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The Thursday Recap #7
The Account Dashboard is done! In the news - UK Gov cryptoasset advice for businesses, XLM supply halved and more!

Ben Shepheard
Thu Nov 07 2019
Welcome to our latest Thursday Recap, our weekly update on the industry and what weâve been up to here at Recap HQ. If you missed the previous instalment you can catch up here.
Account Dashboard
The account dashboard is ready for its first release which will be available today. Right now it will show you a stacked value chart of your account from its first transaction, the current balances (as calculated by Recap, helping you locate discrepancies), the asset value split and the most recent transactions. Weâll be adding currency and date filters in the coming weeks. We welcome your feedback.
Weâre currently building the follow on from this feature, a Portfolio Dashboard. This will show the same data across all of your accounts and is the first step to allowing Recap to fulfil the role of portfolio tracker as well as a tax calculator. Weâll be adding many more features to support the portfolio tracker use case over the coming months.
Government Cryptotax Advice For Business
The UK tax authority HMRC released a policy paper last week âCryptoassets: tax for businessesâ. The contents of this advice were not unexpected given the treatment of cryptoassets detailed in the earlier âCryptoassets: tax for individualsâ.
We will be further analysing the contents of this paper over the coming week, planning new features and identifying areas where Recap can assist businesses who are holding or using cryptoassets.
Stellar Foundation Destroyed Half of XLM
Stellar Development Foundation has decided to burn 55 billion tokens (around 50%) of its Lumen (XLM) crytocurrency according to a report by CoinDesk. The foundation made the announcement at their own Stellar Meridian conference with people in attendance greeting the news âwarmlyâ. Suffice to say it can only be speculated how many of the attendees have a holding in the token. đ
Security Firm Rogue Worker Sold User Data to Scammers
According to the BBC, Trend Micro (the cyber-security company) have suffered their own security issues recently. Trend Micro confirmed on their blog that a rogue employee accessed customer records and passed that data onto an âunknown third-party malicious actorâ. Trend Micro stress that they do not call customers unexpectedly and that if you receive an unsolicited call from someone claiming to be from Trend Micro, you should hang up and report it to Trend Micro support.
This story is another example of why privacy is so important. What if this data included the details of your crypto transaction, how much crypto you own, or which addresses are yours? Itâs a recipe for disaster when a $5 wrench can steal your crypto and the attacker knows exactly what you own. Reasonable doubt or hidden accounts wont protect anyone in that scenario. Only the end-to-end encryption of Recap can protect your financial data against these threats.
BitMEX Leak E-mail Addresses
Over the weekend of the 2nd of November, BitMEX suffered an incident that led to the disclosure of e-mail addresses of some of its customers. According to their own blog post, âmany of our users received an email which contained the email addresses of other users in the âTo:â fieldâ, this meant that a number of email addresses were disclosed to other users. BitMEX state that no other information was disclosed and that is in contact with customers that have been affected by this incident.
OneCoin Lawyer On Trial
The BBC reports that the trial of Mark Scott, a US lawyer accused of laundering approximately $400m of proceeds from the OneCoin cryptocurrency âscamâ, has started in New York. He has been accused of routing the money out of the US while trying to conceal the true ownership and source of the money.
Microsoft Offers "Ethereum As A Service" to Enterprises
Well, here we go - crypto tokens are coming to large company near you! As reported by Forbes, Microsoft has âcreated a mint for issuing a wide range of crypto assetsâ called Azure Blockchain Tokens (classicly boring Microsoft naming in full effect). This new service will allow companies or (at this point in time) literally anyone, to âdesign, issue and manage a wide range of assetsâ on the Microsoft run Ethereum blockchain.
Keep updated
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