Cryptocurrency news - March 14, 2018

🇯🇵 Japan will call the G20 for action to combat money laundering. It will be proposed to focus on protecting ordinary consumers and countering financial crimes, without imposing restrictions on the development of innovations in fast-growing crypto-currency and financial sectors.

🇰🇷 South Korea plans to allow companies to conduct ICO under "special conditions". The government should have access to data on capital inflows to the ICO market from both individual investors and retailers. The Financial Services Commission considers the "third party opinion" and plans to finalize the regulatory norms for the primary coin placement market.

💸 Coincheck paid $ 433 million to victims of the hacking in one day. As previously announced, the Exchange users received compensation in the double amount - $ 0.83 for each NEM token. In response to the news, the price of XEM rose by 20% during the Asian trading session.

💡 Decentralized online market OpenBazaar attracted $ 5 million. The funds were received from Bitmain and the Canadian VC-firm OMERS Ventures. The startup plans to launch its own token for trading on the platform. OpenBazaar is a service with which you can sell something for crypto currency to other users.

🔪 Foxbit lost $ 270 thousand. The largest brokerage company in Brazil was disabled for 72 hours to eliminate the error, which allowed users to withdraw their bitcoin deposits twice. Due to malfunctions, the company lost about 30 BTC.

🏛 Today in the US Congress there are hearings on the study of the Crypto-Currency and ICO. As practice has shown, such events actively influence the state of the market. These hearings are mostly educational in nature, but it is on the basis of the experience that officials will develop rules of regulation for the entire crypto-currency industry.

📃 Coinbase received an E-Money license for operations in the UK. This makes Coinbase the first licensed crypto exchange in the United Kingdom, which also gives it the right to trade within 23 EU countries and issue electronic equivalents of fiat money.

🔧 Coinbase Wallet fixed the SegWit implementation error. Due to an error in the payment gateway system of the well-known crypto-exchange, about 30 users who sent bitcoins using SegWit addresses lost their funds. At the moment, the Coinbase team has eliminated the bug, and reimbursed users.

🐰 Xiaomi released its analog game CryptoKitties. The service was named Jiami Tu, which can be translated from Chinese as "Kriptotrolica". In the game, users with Xiaomi accounts can purchase and collect virtual rabbits. It would seem - the idea is beaten, but the first batch of game tokens was bought within an hour.

⛏ Details on the Nvidia graphics card for miners appeared. The new card of the line Inno3D, codenamed P102-100 from a technical point of view, is a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti clone with a new core optimized specifically for crypto currency production. As a result of the leak, the performance in the mining became known: 47 MX / s for Ethereum, 660 Sol / c for Zcash, 879 H / c for Monero.