This week the information highlighted revolve around the reasons why the price of bitcoin tends to the low. According to the chinese media, PlusToken attracted more than 3,000 million dollars in cryptocurrencies. Despite the arrest of several people connected to this scam, the firm Chainalysis ensures that the stolen funds continued moving through purses and charged through agents OTC .The price of bitcoin is maintained at an average between us $ 7,000 per unit, with a significant drop on the 18 day of December, which drove the price to a minimum of USD 6.474. At the time of writing this article the price was around us $ 7.482, a higher value that is handled on CoinMarketCap, according to the price calculator of Breaking News.With Breaking News interested parties can keep up to date on changes in the market prices of bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash and litecoin with relation to your local currency. To do this, you can visit the section of the Market is Latin, which has a pricing calculator to perform conversions quickly and easily.
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In advance of the Chainalysis 2020 Crypto Crime Report, which will be published early next year, the research firm, ensures that the perpetrators of the scam associated to PlusToken not only would have succeeded in stealing more than 2,000 million dollars, but that might also be lowering the price of bitcoin.The Bank of the Republic of Colombia described as false an alleged news story that would have circulated in the Internet, in which it was stated that their manager, Juan José EchavarrÃa, launched a platform called Bitcoin Time, which would serve to promote the adoption of the cryptocurrencies among colombians.The Superintendencia National of Criptoactivos and Related Activities of Venezuela (Sunacrip) established the platform for the payment of social grants, Homeland, will have attributes of a house change of cryptocurrencies, by what authority it established commissions for the operations and parameters for users to follow.The Securities and exchange Commission (CVM) announced that it is suspended in Brazil any sale of securities made by the business Stratum and CoinBR. According to several authorities, both platforms they would be making offers of tokens and investment contracts without proper permissions.Spanish banks Santander, Bankia, BBVA and CaixaBank initiated the first proof-of-concept sector to deploy a platform interbank offered what they call “payments smart” (smart payments), whose objective is to enable the execution of payments through the use of a network blockchain private.Argentina and Venezuela are on the map of regions with mining activity in the network of Bitcoin. As reflected in the December edition of the bi-annual report that presents the signature CoinShares, published earlier this month. The report mentions the two south american countries as “regions under” on the map of the mining of Bitcoin.
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A new draft law to regulate the cryptocurrencies in the united States was filed in the House of Representatives of the Congress. The proposal of the legislator Paul Gosar would divide the cryptocurrencies in three categories and establish the figure of the Federal Regulatory Assets or Digital Federal Regulatory Cryptocurrencies.According to a new version of the map blockchain of Latin America, in full development on the part of NGOS, Bitcoin Argentina, the ecosystem argentine remains the most important of the region and already has 55 companies, a 10% more than last year.Riccardo Spagni, known by the pseudonym of Fluffypony, he decided to leave the position of a leading developer of Monero (XMR), the criptomoneda-oriented privacy. However, it will remain in the reservoir of the project. Its place will occupy another developer of the team, known as Snipa, according to the blog of Monero.Yang Zuoxing, founder and CEO of the manufacturer of miners of bitcoin MicroBT, a firm opponent of Bitmain with headquarters in Shenzhen, China, has been arrested for the alleged embezzlement of approximately USD 15,000. The arrest comes in the midst of the ongoing battles between the giant miner Bitmain and MicroBT.If you want to know the meaning of several words from the terminology of the criptomundo, you can reference the extensive Glossary of Breaking News.
Mempool (memory pool): within a chain of blocks, it is a temporary memory where it is stored pending transactions to be confirmed. Each node has its own list of pending transactions, so there are multiple mempools.
Criptotuto of the week:
Lightning Wallet is a wallet Lightning Network, that works without custodians. Despite the fact that it is not necessary to operate a node of the network to use it, neither the developers nor operators of this wallet have control over the funds of the users.
Podcast of the week:
Phd in Civil Law, a Specialist in computer law, and international consultant, university professor and author of several books, Johanna Faliero spoke to us, regulation of private data, the state of the law in LatAm, and that is what is coming in the matter to the continent.