The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, said that the financial institution should be ahead of the curve in regards to the demand of stablecoins. The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, said that the financial institution should be ahead of the curve regarding the demand for stablecoins. According…
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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. Regulation news A global banking regulator says it will listen to input on a new cryptocurrency discussion paper. Per a press release shared with Cryptonews.com, the Basel Committee on Banking Read…
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Binance launches Latamex, a fiat-crypto platform for Latin American countries that will operate under the Binance Fiat Gateway. Binance, the leading global cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users, today announced the launch of its fiat gateway for Latin America. The announcement was made during laBitConf, a major crypto event for Latin America held in…
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The storm around an unnamed major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange is continuing to rage – with a senior politician allegedly involved, an ongoing assault/kidnapping case ongoing and now claims of artificially inflated trading volume figures. As previously reported, the head of a major exchange has recently been charged with assaulting one of his employees in…
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Shopin, an American blockchain retail startup, appears to be going ahead with a token sale, despite the fact that it has been charged by the regulatory Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has hit Shopin with a civil fraud wrap. The SEC says that Shopin duped investors in a 2017-2018 USD 42.5 million initial coin…
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In the past few sessions, bitcoin price remained in a bearish zone and settled below the USD 7,350 and USD 7,250 support levels. BTC/USD even broke the USD 7,200 pivot area and it seems like it could attempt a break below the USD 7,000 support area. Moreover, there were bearish moves in most major altcoins,…
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Liquidator Grant Thornton recovered $7.2 million since May but warns that the complexity of proving ownership makes it impossible to estimate timeframes. Liquidators of hacked New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia have recovered almost $11 million in the past six months, but say the process remains difficult. In its second report into its operations at Cryptopia,…
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Amsterdam-based bank and financial services firm ING is reportedly developing cryptocurrency custody technology. Amsterdam-based bank ING is reportedly developing cryptocurrency custody technology, Reuters reported on Dec. 12. The digital assets custody service being developed by ING is purportedly part of one of the bank’s several blockchain-related initiatives and is still at an early stage of…
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On Thursday, XRP is still the only top 10 coin in green in the past week, outperforming not only Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). At pixel time (12:27 AM UTC), XRP is trading at c. USD 22 and, as prices have stabilized since the end of November, XRP bulls have trimmed monthly losses against the…
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Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX added support for native SegWit addresses for Bitcoin withdrawals, which lets users pay lower transaction fees. Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX added support for native segregated witness (SegWit) addresses for Bitcoin (BTC) withdrawals, which lets users pay lower transaction fees. According to an announcement on Dec. 12, BitMEX now allows its users to withdraw…
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