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The Merkle
April 1, 2018
To that end, the Ubank team is looking to enter the crypto market with a new blockchain-based platform. It is a very surprising undertaking ... of cryptocurrency at heart. Or so it would seem, at least, as the new platform is designed to let users buy and sell real goods in exchange for various cryptocurrencies.
CCN
April 1, 2018
After dipping below $6,500, the price of bitcoin has increased 7 percent to $7,100, as the rest of the cryptocurrency market recovered over the past 24 hours. Since March 30, the valuation of the cryptocurrency market rose from $250 billion to $268 billion, by around 8 percent.
MarketWatch
March 31, 2018
Major cryptocurrencies took another leg lower overnight as the persistent selling persisted, pushing most to multimonth lows. The price of a single bitcoin BTCUSD, +4.37% traded to an overnight low of $6,617.69, homing in on the Feb 6. low of $5,947.40, a major support level for technical traders. BitcoinÃâà...
CoinCentral
March 31, 2018
Bitcoin: Nearly mirroring the market's own movements, granddaddy Bitcoin is down 21% on the week, dropping from a humble $8,600 to an even ... Search for Crypto Jobs Decline as Prices Fall: According to the employment search engine Indeed, in parallel with the decline of cryptocurrency prices,Ãâà...
Mashable
March 31, 2018
It's been a bad month in crypto-city. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is trading at $7,076 — a 7% decrease in the last 24 hours and a 34.6% decrease on a monthly basis. The second largest coin, Ethereum, is being absolutely pummeled, having dropped 5% to $398 in the last 24 hours,Ãâà...
CoinDesk
March 30, 2018
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Wednesday that consumers should watch out for would-be scammers posing as cryptocurrency exchange support staffers. The agency's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) sounded the alarm about tech support scams in the March 28 notice, stating that itÃâà...
Coindesk
March 30, 2018
Hong Kong-based crypto trading platform OKEx will roll back futures transactions following what it called an "irregular" sell-off. OKEx, operated by cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin, said Friday that the move comes after it temporarily halted futures trading and token withdrawals following the incident, whichÃâà...
CoinDesk
March 30, 2018
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Youbit has reportedly had its insurance claim denied months after it closed following a debilitating hack. In December, Youbit declared bankruptcy after suffering twin hacks over the course of 2017, including one that officials suspected at the time could be traced toÃâà...
Quartz
March 30, 2018
There is fear among people over uncertainty of regulation and that is the reason they are holding back,” Nischal Shetty, founder and CEO of WazirX, another Indian cryptocurrency exchange, told Quartz. While bitcoin and its peers are neither legal nor illegal in India, the government and the bankingÃâà...
newsBTC
March 25, 2018
Talents From the Finance Sector are Coming to the Cryptocurrency Market ... Sheri Kaiserman, the first person on Wall Street to write a report on Bitcoin in 2013, has left the Securities firm she ran to start a crypto fund. Crypto ... Some people may know him as an employee of the New York Stock Exchange.
CCN
March 25, 2018
While more financially established nations and societies may boast of various alternative routes of entry into the emerging market of cryptocurrencies, the story isn't so for the less developed nations. Ironically, it is these less developed nations that even need the alternative cryptocurrency opportunities moreÃâà...
CCN
March 25, 2018
This week, Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange with a $1.7 billion daily trading volume, has relocated its headquarters to Malta, a region ... KakaoPay, KakaoStory, KakaoStock, and KakaoTaxi, the country's largest app that have nearly 90 percent market share of the messaging, payment,Ãâà...
CCN
March 25, 2018
Two days ago, many analysts within the cryptocurrency sector stated that a $20 billion overnight drop in the valuation of the cryptocurrency market was caused by FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) around Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. However, it was evident that the market did not fallÃâà...
Bitcoin Magazine
March 24, 2018
As the first ever public crypto brokerage desk by an exchange, this deal represents the true institutionalization of cryptocurrencies as an asset class.” The TMX Group has embraced new innovation in the past and has gone ahead of other exchanges, listing new startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchainÃâà...
CCN
March 24, 2018
Currently, Storm remains as the second most liquid cryptocurrency in the global market behind bitcoin, with a $2.3 billion trading volume. The vast majority of Storm's daily trading volume is generated by Upbit, South Korea's second largest and the world's fifth biggest cryptocurrency exchange, whichÃâà...
CNBC
March 23, 2018
Japan's Financial Services Agency puts Hong Kong-based exchange Binance on notice about operating without a license for a virtual currency exchange. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao confirms receipt of the warning, tweeting: "Our lawyers called JFSA immediately, and will find a solution." Bitcoin tradedÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 15, 2018
Google said the related content includes those for initial coin offerings, or ICOs, cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets. While the news isn't ideal for crypto investors. That news comes as the crypto industry faced another hearing on Capitol Hill in front of the Senate's Subcommittee on Capital Markets.
CNBC
March 15, 2018
Bitcoin fell 9 percent following news that Google, the world's largest ad provider, is cracking down on cryptocurrency. Facebook, the second largest online ad provider, took similar action in January by banning ads on "binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency." Some analysts say the bansÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 15, 2018
By now, even casual crypto investors have acquired a general understanding of bitcoin BTCUSD, -2.45% and acronyms like ICO (that's initial coin offering for the still-stumped). But just as ... The most well-known name in the crypto world is Satoshi. ... FUD isn't a specific term for the cryptocurrency market.
