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Through collaboration with Samsung, which will be responsible for chip production, and Gaonchips, which will be responsible for semiconductor development, Squire Mining plans to release its own ASIC chip for bitcoin mining by September 30, 2018.
According to a statement published on September 25, the Monero developers have fixed a bug that allowed attackers to carry out attacks on the wallets of organizations.
The Russian branch of Raiffeisen Bank issued the first electronic mortgage using a decentralized depository system (DDS) on the MasterChane blockchain platform. An electronic document containing all information about the parties to the transaction was posted through DDS.
JPMorgan, the largest financial institution in the United States, has launched a pilot program for a blockchain-based payment system. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Australian Bank (ANZ) have also joined the program. According to the Financial Times, 75 more banks have now joined the experiment.
The altcoin market is consolidating after a weak attempt to recover.
Coinbase has revised its listing policy, replacing the long and convoluted process of selecting cryptocurrencies and tokens with a simple procedure that will quickly expand the list of crypto assets traded on the exchange.
The trustee of the bankrupt company Mt.Gox, Japanese lawyer Nobuaki Kobayashi, better known in the cryptocurrency community as “The Whale of Tokyo,” withdrew another 25.98 billion yen ($230 million) from the exchanger in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrencies.
Prices went flat. The sideways movement could last until Friday.
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