Fed: Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help research cryptocurrencies
The Federal Reserve System (US Federal Reserve) has announced a partnership with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create and test digital currency, said member of the regulator’s board Lael Brainard.
CoinMarketCap launched Earn educational service
Crypto-rating portal CoinMarketCap will pay cryptocurrency to users who will take part in the survey after watching training videos of specific projects on the new resource platform – Earn. The first of these projects was announced by Band Protocol.
Venezuelan authorities allowed citizens to pay taxes with cryptocurrency
The Bolivarian Council of Mayors of Venezuela has officially allowed the citizens of the country to pay tax duties in El Petro. Vice President Delsey Rodriguez stressed that the agreement will facilitate payments for 305 municipalities.
Ireland will tighten crypto regulation
The Irish authorities intend to introduce stricter measures to regulate cryptocurrency activities in the country. The actions of the authorities are aimed at suppressing illegal activities related to digital assets and, in particular, money laundering and terrorist financing.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin: Forsage is a scam
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that matrix-marketing blockchain project Forsage, which ranks second in terms of gas consumption on the ETH network, is a scam. This is how he signed an article accusing Forsage of the Philippine Central Bank, which warned market participants against financing the company.
Crypto transactions in Russia will be analyzed by “Transparent blockchain”
Cryptocurrency transactions carried out in Russia will be analyzed by the specialized transparent blockchain system, which is currently being developed by the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring). The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications reported that its initial version of the system has already been created jointly with the Lebedev Physical Institute and is based on bitcoin.
Facebook Financial to be led by Libra co-founder David Marcus
This week, one of the largest social networks, Facebook Inc., announced the launch of a division responsible for implementing payments solutions.
New York City Department of Financial Services publishes a list of allowed cryptocurrencies
Companies officially licensed by the New York City Department of Financial Services (DFS) can legally transact with digital instruments from the list published at the end of last week.
Media: India wants to ban digital asset trading
The Indian authorities are developing a regulation that will prohibit transactions with digital assets, writes the Money Control edition.
Canon Crackers Demand Cryptocurrency Ransom
At the end of July, a hacker attack was carried out on Canon’s services by a virus that encrypted documents and photos with a total volume of about 10 terabytes stored in the cloud, and now the fraudsters have presented the company with conditions for resuming correct work.

