Petro anchor, piracy of Chilean banks and asks Bitcoin ETF: summary of the week | CryptoNews

CriptoNoticias offers you every Monday the best summary of the most remarkable news from the Bitcoin ecosystem and crypto-currencies, in addition to the latest innovations made around the development of cryptoactive technology.

Disconnected in the last week? Do not worry, here we present you the best news from the previous week:

• Sunday 15 held a new G20 summit where the President of the Central Bank of Argentina explained that cryptoactives do not impose risk for the global financial system, should be monitored to avoid its use in illegal activities and required the FATF to clarify how its rules are managed to prevent money laundering. money with cryptoactives, with a delay of October of this 2018 .
• The mining equipment manufacturer Innosilicon has announced the launch of an ASIC minor of the Ethhash algorithm, this Monday, July 23. The new miner, named A10 ETHMaster, reports a performance of up to 485 MegaHash per second (MH / s), being the most powerful ethereum operating equipment reported to date . Bitcoin broke the psychological barrier of $ 8,000 a fact that had not occurred since November 22, 2017, in this vertiginous rise to $ 20,000. mid-December. With Bitcoin, most cryptocurrencies on the market have also had an escalation in their price.
• The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed its decision on the application for a listed investment fund (ETF) for a portion of Direxion. The company filed the application on January 24, 2018, and since then the decision has been postponed twice . The new provisional date has been set for 21 September. The Commission did not refer to any other requests such as those made by Cboe or VanEck.
• The digital wallet provider Skrill has announced that since July 25, it offers its users the opportunity to instantly buy and sell cryptocurrencies. platform for more than 30 countries including some Hispanics .
• On July 25, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that a new cone will be launched on August 20. in this country, whose value will be anchored in the cryptoactive state Petro .

In addition:

• The banking system of Chile was the victim of an attack, this Wednesday, July 25, which resulted in theft of financial information of thousands of dollars. credit card users . Officials, known as ShadowBrokers, released data on the credit cards of those affected and offered to sell information on how they perpetrated the 50-to-200 packet attack bitcoins
• The application for a Listed Investment Fund (ETF) by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, owners of the Gemini Cryptography Exchange. This engendered disagreements between the same representatives of the SEC commissioners fearing that these types of decisions undermine innovation. Despite rumors, other requests from the bitcoin ETF are going ahead, given that the SEC has not offered an official position on these procedures.
• On July 27, reports were made that Nasdaq representatives would have held a secret meeting with at least 6 startups to discuss possible scenarios such as regulating the crypto market mechanisms to improve their image and validate their potential in global markets.
• In Antigua and Barbuda, you can buy citizenship with cryptocurrencies. With an investment equivalent to 200 thousand dollars ( approximately more than 24 BTC ), investors can acquire Antigua nationality and travel without a visa in 132 countries.
• In an announcement made this Friday, July 27 the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) asked all institutions that comply with the Aztec financial system, that strengthens the security measures among customers or businesses who are dedicated to "the exchange or the purchase of virtual assets"