The last month of 2019 has started with bad news for two relatively small projects in the Cryptoverse: a crypto exchange, CryptoBridge, ranked 187th, is shutting down, while a coin, ranked 235th, Vertcoin (VTC), experienced another 51% attack. CryptoBridge announced on its website that they’ll terminate all their services “after December 15 23:59 GMT.” All…
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Charles Hoskinson, CEO of blockchain consultancy and research firm IOHK that is developing the Cardano platform. Source: a video screenshot, Bloomberg/Youtube The Cardano Foundation launched a new crypto payment solution, AdaPay, aimed at merchants, making ADA, the native token of the Cardano platform, one the best performing coins among the TOP 20 digital assets today.…
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Speculation of the death of privacy coins has been greatly exaggerated as regulators are not advocating an outright ban and these coins are already preparing to comply with the infamous Travel rule, according to cryptocurrency intelligence and blockchain security company CipherTrace. “Cryptocurrency users ultimately have to cash out to fiat currency somewhere to Read more…
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Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings has entered another crypto business by investing in major U.S. based security token platform Securitize. SBI “strongly believes in the future of digital securities,” SBI Holdings CEO Yoshitaka Kitao was quoted as saying in a statement. “Japan’s economic strength, digital society, and advanced regulatory Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin with Credit…
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South Korean cryptocurrency users say they are in a “state of confusion” after reports of a possible USD 79 million hack on market-leading crypto exchange platform Upbit. Per Chosun, a series of large altcoin transfers were made out of Upbit accounts at just after 1pm KST (4:00 UTC ) on November 27, including some USD…
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Source: iStock/isa_ozdere Poland-headquartered, Central and Eastern Europe-focused cryptocurrency exchange BitBay said it will delist Monero (XMR) early next year. The exchange announced on Monday that, come February 19 2020, it will end its trading support with this privacy-focused digital currency. When that moment comes, XMR buy / sell orders requested before the end of the…
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If Ripple, an American blockchain company focusing on payments technologies, would have used XRP to pay for MoneyGram shares, the second part of the deal would have been 50% more expensive. On Monday, the company said it has made the final USD 20 million investment in MoneyGram, a major money transfer company, equity pursuant to…
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Source: iStock/da-kuk The cryptocurrency market sentiment has tumbled down compared with the previous week, as the combined average 7-day market sentiment measure for the top 10 coins by market capitalization has declined for the third week in a row, from 5.17/10 last Monday, to 4.39 today, according to Omenics, a cryptocurrency market sentiment analysis service.…
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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. _________________________________________ Binance Listings: Cortex (CTXC) Added new trading Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin with Credit…
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In the past few days, there were heavy downsides in bitcoin. BTC/USD traded below many supports such as USD 8,000, USD 7,650 and USD 7,050 to move further into a downtrend. It recently tested the USD 6,550 support zone and currently (09:00 UTC) remains at a risk of more losses. More importantly, there were sharp…
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