#Crypto news#
With Friday events: Russian Gazprombank wants to make investments crypto; Intel has developed a technology decreasing wear minings energy; Singapore office Announces competition; Audi tests technology blockchain; More and deeper drops.
• Russian Gazprombank wants to make investments crypto: Russian Bank - Gazprombank - can make pioneering step in your country, allowing for customers to invest in cryptocurrency yet this year, as communicate reports. Different local media today cite senior vice President of Gazprombank - Alexander Sobola - saying that a diagram including cryptocurrency may appear already at the end of 2018. Gazprom is the state Russian Bank, the third largest in the country in terms of assets belonging to the parent company Gazprom. Move that in the case of action would be possible thanks sister operations Bank in Switzerland, would be a rare opportunity for the largest Russian investors. Asked whether Gazprombank considered products of crypto, Sobol said to interfax: "Some type of system - Yes, of course. Won't they were impressive scale, only for ourselves. There is demand on the part of a large private clients such services, so now we look out how we can for them to organize such services".Plans Bank seemed to surprise local newspapers, because uncertain climate control Russia makes direct interaction with crypto for companies is very difficult to maintain. Despite the introduction of a wide package regulations, which will come into force 1. July, much speculation is about this, as reality will look for Russian citizens. many institutions stem in Switzerland now offers customers exposure to kryptowaluty through a variety of products, reaching a considerable success of the first launched in 2016. Russia also look preparing their formal approach to the use of technology blockchain in their limits. Russian President, Vladimir Putin, a few weeks ago admitted publicly that Russia not want to stay behind must keep up the pace of internationally: "We must continue move forward. This just need."
• Intel has developed a technology decreasing wear of mining energy: American company technological Intel made patent application on the accelerator hardware to extraction btc, which would reduce the amount of absorbed electricity in mining by reducing used space and consumed energy by equipment for extraction btc. By Intel result in this will be 35% improvement in performance. Extraction bitcoin, which Intel is called the most common type of digital currency used in the ecosystem digital currency, needs a large amount of electricity to solve algorithms. This energy consumption was by some defined as a disaster eco-friendly, while the other party claims that the opportunity to the use of renewable energy makes mining is not a problem for the environment. "Due to the large number used power and relatively high cost of the power mining bitcoin can be very expensive project. In some examples the cost of production single bitcoin exceed the value of extracted bitcoin". - written in the document. Patent application Intel indicates that apply it to the implementation of ASIC due to the convenience, but their system can be used for any other devices logical in this to processors, systems SoC and FPGA. Intel not the first time enters in the crypto world. In may last year the American company has teamed with service provider transaction in the health care and company produces software PokitDok to take advantage of technology blockchain in the branch of medicine. In September 2017. Intel announced cooperation with the Chinese company Tencent in order to develop solutions blockchain type Internet of things (IOT) and in October established cooperation with the company Ledger, in order to use their platform to store resources cryptographic.
• Singapore office Announces contest: infocomm media development authority (imda) began "blockchain challenge" to promote innovation blockchain and their adoption in business, gives Press release. Challenge is to promote awareness and adoption of technology and encouraging companies to explore the innovative business models and / or transformation resulting from the technology. - we read in communication. Participants may or to report a minimum of vailable product (MVP), or proof of the validity of the concept (POC) to one of the two categories: "enterprise" - for projects on the operating efficiency or "transformation" - for projects involving innovation in business model and institutional changes. The first round challenges ends in South 28. may 2018., and participants in the second round will have six months to develop their projects with a chance to win or 50.000. dollars in the category enterprise, or 100.000. dollars in the category transformation. In the blockchain challenge, imda teamed up with the company investment and research sginnovate to allow the potential partners and participants program access to the network community blockchain. In the Press release noted also that imda wants to cooperate with companies concerned solutions blockchain - regardless of the challenges - and encourages all stakeholders to contact the company.
• Audi tests technology blockchain: German car manufacturer located Ingolstadt, Audi, tests technology blockchain in processing distribution of physical and financial. Thanks to the new solution Audi aims to improve safety and transparency in their global supply chain. Carmaker issued in the last year proof of the validity of the concept (POC) system blockchain after successfully tested technology-based on hyperledger fabric. Thanks to a positive feedback management Audi decided on the further development project. the research team consisting of representatives of the various agencies, such as finance, production, logistics and it examines now documentation international processes logistics, including financial settlements. In addition, the band analyzes the different cases the use of technology blockchain to improve safety data transfer, the effectiveness of the chains supply management local networks energy and management entities digital. Alexander dietmeier, director. Management Treasury group in the Audi ad, said in an interview for die produktion that blockchain has the potential changes to the principles of action in industrial enterprises and opens new features. Also emphasized that the Audi probably will offer crypto as a method of payment in the near future. Other German car manufacturers, such as Mercedes and Porsche, also announced their own experiments with technology blockchain. Mercedes Benz, a subsidiary of the car Daimler ag, it seems your own crypto mobicoin to reward drivers for prudent ride. Porsche examines the use of blockchain application in their vehicles in cooperation with the Berlin startup xain.
• More and deeper drops: in the last 24. hours Exchange go even deeper. Market capitalization reached 252,5 billion dollars, it is about 30,5 billion dollars less than yesterday. Rotation on the stock exchanges was 17,2 billion dollars, and bitcoin is 45% around the market (of the day is a growing part - which also provides that investors sell off with altcoins in recent days panic). Price of bitcoin fell down 10.6%, ethereum 9%, ripple 9,2%, litecoina 6%. virtually all of Exchange is in Red. Price btc reached a similar value last 6. February 2018, exactly 6.180 dollars, then returned 11.700 dollars.
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