Finance Magnates
March 15, 2018
... the world's largest digital advertising platform, that it will put a ban on all cryptocurrency related ads, including initial coin offerings, trading advice, and even crypto wallets, turned out to be the major one. The collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox is another player responsible for the dipping market.
Express.co.uk
March 15, 2018
Christopher Harvey, Wells Fargo securities head of equity strategy, was asked if a move in Bitcoin could signal a market crash. Speaking on CNBC, the host asked Mr Harvey: “Would there be a point you would worry about the price of Bitcoin being the canary in the coal mine for the markets?” The investorÃâà...
CoinDesk
March 15, 2018
Data from OnChainFX reveals that all of the top-20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization have fallen in excess of 10 percent in the past 24 hours, with many seeing declines of 15 percent or more. Among those, cardano, vechain, iota, XEM, lisk, NEO gas and icon are all down over 20 percent within thatÃâà...
Fast Company
March 15, 2018
A week ago bitcoin's market capitalization hit $168 billion. ... Last week, the market cap for every cryptocurrency hit a high of $402 billion. ... of the closed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which has filed for bankruptcy, disclosed earlier this month that he sold off as much as $400 million worth of cryptocurrency.
Coindesk
March 15, 2018
CoinfloorEX, a London-based exchange founded in 2013, announced Wednesday that it would launch bitcoin futures contracts next month, joining a number of other companies to offer such product to their customers, according to Reuters. Notably, unlike some of its competitors, Coinfloor will offerÃâà...
CNBC
March 14, 2018
The deal marks the first major partnership between a U.K. bank and cryptocurrency exchange. Coinbase also now has an e-money ... Coinbase's Feroz said that the EU grew "twice as fast as any of our other markets in 2017" and the U.K. is its largest market in the bloc. He said that the company plans toÃâà...
Finance Magnates
March 13, 2018
This means that CashFinex clients gain today the ability to trade the digital asset class on the most popular platform in the retail forex market, which currently offers “more than 25 pairs of margin based crypto alongside traditional crypto with exotic FX,” the company says. Being a P2P platform, CashFinexÃâà...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
March 13, 2018
Thailand is set to draft legislation that would oversee cryptocurrency trading with the view of taxing the crypto market in the country, the AP reported today, March ... The Thai Digital Exchange Index (TDAX) recently deferred the trading and registration of ICOs in mid-February while waiting for the Thai SEC'sÃâà...
Investopedia (blog)
March 13, 2018
Popular bitcoin exchange Binance does not take hacking lightly, and is prepared to pay $10 million in bounties to tipsters who help them arrest cyberthieves. "Binance is offering a $250,000 USD equivalent bounty to anyone who supplies information that leads to the legal arrest of the hackers involved inÃâà...
CoinDesk
March 13, 2018
Binance announced Tuesday that it is launching a public blockchain to facilitate the creation of a new decentralized exchange. The cryptocurrency exchange said the move forms part of a plan to transition from "a company to a community" by developing its new Binance Chain, which will be used to transferÃâà...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
March 12, 2018
... with Russian roots, released its cryptocurrency exchange app StreamDesk, which is able to exchange various currencies from user to user with no intermediary. The project is now working on creating the decentralized platform, which they claim, “will revolutionize the modern crypto exchange market.”Ãâà...
CoinDesk
March 12, 2018
SBI Holdings, the investment arm of Japanese financial giant SBI Group, has canceled a business partnership with Chinese cryptocurrency startup Huobi Group. In an announcement released Friday, SBI Holdings said it has decided to halt the business collaboration with Huobi for the launch twoÃâà...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
March 11, 2018
Finnish cryptocurrency exchange and crypto wallet services provider Prasos Oy is one step from being “frozen”, as most Finnish banks will no longer conduct business with them, Bloomberg reports March 9. Founded in 2012, Prasos has seen a ten-fold spike of transaction volumes reaching $185 mln inÃâà...
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
March 10, 2018
This includes buying/selling cryptocurrencies with fiat (fiat/crypto paring) as well as buying/selling cryptocurrencies with other cryptocurrencies (crypto/crypto ... In simple terms, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) cuts out the middleman by creating a highly intelligent “trustless environment.
Cointelegraph (Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain News)
March 10, 2018
South Korean-based crypto exchange Bithumb has announced plans to supply kiosks to restaurants and cafes with an option for customers to pay for their food orders with their Bithumb crypto ... Bithumb, South Korea's largest exchange, will supply cryptocurrency ATMs and kiosks to restaurants and cafes.
CoinDesk
March 9, 2018
Bitcoin's (BTC) repeated failure to beat inverse head-and-shoulders neckline resistance saw bears come in full force, pushing prices to a one-month low of $8,371 Friday. As of writing, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is trading at $8,970, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index.
The Independent
March 9, 2018
Rumours of a raid on the China-based exchange had spread on Reddit on Wednesday morning when panicked traders reported seeing their balances drained and their holdings sold at market rates after being converted to viacoin, a type of altcoin with low liquidity 25 times faster to transact with thanÃâà...
CoinDesk
March 8, 2018
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has announced it will start compensating customers that suffered losses in its January hack starting from next week. In a press conference Thursday, Coincheck CEO Koichiro Wada and COO Yusuke Otsuka said that the platform will release more details of theÃâà...
CNBC
February 28, 2018
The value of the global cryptocurrency market is above $700 billion, but the industry is still lightly regulated. New cryptocurrency exchanges are growing rapidly worldwide, and many are at risk for cyberattack. It's crucial that investors look for red flags when choosing a cryptocurrency exchange and do theirÃâà...
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