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The State Duma of the Russian Federation approved the draft article of the Civil Code on tokens

The draft law “On Amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation” has been amended. Now the article “Digital rights”, which establishes the basic concepts of “digital law” - the legal equivalent of the term “token” - also recognizes transactions concluded remotely as valid. Including by filling out an electronic form or by sending SMS. The package of bills will come into force on October 1, 2019.Revision of the second reading introduces certainty in the use of smart contracts. According to the document, such can be out ...

Tether will begin to issue stablecoin USDT on Tron blockchain

So announced the developers of the blockchain protocol Tron and the issuer of stablecoin Tether. The result of their collaboration is the early launch of the USDT token in the Tron network. Note: Tether does not move to the Tron network, but expands its capabilities by providing Tron users with a stable coin, maintaining their previous positions. Token launch should take place in the second quarter of the year.Tether announced a global update of its own project and launch in a new protocol on its website. According to the developers Tether was ...

Starbucks and Bakkt implement support for Bitcoin payments in 2019

Starbucks chain of coffee shops intends to give its customers the opportunity to pay Bitcoins by the end of the year. The idea will be possible thanks to the cooperation with the crypto-platform Bakkt developed by the operator of the New York Stock Exchange. So states the publication of The Block, citing sources familiar with the situation.Initially, Bitcoin can only be paid by Starbucks customers in the United States. To do this, they will be invited to use the software Bakkt, which will instantly convert cryptocurrency into Fiat. Digital not ...

The collapse of the cryptocurrency market as the Fed's stress test script

The Federal Reserve may include a digital asset market crash scenario as one of the risks that will be considered in conducting stress test tests. The Board of Governors of the Fed noted: the collapse of the Bitcoin market can be taken into account as one of the "clearly expressed" market risks.The ministry believes that the example of cryptocurrency should be considered as an “extreme shock”. Such situations also include such hypothetical scenarios as a war with North Korea and large losses caused by malicious actions of traders.The Board ...

In the network Ethereum launched update Constantinople

The large-scale update was successfully activated on the network of the second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum on the block 7 280 000. According to the Ethernodes portal, only 19.9% ​​of the users of the Geth clients and 32.6% of Parity installed the software version compatible with Constantinople. Overall readiness for hard fork was 22.1%.It is expected that the block time will return to 15 seconds, after rising to 20 seconds as a result of the activation of the bomb complexity. Along with the update, the block reward decreased from 3 ETH ...

Cryptocurrencies included in the article of Criminal Code of the Russian Federation about money laundering

Now the cashing of cryptocurrencies falls under the norms of the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on money laundering. So explained the plenum of the Supreme Court of Russia on Tuesday, February 26, reports TASS. The decision of July 7, 2015 was amended to clarify the provisions of the legislation on judicial practice in cases of money laundering.Russia is a member of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering. The judge of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Alexander Chervotkin, said: “There is an to ...

Samsung Galaxy S10 Crypto Wallet will support BTC, ETH, ENJ and COSM

So on the eve said The Verge portal, citing "anonymous Korean insiders." The Samsung Galaxy S10 will probably have native support for Enjin Coin cryptocurrency. Also, the smartphone will come with a cold storage wallet Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cosmo Coin.As expected, the Galaxy S10 "out of the box" will be able to interact with a limited number of decentralized applications. The Verge states: "The main decentralized Samsung application is Cosmee, which allows you to earn Cosmo tokens for reviews of cosmetic products."In addition, the Galaxy S10 ...

Facebook negotiates with the stock exchanges about listing its stablecoin

The largest social network is working on creating its own cryptocurrency. Facebook uses it to send instant transfers to WhatsApp. Insider Information disclosed The New York Times, citing five anonymous sources. The publication notes a high level of secrecy of the project.Now the Facebook project has reached the stage at which the social network is in talks with cryptocurrency exchanges regarding the sale of Facebook Coin. This statement was published by The New York Times. According to sources, employees of Facebook told the exchanges that to ...

Coinhive stops working due to economic inexpediency

On March 8, Coinhive, the popular browser hidden miner, stops working. In the official blog of the project, developers admitted that the project is no longer profitable. Recall: Coinhive allowed website owners to embed a hidden miner to extract Monero cryptocurrency. Mining took place with the help of visitors' computing power.The developers wrote in a blog post: “Some of you might have been waiting for this, some might be surprised. Decision is made. We will stop the service on March 8, 2019. Over the past 18 months, we have been on it ...

Bakkt platform introduced new Bitcoin futures details

Cryptocurrency platform operator New York Stock Exchange Bakkt has published new details of its bitcoin-futures product. Previously it was assumed that the new service was supposed to start on January 24th. The newly submitted information does not fundamentally change anything, but the community may be interested in the details of the design of contracts.Thus, the product of bitcoin futures on the ICE platform is called “Bakkt BTC (USD) Daily Future”. Each contract will cost 1 BTC and be calculated on the basis of the price in US dollars $ ...