2019-11-30 13:38 |
IDAX says its unnamed "global CEO has gone missing" and asked customers to stop using its services. origin »
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The exchange says no other services will be affected by this change.
2023-3-23 00:11 | |
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Russia may prohibit crypto payments for goods and services, but achieving such a ban might be quite difficult. This is the conclusion of Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Market.
2019-11-30 16:30 | |
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As part of efforts to curb the use of blockchain-based virtual currencies for unlawful activities such as money laundering, the United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has mandated all money services businesses (MSBs) such as Bitcoin (BTC) trading venues to start transmitting certain customer info for transactions up to $3,000 or higher.
2019-11-21 02:00 | |
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FNB, one of the ‘big five’ South African bank is closing down accounts operated by crypto exchanges in the country. The bank, however, says the emergence of clear-cut cryptocurrency regulations in South Africa may trigger a reversal of the policy.
2019-11-20 12:29 | |
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Ivan Bogatyy of Dragonfly Research says he was able to use as little as $60 per week on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expose a critical vulnerability on the Mimblewimble (MW) privacy architecture.
2019-11-19 21:55 | |
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Crypto. com, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency service provider that offers users lending services, crypto payments through Visa debit card services and more, has announced the launch of its cryptocurrency exchange.
2019-11-14 18:00 | |
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Representatives of the current financial system are inadvertently extolling the virtues of Bitcoin at a higher frequently than ever before. The latest is Deutsche Bank President Karl von Rohr, who states that current methods intended to stave off economic crisis are lessening in efficacy.
2019-11-13 23:00 | |
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The Central Bank of Tunisia is digitizing the Tunisian dinar and has announced the launch of the E-dinar, reported Russia’s local news agency, Tass, which it says will be the first central bank digital currency.
2019-11-9 20:44 | |
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Online and in-store businesses in Switzerland are soon going to receive cryptocurrency payments, as the Bitcoin Suisse operating crypto financials has partnered with the payment company Worldline. The announcement has been made on Friday, and it says that the two financial players will leverage the SIX Payment Services infrastructure.
2019-11-9 22:34 | |
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The Malta Financial Services Authority says a Bitcoin scam has resurfaced under a different guise
2019-10-31 13:19 | |
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The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), the state’s financial watchdog, is hatching plans to review the highly controversial BitLicense regulation and possibly “relax” it a bit to lower the high barrier for entry.
2019-10-24 11:00 | |
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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, has testified before the U. S. House Financial Services Committee, where Congress members have raised their concerns about the company’s past and future dealings.
2019-10-24 07:09 | |
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Coinspeaker Facebook Won’t Participate in Libra Launch unless Congress Gives Greenlight, Says ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg is to address the House Financial Services Committee today on the issue of its Libra concerns.
2019-10-23 12:37 | |
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The director of FinCEN says that Anti-Money Laundering laws apply to everyone, including firms offering anonymous cryptocurrency services
2019-10-22 01:18 | |
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Binance has said it collaborated with UK police to uncover a criminal who earned more than $51 million (tomers in at least 53 different services. Other criminals were able to purchase and use scripts to obtain personal information about customers by imitating legitimate companies It’s believed some 500,000 people were affected, most… This story continues at The Next Web
2019-9-27 16:34 | |
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In a recent talk with CNBC, Jason Kelley, IBM’s general manager of blockchain services said that the subject of crypto should be kept aside, and tokenization of assets should be brought to focus. According to IBM exec, the need of the hour was to distinguish between talk of cryptocurrencies and “tokenization” of assets.
2019-9-23 20:30 | |
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Texas officials have said that none of the municipalities impacted by the crippling ransomware attack last month have yielded to the ransom demand. In its first update since August 20, the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) — which is leading the investigation into the incident — said more than half of the affected entities have resumed usual operations.
2019-9-9 15:04 | |
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Interest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin tumbled 13. 9% in Japan, according to the country's financial regulator. In data posted Sept. 3, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) says the volume of crypto-related inquiries fell in the latest quarter.
2019-9-3 19:10 | |
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The Dutch central bank has today announced it must begin supervising cryptocurrency companies (including wallet providers) under the fifth European anti-money laundering directive, which came into effect in July.
2019-9-3 13:07 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges are reportedly experiencing some disruption – how the tables have turned – after an outage at Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) cloud. Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, is reportedly experiencing 500 error messages on its APIs.
