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📍The well-known coffee manufacturing company, JM Smucker SJM, announced the adoption of the IBM blockchain platform, Food Trust, to enable tracking of your Colombian coffee brand «1850». With this they seek to create a single record of their production from the origin of the coffee to its arrival to the consumer. The company's commitment to this technology seeks to improve the transparency and trust of its consumers in a product that is recognized for its very high quality. The person in charge of carrying out this entire operation will be Farmer Connect, a joint platform with several producers interested in technology.
📍Twitter now find under the sights of the FBI, Congress and FinCEN to begin tracking down the hackers and clarify the conditions under which this event occurred. On the other hand, the blockchain analysis companies, Chainalysis and CypherTrace, have already reacted to the investigations carried out by the FBI and the State of New York, as well as the report sent by FinCEN to track and capture the culprits of this event.
📍The Samourai Wallet team has carried out its own investigation into the destination of the funds that the Twitter hacker managed to obtain, the investigation states that none of the almost 13 BTC has been laundered or mixed. The research that is available in a pastebin, traces the funds from the addresses used for the scam to their final point. The interesting thing about the investigation is that it indicates that the hacker is a user of the BitMex exchange since several of his transactions have originated in said exchange.
Source: OXT Explorer
📍Tether, the largest stablecoin in the crypto world, now faces a gray scenario in which it could be subject to regulation that has not yet been clarified. FAFT-FATF has done movements to strengthen regulations for stablecoins and this could represent problems for Tether and the rest of stablecoins.
📍A curious report given by Zeus Capital has called Chainlink a fraud. He report It highlights some flaws that the protocol has shown and how its development has stopped aiming at the initial objective of the project.
📍Zcash is preparing for a new hard fork that seeks to improve the privacy of mining activity on the network. The new hard fork will bring to the network FlyClient (ZIP 221) y Shielded Coinbase (ZIP 213), improving the security and privacy of the miners of this cryptocurrency.
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