German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz called on the heads of the European Union countries to create a cryptocurrency analogue of the euro in order to keep up with the United States, China and Russia, as well as private companies that create payment digital assets.
The head of Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin, in an interview with CoinDesk information portal expressed a keen interest in blockchain and tokenized assets, and called bitcoin a toy. The businessman believes that the Central Bank should deal with the issue of means of payment.
The Bitfinex exchange has notified its users of possible vessels after a publication in Bloomberg, which reported that Tether is affecting the market by over-issuing the stablecoin USDT. And today, the New York District Court has filed a class action lawsuit against Bitfinex and Tether demanding to reimburse $ 1.4 trillion for the sale of unsecured US dollar USDT tokens and charges of market manipulation, monopolistic activity and violation of the Laws on Commodity Exchanges and on Countering Racket and corruption. ”
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has asked the UK financial regulator to not ban the cryptocurrency derivatives trading in the country for retail investors.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it did not consider Bitcoin a security, since Bitcoin investors are not dependent on third parties to make a profit.
Former technical director of Algo Capital, Pablo Yabo, announced that he will compensate the company for a part of the losses of $ 1-2 million that she suffered due to the hacking of his mobile phone and theft through it of funds from the company's wallet.
The hacker, who got 17 Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain names, hacked the auction and returned them for a fee. The auction invited him to return his money and add 25% of the sales of names. Stolen domains were blocked.
Bitfinex has successfully transferred 5 million USDT tokens to the EOS blockchain using the EOSFinex decentralized trading platform.