At a meeting of the Board of Directors of Post Bank, Iranian Minister of Information and Communication Technologies Mohammad-Jwad Azari Jahromi proposed issuing a national digital currency based on cloud technologies. According to local media, Iran's central bank is in talks with other financial institutions to establish control over digital currencies in Iran.
SIX Swiss Stock Exchange Chairman Romeo Lacher believes there is potential for a digital version of the Swiss franc. On February 25, Mr. Lacher told the Financial Times that the exchange would support such an initiative, adding that he does not like cash.
Will Bitcoin continue yesterday's growth?
All altcoins, except for the LTC/USD pair, are growing. If LTC reaches yesterday's lows, this will be a great opportunity for buyers, but sellers should be careful and stop selling at yesterday's high of $220
In 2017, the University of Cambridge Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study conducted a study according to which Georgia was in second place in the world, after China, in terms of the power of devices involved in cryptocurrency mining.
There is now a real mining boom on the territory of Belarus, which began after the signing of the decree “On the development of the digital economy” by the President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko. Representatives of one of the Russian companies announced that they are planning to build an enterprise that will produce equipment for cryptocurrency mining.
Boston-based Circle is buying one of the largest exchanges in North America, making it a serious competitor to Coinbase, Bittrex and Kraken. According to Fortune journalists, the transaction amount is $400 million.
On February 23, the American exchange Coinbase sent out notifications to 13 thousand users that their data would be transferred to the US Tax Service (IRS). IRS officials asked Coinbase back in July last year to hand over information about 500,000 users in order to find tax evaders. At the end of autumn 2017, the exchange received a court order in which the Tax Service asked to provide data for 14,000 clients instead of half a million.
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