Daily Crypto/Encrypted World Selection 2020/2/04

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Block.one rewards $200,000 for blockchain cross-chain solutions

On February 3, Block.one’s official website announced an event titled “Integration, not isolation, help us complete the challenge of blockchain cross-chain communication”, providing developers with rewards of up to 200,000 US dollars. B1 hopes to gather EOSIO developers at the starting point of the new decade, soliciting solutions that can improve the scalability of the blockchain. This solution requires the deployment of Solidity Smart Contracts (Ethereum programming language) on EOSIO, mainly to solve cross-chain communication Task, this news has been forwarded and supported by many developers after it was announced.

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Bitfinex cold wallet conducts a series of large collections, involving 180,000 BTC

The Beijing Chain Security monitoring system found that from 23:00 on February 3rd to 2:03 am on February 4th, Beijing time, Bitfinex carried out a huge amount of BTC collection, and its cold wallet related addresses continued to operate, and a number of large amounts were collected at the address starting with bc1qgd UTXOs were finally collected into two sets of huge UTXOs of 135,500 BTC and 47,000 BTC, and the BTC balance of this address exceeded 180,000, which itself belongs to the normal wallet collection of the exchange.

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US digital securities company Securitize receives a new round of financing from Sony and others

On Feb. 4, digital securities development firm Securitize raised funding from Sony Financial Corporation and GlobalBrain Investment Fund. This strategic financing is an extension of a funding round in September 2019 that raised more than $14 million from Mitsubishi UFJ Innovation Partners and Nomura Holdings. Securitize, an American start-up that uses blockchain technology to digitize securities, was approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2019.

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Venezuelan Retailers Refuse to Accept Petro Payments Due to Hyperinflation

Venezuelan retailers are refusing to accept payments in the petro due to hyperinflation that has decimated the bolivars they receive when banks liquidate the petro. María Carolina Uzcátegui, former president of Venezuela’s National Council of Commerce and Services Consecomercio, even called the petro a scam. It is reported that since the launch of the petro currency, the Maduro government has tried to promote its development, but with limited success.

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The epidemic prevention and control coordination system in Nansha District, Guangzhou is launched, using blockchain and other information technology

The reporter learned from the Guangzhou Nansha District Science, Industry and Information Bureau that in order to fully respond to the epidemic, the Nansha District Epidemic Prevention and Control Coordination System was officially launched on February 2. Based on the "Nansha City Brain", the system uses blockchain and other information technologies to summarize and integrate various epidemic prevention information such as key epidemic prevention personnel, latest epidemic data, resource scheduling, etc., to open up the "data chimney" of various departments, and strive to create a unified Epidemic prevention and control command center. As enterprises in the district resume work one after another, Nansha District will use the enterprise resumption management function of the system to guide and strengthen personnel prevention and control, and rely on blockchain technology to encourage enterprises to truthfully report epidemic prevention information and promote epidemic prevention work to achieve information management.