Bitcoin News: Earn Free Bitcoin by Beating this Game – MonteCrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma (Express.co.uk)
BITCOIN enthusiasts and passionate gamers have been thrown into the mix for an unprecedented chance to win a free bitcoin token. The catch? They have to beat the “impossible” MonteCrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma video game. MonteCrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma officially launched last night on Steam and has so far been met with a strong degree of apprehension from the players. On one hand gamers have praised the “gimmick” driving Gem Rose Accent’s marketing, while others have panned the game for being nigh impossible to beat. The game itself is a steampunk first-person puzzler in a similar vein to titles like The Witness or The Talos Principle.
UK and US Join Forces to Study Cryptocurrency (MyBroadband.co.za)
Regulators in the UK and US have announced a collaborative effort to work on Fintech projects. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the US and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will share information regarding market trends and developments in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries. The agencies aim to improve business collaboration with regulators, in addition to studying blockchain projects to determine how they should be regulated.
Coinbase And Bitfinex Integrate Bitcoin Scaling Upgrade SegWit (CoinTelegraph.com)
Crypto exchange platforms Coinbase and Bitfinex both announced yesterday, Feb. 20, that they are now ready to implement the Segregated Witness (SegWit) scalability upgrade for Bitcoin (BTC). Coinbase tweeted the announcement that it has finished the final testing stages of SegWit for Bitcoin on the platform and is aiming for a 100 percent launch to all customer by mid-next week. Bitfinex announced an already functioning rollout of SegWit to all customers trading in BTC. Coinbase had first announced the SegWit upgrade in December 2017, and posted an update at the beginning of February, 2018 as they entered the final stages of testing.
Qtum (QTUM): The Bitcoin, Ethereum Blockchains Hybrid (Cryptorecorder.com)
Qtum (QTUM) is one of the emerging altcoins that investors should keep a close look at. This crypto coin is a hybrid that combines the infrastructure of Bitcoin core and the Ethereum Virtual Machine. By so doing, the coin brags of a super blockchain network with hybrid features borrowed from the two most successful cryptocurrencies in the world. But since the Ethereum blockchain is completely different from the Bitcoin blockchain, QTUM developers had to come up with a medium through which the two blockchains would link together. That is where the QTUM Account Abstract layer came in. This layer acts as the link between the Bitcoin codebase core 0.13 and Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Russia is Leading the Push with Blockchain Platforms (Smartereum.com)
Blockchain News-Russia is leading the pack with Blockchain platforms: Many countries are trying to create rules and regulations in order to use the blockchain technology as well as control cryptocurrencies. However, with the 2016 presidential elections just around the corner, Russia is surely leading the pack. Increasing democratic powers of citizens: Russia has granted the citizens more and more powers in a democratic way. Currently, the citizens are able to choose the colors as well as the other details of a sports arena as well as the Metro train. On the other hand, when it comes to cryptocurrency related news, there is a rumor that the vote counting would be based on the blockchain technology. This is specially true for the city of Moscow.
