Startup IOTA has developed smart contracts for a smart wallet embedded in Jaguar Land Rover cars. IOTA tokens earned for information about traffic jams and obstacles on the road will be sent to it. You can spend them on paying for parking, tolls and charging electric cars. Autoconcern has already begun testing.
Finland has passed a law regulating the activities of cryptocurrency service providers, which will enter into force on 1 May. The main regulator of the country will be the Financial Supervision Authority of Finland (Fin-FSA). It will register companies that can work in the country.
SBI Virtual Currencies Cryptocurrency Exchange, created by SBI Holdings financial conglomerate, earned $ 3.2 million in the first fiscal year.
Today the start of sales of the Antminer T17 device from Bitmain, created on the basis of a 7-nm chip for mining cryptocurrency algorithm SHA256 (Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash), took place. The device has high energy efficiency and performance.
The listing of the ATOM token from the Cosmos startup took place on the Binance exchange. The coin is available for trading in pairs with Bitcoin, Binance Coin and USDT.
OKEx Exchange launched 300 million of its own ERC20 tokens called OKB to the public blockchain.
HTC will release the second version of the Exodus 1 blockchain smartphone in the second half of 2019. The phone is able to store private keys and personal data separately from the data of the Android operating system, which provides an increased level of security.
The developers of altcoin NEO have signed an agreement with Zeux: now cryptocurrency can be used to pay in any stores through Apple and Samsung payment systems.
Startup NEO also plans to launch the third version of its protocol in its own blockchain from the new genesis block. Testnet new blockchain will be launched in June 2020.
For several weeks, an active miner under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto significantly raised the Bitcoin Cash hashrate. Perhaps Bitcoin SV supporters are trying to lower the rate of Bitcoin Cash or to launch a reorganization attack.