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According to the announced news on February 13, 2019, IBM company stated in the annual conference of technology and business “IBM Think 2019” held in San Francisco, California that Hyundai Commercial, a subsidiary company of Hyundai in South Korea, will cooperate with IBM, one of the biggest companies in the field technology, to modernize its business through Blockchain technology.

According to reports published by the encryption news outlet 8BTC on February 11, the founder of the Chinese mining pool Poolin crypto named Zhu Fa predicted that Bitcoin price could increase up to 5 million yuan ($738,000) in the future.

A statement published by Ripple in February 2019, announced its cooperation with the universities in the U.S., China, Singapore and Brazil with the aim to develop University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

JP Morgan Chase, one of the most famous American banks, started working in the field of cryptocurrency after issuing JPM Coin. Jamie Dimon CEO of JP Morgan Chase has named Bitcoin a “fraud” in September 2017; however, he changed his mind after a while, to the extent that he introduced cryptocurrencies a risk for a business of the banks under his management. In reaction to this turnabout, Alan Silbert, an old timer bank CEO, said in a tweet: “Backpedaling is the first step in the program towards walking the path.”

Over this week, more than 150 people were able to buy pizza using the Lightning Network with Bitcoin.

Bitcoin, which works on the infrastructure of Blockchain, was the first cryptocurrency to enter the market; but it wasn’t the first attempt at creating a digital monetary system.

The Hackerone website is one of the largest and most well-known websites among developers and hackers, and it provides reward-giving programs which works toward discovering vulnerabilities and fixing them. 

According to the news published by the local news outlet Sabah, on February 12, 2019, the Turkish police arrested 24 hackers who, in the past, stole 13 million Turkish lira (equal to $2.47 million) from a Turkish cryptocurrency company.

Malaysia: Cryptocurrencies as Securities Malaysia is among the countries that has recently published its regulations about encryption industry and cryptocurrency. This means that cryptocurrencies will be within the purview of…

According to local government reports, Chinese legislators do not recognize cryptocurrencies as legal money or a tool for payment operations, and the banking system of China has not recognized cryptocurrencies…