24h on the crypto planet # 27: all the news of cryptocurrencies

Hello to all, Here we go again for our 24h on the crypto planet, the cryptocurrency news! Friday, Bitcoin and all cryptos have experienced a sharp correction. The market now seems calmer.

Belarus legalises cryptocurrencies and ICOs
Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus, recently signed a decree legalizing cryptocurrencies, ICOs and smart contracts. Starting today, all cryptocurrency transactions and associated revenues (including mining) will be tax free for 5 years. The aim is to attract innovative companies from the sector to the country via a favorable tax system.

Germany joins the European regulatory effort
The German Finance Minister bounced back on Bruno Le Maire, who invited the G20 to hold a discussion on cryptocurrencies.

"It makes sense to discuss the speculative risks of digital currencies, as well as their impact on the financial system to an international degree. [The next G20 meeting] will be a good opportunity to do this. Wolfgang Schäuble, German Finance Minister

Israel is considering a national cryptocurrency
On November 15, the Israeli government published a public consultation document that examined centralized and non-centralized payment solutions for government use. An anonymous source reportedly told Reuters that the country's central bank did not rule out the creation of a national currency cryptocurrency.

"Central banks around the world are looking at [cryptocurrency], we should also do it. An official of the Central Bank of Israel.

The Monero Mining Bot on Facebook Messenger
The concept of "traffic mining" is becoming more and more important. Recently, Trend Micro - a Chinese computer security company - has spotted the presence of an infiltrated mining script within Facebook Messenger. Digimine, the name of the script, seems to have contaminated victims in South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Ukraine and Venezuela. Contamination occurs from one user to another with a script that automatically sends a normal-looking video that installs Digimine on the computer when it is open. Stay careful!

The governor of the Belgian central bank (BCB): Bitcoin is not a threat
In an interview earlier in the week, Jan Smet, the BCB governor shared his point of view on Bitcoin.

"It's not stable like the euro. Creating blockchain-based digital money could limit our restrictions to lower interest rates below 0%. "Jan Smet, Governor of BCB

Insurance: Bitcoin leads more and more hackers to ransomware
Interviewed by Bloomberg, three insurance companies have accused Bitcoin of being responsible for increasing the number of ransomware attacks. According to them, the rising price of cryptocurrency is pushing hackers to be more and more greedy. In fact, before 2017, the most expensive ransom demand was $ 17,000. Since the price explosion of the BTC, this record has been largely exceeded, the largest demand now amounting to $ 1 million. Insurers say ransoms ranging from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 are now commonplace.

A crypto-café opens in Singapore!

Irony or pub shot? A coffee that accepts only cryptocurrency and offers its own iteration of digital currency just opened in Singapore, a street of the Central Bank. The Central Bank of Singapore recently issued a warning to the public, arguing that "we must act with the utmost care" and "beware of huge speculative risks" related to cryptocurrencies.

The CEO of Ducatus - the name of the coffee chain - announced that he was already considering extending his influence through other countries, through partnerships with hotels as well as with travel agencies.