Cryptocurrency news - March 21, 2018. Part 1

♻️ Bitfinex is updating the system. The twitter of the exchange said that technical works on the platform update will be held today, March 21. In this regard, there may be interruptions in work.

🚫 Coinbase stops supporting wallets with a multi-signature function. Last year, the exchange disconnected the creation of new multi-signature purses due to the increase in the number of forks of fork, which required the technical services of the company to spend a lot of time adapting the algorithm for each branching of the block. Within the next 30 days, the functionality of the multi-signatures will be completely removed from the site.

📝 The use of blockage in the presidential elections in Sierra Leone was a lie. The chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) of the country denied information on the use of the detachment in the electoral process. The source of disinformation is the Swiss startup Agora, who was an international observer during the elections and tested his blocking technology, which has nothing to do with NEC.

🏝 Bermuda develops ICO-friendly legislation. For this purpose, a special working group will be created by the government, which will study the possibility of using crypto currency in commercial relations. According to the plan of the officials, the new legislation should attract crypto-currency companies from all over the world.

⚔️ A 15 year old boy found a vulnerability in Ledger's purse. Technical support of the hardware crypto-currency wallet Ledger has published security audit reports and software update 1.4.1 after the British Salem Rashid described in detail the method of hacking. A representative of Ledger announced that remuneration will now be paid for the detection of vulnerabilities.