第3场：2月21日星期四04:00 欧冠1/8决赛首回合 马德里竞技VS尤文图斯（主队在前）
竞猜地址如下：
主胜： vite_450ec847255cb2b8c9a793fb87feffee92516770329bc8023a
平局： vite_379371591e320bd4beb6ce9cdf333688e4bc3e8b597ba8e06c
客胜： vite_01c63cc80c16d20edcccd109fa8a0c4732da61b0c256e89349
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第二场：2月20日星期三04:00 欧冠1/8决赛首回合 利物浦VS拜仁慕尼黑（主队在前）
转入地址：
主胜： vite_450ec847255cb2b8c9a793fb87feffee92516770329bc8023a
平局： vite_379371591e320bd4beb6ce9cdf333688e4bc3e8b597ba8e06c
客胜： vite_01c63cc80c16d20edcccd109fa8a0c4732da61b0c256e89349
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第一场：2月19日星期二03:30 足总杯第5轮 切尔西VS曼联（主队在前）
转入地址：
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平局： vite_379371591e320bd4beb6ce9cdf333688e4bc3e8b597ba8e06c
客胜： vite_01c63cc80c16d20edcccd109fa8a0c4732da61b0c256e89349
Law enforcement in Mumbai, India have exposed a group allegedly involved in a cryptocurrency scam that amassed an estimated 1 billion rupees (nearly $17 million), local media outlet The Times of India reports on Feb. 17.
The case reportedly led to the freezing of several accounts in the country and to the arrest of four individuals — Sanjay Sontakke, Rajnikant Kumavat, Alpesh Barodia and Kirankumar Panchsara. According to The Times of India, the police are also looking for a fifth suspect, Ashok Goyal, who reportedly played a key role in the alleged scam.
The complaint that led to the four arrests was filed by a resident of the Indian city of Surat, Umeshchand Jain, who alleged that suspects defrauded him of 10.2 million rupees (about $145,000).
The articles quotes police inspector Sunil Jadhav explaining the scheme:
According to the report, the group launched a cryptocurrency dubbed “Cashcoin” a year ago, which they then sold to investors, promising them to double their investments.
The offenses registered by the city crime branch of the local law enforcement forces are reportedly cheating, breach of trust and criminal conspiracy.
The lawyers of the defendants claim that they are innocent and have been wrongly arrested.
Last month, Indian police also arrested an associate of a group accused of conducting a crypto scam involving 5 billion rupees (about $71.6 million).
A report published by crypto analytics company Chainalysis in January revealed that the value of Ethereum (ETH) stolen via scams reached $36 million 2018, more than doubling in 2018, as compared to 2017. 
The US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has included cryptocurrency surveillance among its goals for 2019, according to one of its recent reports, which adds that the Division of Market Oversight (DMO) has been tasked with several activities related to market operations.
The CFTC is known as one of the crypto-friendly regulators although it retains a skeptical stance on the practices in the sector.
The CFTC is now tasked with exploring the launch of the Bakkt Bitcoin futures exchange with physical delivery. In a relatively young sector, issues of technological safety, delivery, and security are yet to be clarified.
The activities of regulators are not to be seen as verdicts on the value or promise of digital assets but as readiness to explore the potential for trading in a compliant manner. In the US, oversight bodies have improved their understanding of digital assets, sparking hopes that there may be a common approach and a standard to create a regulated market. Along with the CFTC, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is dealing with the issues of securities laws as applied to digital assets.
For now, institutional investors remain wary, not only about the potential of trade manipulation but also ownership, storage, and custody. While regulated in the area of money handling services, exchanges rarely have oversight on trading or the way they store funds to avoid losses. 
Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies, the country's 60-person parliament, approved bill 7363 on Thursday, February 14, thereby establishing a regulatory framework for securities issued on blockchains. Passing with 58 parliament members voting yes and two voting no, the bill aims to offer "greater certainty for investors and make the transfer of securities more efficient by reducing the number of intermediaries."
Bill 7363 has roots in two previous securities-related laws passed in Luxembourg. The first, passed in August 2001, dealt with the legal circulation of securities within the country. It was then modernized in April 2013 with an amendment that gave legal status to "dematerialized securities." Dematerialized securities are securities that "are not evidenced by any paper support documentation."
Bill 7363 further updates the umbrella of dematerialized securities to include "the circulation of securities on the basis of secure electronic registration technologies, such as distributed ledger technology and in particular 'blockchain' technology."
Essentially, the bill gives blockchain securities the same legal status as traditionally issued securities. The bill conceptualizes blockchain-issued securities as tokens that act as digital assets "legally bound by the same rights as classic dematerialized securities."
In June 2018, the memorandum of understanding signed between the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) and two departments at the University of Luxembourg: the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, and the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance. The partnership was formed to help facilitate the sharing of blockchain solutions and ICO regulation research between the LHoFT and the university's two departments. 
Apple has submitted what might seem like an arcane filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – but the document contains tantalizing details about the computing giant’s interest in blockchain tech.
The document – entitled “Summary of Apple’s Commitment to Responsible Sourcing” – details the company’s commitment “to upholding human rights across its global network of suppliers that support the manufacturing of its mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and related accessories.” Making note of both its internal work on this front as well as its relations with supply chain providers, the document is largely a description of Apple’s efforts to ethically source materials for its popular products like the iPhone.
