ethereum " on coinatory.com

International financial broker RoboForex has launched a service that will allow customers to replenish their own trading bitcoin account by different cryptocurrencies. It is noted that the amount of replenishment in altcoins will automatically be converted to BTC at the current exchange rate. "A significant part of our clients trade and keep funds on accounts in the cryptocurrency. Many of them also have assets in non-BTC digital currencies, which they can now use to replenish their BTC accounts, "said Denis Golomedov, marketing ... Read more about " RoboForex: send altcoins to your BTC wallet, receive bitcoins " on coinatory.com

In Liechtenstein, Union Bank AG announced its intention to become the world"s first licensed financial institution to issue its own security tokens and then provided with a currency such as the Swiss franc and the cryptocurrency - Union Bank Payment Coin (UBPC). "...our fiat-backed Union Bank Payment Coin has the potential to disrupt the approach to international trade and international cross-border transactions. With our initiative, we are investing in the future and becoming the world’s preeminent blockchain investment bank.” These steps a ... Read more about " In Liechtenstein, a licensed bank is preparing to issue its own cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

Commercial objects located in the busy central district of Beijing received a ban on cooperation with cryptocurrency companies. This caused a lot of rumors about whether the Chinese government intends to tighten the rules for the regulation of the cryptocurrency, given that the industry continues to flourish, despite the bans on trade last year. According to the report, local authorities in the Chaoyang District in Beijing issued an order dated August 17 and warned businesses, office buildings, hotels and shopping centers that they ... Read more about " China: another restrictions for crypto-related companies " on coinatory.com

Chinese technical conglomerate Tencent denies its involvement in investing in the preliminary stage of the IPO of Bitmain Technologies, the world"s largest manufacturer of cryptocurrency mining equipment. What happened? August 10, both the cryptocurrency and mainstream media reported that Tencent and the Japanese conglomerate Softbank Group closed the round of Bitmain financing by $ 1 billion, in the run-up to the company"s IPO by $ 15 billion. This will be one of the largest IPOs in history, and therefore not surprisingly, that Bitmain is ... Read more about " Tencent denies participation in Bitmain pre-IPO " on coinatory.com

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One of the world"s leading logistics companies, UPS filed an application for registration in the Bureau of Registration of Patents and Trademarks (USPTO) for the rights to use blockchain technology as part of a distributed system for sending parcels around the world. An application called "Autonomous Service of the Selection System and Distributed Transport Databases" is a concept that implies the storage of data in a distributed registry system, including information on the designation of the package, its movements and the transportation ... Read more about " UPS patents the blockchain for tracking " on coinatory.com

Venezuelan economic crisis touched Justin Sun, co-founder of Tron (TRX). He said that Petro, the country"s new currency, should have been associated with Tron, not with Ethereum, as reported by bcfocus.com Obviously, Justin Sun is very responsible for the promotion of the Tron cryptocurrency, as evidenced by the post on Twitter, where he protested to President Nicolas Maduro. He said that if Petro should be used, it should be tied to the Tron, not to the Ethereum. The post of Justin Sun appeared after the tweet Maduro, who announced the ... Read more about " Justin Sun calls on the Venezuelan president to tie Petro to Tron " on coinatory.com

Contrary to the statements of Bitcoin Cash supporters who promised to create a better version of bitcoin, which will be popular as a payment tool, the cryptocurrency is barely used in commercial transactions. This is written by Bloomberg referring to the analysis of the Chainalysis company. A study of 17 major processing services, such as BitPay, Coinify, and GoCoin, showed that the volume of payments using Bitcoin Cash fell to $ 3.7 million in May after reaching a peak at $ 10.5 million in March. With the help of bitcoin in May, payments ... Read more about " Bitcoin Cash is rarely used " on coinatory.com

Xi"an, Aug. 19 - Police in Xi"an City, the administrative center of Shaanxi Province in northwest China, arrested three suspected of stealing cryptocurrency in the amount of about 600 million yuan (about $ 87 million). In March of this year, a man turned to the Xi"an police, who reported that hackers had illegally penetrated his computer and stole from him cryptocurrency (bitcoins and ether) for 100 million yuan. An investigation was launched, during which the police found that the suspects remotely hacked accounts with ... Read more about " Chinese police arrested the suspects in the theft of the cryptocurrency for 600 million yuan " on coinatory.com

