2019-4-29 15:59 |
There has been a 47% rise in cross-border payments from U.S. crypto exchanges to offshore exchanges since early 2017, posing an ostensible quandary for regulators
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Crypto exchanges are lining up to delist Satoshi’s Vision, but at least one exchange will continue trading. Jack Liu, founder of multi-currency payments app Relayx, has teamed up with OKEx to build a new marketplace devoted to the Bitcoin Cash fork.
2019-4-17 23:08 | |
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Coinbase, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges based in the United States, has announced the launch of the Coinbase Card. The Visa debit card will enable Coinbase’s customers based in the UK to “spend crypto as effortlessly as the money in their bank.
2019-4-11 19:17 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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Infinito Wallet, a multi-asset digital storage provider with 60,000 users, has just become the newest member of the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO). By integrating Infinito to its network of exchanges, wallets and payments providers, FIO seeks to streamline the process of crypto storage and payments.
2019-3-25 21:51 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
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CoinSpeaker Facebook to Launch Its Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp in H1 2019, In Talks With Exchanges According to the New York Times report, Facebook plans to use its crypto token for in-app payments across its suite of applications.
2019-3-1 11:37 | |
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South Africa’s Standard Bank Set To Launch Blockchain Technology-Powered Payments System In a bid to facilitate overseas foreign exchanges for its institutional clients in a super fast and cost-efficient manner, Standard Bank of South Africa is making active plans to launch own private permissioned distributed ledger technology (DLT) based payments system, reports Finextra on February […]
2019-3-1 23:55 | |
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CoinCasso is a multifunctional, multi-layered design and hybrid exchange that combines the advantages of centralized and decentralized exchanges. As the first on the market, we give financial benefits to active users.
2019-2-26 15:03 | |
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Bytus wants to revolutionize the payment system as it works today and blockchain enables us to do that. Point of Sale transactions are always delayed by fiat payments, crypto transactions will set this right.
2019-2-24 17:34 | |
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On February 21, 2019, peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful announced a partnership with trading platform BitMart for the purpose of vastly increasing the latter’s liquidity and scalability.
2019-2-23 00:36 | |
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BitWings token, a native currency of Wings Mobile ecosystem, has 100% guaranteed issuing value and is the only means to pre-order the first (40 000) ultra-secure blockchain smartphones in the world able to generate up to 2 ETH a month without any power consumption, powered with neural technology.
2019-2-21 20:03 | |
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In this edition of The Daily we cover the beta launch of a new platform from Shapeshift, an acquisition by one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Canada – Coinsquare – and the latest Grayscale digital asset investment report.
2019-2-18 16:42 | |
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The rivalry between Binance and Coinbase has escalated with the announcement that Binance is accepting credit card payments — the latest encroachment of the giant crypto exchanges on each other's turf.
2019-2-8 21:00 | |
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India has a very rough relationship with cryptocurrencies. The country, which has enacted a ban on crypto exchanges last year, is now focused on deciding whether this ban, which is being called an exaggeration by the local crypto industry, should be lifted or not.
2019-2-5 01:21 | |
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As cryptocurrency exchanges struggle to maintain their performance, payment gateways like CoinGate have manage to continually expand consumer options with crypto-based purchases. CoinGate supports multiple coins on their platform, and they have just added XRP to their lineup, according to a report from The Block.
2019-2-2 17:05 | |
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Binance has finally joined the fiat-on-ramp party, adding support for crypto purchases using credit cards. This is made possible through its integration with payment processor Simplex, according to a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-2-1 20:59 | |
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One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world Binance has taken another step in furthering crypto adoption. The exchange will now allow credit card payments on its platforms via a partnership with Israeli payments processing company Simplex.
2019-1-31 17:44 | |
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The next time you buy crypto on an exchange, you won’t even need to wait for a wire transfer. Binance, the most popular exchange by trading volume, is integrating credit card payments, allowing new traders to buy and start trading on one of the most popular exchanges, “within minutes.
2019-1-31 15:00 | |
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The XCOYNZ Exchange enables Individuals to set their own fee when exchanging their Crypto assets. This will be based on a recurring annual allowance from the time of first registration, with further loyalty bonuses being awarded based on periodic exchange activity volume.
2019-1-19 21:03 | |
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Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
2019-1-11 21:17 | |
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As per the reports, January 1, 2019, Bitex has launched its cryptocurrency in worldwide cryptocurrency exchanges, coin namely XBX which is now accessible for trading. So now it’s the right time to change your coins which you don’t need into XBX.
2019-1-11 13:30 | |
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Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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New York has taken its own path in the cryptocurrency world. Much like the way that Eastern countries have decided on their own rules and regulations, New York requires exchanges to go through a registration and approval process.
2018-12-5 00:41 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).
2018-12-4 21:02 | |
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For the first time, the U. S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals.
2018-11-29 21:41 | |
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Today, November 26, 2018, marks the launch of the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) and the FIO Protocol, an interwallet protocol that seeks to make the transfer of cryptos between wallets as simple and straightforward as making transfers on PayPal.
