The payment system and digital currency of the Central Bank of China will be called Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP). The asset will be under the control of the regulator, but commercial financial institutions will deal with its release. Such details have appeared in local media.
The cryptocurrency hidden mining virus software was found in the desktop wallpaper with a photo of the recently deceased basketball player Kobe Bryant. The cybersecurity division of Microsoft found the malware.
The Higher School of Economics predicted that Russians could refuse to use cash by 2035 - 95% of payments would be made digitally.
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will launch its own blockchain platform for issuing digital currency in the coming months. The ecosystem for wire transfers was called Bakong.
The Hyperledger Consortium has unveiled the second version of its Fabric blockchain platform, which has made important changes. In particular, Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 will enable decentralized management of smart contracts and data privacy based on business need.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found out that the online clothing store Farfetch and the Gett taxi service were discussing with Telegram the possibility of using Gram tokens as a means of payment for their services.
The startup that created the Zap Wallet wallet has developed a tool to pay invoices with bank cards called Strike. It allows you to make payments without using wallets, nodes, channels, swaps or liquidity management.
Former Ethereum Foundation employee Virgil Griffith, whom US law enforcement agencies wanted to jail for attending a blockchain conference in North Korea, intends to challenge the allegations.
GO.Exchange from OmiseGO ecosystem closed. Her administration called the main reason for the closure difficulties with the implementation of regulatory requirements. The exchange calls on users to withdraw all funds from their wallets by March 15, 2020.
The head of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Tim McCourt reports that the volume of trading in bitcoin futures on the platform over three years exceeded $ 100 billion, or 13.5 million BTC.