Wall Street Crypto News 📯
📌 The Venezuelan authorities will rename the national currency into a "sovereign bolivar", reduce the denomination by five zeros and provide it with a crypto currency El Petro. I wonder if the $ 3.3 billion collected for the sale of El Petro to save the economy from hyperinflation?
📌 The world leader in the production of equipment for mining, Bitmain showed a report, according to which it controls less than 4% of the beatco network's hash.
📌 Hackers spoiled the first day of the DEX Waves exchange as an official application and conducted a successful phishing attack, gaining access to the DNS server for several hours. Users' tools were not affected, because Exchange is decentralized, but personal data could be stolen.
📌 Developers of Ethereum have almost finished work on the new ERC-777 standard, which is an improved version of ERC-20.
📌 On July 25 at the CME exchange, the average trading volume of bitcoin futures was 12,878 contracts, which is an absolute record since the launch.
📌 In Tanzania, the birth of a child with the help of a blockchain was recorded for the first time in the world. The newborn was given a unique ID, according to which his mother could receive charitable help.
📌 Users of the popular digital wallet Skrill will be able to buy and sell BTC, ETH, BCH and LTC for supported fiat currencies, more than 40.
📌 The crypto currency extension for the Chrome MetaMask browser was removed from the Chrome Web Store and restored after about 6 hours. Google did not explain their actions, perhaps confused with the plugin for mining.
📌 Users of the Augure predictors began to bet on the date of Warren Buffett's death, the assassination of Donald Trump and other not "pleasant" events.