CRYPTO NEWS

📌 The EU adopted a new directive on combating money laundering. According to it, financial supervisors have the right to access crypto-exchange exchanges and purses, and also to establish owners of crypto-currencies.

📌 Lightning Network is gaining momentum: Blockstream has released a new version of the c-lightning v0.6 protocol, and the international payment service Globee has added instant payment support via the Bitcoin Lightning network.

📌 TRON project celebrated Independence Day and officially launched its own block chain.

📌 Venture company Andreessen Horowitz launches a16z fund with a capital of $ 300 million for long-term investments in crypto-currencies and block chain projects.

📌 Experts of the Dutch bank ING came to the conclusion that interest in bitcoin will soon double and this will entail an increase in its value.

📌 The US Federal Trade Commission warns that in the course of 2018, owners of crypto-currencies may lose $ 3 billion due to fraudulent actions. The main reason for the loss of funds is inattention and thirst for easy money. Be careful not to fall into this list.

📌 Research: Each ICO in 2017 has an average of 5 security vulnerabilities, and 71% of projects have errors in smart contracts. Given the fact that ICO now spend all of whom is not too lazy, this is still very normal statistics.

📌 Facebook has softened its advertising policy for crypto currency, now it can be placed with a special permission from the social network. Advertisement ICO, still under the ban.

📌 Anonymous group BitPico, consisting of the Bitcoin developers, miners and the "whales", announced the start of stress testing the network Bitcoin Cash and promises to bring Roger Vera to tears.

📌 Circle informs about attraction of 30% more institutional investors to the market of crypto-loans in May than in April.

📌 Developers of Zcash conducted the overwinter hardware, which is the preparatory stage for the global upgrade of Sapling.

📌 The Take Wing project performed a successful atomic swap between the Ethereum and NEO test networks.

📌 Vitalik Buterin calls through the courts to challenge the authenticity of the patent Craig Wright and company nChain on technology deterministic private keys, pointing to the 2013 invention of plagiarism.

📌 The Philippines does not want to be a haven for the ICO-bench, so they will be allowed to market only those projects that are backed by material or other assets.

📌 With the publication of The Economist, the Internet spread rumors about the intention of Facebook to buy the leading crypto-exchange Coinbase. And what? they already bought WhatsApp and Instagram, next it's Coinbase

📌 All services of the popular columnist crypto currency and the purse Blockchain.info began moving to the domain "com"

📌 The Commission on Banking Regulation of China proposes to recognize all operations on crypto-currencies and ICO financial services and introduce their compulsory licensing. It turns out that if you enter licenses, you first need to cancel the total ban.

📌 Coinbase announced the imminent addition of bids for the British pound and the launch of the GiveCrypto charity. The objective of the project is to provide financial assistance and popularize crypto currency among people who do not have access to banking services.

📌 In July, Japan's most popular instant messenger will launch BitBox's own crypto-exchange. But the site will be based in Singapore and the citizens of Japan and the US will not be allowed to trade.

📌 The technical director for the development of the EOS platform proposed to rewrite the constitution of the project, because he does not like the current format of network management. Then in the error code, then the constitution is not such, what else will have to be changed?

📌 Research: Bitcoin-whales are not engaged in speculation and do not sell the first crypto currency - they are HODL.