US SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has proposed a three-year regulatory "vacation" for cryptocurrency startups. Peirce at the International Blockchain Congress in Chicago announced this proposal.

According to the famous entrepreneur Elon Musk, despite the decrease in the general hype around a new class of digital assets, cryptocurrency fraud on Twitter has reached a new level.

The Bitcoin symbol ₿ is now available on Twitter. It is displayed when writing the hashtags #Bitcoin or #BTC.

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, was the first who added the Bitcoin symbol to his Twitter message. The Dorsey entry demonstrates that now when a Twitter user writes the hashtag #Bitcoin or #BTC, a cryptocurrency symbol is displayed next to him.

Heath Tarbert, chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), again expressed confidence that there would be Ethereum futures on the market.

"We have seen bitcoin futures, both cash-settled as well as physically-delivered. My guess is we are going to see ether futures as well," said Tarbert in an interview with Bloomberg.

The shocking American businessman John McAfee, who was recently waiting for a $ 1 million Bitcoin exchange rate, changed his mind and now calls the first cryptocurrency "shitcoin".

More recently, McAfee said that he would cut off and eat his penis if, by the beginning of 2020, the Bitcoin exchange rate did not reach $ 1 million. It seems that McAfee quickly went over to the camp of "cryptosceptics" - or, rather, "altcoin worshipers".

One of the first Bitcoin developers, Gavin Andresen, believes that Satoshi Nakamoto could have misjudged the prospects for creating a cryptocurrency.

Andresen first heard about Bitcoin in 2010. He immediately became interested in the idea and soon became the leading curator of the development. In 2013, he "handed over authority" to Vladimir van der Laan, creator of Bitcoin-QT (Bitcoin Core).

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Last year, transactions in total amount of $ 2.5 trillion made on the Bitcoin blockchain, and the average transaction size was about $ 23,000.

According to BitInfoCharts, the average transaction size on the Bitcoin blockchain was 2.75 BTC ($ 23,000), and the average transaction cost (made up of mining costs and commissions) was 0.029 BTC or $ 250.

51,511 BTC worth almost $ 450 million was sent on January 20, 2020 for a commission of less than $ 0.25.

The transaction was included in block 613 644. At the time of block mining, the price of Bitcoin was $ 8680.51, so the transfer amount was equivalent to $ 447 million.

Former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Christopher Giancarlo announced the creation of the Digital Dollar Foundation.

Giancarlo said that a non-profit organization will study the possibilities and prospects of "converting" the US dollar into electronic currency on the blockchain, as well as explore the potential benefits of a "digitized" dollar.