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According to the French publication L’Usine Digitale, Daimler, the owner of the Mercedes-Benz brand, unveiled the MobiCOIN project at the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona.
Two Indian cryptocurrency exchanges, BTCXindia and ETHEXindia, said they would temporarily cease operations due to increased regulatory pressure from the government. These sites are very popular in India, and BTCXindia is also one of the first exchanges in the country to sell bitcoin.
Last month, the Bittrex exchange published its new terms of service, which will take effect on March 9, 2018.
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Next month, it is planned to create a self-regulatory body for cryptocurrency trading. Two trade groups representing 16 registered exchanges have agreed to create a new organization that will work with the Japan Financial Services Agency to set investor safety standards. She will also develop the basic principles of ICO activities.
After several months of calm, DDoS hackers became active again and began to destroy websites. Recently, attackers have carried out a number of attacks using a new method of overloading victims' servers with fake traffic. To make attacks more powerful, hackers began using servers that help speed up sites - CDN servers for distributed caching in RAM.
Hiroshi Mikatani, top manager of the Japanese corporation Rakuten, said at the MWC 2018 conference in Barcelona that the release of a cryptocurrency from Viber is just around the corner. It is obvious that the company does not intend to lag behind its competitor Telegram, which has already held the second ICO of its GRAM cryptocurrency.
Wellington Management Co, one of the world's largest asset managers, said it is looking to include digital currencies in some of its portfolios.
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