Upbit South Korea has been hacked. 342,000 ETH, or $ 50 million, were withdrawn from the site. The exchange promised to indemnify. Security restoration will take two weeks, during which the ability to deposit / withdraw funds will be disabled on the exchange.
The South Korean government approved a law regulating the circulation of virtual assets in the country. According to him, cryptocurrencies are classified as digital assets, which requires companies working with virtual money to comply with the FATF requirements on money laundering and terrorist financing and to obtain licenses from regulatory authorities. The standard will come into force in a year.
Microsoft experts have revealed a new type of hidden miner Dexphot, which infected 80,000 Windows devices in a year. Microsoft is working on programs to combat this virus and in recent months, the company has been able to significantly reduce the frequency of Dexphot infections.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation issued a license to another Russian blockchain company, Concern-Granit, which develops software called Kupol-SKZI.
The Russian state corporation Roscosmos will introduce the blockchain infrastructure from the IPChain association, with the help of which it intends to fix and transfer copyright.
Former manager of the People’s Bank of China Zhou Xiaochuan said that the digital yuan, which is being developed by the Central Bank, will be used to support retail and electronic payments within the country.
Over the past 12-18 months, 591,286 bitcoins were in the wallets of their owners without movement. This week, their number reached 51% of the entire issue of the first cryptocurrency.
A new study by Danish environmentalists showed that mining farms produce much less carbon dioxide emissions than previously thought. It turned out that bitcoin mining does not generate 63 megatons of CO2, as previous estimates showed, but only 17.2 megatons, which is 70% less.
The announcements of Justin Sun, the head of the cryptocurrency company TRON (the issuer of the TRX token) and the owner of the Poloniex exchange, were ridiculed on Twitter as a monotonous marketing move. True, against the backdrop of promises of "something serious", TRX capitalization nevertheless exceeded $ 1 billion.