2019-11-8 19:55 |
Just one whale orchestrated the entire 2017 bull run via Bitfinex, newly updated research claims. Independent experts are skeptical about the findings, Bitfinex says it’s “foundationally flawed” origin »
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Tether has responded to a research paper done by two U.S citizens in which the conclusions accuse the firm and Bitfinex of market manipulation. This research done by Amin Shams and John Griffin both of whom work in academia highlights that the 2017 crypto market bull run may have been caused by the only player. […]
2019-11-8 19:12 | |
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Over the past few days, speculation over Bitcoin's bull run in 2017 being manipulated by the movement of one crypto whale has taken over the community like wildfire. Tether and Bitfinex were yet agThe post Bitcoin's market, price movement yet to attain clarity: eToro's Guy Hirsch appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-6 19:00 | |
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Bitfinex, which shares co-founders with the Tether stablecoin, is once again attracting controversy over the manipulation of the Bitcoin price. Per a paper published by the University of Texas Professor John Griffin and Ohio State University’s Amin Shams, Bitcoin’s run to a record high near $20,000 in 2017 was caused by a single market whale.
2019-11-5 12:42 | |
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Tether, the company closely related to Bitfinex exchange which is being investigated by the NYAG, put out a statement in response to an unpublished research report that alleges that USDT is responsible for manipulating the cryptocurrency market.
2019-10-5 15:45 | |
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On Sept. 25, the crypto market experienced one of its steepest falls in recent years as the bitcoin price abruptly dropped by more than $1,500 in merely hours, sending many cryptocurrency investors to Tether.
2019-9-25 11:50 | |
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Ethfinex, the decentralized exchange formerly run by Bitfinex, is separate into a new separate entity called DeversiFi. The service will allow users to execute orders directly from their private wallets.
2019-8-16 07:55 | |
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Coinspeaker Tether Accidentally Minted 5 Billions Worth of USDTThe Whale Alert Twitter account caught a $5B Tether print run. Tether and Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino confirmed that this was a mistake and that the surplus USDT had been destroyed.
2019-7-15 11:27 | |
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The cryptocurrency market has been rife with comments and inputs from various proponents, with many claiming that Bitcoin and the rest of the altcoin market will enjoy an unprecedented bull run soon.
2019-7-12 22:30 | |
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IEOs, the modified version of ICOs brought back by Binance was like John Hammond’s cloned dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. IEOs have RoI, which is almost similar to the ICOs and the bull run has barely begun.
2019-7-8 20:30 | |
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Claiming its LEO token sale only generated $100 million earlier this year, Bitfinex held another token sale, run by a crypto startup called Ampleforth, as the exchange continues to pay off an $850 million debt to its investors and Tether.
2019-7-9 18:53 | |
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Bitfinex, the exchange at the center of Bitcoin’s bull run, has revealed that its “margin trading derivative product” is ready for launch during prime time, reported The Block. The CTO of Bitfinex, Paolo Ardoino, stated that the product has been in the works for almost a year and that it is expected to go live this […] The post Bitfinex’s 100x margin trading derivatives product is ‘ready for prime time’ appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-26 08:59 | |
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Bitfinex has not been in the news over the past few months for the right reasons, and an alleged compliance cross-over has brought the cryptocurrency exchange in the spotlight yet again. Ties between the upper echelons of the exchange’s executives and the banking elite have reportedly surfaced.
2019-5-19 09:50 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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The exchange released the white paper for its intended initial exchange offering (IEO) which will run until May 11.
2019-5-9 15:14 | |
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Several users have posted about being unable to withdraw their funds from the platform, and not ever receiving their… The post Bitfinex “Bank Run”, Users Can’t Withdraw FIAT – Is The Collapse Coming? appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-8 10:15 | |
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Skies are falling again, at least if you read crypto media. The latest chapter of the Bitfinex drama has many traders worried, and caused USDT to briefly slip beneath the dollar. Although there’s no question that the legal troubles surrounding iFinex are serious, concerns of a billion-dollar bank run causing a market-wide meltdown may be […] The post Is Tether Headed For More Trouble? appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-5-6 23:13 | |
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A recent article published by U.Today, predicted a Bitcoin bull run could happen sometime soon especially because the coin still shot past $5,500 regardless of the story that recently shocked the market when it was revealed that Tether and Bitfinex through their parent company, iFinex, was involved in an $850 million scam. The article showed […]
2019-5-5 23:40 | |
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Bitcoin May Currently Be Overextended The past 48 hours for Bitcoin (BTC) have been stellar. Last week saw news reveal that both Bitfinex and Tether Limited, two integral facets to the cryptocurrency market, are both.
2019-5-4 04:00 | |
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Bitcoin’s [BTC] price scaled a new peak on May 3 after the coin managed to break its immediate resistance. The coin even surged over $6K on Bitfinex, a crypto-exchange marred with controversies.
2019-5-4 01:00 | |
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Bitcoin believers have put their faith in the bull run and the recent Tether/Bitfinex drama couldn’t stop its price from rallying. Litecoin, the silver to Bitcoin’s gold, hasn’t been seeing much progress in its price.
2019-5-3 10:35 | |
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By CCN. com: The U. S. Justice Department has nabbed one of two crypto fraudsters accused of a shadow banks scheme that entailed the processing of hundreds of millions of dollars of unregulated transactions on behalf of several cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-5-1 11:35 | |
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Bitcoin collapsed by 9% on almost all exchanges when the Bitfinex and Tether news broke out, however, on Kraken, the price fell as low as, ~$4,300. Based on past data, it can be assumed [with a grain of salt] that there is a possibility of the formation of a double bottom pattern, as it did […] The post Will Bitcoin complete the double bottom pattern or has the bull run actually started? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-4-29 01:30 | |
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This Sunday will see over 40,000 people attempt to run a 26. 2 mile course through the streets of London. It will also see Bitcoinist pack a marathon week of news into the much more easily attempted list of past week’s top bitcoin stories.
