24H News Roundup Nov 6: BCH Will Embrace Its Hard Fork Upgrade On Nov 5

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Nov 5 · 2 min read

[Policy]

1. The Financial Services Agency of Japan plans to establish a restriction rule in 2019 to prohibit portfolios and sales of trust investments targeting virtual currency;

2. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directed that the government should finish testing the national central bank digital currency (CBDC) in 2020;

3. Finland’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) announced that it has granted registration to five crypto service providers.

[Cryptocurrency]

1. BCH will embrace its hard fork upgrade on Nov 15;

2. Stellar decides to cut the number of lumens for distribution and burnt 55 billion lumens;

3. The Aragon community has officially proclaimed itself against ProgPoW to block changes to Ethereum’s mining algorithm;

4. Justin Sun released a post on Weibo (Chinese Twitter) on Nov. 5 and claimed TRON network officially passed the №27 proposal, and the new incentive mechanism will take effect;

5. The core development team for Æternity announced its LIMA hardfork on Nov 5, releasing the latest software to miners and in fact, handing over governance to the community;

6. Walmart is partnering with Ripple partners, MoneyGram and Ria, to power its Walmart2World money transfer service;

7. NANO will go live on Kraken on Nov 6.

[Exchange & Wallet]

1. Binance has partnered with Advcash to offer deposits and withdrawals of Ruble (RUB) via the Advcash service;

2. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance could soon add support for Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH) and Kazakhstani tenge (KZT) for its direct fiat-to-crypto trading facility;

3. Gemini added an automated customer tax reporting function.

[Others]

1. The Softbank Group of Japan was turned down by the parent company of ACU after it offered $600 million to buy 62% of ACU’s share;

2. Coca-Cola’s bottlers now rely on the blockchain solution, which was developed by German software corporation SAP to keep track of all transactions that take place within 70 franchises;

3. Bangkok Bank (BBL) is set to roll out a blockchain-based letter of credit (L/C) service next month and aims for the innovative financial service to increase the bank’s trade finance business.

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