2019-8-23 15:55 | |
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The cryptocurrency exchange says a ban of users in Hong Kong, Bermuda and the Seychelles is to avoid conflict of interest with its operating company. The post Citing Compliance, BitMEX Blocks Services to Hong Kong, Bermuda and Seychelles appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-9-6 18:18 | |
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Bakkt says it will launch Sept. 23 after receiving a trust charter through the New York State Department of Financial Services.
2019-8-16 18:14 | |
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Amazon has announced that its facial recognition system can now detect “fear” in people. Dubbed Rekognition, the software offers a comprehensive range of tools for face detection, analysis, and recognition in images and videos.
2019-8-14 10:25 | |
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BitKan, a cryptocurrency service provider, has struck a strategic partnership with Bitcoin. com. This deal comes as Bitcoin. com is also set to establish a cryptocurrency trading platform. This according to an article from Crowdfund Insider, August 11, 2019.
2019-8-13 13:00 | |
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Walmart’s prospective USD-backed stablecoin should be looked upon more favorably by regulators than Facebook’s Libra, according to U. S. investment banking and financial services company, Cowen, Bloomberg reported.
2019-8-6 12:57 | |
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Another cryptocurrency service provider is forced to make changes to US customers due to “regulatory uncertainty and restrictions.” Operating in the US is becoming increasingly “complex and challenging,” this is the reason why Abra is the latest one to cut down on some services for US users, which it says is the “best course of […]
2019-7-26 19:51 | |
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Coinspeaker Tech Stocks Tank as the US Department of Justice Calls for New Antitrust ProbeThe DOJ says that the antitrust probe aims to monitor any unlawful activities carried out by the tech giants who especially happen to have a huge dominance on internet-based services.
2019-7-24 12:15 | |
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Bitcoin exchange platform Bitfinex has issued a court filing refuting claims by the New York Attorney General (NYAG) of servicing US customers in 2018. Bitfinex Says Alleged US Customers are Foreign Entities Earlier in July, the NYAG submitted evidence alleging that Bitfinex provided services to customers based in New York till December 2018, in violation of state law.
2019-7-23 15:00 | |
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Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has been hacked, resulting in the loss of $32 million worth of various digital currencies, Bloomberg reports. The majority of funds lost (approximately $23 million) belonged to customers, while the rest were owned by the exchange.
2019-7-12 14:30 | |
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Pour one out for another gaming legend we’re losing. Microsoft revealed last week it’s no longer supporting its suite of Internet Games that have been a staple of Windows for 19 years. Games Services for Windows XP and ME will end later this month, while the same service for Windows 7 will end next January.
2019-7-11 23:27 | |
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Rakbank CEO Peter England says that traditional banks have to work towards empowering companies that are working to develop blockchain technology. England said that APIs and distributed ledger technology present an opportunity to change the way international payments are handled, adding: “Blockchain technologies do have the potential to disrupt the financial services industry and create […]
2019-7-11 21:26 | |
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The blockchain and cryptocurrency services firm could soon to go public in the U.S. via a reverse IPO, a report says.
2019-7-10 12:46 | |
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Just like any other disruptive technology, cryptocurrency required a decade to be viewed as not just a speculative and risky asset, but as the future of the world’s financial services. Today, with the entry of several financial and non-financial institutions into the crypto-space, many around the world are speculating what its role will be in […] The post First mover better prepared for world domination, says Binance’s CZ as he hints at Facebook-Tencent rat race appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-9 13:00 | |
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Hello and welcome to another Monday and with that, another Moonday Morning – where we take a look at the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain news. Here’s Hard Fork’s selection of last weekend’s top stories: 1.
2019-7-8 12:27 | |
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Though WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, plenty of the app’s users are happy to ignore the fact the big blue parent network exists. Somewhat surprisingly, Facebook has been content to let WhatsApp do its own thing since its $19 billion purchase back in 2014.
2019-6-27 03:04 | |
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Despite dividing opinions earlier this year with its “cryptocurrency” JPM Coin, American bank JP Morgan is rolling out its blockchain-based tech to more clients. JP Morgan says potential clients from the US, Europe, and Japan are interested in using its digital coin to speed up securities trading, Bloomberg reports.
