✔️ Congressman Brad Sherman proposed to ban cryptocurrencies in the United States. He says, coins can be used for criminal purposes, so it’s better to exclude such an opportunity.
✔️Vietnam banned the import of mining equipment. The matter is that in the country coins are recognized as an illegal payment instrument.
✔️Twenty Taiwanese banks have united for testing the blockchain service for the audit of financial reports of state companies. They were joined by the world's 4 largest auditing companies: Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC.
✔️Stephen Bannon, the former adviser to US President Donald Trump, is going to release his own token. He is also the holder of the bitcoins.
✔️In his speech in Congress on Wednesday, July 18, the head of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said that bitcoin is not the real currency.
✔️The CEO of Digital Currency Group venture company Barry Silbert invested in bitcoin last week. Acording to his words, this year crypto market has reached its minimum level.
✔️On Thursday, Fortune magazine published a list of the most influential young businessmen. Two Russian citizens were included in the list: the founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform and the cryptocurrency of the same name, Vitaliy Buterin (22nd) and the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov (25th place).