A practical summary where you can learn about the most current and relevant news in the crypto world, so that you are always aware of the most recent and notable events taking place in the crypto ecosystem.
📍The market cryptocurrencies, is experiencing a great moment today. The two most important and most widely used cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin y Ethereum, reflect an incredible for Growth which may be due to several of the positive news taking place within the crypto community. As of today, Bitcoin exceeds $11.100 USD per unit, while Ethereum exceeds $324 USD, a growth of 19% and 39% respectively. Now traders and experts estimate that Bitcoin is prepared to continue the upward trend, which may even break the resistance of $12.000 USD per unit.
📍Continuing with Ethereum, yesterday the validation testnet was officially launched for Ethereum 2.0, which will be the basis for validators in the next multi-client testnet. According to publication On the Ethereum Foundation blog, the test version of the validation platform was carried out thanks to the joint work of the developer team and the support of Consensys y DeepWork STUDIO.
(I.e.Whale Alert reports that authors of the mass hack to cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, which occurred in 2016, are moving a whale with over $27 million worth of Bitcoin. On its Twitter account, the intelligence firm indicates that, to date, 9 transactions have been carried out with a total of 2.550,61 BTC to new unknown addresses.
📍In Italy, a total of 55 commercial banks, which represent 85% of the total existing financial institutions in the country, will begin to use a solution based on the platform blockchain de Corda R3, to reduce the time it takes to execute interbank processes, such as data transfer. With the new system, reconciliations and interbank data transfer will take less than 24 hours, a process that can take between 30 to 50 business days if traditional systems are used.
(I.e.In other news, the system Spanish Railway Agency (Adif) was hacked by the group REVIL, which stole a total of 800 GB of information from the agency. The hack was carried out through ransomware Sodinokibi, the same one that was used to hack the company Telecom in Argentina recently. To date, hackers have released only 8 GB of the 800 GB stolen; This information includes data on agency personnel, contracts, invoices, accounting books, personal data of clients, among others.
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