Crypto NEWS

The BitMEX exchange has leaked user data, due to which thousands of email addresses of the exchange’s clients were in the public domain. Perhaps this is a mistake of exchange employees who forgot to hide the addresses of users in the newsletter, but a few hours after the incident, the BitMEX Twitter page was hacked and two entries were published on its behalf: “Take your bitcoins and run” and “Hacked”. Users are advised to change their addresses and enable two-factor authentication.

Bitcoin has become one of the three most popular means of paying for online purchases in Italy, along with PayPal and the local PostePay prepaid card system.

A new amendment to the draft law “On Digital Financial Assets” has been introduced, thanks to which Russian cryptocurrency exchanges will be able to trade foreign digital assets.

Trading volumes of bitcoin futures on derivatives sites reached 50% of the total turnover in the spot market.

Venezuelan authorities have proposed Russia to build housing for the national cryptocurrency El Petro next year. However, Russian experts consider this form of calculation impossible, since so far the country does not have legislation governing the crypto exchange.

At the Deribit crypto derivatives exchange, a malfunction occurred today, which led to a collapse in the cost of bitcoin futures by 15%. The platform estimates the amount of losses suffered as a result of the failure of traders at $ 1.3 million and promises to recover the lost funds as soon as possible.

Bitcoin Cash hash fluctuations could be caused by attempts at market manipulation, according to the research department of the BitMEX exchange. True, it did not find evidence of manipulation.

The Elrond token (ERD), used in decentralized applications of the eponymous network, has appeared in the Samsung blockchain wallet. Through this collaboration, the Elrond project gained access to a wider audience.

Bitcoin hash rate dropped from a record 97.9 ET / s to 90 EH / s along with rising electricity prices in the Chinese province of Sichuan, in which the rainy season is ending. During the wet season in Sichuan, the price of electricity generated by hydroelectric power plants falls, so mining farms are activated in the region at this time of the year.

Former Bitcoin Foundation top manager Bruce Fenton opens Watchdog Capital, a regulated venture. The company is a broker-dealer of bitcoin, adheres to the ideals of cipher banks and treats the first cryptocurrency as a full-fledged payment tool.