Как минимум пять человек стали жертвами мошенников, потерпевшие заявляют, что больше злятся на Apple, чем на мошенников, поскольку компания не проверила приложение.

В Apple пояснили, что часто разработчики мошеннических приложений отправляют изначально «безобидные» сервисы на проверку, а затем превращают их в фишинговые. В данном случае фейковое приложение Trezor попало в App Store обманным путем и изначально позиционировалось как «криптографический» сервис для шифрования файлов и хранения паролей, не связанный с криптовалютами.

Приложение было доступно в App Store по крайней мере с 22 января по 3 февраля и могло быть загружено около 1000 раз.

Apple не раскрыла разработчиков этого приложения, не сообщила, передавала ли она сведения правоохранителям или проводила ли дальнейшее расследование в отношении разработчиков.

А ваши приложения надёжны?

Iridium, one of the rarest precious metals mined as a byproduct of platinum and palladium, is up 131% since early January, far exceeding Bitcoin's 85% gain. The rally sparked last year's supply disruptions and increased demand from display and spark plug manufacturers, according to refinery Heraeus Group.

Since the market is much smaller than that of its better known sister metals, manufacturing problems can have a large impact on prices. Iridium is not listed on the exchange, buyers can only get a limited offer from a number of dealers or contact the producers of this rare metal directly.

The prospect of a shortage of supply also boosted the prices of other platinum group metals. Palladium is about 9% below its all-time high, rhodium hit a record $ 29,800 an ounce this week, and ruthenium climbed to nearly 13-year highs.

Tech companies should not issue currencies, leaving this mission to the state. This was announced by Microsoft President Brad Smith

"Monetary emission should be almost unambiguously managed by a subject who is responsible to society and really thinks only about state interests, which means the government."

Most central banks are studying digital currencies, the greatest interest of regulators is riveted to stablecoins, various options for using CBDC are being considered.

What do you think should be the prerogative of government digital currencies?

Half of the issue was redeemed by global investment funds, including Mubadala Investment Company and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners, and the messenger placed the remaining 50% with European and Russian funds and banks.

Plans are underway to create a proprietary messenger advertising platform for public channels, which is designed to ensure privacy and should allow the company to cover server and traffic costs. Premium stickers can also be created with additional features for which artists will receive a portion of the profits.

The product, which has been developing since 2013, is entering a new period of development - monetization through advertising, paid bots, stickers, third-party applications like vkotnakte.

Earlier, Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messenger, was going to launch the TON blockchain platform and the Gram cryptocurrency; in this project he attracted $ 1.7 billion from investors.
However, then the American Securities Commission banned the sale of Gram, and Durov had to return the money.

Billions of dollars for the development of a project that has existed for more than 7 years, how do you like that? 🙂

A villain for conspiracy theorists, a philanthropist, a man who changed the world.

There are almost no indifferent people, but how did the creator of Microsoft deserve negativity and mistrust?

Types of stablecoins:

1. Backed by Fiat

They are a kind of IOU, in which case each "coin" will be tied to a unit of fiat currency (for example, the US dollar), which acts as collateral. The collateral is held by a third party - most often it is a depository bank.

2. Backed by cryptocurrency

A more reliable and liquid digital instrument is used as the underlying asset. Basically Bitcoin, Ripple and Ethereum are used for collateral. Reinforcement can be either one or several cryptocurrencies. To issue a stablecoin backed by another cryptocurrency, the issuer of the stablecoin must have double the amount of the underlying asset in reserve. For example, if such a cryptocurrency is equal to the value of 1 ETH, then for each stablecoin, a collateral of 2 ETH is required. If the price of the collateralized cryptocurrency decreases to a critical minimum, stablecoins are automatically liquidated.

3. Unsecured stablecoins

The stability of the unsecured coin rate is achieved through seigniorage.
Seigniorage is the income that is generated by the issue of money and is assigned by the issuer. It is widely used by states that profit from increasing the money supply.
Stablecoins that are not backed by other underlying assets are regulated through smart contracts, which guarantees decentralization and transparency in pricing. But, they are the least reliable and, if interest from investors falls, they can completely cease to exist.
The coin holders receive shares for a share in the future seignorage, this concept is called seigniorage shares. Seigniorage is the income that is generated by the issue of money and is assigned by the issuer. It is widely used by states that profit from increasing the money supply.

Perhaps a new unit of measurement of value awaits us ahead, one, stable and independent. Intercontinental, without barriers, intermediaries and central issuer.

What will our new world be like?

Drivers who reach the highest environmental standards will receive exclusive incentives including service vouchers from Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify and Zalando.

Supporting environmentally friendly driving of customers, and rewarding them with special benefits, will provide an opportunity to both test a new type of tokenization and help conserve natural resources.

Do you think digital technologies can improve the ecological situation on the planet?

Main types:
Soft fork - changing the rules does not require updating the client (software) to execute the new rules. If some of the nodes (nodes) in the network do not accept the new rules, such nodes will still be able to interact with the nodes that use the new rules.
Thus, a soft fork is a reversible code change that does not break the consensus on the protocol itself.

Hard fork - the new rules contradict the old ones so much that the nodes that did not accept them do not receive information from the nodes that accepted them. This type assumes a change in the very mechanism of consensus, in which case the entire network is divided into two parts that can never interact again. This is because blocks that are valid in one part will not be valid in the other.

The difference between a soft fork and a hard fork is easily explained by the analogy with languages. If before the soft fork the blockchain spoke British English, then after that it began to speak American. The two branches of the nodes will easily understand each other - just like the Americans and the British. And after a hard fork, the blockchain nodes do not switch to another dialect, but change the whole language (for example, to German instead of English), and do not understand each other.

What forks do you know, can you name examples?

No crisis lasts forever, and any panic and fear also has a beginning and an end.

A crisis is an opportunity.