On the Hong Kong crypto exchange, OKEx is an event that in many media has already been dubbed as "the day of judgment for the Altcoins." What"s going on? The thing is that the management of the crypto exchange has announced the removal from the lists, as well as the freezing of some pairs on its trading platform. In total, about two dozen Altcoins fell under the punishing hand. Many associate this with fairly frequent problems within the crypto exchange platform itself, as well as the habit of developers to carry out chaotic changes, as a ... Read more about " Judgment Day for Altcoins " on coinatory.com

According to the COT (Commitments of Traders) reports provided by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) - for the week ending last Tuesday: Large speculators (NON-COMMERCIAL) have reduced the net position for the sale of contracts for bitcoins by 0.14 thousand contracts to 0.22 thousand. Large speculative players are cutting the net position for sale for the third consecutive week. Net position has become minimal since April 10. The small speculators (NONREPORTABLE POSITIONS) reduced the net position for the purchase of ... Read more about " Bitcoin: large funds on CME are preparing for growth of the cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

CEO BitMEX Arthur Hayes criticized Ethereum, called it "shitcoin" and predicted the collapse of the price below $ 100. As Hayes writes in the final digest for traders, the take-off of Ethereum took place during the ICO boom, which began in early 2017. In his opinion, during the period of active distribution of ICO, a large number of new venture investors came to the market, having neither experience nor knowledge. Hayes notes that today many venture investors are selling their tokens against the backdrop of a drop in their value. Now, ... Read more about " Ethereum: the shitcoin that will fall down below $100 " on coinatory.com

Mining was called "new oil" in Kazakhstan and they want to strongly encourage the mining of cryptocurrency. This was told by the vice-president of the Association of the blockchain and the cryptocurrency of Kazakhstan Leonid Muraviev. The official explained that mining, the rise in the price of bitcoin and, of the cryptocurrencies in general, can positively affect the economic development of the country. The potential of Kazakhstan allows providing electricity to about half of all miners that mine cryptocurrency in different countries ... Read more about " Mining in Kazakhstan will be encouraged " on coinatory.com

The company claims that changing the name is more than just a rebranding exercise, suggesting that the wallet will evolve over time to offer more functionality than existing cryptographic wallets and serve as a "gateway" for a decentralized network and an "open financial system", as well as "creating an effort to invest in products" that will shape the future of a decentralized network. Siddharth Coelho-Prabhu, product manager for Toshi, commenting on the development, said that the application will soon be "improved to Coinbase Wallet," ... Read more about " Toshi Wallet is now called Coinbase Wallet " on coinatory.com

According to the founder of Ethereum, the way to develop a cryptocurrency is to allow users to easily pay for purchases with digital money Governments should regulate the cryptocurrency market in such a way that users can easily pay with digital money with a card, says Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. He believes that it is necessary to simplify the use of new financial assets, only this can bring maximum benefit, writes Forbes. "I want to be able to walk into a convenience store, get a card, pay $5 and get $5, minus some small fee of like ... Read more about " Vitalik Buterin: I want to go to the store and pay with Bitcoin Cash " on coinatory.com

Co-founder of BitAngels and BitAngels / Dapps Fund, Michael Terpin filed a lawsuit against AT&T telecom giant in Los Angeles court. He accuses the company of negligence, which led to a major theft of the cryptocurrency. The employees of the call center copied his phone number to intruders who stole from the crypto investor digital assets worth $ 24 million. The lawsuit says that over the past six months hackers have repeatedly cracked his mobile phone. Michael Turpin believes that it is either a criminal negligence or collusion of ... Read more about " AT&T sued due to theft of the cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

The Ethereum Classic (ETC) has recently grown by as much as 19%, thanks to the Coinbase crypto exchange in San Francisco, which announced the inclusion of a coin in its Coinbase Consumer program and placing it on the list. Thus, users and customers of crypto exchanges will soon be able to purchase a coin both on the official site of the crypto exchange and in its mobile application. It is reported that the launch of the coin on sale will be available later, August 16. According to CryptoGlobe, Coinbase previously reported its intentions to ... Read more about " The recent story with Ethereum Classic " on coinatory.com

The island state became the center of attraction of the world"s largest sites for the cryptocurrency trade. Crypto exchange ZB.com, which is included in the top 10 sites by the cryptocurrency trade turnover, announced its intention to open an office in Malta. On the "island of Blockchain", as informally call this state not only the representatives of the crypto community but also the policy of the country itself, the Chinese crypto exchange is going to conduct its operational activities. We are talking about the servicing of transactions ... Read more about " Crypto exchange from the top 10 will open an office in Malta " on coinatory.com

