Bitcoin Cash developers have released Bitcoin ABC 0.16.2. The full implementation of the node, among other things, includes the transition to a new address format - Cashaddr, based on the Bech32 codebase.
Starting a series of publications on the legal status of cryptocurrencies in different countries of the world, we will first consider the EU member states. Today we have chosen the European jurisdiction of Luxembourg for analysis.
Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam said in an official ruling (fatwa) on Monday that trading in Bitcoin is considered “illegal” according to Islamic traditions. He explained this by saying that the virtual currency was not recognized as legal by the Egyptian government.
South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges, at the request of government regulators, are forced to stop registering anonymous accounts intended for transactions with digital currency. For violation of de-anonymization rules, the accounts of users who have not been identified in the system are banned.
The Malaysian government will not impose a ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country as a large number of Malaysians have invested in Bitcoin. This was announced in a recent interview with The Malaysian Reserve by the second Minister of Finance of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani.
Over the past 24 hours, traders using this trading platform have concluded transactions worth more than $5.5 billion. This is an undoubted record for the amount of daily transactions among crypto exchanges.
At the moment, according to information from telegraph, the possibility of creating a “sterling-related” cryptocurrency is being studied by the bank’s research department, which must present its decision within 12 months.
Bitcoin continues to recover, Ethereum reaches new highs
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