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The developers of the Ethereum Classic platform have released indicative dates for the Agharta hard fork, which is designed to make it compatible with the Ethereum main blockchain. The update will take place in four stages: on the main network it will take place on January 15, 2020, and on the test networks Morden, Mordor and Kotti on November 13, November 20 and December 11, 2019, respectively.

Today Bitcoin is 11 years old. Someone, under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, published the white paper of Bitcoin on October 31, 2008. The Bitcoin network is now considered the safest and most stable of all cryptocurrencies, and yesterday the total value of transaction fees on the network exceeded $ 1 billion.

France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Spain formed a coalition against the launch of the Libra cryptocurrency from Facebook and demand its complete ban. True, while the ban on stablecoin cannot be justified legally.

A representative of Gazprom Neft announced that it would transfer control of supplies to the blockchain. The company is currently testing a prototype of its distributed registry. Gazprom Neft plans to make the first supply of products using the blockchain in the summer of 2020.

The Association of German Banks (Bankenverband) made an appeal to the authorities with arguments in favor of issuing a digital euro. They condemned Libra from Facebook as a conflict project, but spoke in favor of launching a crypto-euro on a pan-European payment platform with a document verification system for users.

The popularity of the corporate blockchain in Russia grew by 45% in the first half of 2019. A survey of 157 Russian and international organizations operating in the Russian Federation, conducted by MindSmith and Waves Enterprise, showed that 30% of energy and resource extraction companies and 28% of financial companies implemented blockchain this year.

The Russian company Positive Technologies, a security information company, discovered that the Asian hacker group Calypso attacked two government organizations in Russia in 2019.

Cryptocredit organization Genesis Global Capital, a division of Digital Currency Group, processed $ 870 million in cryptocurrency and fiat loans in the third quarter of 2019. This is a record for the company. She also reported an increase in the share of loans in stablecodes USDT, USDC, PAX, TrueUSD and fiat dollar to 31.2% of the total.

The media got a record from a closed meeting of Bitmain top managers, in which its head and founder Cihan Wu explains the reason for the dismissal of Mikri Jean from the post of CEO that he made business-harmful decisions that almost led to the closure of the production of mining equipment.