Facebook-barbecue party and a Bitcoin ETF, The regulatory-ECHO

Sim swap spread in recent years into a shark in the Cyber-cheater's pool. The Scam is a type of identity theft, the attackers have apart especially on the phone number of the victim. They fraudulently obtain access to SIM cards and can identify with it, especially online – a possibility that also comes with many Bitcoin exchanges in the Two-factor authentication. Victims of such attacks Seth Shapiro, a Professor from the University in the U.S. state of California. This is suing the mobile service provider AT&T for damages.

Now the digital coin also fell to the Federal Ministry of Finance. Bitcoin is not even so good for money laundering and the financing of terrorism, as critics accept it frequently. However, the Ministry wants to look in the future in more detail, especially of the trade of crypto-currencies is to monitor the BaFin better in the future. In their first national risk analysis, the authority analysed the threat posed by Bitcoin & co. The result: Monero (XMR) is very much anonymous. King of money laundering and the financing of terrorism, however, remains cash.

A week in the sign of the "Facebook Coins" Libra. Hardly a crypto-project is driving the global regulatory authorities currently, in as much work as the "Quickly Buck". Reached the beginning of the week, the message that the Libra Association plan, several Stable Coins out where Libra together can put a stop to us. In his speech before the US Congress, Mark Zuckerberg assured then, that in the case of Libra, no customer data is sold should be. He came then to the cross-fire of U.S. senators. At almost the same time, there was a Libra-hearing before the Finance Committee in the German Bundestag. It was a little quieter. The criticism of Libra was still sharp, the Facebook subsidiary, Libra was roasted from all sides on a low flame.

The United States is preparing the regulatory ground for stablecoins. A bill for the regulation of the "stable-coins", to reflect the value of Fiat currencies or Assets, provided US Deputy Sylvia Garcia. The little surprising proposal: Stable Coins will be as Securities rated. Until then, one suspects it is, however, still some edits to the application.

we Swing the Bitcoin-regulatory-review back over the pond, we land in Lithuania. There the Central Bank is working flat out on their Blockchain platform LBChain. For IBM Poland and the technology to compete-company Tieto Lithuania the best basis for the planned infrastructure solution for the Central Bank.

And honestly, the Groundhog greets the U.S. securities and exchange Commission. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is again an application for a Bitcoin ETF. The Cayman Islands reported company Kryptoin has submitted in mid-October. While it had the applications that have previously been difficult, can learn a new applicant from the mistakes of their predecessors, the SEC justified their rejections, finally thoroughly. If it works this Time? You may remain excited.