American rap artist Jay-Z has invested in a mobile app to buy robinhood cryptocurrencies.
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Dubai "Golden" company Regal RA has received a license to trade cryptocurrencies.
The Dubai company Regal RA DMCC, trading in gold, received a "crypto-license" the first in the Middle East, according to the Dubai multi-commodity exchange (DMCC). The company will provide services for the storage of bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies in storage, located at DMCC headquarters in the Diamond tower of Dubai. "At the heart of DMCC's long-term strategic plan is the use of technology and innovation to develop and connect new markets, industries and customers. Today's announcement exemplifies this approach," — said the Chairman of DMCC Ahmed Bin Sulayem. Tyler Gallagher, CEO of Regal Assets, which owns Regal RA, believes that cryptocurrency investors are forced to store large sums on online wallets and exchanges at risk of hacker attacks. "We have developed, in our opinion, the safest way to invest in bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies," Gallagher said. According to Ksenia Kiseleva, Manager of the Dubai-based Regal RA representative office, The company is working on the creation of a cryptocurrency exchange. "We view cryptocurrencies as a commodity, not a means of payment," Kiseleva said, noting the growing demand for digital assets in the United Arab Emirates and around the world. Regal intends to request trade licenses in other countries as well.
Morgan Stanley: bitcoin and the S&P 500 index returned to the level of 200-day-old.
Michael Wilson, chief strategist at Morgan Stanley in the us stock market, urges investors to be "disciplined" when buying shares. According to him, the large-scale correction of the market is caused by a decline in interest in bitcoin: from the peak, which fell on December 17 and approached $20,000, bitcoin fell by almost 70%. Speaking of the events adjacent to its takeoff, Wilson notes That s&P 500's projected price — profit ratio — the "stock market pressure gauge" - reached its peak on the same day as bitcoin, and a week later closed the loophole in article 1031 of the us Tax code (IRS), allowing crypto traders to evade taxes. "We think that the period of cut taxes coincided with increased hype, at least in terms of price and speculation, as seen in the example of bitcoin," says Wilson. "We believe that bitcoin began a massive correction last December, and that Tuesday it returned to the level of 200 days ago is a good sign." Last Friday, the s&p 500 index also returned to late November and soon surpassed it.
Former Blockstream developer Gregory Maxwell has accused Vitalik Buterin of bias.
Hacking into the Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail last week resulted in the loss of 17 million nano tokens (more than $170 million at the time of the attack) and led to a dispute between Vitalik Buterin and the bitcoin community led by Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell. While BitGrail did not comment on the incident, the Nano team published a post on Medium, claiming that the vulnerability was not in Its technology, but on the part of the exchange. After that, the situation was intervened by the owner of BitGrail Francesco Firano, who accused the cryptocurrency project of libel and misleading information, saying that the exchange "is pressing charges against Nano for its irresponsible behavior." Firano also demanded that Nano carry out a hard fork of its blockchain" to cover losses " of the exchange. In connection with this call in the network, a dispute broke out about the "rescue hard fork", which can be used to protect the altcoins, which some consider as an advantage over bitcoin. "I believe that rescue hardforce in exceptional cases, it may be a good choice for young blockchains at an early stage," wrote Buterin. His comment caused a lot of discontent in the community, including one of the leading bitcoin developers Gregory Maxwell personally. "The lesson of the Ethereum team is this: when due to a vulnerability in a smart contract, the means of Buterin are lost is a good choice. If money Baterina was not injured, but lost large sums of money because of errors in the software Ethereum is a poor choice," wrote Maxwell in the discussion on Reddit. "No one should have such power. If at least there is a possibility of such a choice, the system has already failed," he said, noting that Paypal and Visa cancel transactions better, "without spending billions of dollars on premine."
Bitfinex will launch a decentralized trading platform on the basis of EOS.
On Monday, February 12, in the official blog of the company there was a message about the upcoming launch of "high-performance decentralized exchange" EOSfinex based on the platform of decentralized EOS applications. According to the representatives of Bitfinex, The new platform will allow non — growth — direct, excluding intermediaries-cryptocurrency trading. EOS promises to solve scalability problems and to provide high speed transaction confirmation: "Bitfinex Long-term goal is to research and test various technologies that meet the strict requirements of large decentralized trading platform. This vision has led us to EOS.IO, whose goal is to process tens of thousands of transactions per second with low fees and confirmation times — largely coincides with our needs," — said in the official blog of the exchange. "Our experience shows that these improvements contribute to the transformation of the entire blockchain industry, and Bitfinex remains committed to the idea of using advanced innovations to continue offering the best conditions for trading," said Jan Ludovicus van der Velde, CEO of Bitfinex.
Comcast Ventures invests in blockchain startups that invest in blockchain startups.
A subsidiary of the American telecommunications company Comcast, Comcast Ventures, will support investment funds working with blockchain projects to further explore the technology. Recently appointed managing Director Gil Beida has assembled a team of five major Comcast investors to implement an aggressive investment strategy, analyzing at the same time what benefits the company can derive from the use of technology. Several times a week, the five meet to discuss crypto-trends. "We call ourselves a blockchain team," said Beida in an interview with Coindesk and said he was ready to allocate tens of millions of dollars to support the industry. The first investment in this strategy Comcast made in January, the accelerator mState, which is already supported by BM and Boldstart Ventures. And recently, the company has invested in Blockchange Ventures — an investment Fund that will soon begin to make investments in decentralized technologies.