Weekly News | Hodling ETH by Miners is on ATH, BTC Transaction ATH, Stellar, Binance, Google, Sony and other news

We have prepared a brief overview of the most important news of last week.

 

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News 03.02. – 09.02.20

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Cryptocurrencies

 

• Hodling ETH by miners is at ATH

• Bitcoin SV has completed the hardfork, but many have not upgraded

• Bitcoin broke limit of 500 million transactions

• CEO CME: People use Bitcoin just like they use gold

• Trader says we’ll regret if we don’t buy ETH for $ 200

• CoinFlip introduced Stellar on its 450 crypto ATMs

• Ripple again moves nearly 150 billion XRP

• ETH shot up after crossing $ 1 billion in DeFi

• Gemini has partnered with TradingView

• Fake news: Bitcoin dropped 56% per day

 

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Crypto exchannegs / Banks

• Binance Futures opens trading with open-ended contracts for XMR / USDT

• Binance registered an 85% month-on-month increase in futures open-ended contracts

• BitMex adds oped-ended contracts to XRP and BitMex CEO called XRP “dog shit”

• BTC’s business dominance on Binance fell below 40% in January

• BitFinex adds support for LN BTC on the mobile apk

• Binance allows VISA cardholders from Russia to buy cryptocurrencies for rubles

• AirWallex, fintech unicorn, has acquired Visa as a payment card giant’s partner

• ICE, the parent company of Bakkt, reportedly offered $ 30 billion for eBay

 

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Regulations / State cryptocurrencies

• Lithuania has also begun to look into the possibility of issuing a state cryptocurrency

• The US Congress solves Ripple and other cryptocurrencies

• Bermuda is planning a complete crypto ecosystem

• CFTC could approve Ethereum futures

• China’s central bank will pump billions of yuan into the economy

• If you want to provide crypto services in Germany, you need to register

• Japan wants its own cryptocurrency because of concerns about the chinese crypto

 

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Mining

• Cryptomining in China and miners production are limited less than 100 days before halving

 

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Blockchain / Technology

• Google has employed the creator of Hyperledger to develop a new Chrome payment system

• Sony invested in a blockchain company

• Aircraft management and maintenance companies join to the Blockchain Alliance

• Transparent Systems raised $ 14 million in the second round of funding

• US Navy invested $ 9.5 million in a blockchain communications system

• US Air Force is working with a blockchain startup to protect weapons data

 

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Binance launches the mysterious Binance Cloud project in a few days

 

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (known as CZ) announced great plans for the future of Binance. In a recent AMA (Ask me anything) said Binance will launch the Binance Cloud within ten days. However, CZ did not provide any further information. It is speculated that the Binance Cloud should be a decentralized storage service.

 

 However, this would also require decentralization at the level of the Binance chain, which is based on Tendermint technology (similar to Cosmos). On the issue of staking BNB CZ said that it is still far away. However, the fact that Binance plans to staking the BNB, however, indicates that Binance Coin will add so-called utilities, which means it will have more functions and uses.

 

CZ also announced a P2P marketplace based on WazirX technology that Binance recently purchased. WazirX wants to become number one in the cryptocurrency field in India. Recently, IEO WazirX tokens were also held. The WRX token price has grown five times its IEO.

 

Binance also confirms its place as the best, cryptocurrency exchange by adding BNB Futures trading with a lever up to 50x. In addition, exchange also added support for the Russian ruble, the Norwegian krone and the Croatian kuna.

  

Bitcoin broke limit of 500 million transactions

 

The Bitcoin network has processed 500 million transactions since its first launch on January 3, 2009. According to the Satoshi data server – named after the Bitcoin inventor – 500,0165 million transactions were performed on the bitcoin blockchain. The bitcoin network has doubled the number of transactions from 250 million in 2017 in the last three years.

 

ICE, the parent company of Bakkt, reportedly offered $ 30 billion for eBay

 

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), operator of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Bakkt bitcoin trading platform, has reportedly made an informal offer to buy eBay, reports the Wall Street Journal. The offer is worth $ 30 billion.

 

Japan wants its own cryptocurrency because of concerns about the chinese yuan

 

Japan feels the pressure of the Chinese authorities,which wants to hurry with the digital yuan. According to a report on February 7, the country’s top lawmakers are calling on the government to seek to include digital currencies in the G7 program this year.

 

Fake news: Bitcoin dropped 56% per day

 

Two respected portals Yahoo! Finance and Investing.com shared articles over the week that falsely claimed that the Bitcoin price fell 56% in one day. The articles were probably written by a computer program (bot) that sought to increase advertising revenue through a clickbait headline.

 

Gemini has partnered with TradingView

 

The US cryptoexchange Gemini, backed by the twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, has integrated the popular TradingView technical analysis service into their system.