Bakkt, a physically-settled Bitcoin futures trading platform, has completed a multi-million-dollar fundraising round, bringing the total raised capital to USD 482.5 million. Bakkt has closed a Series B fundraising round, raising USD 300 million, with participation from investors, including some major names, such as Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Microsoft’s M12, PayU, Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy…
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The Golden Cow in a Buddhist Temple, in Kunming, the capital and the largest city of Yunnan province. The Southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has opened a new blockchain center that will allow companies to run a food traceability platform that will also fight the sale of fake products, with Beijing hopeful of creating another…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Coronavirus news The Italian Red Cross and the Colli Albani Committee have launched a bitcoin fundraising, raising donations in BTC and other cryptocurrencies to fight the country’s coronavirus pandemic Read more…
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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: 3X Long BNB Token (BNBBULL) 3X Short Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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Experts believe that BitMEX’s lack of transparency during the recent outage caused investors to lose some confidence in the exchange. On March 13, trading giant BitMEX was thrust into the middle of a controversy that saw the premier exchange face an operational outage that lasted for about 25 minutes. During the downtime, rumors spread throughout…
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A Baidu senior engineer has been jailed for three years for mining $14,000 worth of Monero on company servers. An engineer at Baidu, China’s equivalent to Google, has been jailed for mining Monero on around 200 of the company’s servers. According to a March 16 report by local media outlet, Abacus News, the employee eventually…
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Stocks had their worst opening ever today but Bitcoin price has bounced from its daily lows and now looks to establish a foothold for a relief rally. The equity markets in the United States just had the worst opening ever as trading was halted within seconds and indexes dropped by 12% percent. Not only was…
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Another day of pain for Bitcoin traders sees BTC/USD briefly hit $4,440 before rebounding, as cryptocurrency shares global hyper-bearish sentiment. Bitcoin (BTC) suddenly fell another 7% on March 16 as a new week opened with fresh coronavirus turmoil across global markets. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 BTC price sheds $1.4K in a day Data…
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TEAMZ Blockchain Summit, the largest blockchain conference in Japan, has had to reschedule due to the coronavirus outbreak. Another gathering of cryptocurrency and blockchain professionals has been postponed as the global coronavirus crisis continues. The TEAMZ Blockchain Summit — the largest blockchain conference in Japan — was going to take place from April 22–23, but…
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is reportedly working on a regulatory sandbox that would help fintech and crypto companies operate in the country freely. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is reportedly developing a regulatory sandbox for cryptocurrency companies in the country. The news was reported on March 16 by local newspaper Chronicle, citing a…
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