2019-6-8 17:02 |
Bitfinex has allegedly been caught engaging in the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the public.... origin »
2019-6-8 17:02 |
Bitfinex has allegedly been caught engaging in the deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the public.... origin »
In the latest on the ongoing legal dispute between the New York Attorney General (NYAG), cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, the New York Supreme Court has modified an April 24, 2019, preliminary injunction and now Bitfinex is allowed to continue using the Tether reserves that were loaned to it to maintain its ordinary course of business, such as paying employees and consultants.
2019-5-18 22:14 | |
By CCN: Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino told Twitter that the firm was able to raise $1 billion in USDT within a short period because big investors know Bitfinex is “trustworthy. ” Trust, Don’t Verify The New York Attorney General’s office recently opened a very public investigation into the firm.
2019-5-14 03:00 | |
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 | |
Shareholder States That $1 Billion Has Been Lined Up For Bitfinex’s Token Sale Bitfinex has accrued $1 billion in soft and hard commitments for funding. A public sale is possible, but only if the 1 billion USDT tokens are not sold during the private sale.
2019-5-9 20:56 | |
Those who invested in soft commitments are still able to get out of the Bitfinex deal, so a public sale is still on the table
2019-5-10 20:14 | |
Bitfinex is forging forward despite its ongoing row with the authorities, and it's looking for investors to support its efforts. Today, May 8, 2019, iFinex, the operator and parent company of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, released a private token sale white paper, putting to rest rumors of its Initial Exchange Offering (IEO).
2019-5-8 18:33 | |
Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
Even though there's still not a white paper for Bitfinex's $1 billion exchange token offering, one shareholder has already started pre-orders.
2019-5-6 21:40 | |
With cases like Cryptopia, QuadrigaCX and the recent Bitfinex fiasco denting the public’s trust in cryptocurrency exchanges, some exchanges are looking to fortify security. One among these is the Malta-based OKEx.
2019-5-4 15:30 | |
QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
Bitfinex has today announced “distributed banking” to presumably try and hide bank details from the public after they’ve seen a number of bank account closures following a banking blockade last.
2018-10-17 20:03 | |
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 | |
Top-three cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is pushing back against claims that call its solvency into question. The Hong Kong-based company released a blog post on October 7, 2017, that states, contrary to recent rumors, it is not insolvent.
2018-10-9 00:43 | |
Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
In this overview, we explore Kraken and its journey from a Mt. Gox alternative to soften the blow of bitcoin’s dependence on just one exchange to becoming one of the most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.
2018-9-27 21:21 | |
In practice, just as Bitcoin, all the Tether transaction chain or ledger is public and can be accessed through https://www.omniexplorer.info. In the following plot I show the Tether printing events (gray vertical bars) corresponding from March 2017 to July 2018, together with the cumulative printed Tether in red, the Bitcoin price evolution and the Bitfinex/Tether
2018-7-13 06:19 | |
Tether Ltd. , which issues a stable coin allegedly tied to U. S. dollar reserves, claims it has hired Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan LLP — a law firm co-founded by FBI Director Louis Freeh — to confirm its bank deposits and assure investors that its cryptocurrency is backed by USD.
2018-6-21 23:05 | |
A study published Wednesday says at least half of the jump in bitcoin was due to coordinated price manipulation. “Fraud and manipulation often leave footprints in the data and it’s nice to have the blockchain to track things,” Griffin told CNBC.
2018-6-14 22:45 | |