British regulator warns ICO-risk, mining-pool BTCC refuses to support SegWit2x, Chinese exchanges are working normally.
The British financial regulator has published a warning about the high risks associated with the ICO. In a statement, the Office of financial regulation (the FCA) announced that ICO is a "extremely risky speculative instrument", which is not regulated. Also, the FCA urged investors to inform the office about their fraudulent schemes, and also proposed to study the document, which contains the description of technology of the distributed registry. In a statement, the FCA refers to a similar warning from regulators in the USA, Canada, China, Singapore and Hong Kong.
The head of JPMorgan traders threatened with dismissal for trade in bitcoin. According to James diamond, "bitcoin is well suited for drug traffickers and murderers. The hype around bitcoin is worse than tulpenmanie the 17th century. It will not end well. Someone will die." Recall that JP Morgan Bank sold mortgage-backed securities, knowing full well that the mortgage loans have appeared under the threat of no return and ceased to be reliable. Thus provoking the financial crisis of 2007-2008.
Cryptocurrency can help to circumvent the anti-Russian sanctions to investors. The Chairman of the Duma Committee on financial market Anatoly Aksakov. He also announced the establishment of the expert Council FINTECH, which will focus on the development of rules on the cryptocurrency market. It is planned to study the definition of cryptocurrencies as financial assets, to determine whether to create a registry of miners, and whether to enroll individuals involved in cryptocurrency as entrepreneurs.
Hackers, Kim Jong-UN intensify attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea. According to research firm FireEye, this year it was conducted at least three attacks of the DPRK on the South Korean stock exchange, one of them in may, was a success. Perhaps it is on the Seoul stock exchange Yapizon. North Korean hackers also broke into the English-language news site about bitcoin to get information about visitors, and earlier collected a ransom in bitcoins using ransomware WannaCry. The theft of cryptocurrency, the North Korean authorities, "might consider as a cheap way to get the money" in terms of political isolation and sanctions.
Representatives of the Prosecutor's office became interested in ICO conducted by the farmer cooperative LavkaLavka. According to the owner of LavkaLavka Boris Akimov, representatives of the Lefortovo Prosecutor's office asked to explain what and how they work bikini – tokens that have been released by the cooperative. Problem prosecution the company is not worth it. Earlier, representatives of farmers ' cooperative was summoned to the Prosecutor's office for accepting bitcoins.
Mining-pool BTCC refuses to support SegWit2x. Thus, it is likely that hardwork, scheduled for November, may not happen. Previously from support SegWit2x refused F2Pool since found that it does not carry any major updates, and definitely not popular in the community. Hardwork can still happen in November, while most of the pools supports the decision. But even if the signal pools in support of the activation, it does not mean that they will take part in the mining of blocks in the new network after its occurrence. Segwit2x is the solution to increase network throughput by increasing the bitcoin mined block to 2 MB.
Standard ERC-20 officially became mandatory for Ethereum tokens. ERC-20 establishes a common set of rules that must be adhered to in smart contracts and in the issuance of coins for the conduct of the ICO, which ensures their compatibility. This decision became part of the "road map" towards the next major hard forks Ethereum — Metropolis.
Exchange Ethfinex will add support licenzirovanie dollars Tether. Ethfinex is specializing in the tokens of the standard ERC20 a subsidiary platform of the exchange Bitfinex. As part of the integration Ethfinex have added support for digital equivalents to United States dollar (USDT), which "will reduce the existing banking delays and problems with withdrawal". In the beginning of the month Ethfinex published the roadmap with the aim of increasing trust in the platform.
Exchange ViaBTC adds new trading pair. Despite unconfirmed information about the closure of all Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges, exchange ViaBTC adds seven new trading pairs for bitcoins and Bitcoin Cash. Also on adding new trading pairs for Bitcoin and Ethereum announced the Chinese exchange Binance.