On the eve of the launch of Bitcoin Gold fork, which is tentatively scheduled for November 1, a list of fraudulent websites, wallets and accounts in social networks was published on the site of the project developers. If you plan to receive Bitcoin Gold coins, be careful when obtaining coins and do not transfer data to access your wallet to third parties, especially if you did not take precautions and no longer transferred the real bitcoins to another purse.

Chinese exchanges and operators of crypto-currency wallets, disappointed with the opportunity to continue working in their country, are in search of new opportunities and partners in neighboring Asian countries. Many translate their crypto-currency business in whole or in parts. For example, an application for licensing is submitted to Japan, and offices are located in Singapore and South Korea. The largest players who once dominated the world's crypto currency market, are forced to seek refuge in neighboring countries. At least 19 companies have applied for licenses in Japan.

One of the government officials involved in the study of distributed registry technology, initiated by the US Treasury, insists on a deeper testing of the blockchain technology. In an article published this week in the Journal of Federal Financial Management, Craig Fischer, the head of the project group for the management of financial innovation and transformation (FIT) of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance, proposed to investigate in more detail the technology of the distributed registry. He noted that the possibilities of its application will help improve the exchange of data and information.

The Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market is new and relatively small. In 2016, the world spent an ICO of $ 103 million, if you do not take into account the hacked and canceled ICO project The DAO. In the same year, the world market of venture investments amounted to $ 127 billion. Meanwhile, according to the portal CoinDesk, for the first half of 2017, ICO was held in the world for $ 1.13 billion, of which $ 797 million was in the second quarter. The results of the second half of the year promise to be even more impressive.

If you follow the news from the technology world, you've obviously heard many times about the Internet of things (Internet of Things or IoT). With the proliferation of smart home devices - from lighting devices to thermostats and cameras, and the use of other smart solutions in enterprises, the spread of IoT and the problems associated with it, it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. When you think about DDoS-attacks, then computers and servers infected with malicious programs and viruses that are controlled by a secret and anonymous server come to mind. However, the largest botnets and associated DDoS attacks that appear recently do not always spread through infected computers, servers or smartphones. Hackers found that it is much easier to compromise a vulnerable IoT device than to try to force a user to click on a malicious link or download an infected file.

News about crypto-currencies more and more often flash before your eyes in the network already and on those resources that are not devoted directly to financial technologies or business. Of course, this is to be expected from the leading Internet publications, the purpose of which is to find any novelties in IT. However, what happens in more traditional media channels? As it turned out, not everything is so sad. In early October this year, a Twitter user with the nickname CryptoRick posted a tweet in which he said that he saw a commercial for Dash crypto cash in a United Airlines airplane. This information is confirmed by other users who were on this flight.

Users of the social network Reddit discuss the recent jump in complexity in the Bitcoin network. The last major change raised the complexity by 250 billion units, or by 21.4% from a value of 1,196,792,694,099 to 1,452,839,779 146. The last time such a major leap took place in 2015. In order for the reader to better understand the scale of this change, we recall that it took almost 7 years for the complexity to rise from 1 to 250 billion. The reason for such a drastic change could only be the introduction of new large-scale mining equipment in the last two or three weeks, and the consequence was a natural growth of the network hash from 8.56 to 10.4 E / s (ex-session per second).

The Supreme Court of Canadian Quebec accuses the organizer of ICO PlexCoin and the head of DL Innov inc, Dominic Lecroix, in disobeying the regulator - it repeatedly ordered to stop investing money from investors on PlexCoin (the Altocum on the basis of the Etherium). In July, the Commission for the Supervision of the Financial Market of France (AMF) issued regulations prohibiting companies Lecruix and some other projects that are associated with it, to engage in "any form of investment", as well as close all sites related to PlexCoin, and withdraw all advertising .

Many specialists in the developer community are working on a new function called atomic swaps. These swaps completely eliminate the need for third parties to participate in the exchange between blockchains of various crypto currencies and transfer the reins of the trade directly to the user. In recent months, much has been said about the revolutionary idea, known as internetwork atomic swaps. Atomic swaps are a new technology that is still in development, allowing P2P trading between different types of digital assets.

Leading manufacturer of equipment for mining, Bitmain, announced the release of the first products in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The initiative is being implemented at the Bitmaintech Israel Research Center, the first center of the company outside of China. "We are very proud to be part of the effort to develop software for an artificial intelligence product called Sophon. Our AI researchers focused on creating a computer version and NLP solutions optimized for the Sophon platform, "said Bitmaintech Israel head Gadi Glikberg.