Cryptocurrency news - March 20, 2018. Part 2

🌍 G20 considers crypto-currencies as assets, not currencies. Participants in the G20 summit agreed that crypto-currencies do not have any signs of sovereign money, and therefore should be treated as assets. This means that trade with them can potentially be taxed on capital gains.

🏦 Banks of Thailand are launching a joint blockbuster platform. The use of blocking technology will reduce the time it takes to process customer payments. The country's 14 largest banks plan to launch the system in September 2018, after it is tested and tested by the financial regulators of Thailand.

👨🏼⚖️ The Ukrainian court for the first time decided to compensate the plaintiff for damage to the plaintiff. The District Court of the Kiev region adopted a precedent decision - the plaintiff, who was injured by the actions of law enforcement bodies, was compensated for moral damage in 1 BTC.

⛓ Stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Australia will work together to promote the technology of blockade. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) asked colleagues from Australia to adopt their experience in processing and settling transactions conducted through block transactions. After the exchange of experience, both exchanges will work together on the development of systems based on a distributed register for borrowing shares, lending and some types of off-exchange transactions.

👥 About 8% of US citizens have crypto-currency assets. According to a new survey Finder com, about 16.3 million Americans own crypto-currencies. Slightly more than 5% of US citizens (10.2 million) have invested their money in bitcoin. This indicator shows a significant growth - in December 2016, only one percent of respondents at least once used bitcoins.