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Canaan Considers US IPOCanaan Considers US IPOCryptocurrency miner Canaan is considering a U.S. listing after its Hong Kong IPO (initial public offering) plans stalled, according to news.
digital currency
Gate.io Research Institute: Confirmed that the ETC network suffered a 51% cyber attack and located the attacker's address
According to data from the PeckShield situational awareness platform: Since 2018, the market price of ETH has fallen by 89.44% from its high point, and it has led the decline in several major market fluctuations. Many analysts believe that this has a lot to do with the sell-off of ICO projects based on the Ethereum platform. However, PeckShield data analysts have found through continuous tracking of 75 important ICO projects: 1. Among the monitored ICO projects, the total reduction ratio is 36.87%, which is still within the reasonable range of capital flow; 2. The project side has a large reduction in holdings The months were December and November, which may be related to the panicked decline in the overall market at that time, and it cannot be proved that it was related to the sell-off; 3. The project with the largest balance change was Filecoin, which reduced its holdings by 333,905.55 ETH, and the account was almost emptied; 4. Golem, The balance of 9 projects such as Polkadot and Iconomi remained basically unchanged (that is, the reduction of holdings did not exceed 1%); 5. There were 9 projects that were completely cashed out (that is, the reduction of holdings exceeded 99%), and the total amount of cash out was 547,974.70 ETH.
Blockchain industry
Alipay blockchain cross-border remittance technology landed in Pakistan
Steem Has Banned Accounts of Hackers Who Threatened to Publish 9.11 Files and Ask for Bitcoin
Alibaba and Hengdian DMEGC cooperate to plan to use blockchain technology to promote the upgrading of the magnetic material industry
According to Hengdian DMEGC’s announcement, Alibaba and Hengdian DMEGC will establish a cooperative relationship in three steps: the first phase, to build an enterprise-level industrial Internet benchmark; the second phase, to create a magnetic industry-level industrial Internet; the third phase, around the magnetic industry Industrial Internet, upgrade industries such as supply chain finance. Among them, the third step is to open up the upstream and downstream supply chain on the basis of the industrial Internet of the magnetic industry. With the help of Alibaba's resources, based on the capabilities of blockchain technology and Ant Financial Services, supply chain finance will be realized and financial services in the magnetic industry will be improved. System, to better serve the magnetic industry enterprises.
Bank of International Settlements Report: 70% of Central Banks Participate in Research on Central Bank Digital Currencies
On January 7, the internationally renowned scientific journal "Nature" released a report on its official website, announcing the list of hot words most searched by scientists from all over the world in the past year. The top three are "cancer" and "blockchain". ” and “big data.”
global policy
Thailand’s Ministry of Finance Approves Four Digital Asset Business Operation Licenses
Japan's Financial Services Agency decided to restrict investment in virtual currencies, and stated that companies operating financial products that use virtual currencies to raise investment funds will become the subject of restrictions under the Financial Commodities Exchange Act. Some analysts believe that this is an enterprise group plan corresponding to Article 2, Item 2, Item 5 of the Financial Commodity Exchange Act, and its purpose is to clarify the administrative interpretation of the virtual currency fundraising part.
Character·Voice
Jiang Zhuoer: If the BCH pre-consensus is completed, the effect of instant payment can be achieved
Russian University Professor Vladislav Ginko: Russia Will Invest in Bitcoin on a Large Scale to Avoid U.S. Sanctions
Vladislav Ginko, a professor at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, said that the Kremlin will soon start investing heavily in bitcoin as a way to avoid new U.S. sanctions, and that this could happen "within a few weeks." Ginko reportedly had ties to the government for more than 20 years.
Chairman of Japan JVCEA: It is very difficult to introduce virtual currency ETF into the blank field of Japanese legal system
In response to Bloomberg's report that Japan's financial regulators may approve virtual currency ETFs, the chairman of the Japan Virtual Currency Trading Association, Okuyama Taizen, said in an interview that it is very difficult to introduce virtual currency ETFs into Japan's legal blank areas. But it would be good if it can be realized, because the existence of virtual currency will also be reaffirmed.