2018-11-27 02:52 | |
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ISG tokens are released on the Ethereum platform using the ERC-20 standard, which is supported by most cryptographs. In addition to the release of the ISG token, during the ICO, it is planned to create its own blockchain ISG to support transactions within the ISG network.
2018-11-17 02:33 | |
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Visa chief executive officer Alfred Kelly has said that cryptocurrencies are not a significant threat to his company’s electronic payments hegemony. He nevertheless indicated that the legacy financial intermediary may move into handling cryptocurrency if there is an incentive to do so.
2018-10-27 00:15 | |
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Utility billing and payment services provider Novatti is launching a new Australian dollar (AUD)-backed stablecoin known as the Novatti AUD Utility Token on the Stellar Network.
2018-10-25 20:58 | |
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Coinbase is integrating its first stablecoin, joining other top exchanges in what has become a listing race to add Tether’s rising competitors. As detailed in an October 23, 2018, blog post, Coinbase has added support for Circle’s USD Coin (USDC).
2018-10-24 20:14 | |
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South Africa is the most cryptocurrency-friendly country in Africa, according to the 2018 World Payments Report by French banking group BNB Paribas and IT company Capgemini. Compared to other major economies on the continent, South Africa has allowed digital currency-based payments, trades and investments to flourish almost unhindered.
2018-10-19 08:59 | |
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One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the US, Coinbase, is following an aggressive EU expansion policy. The exchange recently entered the UK market and enabled GBP payments for its customers.
2018-10-18 13:59 | |
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Hong Kong-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange BTCC is reportedly launching services in South Korea this month. In addition to a cryptocurrency exchange, the company will offer a wallet service, a mining pool, and a consumer payments service, according to its Korean website.
2018-10-17 07:55 | |
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The world of digital currencies and the world of gambling seem to be joining up. The benefits offered by currencies such as the market leader, Bitcoin isn’t an oversight. Winning Poker Network is one of the companies that is benefitting from supporting from the world of crypto over the past few years.
2018-10-12 23:00 | |
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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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In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, Glen Oaks Escrow has announced that it has partnered with Bitpay to support cryptocurrency payments and Binance has revealed that it will delist bytecoin, chatcoin, iconomi and triggers next month.
2018-10-10 15:10 | |
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Life in Venezuela is anything but. Last year, the South American nation of 32 million led the world with 652% inflation and this year the economic turmoil is even worse. As of September 2018, the annual inflation was estimated at 200,000% and International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it could spike to a mindboggling 1,000,000% by December.
2018-10-10 22:30 | |
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Germany’s Northern Bitcoin AG (MUN:NB2) has agreed to offer Bpal Wallet, a wallet and payments app created by China-based Rawpool Group, in the European market. The agreement between the Munich-listed company and the bitcoin cash (BCH) miner, effective from today, also covers mining operations and cryptocurrency exchanges.
2018-10-8 20:15 | |
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Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
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A recently discovered bug allowed bad actors to trick and exploit cryptocurrency exchanges by sending multiple payments to the same stealth address. Monero Bug Allows Hackers to Steal from Crypto Exchanges Monero (XMR) is known as a coin that provides its users with increased levels of privacy and anonymity.
2018-9-27 21:00 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Crypto is an industry which is increasing at an alarming rate. With Bitcoin in the news more now than it ever has and other cryptocurrencies getting more and more interest by public eye, this is a good time for the market.
2018-9-12 18:00 | |
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A handful of projects brought their tech to life this week, introducing new payment systems and coins to the industry’s offerings. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s Lightning Network makes headway for the dev community, and one of crypto’s older and more respected exchanges (arguably) takes a step against the space’s principles.
2018-9-11 17:57 | |
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The team behind Lightning Ramp, a system that provides customers with faster bitcoin payments, has joined forces with Casa, a “be-your-own-bank” product that provides users with a multi-signature, multi-hardware device and multi-location wallet designed, to offer top-notch security against attacks and theft.
2018-9-6 00:14 | |
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IBM has launched a blockchain-based payment system called Blockchain World Wire. According to IBM, the new payment network uses digital currency on Stellar's blockchain to "clear and settle cross-border payments" in near real time.
2018-9-6 23:49 | |
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Update (September 7): Goldman Sach’s CFO Martin Chavez has since called reports of dropping the bitcoin trading desk “fake news. ” (The original Business Insider report quoted unnamed sources as the basis of the information.
2018-9-8 21:57 | |
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Комиссия по ценным бумагам Аргентины (CNV) добавила Binance в список компаний, которые могут предоставлять криптовалютные услуги в стране. Помимо этого, новая программа Binance в Аргентине сфокусируется на борьбе с отмыванием денег (AML) и противодействии финансированию терроризма (CFT).
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has expanded its regulatory remit of the crypto space to include all cryptocurrency financial service providers.
Finland’s Financial Supervisory Authority is to assume its role as registration and supervisory authority for the crypto sector, as new legislation comes into force this week