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According to local media, this updated system is specifically applicable to a category of funds known as Investment Business Limited Partnerships. origin »
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BlockFi received permission to return $297 million to certain customers as part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Reuters said on May 11. Specifically, the company is permitted to return those funds to customers who held funds in BlockFi’s Wallet rather than its interest-bearing accounts.
2023-5-12 23:47 | |
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2022-12-18 22:55 | |
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The European Union (EU) is planning to create a sixth “Anti-Money Laundering Authority” that will be specifically responsible for regulating the cryptocurrency industry. While the Markets in Crypto Assets regulation and the contentious Transfer of Funds Regulation have received the majority of attention from the cryptocurrency industry, they are only a small part of a […]
2022-8-16 01:30 | |
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SFOX (San Francisco Open Exchange), a bitcoin and cryptocurrency prime broker, today unveiled its new crypto trading product built specifically for hedge funds and asset managers. The broad suite of sophisticated trading and portfolio management services unveiled will allow hedge funds to execute sophisticated trading strategies at scale in a single platform.
2021-9-17 18:17 | |
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RAMP DEFI, a cross-chain liquidity ramp designed specifically to unlock funds from staked assets, is now part of IOST’s Noah Oracle Fund as per a press release on Aug 26. The $1 million fund is meant to bootstrap growth of DeFi oracle projects in the enterprise-grade, scale, and secure IOST blockchain.
2020-8-26 14:27 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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A report from The Guardian reveals that a British tax relief fun has paid the vast majority of its funds — which were originally intended to be earmarked for smaller developers based in the UK — to global game publishers such as Sony, Sega, and Warner.
2019-10-4 02:40 | |
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US-based cryptocurrency payment processor, BitPay, has time and again gotten itself into troubled waters over several issues. In what is the latest salvo against the firm, Tom Grundy, Founder and Chief Editor of the media outlet Hong Kong Free Press, has alleged and highlighted BitPay’s incompetency to process funds, specifically donations that it has been […] The post BitPay in troubled waters once again as Hong Kong Free Press alleges suspension of fund transfers without notice appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-9-11 13:30 | |
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We put a lot of faith in passwords, specifically in the private keys which secure our Bitcoin and crypto wallets. If someone were to find out or hack our private key, they would gain control over the funds in the wallet.
2019-9-10 15:00 | |
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According to reports from the Coinbase team on May 15th, the team detected a structural depth 2 chain re-organization which took place within the Bitcoin Cash Blockchain. This particular re-organization specifically targetted Bitcoin Cash funds which were sent to a specific Segwit Bitcoin address.
2019-6-1 02:14 | |
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About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
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The CEO of Blockstream, Adam Back, talked about Bitcoin (BTC) and the recent hack experienced by Binance, one of the most popular exchanges around the world. He specifically mentioned that the block reshuffling to recover the funds could completely harm the Bitcoin network.
2019-5-16 01:36 | |
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Blockchain security company BitGo is launching a new service for institutional clients: a clearing and settlements system that operates off-chain. BitGo announced this new service in a press release on May 14, 2019, describing some of the features that this new system will have.
2019-5-15 23:44 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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Hackers stole $40 million in Bitcoin from cryptocurrency exchange Binance specifically because they trusted it most. ‘Bitcoin Ledger is the Most Immutable’ That was the conclusion circulating among the cryptocurrency community May 8 in the days after one of the world’s biggest trading platforms accepted it was unlikely to recover the funds and would need to repay users out of its own pocket.
2019-5-9 18:00 | |
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By CCN. com: Still mired in controversy over that $850 million loss, the powers at be at Bitfinex have come up with an idea to replace the funds and it’s raising eyebrows for a bounty of reasons. Bitfinex’s solution to try to make whole those who were burned in the hack that led to the losses is to issue more tokens.
2019-5-6 11:11 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server).
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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Hodl Hodl, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it is launching a prediction market on Bitcoin. Slated for launch in the spring of 2019, it would be the first Bitcoin-based prediction market to go live on Bitcoin’s mainnet.
2019-3-9 00:16 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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In January of 2019, student Conner Brown attended a guest lecture by a Professor Susan Athey at the University of Stanford Graduate School. She gave a presentation to his “Evolution of Finance” class titled “Blockchain and the Future of Finance.
2019-3-1 03:39 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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U. S. -based digital asset platform Coinbase has acquired blockchain intelligence startup Neutrino. The company made the news known earlier today, February 19, 2019, but the cost of the acquisition was not disclosed.
2019-2-20 23:12 | |
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In the current freelancing industry, many platforms only allow independent contractors to use one bank account. In addition to restricting freelancers to the use of fiat only, this can also cause significant lag times when employees work with companies overseas.
2019-2-15 20:14 | |
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A prominent digital asset firm has revealed it successfully closed a new $40 million blockchain-specific venture capital fund, thanks largely to contributions made by two public pensions. Morgan Creek Digital, a hedge fund backed by institutional powerhouse Morgan Creek Capital, has launched what it calls the Morgan Creek Blockchain Opportunities Fund, geared entirely toward investing in the digital asset industry.
2019-2-12 14:00 | |
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A prominent digital asset firm has revealed it successfully closed a new $40 million blockchain-specific venture capital fund, thanks largely to contributions made by two public pensions. Morgan Creek Digital, a hedge fund backed by institutional powerhouse Morgan Creek Capital, has launched what it calls the Morgan Creek Blockchain Opportunities Fund, geared entirely toward investing in the digital asset industry.
