Bakkt investment platform has developed an application that allows you to buy coffee for bitcoins in the Starbucks network. It will appear in early 2020.
Binance and BitMEX exchanges recorded record trading volumes of bitcoin futures. The figure on Binance exceeded $ 2 billion, and on BitMEX - $ 8.7 billion.
The organization that manages the ICON blockchain transferred the management of the network to representatives elected by users, thus completing its decentralization process.
Russian Mining Company (RMC), co-founded by Russian Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev, will create a mining farm in the closed Nadvoitsky Aluminum Plant (NAZ) in Karelia, which was owned by oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The company hopes to capture up to 20% of the world's bitcoin mining.
Binance's research division has calculated that if Ethereum adopts the Proof-Of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm after the upgrade, it will increase the capitalization of the staking industry to $ 26 billion.
Samsung added support for TRON cryptocurrency: TRX appeared on the Blockchain Keystore developer platform, which is currently only available on the latest Galaxy S10 smartphone.
The main newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, the People’s Daily, urged not to transfer the approval of the blockchain expressed by Chairman Xi Jinping to cryptocurrencies, which are still banned in the country.
British startup Zamna received a $ 5 million investment in creating a service to transfer the document verification process at airports to the blockchain, which will speed up customs clearance by 90% and significantly protect passenger data.
Cihan Wu returned to the post of head of the largest manufacturer of mining equipment Bitmain, relieving Mikri Jean of this duty.
Canaan Creative, China's second largest mining equipment manufacturer, intends to conduct an initial public offering in the United States and has already filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company wants to attract $ 400 million investment on the NASDAQ.