The University of Zaragoza is investigating the perceptions of users who have used bitcoin to make purchases in the last year. This and more news in this practical daily summary so that you are always informed with the most recent events that occur within the crypto world.
Bitcoin and Blockchain Adoption
📍The University of Zaragoza in Spain has published a study on the use of Bitcoin as a payment system. The university is implementing a poll to understand the perceptions of users who have purchased some type of product in the last 12 months using bitcoin as a means of payment.
At the time of writing, the survey is still active and the University of Zaragoza has not said when it will release the results of the ongoing study.
📍GlassNode details that the number of Bitcoin accumulation addresses hit a new all-time high. According to the firm's analysts, the number of BTC accumulation addresses currently stands at 545.115 directionsThe firm explains that BTC accumulation addresses are all those that have two or more incoming transactions, with no small amounts of bitcoins, and whose BTC balance has never been spent.
Source: GlassNode
📍Mark Cuban is backing Ethereum scaling solution Polygon. As can be seen in your page Mark Cuban Companies, the billionaire and crypto investor is backing the project. The website shows a description of Polygon where he highlights its potential for developers. Also, the page highlights the widespread adoption of this protocol, which now has more than 250 Dapps developed, approximately 76 million successful transactions and approximately 790 thousand unique active users.
📍Matthew McDermott, global head of digital assets at Goldman Sachs, said that Bitcoin is now considered an investment asset. Despite the volatility that the main cryptocurrency of the markets is still experiencing, McDermott assured that investor behavior towards bitcoin has officially turned the cryptocurrency into a new investment asset class.
📍SpaceChain will deploy an Ethereum node in space to ensure “physical security” for transactions. The company that provides infrastructure blockchain manifested which will take advantage of Nanoracks’ upcoming space mission on June 3 to deliver an Ethereum node to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceChain said that having a “space-based” ETH node “ensures the independence of the Ethereum contract operation from centralized ground servers, providing more efficient smart contract operation and better application scenarios.”
NFT and DeFi Markets
📍OneOf, a music NFT platform, is raising funds to finance its launch and development on the Tezos blockchain. According to they explained The developers of the new platform told CoinDesk that its launch on Tezos will allow it to guarantee a market for non-fungible tokens with low environmental impact, to become the meeting point for thousands of artists and fans of the NFT, with an environmentally sustainable digital platform.
Miners
📍Marathon Patent Group has revealed that it will build a 10,3 EH/s bitcoin mining farm in Texas. In a statement, the crypto mining company said that its mega farm in Texas will produce about 7% of Bitcoin’s current hash power. Marathon will deploy more than 70.000 state-of-the-art ASIC mining rigs. The company also assured that its crypto mining operations will be approximately 70% carbon neutral.
Cybersecurity
📍OnePlus founder Carl Pei was the victim of a hack on his Twitter accountThe attacker took control of Pei's official account on the social network and took advantage of it to promote a scam on cryptocurrencies, . The attacker's posts indicated that his new company, Nothing, would launch an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency. He invited the account's followers to send ether to a fake address to supposedly receive the company's NTHG tokens. Pei soon deleted the post and indicated that it was a hack, calling on his followers not to send ether to the address and indicating that he had regained control of his account.
Carl Pai has over 330 followers on Twitter.
📍BSC meme token SafeMoon has 12 “potential vulnerabilities” in its code, HashEx auditors say. Blockchain security company HashEx revealed that the popular cryptocurrency meme SafeMoon has at least a dozen security vulnerabilities present in its contract code. Of these, at least 5 were classified by HashEx auditors as “critical in nature” and “high severity.” Reddit, the crypto community is already starting to talk about the report published by the firm, and the consequences for the project if one of these vulnerabilities is exploited before they are patched by its developers.
Rules and Regulations
📍Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard believes the United States must ensure the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency. To do this, Brainard notes that the country must be at the forefront of CBDCs and remain a world leader in new technological advances and developments. In her recent speech, the FED governor assured that the United States must be very attentive and involved with the rise and massive adoption of digital payments. In addition, the advances of other countries that are also developing their own digital currencies, and that they can use them to promote and send money “across borders.”
Although the Fed believes that a CBDC may bring with it several risks, it also believes that the creation of a digital currency is essential to maintain its global leadership.
📍South Africa's central bank has revealed it is conducting research into retail CBDCs. In a release In a recently published report, the bank reported that it is focusing on understanding the pros and cons of issuing a retail digital currency; in addition, of course, to the viability, convenience and suitability of a CBDC within its financial system.
The central bank has not yet said which blockchain it will test on, though it said it will use “different emerging technology platforms.”
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