CryptoNews

4 out of 5 developers of the startup Chainspace, created on the basis of University College London, moved to Facebook. Chainspace has been creating a decentralized network of smart contracts. Facebook claims that the company took in only employees, but will not buy start-up technology.

Parity Technologies found a vulnerability on the Ethereum network in the JSONRPC protocol, which was used by the services MyEtherWallet, Infura and MyCrypto. The error has been fixed, she did not have time to take advantage of hackers.

The head of the Rosobrnadzor, Sergey Kravtsov, said that his department plans to transfer the USE to the blockchain this year.

The government of New Hampshire has allowed local tax residents to use cryptocurrency to pay taxes from July 1, 2020. So far, preparing the technical base for this opportunity.

The GoxDox group, representing the interests of investors in the bankrupt Japanese exchange Mt.Gox, explains the collapse in prices for Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash by saying that the trustee of the exchange Nobuyaki Kobayashi in December 2018 sold cryptocurrency for $ 318 million at the BitPoint site.

VTB President Andrei Kostin compared the miners of cryptocurrencies to counterfeiters and said that he was not a supporter of the creation of a crypto-ruble.

Royal Bank of Canada analyst Mitch Steves believes that Nvidia could have underestimated its revenues from the sale of mining graphics cards in 2018 to hide the ugly financial performance of other manufacturing sectors.

Trading volumes on stock exchanges fell by 40% compared with December 2018, according to research company Diar.

In just the week of its existence, the BitTorrent token has risen in price by almost 10 times - from $ 0.00012 to $ 0.001106. Altcoin also broke the record for trading volumes on the Binance Stock Exchange, reaching $ 570 million in a week.

Indian authorities confirmed the death of Gerald Kotten, the founder of the Canadian bitcoin exchange QuadrigaCX. The exchange team cannot access $ 145 million in cryptocurrency stored in cold wallets.