Thirty blockchain companies and organizations from other areas (for example, the Danish Red Cross, Cosmos, Wireline, Chainlink and Web3) intend to fork Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency under the name OpenLibra, access to which will not be limited. They came together to prevent unethical, in their opinion, corporations from being the only ones who run Libra.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has launched a dedicated virtual unit to accept donations from Bitcoin and Ethereum, which will then be used to fund innovation in charity.
Two US Senators from the Democratic Party, Sherrod Brown and Brian Schatz, appealed to Visa, MasterCard and Stripe to not support Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project. Politicians are confident that the stablecoin of the global social network will harm everyone, including payment companies.
Switzerland is considering the possibility of issuing a digital analogue of local currency for use in token trading on tokenized assets. SIX Stock Exchange, Swiss National Bank and Bank for International Settlements will take part in its development and release.
Binance Exchange has created a p2p platform focused on China, which can trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT in pairs with the renminbi. In addition, the head of the exchange, Changpen Zhao, announced the addition of support for Chinese payment systems WeChat and Alipay to users from China to the main exchange.
CU, a large retailer in South Korea, is planning to accept a stablecoin specifically designed for this. Payment will be made through the mobile payment service CHAI, created on the basis of the Terra blockchain.
According to Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, cryptocurrencies are a “high-tech cry for help,” which the community is issuing due to a crisis of confidence in traditional currency and the authorities.
At the World Digital Mining Summit in Frankfurt, Chinese mining equipment maker Bitmain unveiled the advanced industrial bitcoin miners S17 + and T17 +. The speed and energy efficiency of the S17 + is 73 TH / s, 40 J / TH, while the T17 + is 64 TH / s and 50 J / TH, respectively.