Coinness 24-Hour News Roundup on August 22: Bank of Thailand’s Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Will Be Used for Interbank Fund Transfers

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[Policy]

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources raised concerns on energy-intensive mining.
The Norwegian local municipality decides to shut down a mining pool after locals complained about the noise.
The first phase of the Bank of Thailand’s wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which will be used for interbank fund transfers, is expected to be completely developed by the first quarter of 2019.
A newly released banning-order to hotels, market places, malls and office buildings in Beijing are prohibited to undertake any cryptocurrencies promotion event in any form.

[Cryptocurrency]

Bitcoin price spikes near $6,900 as BitMEX goes offline.
Coinness Makret Index observes that as of 21:11(UTC), a transaction of nearly 7,946 BTC, worth $51 million has been made on August 21 through the address: 3A9avXCtLXbpVsXdY9fXsA5x7TowfYFs7X.
Dash Core Group said that 200 merchants per month are signing up to accept Dash in Venezuela, and the rate of adoption is accelerating.

[Exchange]

OKEx is accelerating its global expansion by joining GLASS, the Global Liquidity And Settlement System developed by SharesPost.
Bakkt won’t support margin trading, and the buying and selling of Bitcoin is fully collateralized or pre-funded.
Binance adjusted Community Coin Voting rule, adding Lucky Draw.

[Others]

Multiple WeChat public accounts of blockchain-related media have been closed.
DST Global denies Bitmain IPO Investment, following similar denials from Softbank and Tencent.
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards will roll out blockchain-powered digital certificates later this year.
The world’s largest graphic card and chip maker Nvidia has officially put an end to its crypto venture due to low profit not because of decline in demand.
Six exchanges, including Huobi Global, OKEx, Binance, HADAX, KuCoin and Gate.io, have listed 153 cryptocurrencies since June 1st.

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