The Ministry of Finance of the country recalled that digital money is still not considered as means of payment. The Hungarian government is working to create a regulatory framework for regulating the digital money market. The authorities gathered a group of specialists to assess the legal, economic, security and other aspects of the cryptocurrency, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance of the country. The sector will begin to study representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the central bank, tax and other ... Read more about " Hungary starts regulating cryptocurrencies. Reduced taxes for investors. " on coinatory.com

Saudi Arabia has declared the cryptocurrencies outlawed, a corresponding statement was made by the committee, which includes local regulators, as well as a number of ministers. Citizens of the country warn against investments in digital assets that are characterized by high risk, as well as the possibility of uncontrolled movement of coins to unknown individuals and organizations. At the same time, the statement does not specify whether all participants in crypto deals will now be prosecuted and what punishment they will face, or the ... Read more about " Saudi Arabia outlaws cryptocurrencies " on coinatory.com

The market capitalization of the cryptocurrency fell below $ 200 billion for the first time this year, having lost more than 70% in seven months. According to the analytical portal CoinMarketCap, the market capitalization on Tuesday fell to $ 191 billion, which is the minimum since November last year. In January, the volume of the market reached a peak level of $ 814 billion. Bitcoin, ether and other main cryptocurrencies continue to become cheaper. The bitcoin"s rate fell by 5%, falling below $ 6000 for the first time since the end ... Read more about " Cryptocurrency market cap fell below $ 200 billion for the first time this year " on coinatory.com

The World Bank instructed Commonwealth Bank of Australia to issue the world"s first blockchain bonds, according to the bank"s PR service. The bonds will be created, placed, transferred and managed only with the help of distributed ledger technology, the bank said. The same technology underlies cryptocurrency and records all transactions reliably. For the new financial product, the designation bond-i was chosen. The operations will start on a certain platform, but in the future, the World Bank does not exclude that the placement ... Read more about " The World Bank to issue first blockchain bonds " on coinatory.com

The Stasis cryptographic platform, created by the Russians Grigory Klumov and Anatoly Knyazev, issued "crypto euro" EURS for 12.2 million euros. Cryptocurrency is backed with an equivalent amount in euros, it greatly simplifies the acquisition of any crypto assets in Malta. https://youtu.be/HEwDIpjYtYI Why CryptoEuro CryptoEuro on 12.2 million euros was issued by STSS Malta Limited, the legal entity of the Stasis platform. STSS Malta Limited was registered in May 2018 in Malta. Crypto euro belongs to the category of so-called stablecoins ... Read more about " Stasis have issued "crypto euro" EURS " on coinatory.com

The People"s Bank of the country is studying the possibility of legalizing digital money and is consulting with experts on this issue. The Chinese authorities show interest in cryptocurrencies, but behave very cautiously, Yury Gugnin, deputy chairman of the expert council under the State Duma of Russia for digital economy and blockchain, who conducts educational seminars on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in China. According to the official, the local government is not against digital money, it understands that this is an ... Read more about " Chinese government can legalize cryptocurrencies " on coinatory.com

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The head of Binance Changpeng Zhao said that the exchange will not add bad cryptocurrency (shitcoins) to the listing, even if they offer to pay for it 4000 BTC. https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1028190371719786496 This is a message he wrote on Twitter in response to accusations from the Expanse startup that the largest crypto exchange office demanded 400 BTC for the listing. Changpeng Zhao said that the decision to add any coins depends on their quality, and not on the contribution, and recommended the projects to worry not about ... Read more about " Binance: We don"t list shitcoins " on coinatory.com

Outstanding economist and editorial director of the American Institute of Economic Research (AEIR) Jeffrey Tucker called on world governments and central banks to reject the idea of creating state-supported cryptocurrencies, and instead focus on the reliability of fiat money and the banking system. Tucker said that cryptocurrencies and related infrastructure are the prerogatives of private innovation and entrepreneurship and that governments should not interfere with them. Speaking about ideas on regulating cryptocurrency and strict ... Read more about " Jeffrey Tucker to Governments: Hands off cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

It seems that if João Amoêdo wins the election, the country will become a new "place of power" for the cryptocurrency. The candidate for the presidency of Brazil from the New Party, João Amoêdo turned out to be a big fan of the cryptocurrency. Mr. Amoêdo participates in the elections, which will be held in October this year. In an interview when he was asked about cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, he said that he did not consider them a threat to the financial system of his country, on the contrary, the cryptocurrency carries a number of un ... Read more about " Brazil Presidential Candidate João Amoêdo supports the cryptocurrency " on coinatory.com

