While Binance will support the Steem hard fork to freeze $6M in user funds, CZ offered support to additional forks. Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, the chief executive of top crypto exchange Binance, has issued a statement regarding the recent Steem hard fork that sought to freeze 23.6 million STEEM tokens associated with 64 wallet addresses.…
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Bitpoint exchange briefed fiscal year losses, Binance donated masks to Japanese nursing homes, and more headlined news from Japan this past week. This week’s headlines from Japan included BitBank exchange adding three trading pairs, Bitpoint exchange posting decreased fiscal year totals, Bitpoint adding information on its 2019 hack, and Binance donating masks to Japanese nursing…
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Binance taking the top spot on recently purchased CoinMarketCap has raised concerns among executives from other top crypto exchanges. For an industry that is supposed to be based upon decentralization, it appears to be getting crowded at the top, with a number of companies transforming into unspoken oligarchs, each wielding huge influence — or at…
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Messari adds 10 new exchanges to its ‘real volume’ metric and overhauls methodology. Crypto data and research platform Messari has added 10 new exchanges to its “real volume” metric as part of a revamp of the methodology. The ranking is an attempt to rank exchanges without including any wash trading — which came about following…
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Binance’s new Chinese website gets an approval from the China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and owner of crypto pricing website CoinMarketCap, is getting closer to one of the most crypto-sceptical jurisdictions in the world, China. After leaving the country amid a nation-wide crypto ban in 2017, Binance…
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Did CZ inadvertently admit to being involved in the management of CoinMarketCap? In a recent tweet, Binance (BNB) CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) may have inadvertently admitted his involvement in the management of the recently acquired CoinMarketCap (CMC). Following in Elon Musk’s footsteps? Zhao’s tweet from May 14 seemingly admits his involvement in managing CMC: Source:…
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Scammers impersonating a Michael Bloomberg BTC giveaway on YouTube want your Bitcoins. Scammers are streaming Michael Bloomberg speeches on YouTube, claiming that the former presidential candidate is giving away free Bitcoin (BTC). Michael Bloomberg BTC Giveaway On May 14, there were at least two such incidents with an apparent combined audience of almost 60,000. The…
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OKEx’s chief strategy officer does not agree with CoinMarketCap’s recent exchange ranking changes, calling the site “dead.” OkEx chief strategy officer, Alysa Xu, called out crypto data site CoinMarketCap, or CMC, for its recent exchange ranking rationale, proclaiming the platform dead. “Fairness and justice are the basis of all rankings,” Xu said in a May…
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Binance founder CZ sees the African continent as an untapped environment for exchanges to drive cryptocurrency adoption. Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, otherwise known as CZ, believes that the African continent holds some unique opportunities for cryptocurrency adoption and development. The Binance leader provided a number of interesting insights during an exclusive “ask me…
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CoinMarketCap last year rejected the web traffic metric that has catapulted new owners Binance into the top spot. Crypto markets data aggregator CoinMarketCap yesterday changed its methodology to rank exchanges on their web traffic by default — a metric that puts CoinMarketCap’s new owners Binance in the top spot. But this stands in stark contrast…
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