BMW, General Motors, Ford, Renault and Honda are creating a payment blockchain service for electric car drivers, which will enter the testing phase in November in the United States. It will store information about the owner and car and will allow you to pay parking lots and tolls, as well as goods and services of roadside establishments without the use of bank cards, cash or other means of payment.
Representatives of central banks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in a report on cryptocurrencies for the G7 called global stablecoins a threat to the global financial system and called for them not to be released until all regulatory, legal and regulatory aspects have been seriously worked out.
The Ministry of Communications announced a roadmap for the development of distributed registry technology in Russia, according to which the introduction of the blockchain in the state apparatus and production in the country by 2024 will lead to an economic effect of 1,635 billion rubles.
Electrum Bitcoin Wallet will start supporting the Lightning Network protocol after the next update. The developers announced today the merger of the Lightning node implementation with the main branch of the next wallet release.
A cybersecurity specialist from Twitter with the nickname Ray [REDACTED] warns users of the Casa hardware bitcoin node about the error of this system: they do not encrypt user seed phrases when transmitting to the home network via an insecure HTTP protocol. He advises temporarily withdrawing funds from devices. Casa did not admit the mistake and advised simply not to store large amounts on nodes.
The developer of the cryptocurrency Zcash promised in the next six months to issue a ZEC token for the Ethereum blockchain, which will provide users with access to advanced functionality for using automated loans and financial products, as well as to increase confidentiality in smart contracts.
In Ingushetia, they discovered the theft of electricity for illegal mining in the amount capable of financing a republican hospital for a month.
The BitMEX Bitcoin futures trading volume for the 24-hour period at the end of last week amounted to $ 948 million. This is the lowest value in recent months.