Crypto

For the first time in the world, the state has accepted Bitcoin as a payment method. This bill was adopted in a small country in terms of population – El Salvador.

First Deputy head of the National Bank of the country Ekaterina Rozhkova explained the NBU's position on cryptocurrencies.

What updates have been made? Automated mode of exchanging cryptocurrencies to replace the manual mode – acceptance and payments to cards in hryvnia are now automatic.

Small mining farms have some advantages over industrial ones.

Cryptocurrency exchange Thodex announced a temporary suspension of activities, citing “abnormal movements of funds” in its accounts as the reason.

In Ukraine, they offered to declare the bitcoin addresses of officials. Such a proposal was received by the head of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption Oleksandr Novikov from the organisations Virtual Assets of Ukraine and Blockchain4Ukraine.

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada declared cryptocurrencies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of the digital money, in the amount of $252 million, was included in the declaration by Deputy Urbansky.

The price of Ethereum stormed the psychological level of $2,000. On February 20, the cryptocurrency updated its all-time high at $2,040, after which it fell below this level until April 2.

Bitcoin fell below $51,000, the lowest level since the beginning of this month. In two weeks, the main cryptocurrency has fallen in price by $10,000.