By giving an exclusive interview to one of the channels, Taylor said he left Wall Street for two main reasons. The first is the availability of great opportunities in crypto space. According to him, today this market is not yet developed, but it has great opportunities for growth. The second reason is that crypto technologies can change the world for the better and make many people in the world freer financially. Recall, Dash is a virtual currency and a digital autonomous organization. Its functionality allows traders to process private ... Read more about " Dash CEO Taylor: Wall Street is not required for cryptocurrency growth " on coinatory.com

IBM and the Danish shipping company Moller Maersk are developing the TradeLens blockchain platform for the documentation of real-time cargo transportation. Access to the platform will have business representatives and regulators. Information about this is contained in the press release of IBM. The TradeLens platform will enable freight carriers to organize convenient financial document circulation. The technology of blockchain will be used in the platform to ensure a high level of confidentiality and data security. According to Forbes, ... Read more about " Maersk led the blockchain into the open sea " on coinatory.com

In Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, the land for street trade will be sold through online auctions using blockchain technology. This is reported by Informburo with reference to Nurlan Zhakupov, the chairman of the company Astana SPK, which is a subordinate organization of the mayoralty of Astana. "In the future, in order to avoid any complaints, on the instructions of the akim (head of the administration) and within the digitalization program, we are introducing a blockchain platform. All auctions, all allocation of sites for the ... Read more about " Kazakhstan, Astana: street trading places to be sold through the blockchain " on coinatory.com

According to reliable information available to Group-IB Threat Intelligence, since the very beginning of the year, the number of hidden mining software offers in Darknet increased in five times. "The use of computer processing power or infrastructure for cryptocurrency mining without the consent or the knowledge of the owner remains, as before, a relatively popular way of enrichment, despite the smooth tendency to reduce the number of incidents associated with this type of fraud," the company emphasized. The company"s message says that ... Read more about " Darknet: the amount of hidden mining software offers increased in five times " on coinatory.com

Bittrex, one of the leading crypto exchanges, announced that starting from August 20, Ethereum Classic (ETC) and Ripple (XRP) will start trading on its platform in pairs with the US dollar. https://twitter.com/BittrexExchange/status/1027217710860722182 Bittrex states that the reason for adding XRP / USD and ETC / USD trading pairs to their platform is the desire to allow their customers to buy crypto with USD directly. Also, the site reported that the introduction of dollar pairs is a step towards the adoption of blockchain ... Read more about " Bittrex: ETC and XRP to fiat USD trading. Analysis " on coinatory.com

On August 8th 2018, RISE announced the release of their TypeScript core in version 1.1.1 to mainnet with innovative improvement to the DPOS blockchain technology. RISE is a platform for the development of DAPPs in popular web programming languages, powered by a community-driven Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) blockchain. Read the technical overview here. In this latest core blockchain release, RISE has become a more desirable platform to build DAPPs on due to several features: Transactions Per Second - RISE core is now capable of ... Read more about " RISE v1.1.1 of DPOS Blockchain Technology Makes Groundbreaking Advancements " on coinatory.com

The blockchain startup has released the program Lite.IM, which will allow carrying out cryptocurrency transactions without access to the Internet. Users will be able to send Litecoin by SMS and in the Telegram messenger with the help of new software Lite.IM, which released by the blockchain project Zulu Republic. The developers have submitted a beta version, in the nearest future, they will conduct tests. https://twitter.com/liteim_official/status/1027521984639512578 According to the representatives of the startup, Pavel Durov"s ... Read more about " Send Litecoin by SMS: Zulu Republic Project " on coinatory.com

Blockchain attracts more and more attention, and even such centralized structures as banks and governments are beginning to be interested in how to use this technology. However, there is another term - the distributed ledger technology, or DLT. Ironically, the most interest in DLT is shown by those organizations that bitcoin and blockchain wanted to replace - banks, governments, and large corporations. Recently, the Bank of England announced that with the help of a blockchain and the DLT wants to breathe new life into its real-time ... Read more about " Blockchain and distributed ledger technology - the difference " on coinatory.com

On Tuesday, tech giant Microsoft announced a new BaaS product ("blockchain as a service") Ethereum on Azure, which allows companies across the industrial vertical to use a flexible version of Ethereum, made especially for the needs of their business. Ethereum on Azure allows companies to create applications based on the Ethereum blockchain, which does not use the Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm and therefore does not require mining - these functions are better suited for networks where participants are not inclined to trust each other. ... Read more about " Ethereum on Azure and Governance DApp by Microsoft " on coinatory.com