2019-4-28 16:00 | |
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The clampdown of the cryptocurrency market by the bear attack seems to be unfounded if one takes the example of XRP movement across wallets and exchanges. XRP, the third largest cryptocurrency has not had a massive bull run in 2019 yet, even when its compatriots saw a significant rise in values.
2019-4-28 14:30 | |
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On April 26, 2019, Bitcoin’s number of transactions reached a large number and it could be connected to the New York AG’s lawsuit against Bitfinex and Tether. In addition, the total number of confirmed transactions reached a relatively higher point as well.
2019-4-27 10:30 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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Bitfinex is now open to every trader as the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange has removed its $10,000 minimum balance rule. Citing a rising demand from retail traders who couldn't trade on the platform due to the requirement, Bitfinex CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde said the platform is now ready for a “new wave of customer accounts,” according to a company Medium post.
2019-4-11 21:50 | |
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Bitfinex, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, has lifted minimum equity requirements associated with its platform as per a blog post via its Medium, April 9, 2019. About Bitfinex Bitfinex has been the source of much controversy, especially during the cryptocurrency bull run of 2017 where many media claimed that a lot of the exchange’s trading volumeRead MoreRead More.
2019-4-10 14:19 | |
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Zerononcense, a cryptocurrency blog run by editor James Edwards, claimed that it found the trails of the missing $90 million worth of crypto from the now-defunct exchange QuadrigaCX. The detailed report curated by Edwards discovered the transfer of 649,708 Ethereum from the wallets of QuadrigaCX to cryptocurrency exchanges including Poloniex, Bitfinex, and Kraken.
2019-3-1 10:12 | |
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A number of exchanges failed the Proof of Keys (PoK) test according to a website run by Trace Mayer, a bitcoin investor. He said: “So far, reported failures at: HitBTC, PurseIO,... The post Bitfinex Failed the Proof of Keys Test Says Trace Mayer appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-1-4 20:45 | |
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Bitcoiners are planning to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the genesis block by withdrawing all their cryptos from exchanges. “On the 3rd of January 2019, 10 years on, let us... The post Bitcoiners Planning a Crypto Bank Run While Bitfinex’s Cold Wallet Sees No Activity appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-12-18 18:30 | |
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A strong round of buys hit the market this weekend as unsubstantiated rumors began to circle surrounding Tether and Bitfinex’s potential insolvency. I won’t be going into the details surrounding the allegations because, like I said, they are nothing more than unsubstantiated rumors.
2018-10-17 01:03 | |
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After last week’s price drop, investors have become optimistic in the positive short-term trend of crypto. The new bull run is being led by Bitcoin, which has managed to regain and exceed its former bottom of $6,000.
2018-10-16 22:00 | |
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The popular digital currency exchange, Bitfinex has reportedly stopped its USD deposits to their exchange. This news comes after last weeks, several rumours that the exchange was broke which made management forced to step up and deny the rumours that they were not bankrupt.
2018-10-11 21:30 | |
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The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.
2018-10-11 20:44 | |
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University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account.
2018-9-13 18:07 | |
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As the old maxim asserts: those who made the most money in the gold rush were those who sold shovels. With our own digital gold rush in a downturn, however, the shovels aren’t selling so well, as mining companies themselves are struggling to move hardware because miners are struggling to turn a profit.
2018-8-22 22:53 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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New research out of the University of Texas alleges that the price of Bitcoin throughout its bull run in 2017 was being manipulated using Bitfinex’s Tether currency. Tether May Have Been Used to Prop Up Bitcoin A recently published paper by Professor John Griffin and graduate student Amin Shams examined the traffic of cryptocurrencies on.
2018-6-14 12:00 | |
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Tether is reportedly looking to tap a Big Four auditor for its U.S. dollar pegged stablecoin’s reserves. According to Paolo Ardoino, the chief executive officer of Tether, the company is “engaging” one of the top accounting firm in the world…
Tether, the issuer of USDT, ranked as the seventh-largest buyer of U.S. Treasury securities in 2024. According to a Mar. 20 post on X by Tether chief executive officer Paolo Ardoino, Tether (USDT) purchased a net $33.1 billion in U.S.…
CAKE formed a God candle on March 18, jumping 23% to hit an intraday high of $2.63 while pushing its weekly gains close to 70%. The altcoin’s daily trading volume tripled to around $1.12 billion while its market cap neared…
Bitcoin’s price outlook is improving as stablecoin liquidity surges, with USDT market cap expanding by $5.75 billion in the past 60 days. According to CryptoQuant’s Mar. 13 post on X, this increase surpasses its 60-day simple moving average of $3.46…
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino shared his thoughts into the future of stablecoins and the impact of new legislation from the White House. Ardoino stated during a Bloomberg TV interview on Thursday that the Trump administration’s recently proposed stablecoin bill can…
Tether has witnessed a significant surge in on-chain activity in recent weeks, which could signal potential buying pressure following the latest crypto dip. Market intelligence platform Santiment says on-chain data related to Tether (USDT) points in this direction. In particular,…
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has defended the company’s role in the U.S. financial system, stating that its $115 billion in treasury holdings make U.S. debt more resilient. Speaking at a rBitcoin Policy Institute event on Mar. 11, Ardoino argued that…