The general director of the InfoWatch group of companies and the co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, Natalya Kaspersky, considers Bitcoin the development of a group of American cryptographers who worked on behalf of the special services. She said this, speaking at the St. Petersburg University ITMO, where Kaspersky presented a presentation on "Modern technologies - the basics of information and cyber-wars." In her opinion, the group of American cryptographers is hiding under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin creator, but did not name any concrete people and evidence of their involvement in the development of Bitcoin.

Expert Bitcoin lawyer Trace Mayer suggested that the price of the first cryptocurrency could reach $ 115,000 in 2018 after the correction phase ends. However, he stresses that such a figure of $ 115,000 - despite the theoretical possibility based on previous cycles, will be "much overstated". Now Bitcoin is recovering after the fall, the largest since 2013.

A long-time opponent of crypto-currency, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he regrets past negative comments about Bitcoin, in particular what he called a scam at the New York conference. Now, while Dimon continues to assert "this topic does not interest him at all," he recognized as "reality" the core Bitcoin technology - blockchain and revised his opinion on the ICO, saying that each campaign should be approached "individually."

A physicist from Toronto, Alex Beath shared with Fortune his assumptions about the safety of Bitcoin and its connection with quantum computers. The scientist believes that if you previously talked about quantum computers hypothetically, then after connecting to the IT giants race, you can start applying them in practice in the near future. In the first place, cryptocurrencies will be under threat, but it will be the sign that the quantum computer is really exists.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to register five exchange-traded index funds (ETFs) tied to the Bitcoin rate - the so-called marginal and inverse ETFs. The proposed funds are designed to track trade in Bitcoin futures markets. According to the application, ETF seek to provide investors with an income that multiplies the profits in the core market and represents a short-term investment.

In the distant 1997, two authors, an American and an Englishman, published a book entitled "The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age". Most likely, then James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg hardly suspected that they had written a historical book describing the near future. The authors of the book persuaded the readers that humanity expects great changes. In bold and strange descriptions, they, in fact, managed to predict the idea of a crypto currency, with frightening accuracy embodied in today's Bitcoin.

The South Korean online portal for employment Saramin interviewed 941 employees and found out that 31.3% of them invested in cryptocurrencies. The average investment volume was 5.66 million won ($ 5,300). Of the surveyed employees who invested in the cryptocurrency, 44.1% invested less than 1 million won, 18.3% - 1-2 million won, 9.8% - 2-4 million won, 7.8% - 4-6 million won, 12.9% - more than 10 million won. 54.2% of respondents said they invested in cryptocurrency because I think this is the fastest way to earn, and 47.8% said it was an easy investment, as the amount was insignificant.

Anonymous charity Pineapple Fund, which makes donations in the Cryptocurrency, provided $ 1 million in Bitcoins to the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization founded to "store the history of the Internet." According to the representative of the fund, the Internet Archive becomes more valuable every day, collecting books, abandoned games, websites and communities that have closed.

Goldman Sachs, one of the largest banks on Wall Street, plans to launch its own platform for trading cryptocurrencies. This became known to the agency Bloomberg from sources who are familiar with the strategic plans of the banking group. As it became known to the agency, the bank plans to launch a new business unit in July 2018, but it may happen earlier. Sources say that Goldman Sachs is currently collecting a team in New York, trying to solve security problems, and how the assets will be stored.