2019-2-12 14:00 | |
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The United States Department of Energy has announced on January 7, 2018, that it has allocated $4. 8 million dedicated specifically to research and development of four areas of which Cybersecure Sensors for Fossil Power Generation includes the application of blockchain.
2019-1-11 19:00 | |
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The holiday season is here. And even if crypto prices are on the coal heap, you can still have fun spreading some holiday bitcoin cheer. For the bitcoiners in your life, this could mean a crypto-related gift as a token of solidarity.
2018-12-12 23:22 | |
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Cryptocurrency investor and entrepreneur Trace Mayer plans to use the anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block to make holders reclaim their private keys. Mayer To Bitcoin HODLers: Reclaim Sovereignty In a video introduction to the plan, which he dubbed ‘Proof of Keys,’ Mayer appealed to the Bitcoin community to remove all funds not under their direct control, specifically third-party exchanges.
2018-12-11 12:00 | |
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R3 has unveiled a new app on their international blockchain, a global payment platform that uses Ripple’s XRP as its initial base currency. The app, dubbed Corda Settler, continues R3’s track record for pursuing ambitious blockchain projects, and it is allegedly “purpose-built to allow for payment obligations raised on the Corda blockchain platform to be made through any of the world’s payment systems, both traditional and blockchain-based.
2018-12-6 01:54 | |
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To mark two decades of its existence, Bank Frick is sponsoring a blockchain research and certificate program at the Liechtenstein University. Specifically, the bank will provide financial support for blockchain and fintech-related research at the university for five years.
2018-11-23 05:03 | |
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The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently moved to take custody of a large sum of assets from a crypto exchange currently frozen in accounts at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
2018-11-15 22:14 | |
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Chinese mining giant Bitmain is suing an anonymous hacker that allegedly stole $5. 5 million in cryptocurrency last April from the company’s account on the digital exchange Binance.
2018-11-14 23:31 | |
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The Korean Bar Association, whose membership is mandatory for all lawyers in the country, has campaigned publicly for the government to pass a number of cryptocurrency-related laws. The group specifically proposes regulation for crypto exchanges, initial coin offerings, domestic and foreign crypto transactions, and cryptocurrency funds.
2018-11-9 23:50 | |
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Hong Kong is pulling rank and is paying increasingly close attention to cryptocurrency funds. In a statement published earlier today, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) stated it would be putting cryptocurrency funds under its watchful eye.
2018-11-1 17:17 | |
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China has been expanding its investments all over the world. From Africa to Latin America and Asia. But in Europe, it has also started to place funds and help develop some countries. Joe Wallen, Contributor for Forbes Europe, wrote an article in which he analyses the Chinese influence in Europe, specifically in Lithuania. He starts […]
2018-10-30 23:32 | |
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Polish authorities seized over 44 million PLN ($11. 6 million dollars) from DasCoin, a Ponzi scheme company that scammed users with fraudulent investments. According to local reports, Ewa Bialik, a spokesperson of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the recent seizure of these funds.
2018-10-28 21:48 | |
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The judge presiding over a class action lawsuit against Coinbase over allegations of insider trading has approved Coinbase’s motion to dismiss the suit. In March of 2018, Jeffrey Berk filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California on behalf of himself and other investors against Coinbase.
2018-10-26 22:26 | |
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The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.
2018-10-10 23:38 | |
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When starting up a blockchain company (in this example, an Ethereum based on specifically) you’re probably going to look towards running and ICO to source funding. Gone are the days of knocking on the doors of investors to help fund your project, now, you simply just need to run an initial coin offering in order to generate the income needed to make your idea, a reality.
2018-10-2 21:30 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-10-2 17:27 | |
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In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal.
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-25 19:47 | |
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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.
2018-9-7 00:27 | |
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Many of us are familiar with the term “DApp,” which stands for “decentralized application. ”Foundationally, a DApp is an application that runs using blockchain technology on a decentralized network of computers instead of on a central database.
2018-9-4 21:43 | |
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Morgan Creek, a capital management company that oversees more than $1. 5 billion in assets, has partnered with Bitwise Asset Management to create the Digital Asset Index Fund.
2018-8-28 21:06 | |
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Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency investment firm SFOX has raked in roughly $22. 7 million in its Series A funding. The round was headed by venture platforms Social Capital and Tribe Capital and earned the participation of other firms like DCG, SV Angel, Blockchain Capital and Y Combinator.
2018-8-17 01:31 | |
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BitAngels founder Michael Terpin has filed a $224 million lawsuit against telecoms provider AT&T, alleging that its negligence led him to lose about $24 million worth of cryptocurrency to fraudsters, according to a CNBC report.
2018-8-16 23:14 | |
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The Chamber of Digital Commerce’s Token Alliance is producing a new group of guidelines built to help the cryptocurrency and initial coin offering (ICO) markets grow responsibly.
2018-7-30 18:38 | |
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Elevated interest rates in the U.S. have dented ether’s appeal as the internet equivalent of a bond, offering a fixed-income-like return on staking.
A hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation report would weaken the case for Fed rate cuts.
The U.S. recession fears were partly responsible for the early August slide in stocks and cryptocurrencies.
The yen’s popularity as a funding currency can cause knock-on effects in other markets, helping tighten global financial conditions, BlackRock said.
With spot bitcoin ETF aspirations sidelined after the SEC yesterday pushed off decisions on a raft of new applications, crypto bulls are hoping an employment slowdown and lower interest rates could provide a positive catalyst.
In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Brian Brooks and Charles Calomiris claim that U.S. stablecoin legislation is crucial to redollarizing the world.