2019-6-25 15:41 | |
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By CCN Markets: Ten-time Grammy award winner John Legend recently appeared on CNBC to discuss how Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services have completely upended the music industry. His comments portend the market-shattering disruption that awaits the gaming industry once it undergoes its own streaming revolution.
2019-6-22 21:30 | |
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SWIFT, one of the world’s leading providers of secure financial services, turned heads in the crypto-community by announcing its move to go all in on blockchain and open finance. This step will change the current scene in the crypto-market as SWIFT aims to offer the same level of convenience and immediacy, as offered by other […] The post It’s do or die in payments, says CEO Gottfried Leibbrant as SWIFT embraces new blockchain initiative appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-22 20:30 | |
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One of the Big Four financial auditing and business services firms, PwC, wants to lend a hand to cryptocurrency businesses and help them keep track of their blockchain transactions. In an announcement released yesterday, PwC says the addition will be made to its suite of auditing tools called Halo.
2019-6-20 14:55 | |
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By CCN Markets: Facebook’s foray into cryptocurrencies with Libra has met with a ton of mixed reactions. While some are going gaga over the social media giant’s latest effort that’s supposed to enable cross-border payments at the tap of a button, the traditionalists are taking a dim view.
2019-6-21 10:21 | |
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Technology giant, IBM has announced the launch of its distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform called Multicloud. The firm says its platform is designed to run on other cloud platforms including Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to a report by Ledger Insights on June 18, 2019.
2019-6-19 17:02 | |
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By CCN Markets: Crypto unicorn Circle is shutting down its Circle Pay app in July to focus on stablecoins and developing new wallet services. The parent company of crypto exchange Poloniex made the surprise announcement on its website on June 13.
2019-6-14 17:02 | |
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Huawei Could Launch Blockchain Services In The Latin American Market The Chinese giant Huawei is currently analyzing the possibility of expanding in the Latin American market through blockchain services.
2019-6-14 00:32 | |
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Binance CEO says geofenced traders should use VPNs, but the terms of service on the platform explicitly forbid the use of proxy services or VPNs
2019-6-10 21:45 | |
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LocalBitcoins, one of the most popular peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, was recently criticized by the community. Last month, it was bought to light that the platform had stopped providing services to customers based in Iran, following which, the exchange placed a ban on in-person cash trading.
2019-6-8 20:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Line Pay Corporation Partners with VISA for New Fintech ServicesLine Pay has partnered with VISA to bring new blockchain solutions, contactless payments, and a pre-paid digital visa card.
2019-6-7 20:51 | |
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Malta should increase its anti-money laundering policing to match the growth in financial and crypto services, according to the EU.
2019-6-6 20:30 | |
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By CCN: According to self-declared Bitcoin creator Craig Wright, everyone who runs a Lightning node, uses privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero, or uses mixing services like CashShuffle will be guilty of money laundering and eventually suffer the brutal legal consequences.
2019-6-5 19:15 | |
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The Danish Financial Services Authority (FSA) has announced that an Initial Coin Offering is not a security because, according to a rough translation: “The reason is that, with the relevant...
2019-6-6 18:02 | |
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This year’s Global Data Ecosystem Conference, held in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, has ended positively. The two-day tech conference was extra special because it focused on popular blockchain technology, related applications, and other emerging innovations.
Shanghai has unveiled a comprehensive action plan designed to accelerate blockchain's technical development within the city by 2025
In a surprising turn of events, the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court in China has officially recognized Bitcoin as a unique and non-replicable digital asset while acknowledging its scarcity and inherent value.
China’s commitment to the blockchain sector remains steadfast as it gears up to develop blockchain infrastructure in Shanghai by 2025. The city’s governor unveiled an implementation plan on July 31st, outlining the strategic goal of advancing Shanghai’s digital development.
China’s Shanghai has released guidelines for integrating and promoting innovative technologies like blockchain, the metaverse, and digital yuan. The Chinese government has outlawed bitcoin (BTC) and other digital assets.
The record surge in Ethereum staking in May was attributed to the ongoing U.S. debt ceiling saga, confidence in the U.S. dollar, bank collapses and the high APR offered on ETH staking.
RPL has gained over 10% within 24 hours amid an anticipated upgrade at Rocket Pool for ETH stakers. This new upgrade will allow validators to create and convert to ETH mini pools.