This week the price of bitcoin remained in averages that hover around the USD 7,000 per unit. At the time of writing this article the price is $ 7.482, according to the price calculator of Breaking News.The minister of Science and Technology of the province, Alicia Banuelos, stated that the past November 25, the Data Center of the company was attacked through a type of ransomware. When interviewed by the News Agency of San Luis, adding that it has already managed to restore 90% of the data encrypted by the virus.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.Among other news of interest, the Attorney General of Colombia to develop a proposal, based on a blockchain, in conjunction with the National University of Colombia (UNAL), in order to raise the levels of transparency in the award of contracts and to minimize the cases of corruption in its School Feeding Programme.
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At least 7.700 GB of information from the government of the province of San Luis, in Argentina, were kidnapped. Although we have not determined the number in bitcoin that the attackers requested change of the data, the Journal of the Republic ensures that the rescue could be around 0.5 and 50 BTC.A cooperative Spanish established in the shire Subbética, Andalucia, Spain, region, producer of extra virgin olive oil, will implement a system of traceability of olive oil production from a blockchain. In that same country the Centre of Reprographic Rights (CEDRO), the association of authors and publishers of Spain, will use the blockchain of Ethereum for registration of licensing of intellectual property rights. In parallel, the Spanish network of department stores and stores, The English Court will certify the use of renewable energy through a blockchain.The consulting firm Accenture opened its first nanolaboratorio in Medellin, Colombia. The initiative seeks to convene ventures national, specialized in blockchain and other disruptive technologies, with the purpose of developing solutions to multinational companies. Also in Colombia, the Attorney General to develop a proposal, based on Ethereum, applied to the school feeding programmes, which is already in its final phase of development. The intention is for the platform to be in operation during the first quarter of 2020.Several web sites registered with domain names in Europe, that are related to the schema OneCoin, were disconnected on Tuesday, December 3 for the registration of domain european EURid, as part of a “legal investigation”.
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The developers of Ethereum agreed to postpone the pump difficulty once more in order to avoid complications in the phase of transition from proof of work to proof of participation that is part of the update Istanbul of the network, which was activated successfully during the night of Saturday 7 December. The official time of mining of block 9.069.000, which marked the activation of the update, it happened officially at 00:25 UTC on Sunday 8 December.The lead agency for criminal investigations of Venezuela, reported last December 2, the arrest of two brothers who allegedly estafaban their victims with false promises of investment in bitcoin, as well as fictitious sales in dollars.The Secretariat of Federal Revenue of Brazil, known as the Receita Federal, reported a figure close to 14,000 million brazilian reais in transactions with cryptocurrencies declared by the taxpayer between August and September.Users of Beam and can perform exchanges atomic to acquire other criptoactivos. The developers of the wallet official Beam, Double Doppler 4.0, announced that the function is already active directly in the application.The members of the open source community in the cloud Azure-Microsoft will be able to participate in a rewards program with collectibles, called Azure Heroes that will be awarded to the leaders inclusive, heroes content, hero of the community, mentors, and creators.Within days of the end of the 2019, the continent once again becomes a place of encounter with the goal of celebrating the seventh edition of the Latin american Conference on Bitcoin and Blockchain (laBITconf). Andreas Antonopoulos, the CEO of Blockstream’s Adam Back, and educator Jimmy Song will travel this year to Uruguay to attend the event in Latin america.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.
Ransomware: it is a malicious program that, after installed without permission on the computer or mobile device, encrypts most of the files or the entire hard drive, rendering it inaccessible to the user. To change to decrypt the data again kidnapped, the hackers request a ransom (payment), usually in cryptocurrencies, the amount of which depends of the victim affected.
Criptotuto of the week:
The process for the creation of a token with Waves begins with the transfer of funds to our account. In this case, for example, can be transferred ethers to redeem them in the house of the change of the platform by a number of waves. Once the funds have been confirmed and carried out the redemption, the user is now ready to begin with the process.
Podcast of the week:
The brand new CEO of Aragon One, Jorge Izquierdo, and María Gómez, head of business for Latin america speak of the coming changes, the strengths and weaknesses of the ecosystem of Ethereum to sustain a DAO, of the new blockchain of Aragon and of why the DAO are so complicated.