The analytical company Chainalysis is confident that the PlusToken cryptocurrency pyramid with assets of $ 3 billion will influence the market, since its organizers still have 20,000 bitcoins in their hands.
The first UK cryptocurrency exchange, Coinfloor, from January 3, 2020, shares Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash to focus on bitcoin.
In the Chinese city of Weihai, the local regulator urged citizens to carefully invest in blockchain companies, as they can trade cryptocurrencies prohibited in the country. The central bank and city police supported this statement and intend to conduct an audit of ICO startups and crypto exchanges.
A court in Fujian Province of China froze for another two years about another $ 500,000 of assets of a subsidiary of mining giant Bitmain - Fujian Zhanhua Intelligent Technology. The reason for the blocking was not disclosed, however, some media associate this with the war declared to the leadership of Bitmain by its abolished director Mikri Jean.
The Bitfinex exchange has taken another step towards the return of $ 880 million from Crypto Capital, a Panamanian-based processing company, frozen in court, securing the right to receive testimony from Rondell Clyde Monroe, the former deputy head of TCA Bancorp, which conducted funds through Crypto Capital.
Crypto researcher Alex Svanevik discovered that one of the first Ethereum whales was activated, which began to move funds that were not moving since 2015. Over the past few months, an unknown major investor withdrew about 300,000 ETH (more than $ 39 million at today's rate).
Parity's Ethereum client will switch to a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) model, its developer said. The reason is the increase in the cost of maintaining the Ethereum core network.
OKEx Exchange will be the first platform to introduce DAI stablecoin staking service with 5% per annum, connecting Dai Savings Rate (DSR) technology on December 23. The minimum deposits for staking and withdrawals are limited to 1 DAI, there are no fees and commissions.
The TRON platform will soon launch testing of private secure transactions based on the zk-SNARK zero-knowledge proof technology, which is used in the Zcash cryptocurrency.
A video demonstrating a mining farm gained over a million views and 112,000 likes in the TikTok app. The author of the video under the nickname The Wolf Of Bitcoins publishes materials on cryptocurrencies, but has not been so popular before.