Cryptocurrency news

⚡️ The release of Callisto's hard-core was held on the Ethereum Classic network. The release took place, as planned, on the block of 5 500 000. All owners of ETC were credited with coins fork CLO in the ratio 1: 1.

🇰🇷 State employees of South Korea can not use crypto-currencies. The Government of the Republic of Korea has announced that disciplinary measures will be applied to trade and storage of kriptovualyut by state officials. This step was taken because of the possibility of insider trading.

🚙 Crypto currency from Mercedes-Benz. Automobile giant Daimler AG, known for its Mercedes-Benz and Smart, presented MobiCoin at the Mobile World Congress 2018. Token will reward drivers for driving on environmentally friendly cars and for compliance. It is still unknown what they can be spent on and whether it is possible to transfer them to Fiat.

🛫 Taiwanese airlines started taking bitcoin as a means of payment. Now FAT Taiwan Inc passengers can spend their BTC on buying tickets. The sale of space for more than 20 thousand flights.

⚡️ The popular bitcoin-purse Electrum was updated to version 3.1. In addition to eliminating minor bugs, the update adds the following features: the calculation of the commission for the transaction based on the data of the membrane directly from the wallet, as well as the ability to save the unsent transactions to the wallet file for further use of their output data.

📉 The Ripple rate fell after the denial of rumors of a listing on Coinbase. The management of the US stock exchange said that it does not plan to add additional assets to the site. The news instantly reflected on the rate of XRP falling below the $ 1 mark.

💵 A competitor, USDT, appeared on the Bittrex exchange. The Exchange announced the listing of the new TRC True Currency, which, like the Tether currency, is provided with a phyto deposit in US dollars. According to the results of an independent appraisal by Cohen & Company, the security deposit for TrueUSD was $ 4.77 million.

🏩 A large South Korean hotel booking site will start accepting crypto-currencies. Bithumb, one of the largest exchanges in South Korea, announced a business alliance with Seoul-based With Innovation Corp, a local online booking site with over 50,000 registered properties. Thanks to this partnership, the clients of the site will be able to pay for hotels, motels, campsites, etc. using crypto currency.

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