Notably, however, the Feb. 15 filing makes mention of Apple’s involvement in the drafting of “Blockchain Guidelines” for the Responsible Business Alliance’s Responsible Minerals Initiative. According to an RBA press release, those “voluntary guidelines” were published in mid-December of last year and “represent a first industry effort to define a common set of principles, attributes and definitions for the application of blockchain technology to support mineral supply chain due diligence.” The press release makes no mention of Apple’s involvement, but the tech firm is listed as a “Company Member” on the effort’s official web page.
The SEC filing also notes that in 2018, Apple chaired the board of the RBA and participated in a number of its internal committees and working groups, including “the blockchain team.”
When iChain?
These details aside, the filing doesn’t touch on what Apple-watchers might most want to know: whether the Cupertino colossus is on the cusp of joining the growing ranks of tech giants that are offering some form of blockchain-related service. Specifically, if Apple is working on some kind of supply chain-focused solution, it hasn’t (yet) shown its cards.
A request for further information about Apple’s work with the RBA was not returned by press time.
As Fortune’s Jeff John Roberts wrote in December, the question of whether Apple will take the proverbial plunge is an active one, with many in the industry contending that “it’s going to take a tech giant like Apple to make blockchain payments work at scale.”
There is demonstrable interest internally, to say the least. The crypto space has seen Apple veterans join industry startups, and in December 2017, as CoinDesk reported at the time, a published patent filing from Apple detailed a proposed program to certify timestamps by combining aspects of blockchain technology with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). 
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.
Such are the words of wisdom that have been taken to heart by ethereum core developers ever since a vulnerability in the network’s code was discovered just 48 hours before the code was set to be deployed.
The network upgrade dubbed Constantinople would have introduced a series of backward-incompatible changes – also known as a hard fork – to the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Yet the bug discovered led to a delay, followed by a plan to try once again in late February.
With the code expected to activate sometime during the last week of February – specifically, at block number 7,280,000 – ethereum core developers are confident that Constantinople won’t fail this time around.
Adding that “valuable lessons” are learned from every hard fork, Jameson said that one of the important takeaways from last January’s hard fork attempt was “better communication with miners to let them know about the upgrade.”
While the issue in the code wouldn’t have impacted miners directly, miners and other users who run complete copies of the ethereum blockchain called nodes needed to be swiftly notified about the cancellation of Constantinople to keep it from actually being deployed and creating possible disruptions.
“I was just impressed by how quickly everyone reacted and how well organized everyone reacted,” said CTO Hubert Ritzdorf. “Many people had to update so they had to know what to update to. On many different levels it became clear even though there is no central command, the [ethereum] community collaborates very efficiently.”
Called Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), four out of five EIPs will actually be activated on the main network, or mainnet. And for all technical purposes, the upgrade will be deployed in two parts – simultaneously.
Say hello to ‘Petersberg’
Developers proposed during a meeting late January to table the EIP temporarily and proceed with the rest of Constantinople as planned, determining that a fix to the buggy EIP – EIP 1283 – would delay activation of ethereum’s planned hard fork for too long.
However, given that several test networks on ethereum including Ropsten already activated Constantinople in its full glory before the security vulnerability was found, ethereum core developers also agreed that a second hard fork safely removing the EIP was needed.
Thus, “Petersberg” was born.
Already released on Ropsten, Petersberg is the informal name of the hard fork specifically designed to remove EIP 1283 from a live ethereum-like network. Later this month, the original Constantinople code will be activated on mainnet in conjunction with Petersberg.
“For all practical means for any developer out there on the mainnet, there will not have been Constantinople really, just Petersberg … Technically in the code, you have two conditions,” ChainSecurity COO Matthias Egli explained. “One says Constantinople gets active at block number [7,280,000] and at the same block number Petersberg gets activated, which takes precedence over Constantinople and immediate supersedes it.”
And in terms of what’s left to be done for Petersberg launch on mainnet, Jameson said that all of the testing for its release has been completed and major software clients including Geth and Parity are ready to deploy on the agreed-upon block number.
Now, as emphasized by ethereum security lead Martin Holst Swende, users of ethereum should be aware of important changes to the ethereum network as a result of Constantinople plus Petersberg.
The new ‘corner case’
Tweeting out a questionnaire for users last Thursday, Swende noted that after Constantinople, smart contracts on ethereum considered to be virtually immutable will be able to change code under certain conditions over the course of multiple transactions.
The new feature introduced through EIP 1014 – called “Skinny CREATE2” – is intended to better facilitate off-chain transactions on ethereum by allowing what Ritzdorf describes as “deterministic deployment.”
“When you deploy a new smart contract on ethereum, what happens is that it computes the address to where the contract will be deployed. You know this ahead of time but it depends on a lot of variables,” Ritzdorf told CoinDesk. “CREATE2 makes it easier to say, ‘We will deploy in the future a contract to this particular address.”
As a result of this, Ritzdorf explains smart contract developers could technically deploy contracts for “the second time” to the same address, noting:
“[After Constantinople] you can change code because you can first deploy to that address, destruct the code and then deploy again.”
Egli highlighted that this is “not a security bug” but rather “a corner case” that developers on ethereum should be wary of once the changes are going live. He added that continued education from auditors in advance of February’s hard fork is needed about the other four EIPs originally set for inclusion in Constantinople outside of EIP 1283.
According to one hard fork countdown timer created by Afri Schoedon, release manager for the Parity Ethereum client, Constantinople plus Petersberg is estimated as of press time to go live on Thursday, February 28. 
