Pavel Durov was summoned on January 7-8, 2020 to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for interrogation in the TON cryptocurrency case. Shyam Parekh, Telegram employee, will be questioned in London on December 10, and vice president of messenger Ilya Perekopsky, who coordinated work with Gram depositors, will meet with SEC on December 16. The decisive process should take place at the end of February 2020.
At a conference with the National Bank of Belgium, ECB Executive Council member Benoit Kere stated that Europe should consider the possibility of central banks issuing a digital euro, which will save consumers from the risks posed by international payment service providers.
ESET, a Russian antivirus developer, has identified Monero cryptocurrency covert mining malware, which is distributed with the Stantinko botnet, which specializes in advertising fraud. In the 5 years that Stantinko has existed, it has already infected about 500 thousand devices in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Gabor Gurbach, chief specialist on digital assets of the VanEck blockchain company, warns large bitcoin investors that the first cryptocurrency market is rapidly losing liquidity and advises to avoid placing large orders for a while.
The BitBay trading platform decided to stop supporting the anonymous cryptocurrency Monero in order to comply with KYC / AML standards. The exchange will stop accepting deposits in XMR on November 29, and trading in this cryptocurrency will end on February 19 of next year. Exchange users should withdraw all their XMR before May 20, 2020.
Ripple blockchain startup closed an investment deal worth $ 50 million with money transfer service provider MoneyGram, providing the latter with a contribution of $ 20 million. Thanks to this, Ripple received a 9.95% stake in MoneyGram, and the financial company will be able to increase the scale of money transfers using the On startup -Demand Liquidity.
The online hotel reservation system Booking in conjunction with the Travala blockchain platform launched the opportunity for platform users to pay for accommodation in 230 countries using 20 different cryptocurrencies.