The blockchain company Block.One, which developed the EOS protocol, agreed to pay a $ 24 million fine imposed by the court on charges of SEC of unregistered securities trading during the ICO organized by Block.One in 2017-2018.
The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Libra.
In China, a mining farm was burned, where bitcoin was mined, because of which the hash rate of the first cryptocurrency fell by 5%. $ 10 million worth of equipment damaged by fire
An employee of the All-Russian Research Institute in the closed city of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region, was fined 450,000 rubles for trying to mine bitcoin on a supercomputer.
Bank of Russia Deputy Chairman Sergei Shvetsov called cryptocurrencies a high-tech financial pyramid.
FairWin's Ethereum contract, previously accused of being the largest pyramid in the Ethereum network, is completely devastated. A large number of addresses to which the funds were spent suggests that the money was withdrawn not by scammers, but by the users themselves. Unfortunately, those who tried to withdraw money last did not receive anything.
Hard fork Istanbul ended in failure in the Ethereum test network called Ropsten: the testnet split into two chains after the update was activated. Developers urge miners to return to a later version of the software so that Ropsten can switch to the correct chain.
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) intends to remove the inflation feature in the XLM cryptocurrency due to improper use of this mechanism and the risk of creating problems with the Stellar network scaling in the future.
The Bittrex Exchange will launch a new Bittrex Global site with headquarters in Liechtenstein at the end of October. The new exchange will provide customers with access to a large number of assets, a user reward program, credit card payment options, private token sales and the use of a convenient mobile application for trading.