2019-3-9 17:35 |
A report presented to the U.N. Security Council claims that North Korean hackers obtained $670 million in crypto and foreign fiat from 2015 to 2018
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North Korea has obtained some $670 million in virtual and fiat currency in a bid to bypass economic sanctions put in place as a result of its nuclear and missile programs. The country amassed the funds through cyber attacks, Nikkei says citing an expert panel reporting to the UN Security Council.
2019-3-8 14:24 | |
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Volume Of Cash Transactions Drop As Digital Payments See A Steady Rise A recent report called Access to Cash Review has predicted that in the next 15 years, the currently obtainable cash structure will be practically outdated.
2019-3-7 00:24 | |
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TrueUSD celebrated its first birthday on Tuesday, and the $200 million USD-pegged cryptocurrency stablecoin commemorated the occasion with two major announcements that could help buttress it as it seeks to supplant $2 billion Tether (USDT) as the market’s leading stablecoin.
2019-3-5 21:20 | |
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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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The New Zealand-based crypto asset exchange Cryptopia has made their assessment of a January hack, claiming that up to 9. 4 percent of all their assets were stolen.
2019-2-28 20:50 | |
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An Indian governmental committee is reportedly concerned about the potential impact of crypto on the stability of the country’s fiat currency
2019-2-5 17:36 | |
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Two “prominent professional hacking groups” are responsible for the majority of publicly reported hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges and other cryptocurrency organizations, concludes a report published by blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis this week.
2019-2-2 01:45 | |
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Darknet markets are going as strong as ever, if Chainalysis data is to be believed. In its latest Crypto Crime Report, published earlier this week, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reports that darknet market activity has nearly doubled throughout 2018.
2019-2-1 00:35 | |
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Tether (USDT) remains the most popular stablecoin, accounting for more than half of all value moving from Bitcoin to fiat or fiat-denominated currencies in December. Has the sector gone back to bed with the original stablecoin? A recently published report by CryptoCompare, a cryptocurrency statistics source, found that Tether represents 75% of Bitcoin (BTC) trades […] The post In Tether We Trust? USDT Still Dominant Stablecoin appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-1-18 18:56 | |
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Crypto finance startup Circle’s USDC stablecoin was fully backed with fiat reserves at the close of 2018, according to auditing firm Grant Thornton.
2019-1-17 15:15 | |
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The St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve bank has published a report seeking to examine the long-term prospects of BTC as an investment. The paper is highly critical of bullish outlooks for bitcoin, asserting that a “flood” of altcoins will deflate the price of all cryptocurrencies relative to fiat currencies over time.
2019-1-15 19:50 | |
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A report by Bloomberg is shedding light on Tether’s finances and suggests that Tether may be fully-backed by US dollars in a bank account. The financial news publication was able to gain access to documents that appear to show that Tether has sufficient fiat currency to underwrite its dollar-backed cryptocurrency.
2018-12-21 20:00 | |
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The National Assembly in France has recently shot down proposals to ease up the pressure on tax regulations in the crypto space. As reported by Bitcoin.
2018-12-20 22:13 | |
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A new report presents evidence of Tether’s legitimacy, suggesting the stablecoins issued match the company’s fiat holdings.
2018-12-19 23:18 | |
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Tether Ltd. may have the cash reserves to back up its 1.8 billion dollar-pegged tokens, says Bloomberg.
2018-12-18 18:15 | |
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This past week has seen Latin American peer-to-peer markets continue to set records for trade volume. For the week ending Dec. 8, Argentina and Venezuela posted a new record for Localbitcoins trade when measured in fiat, while Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela also posted records for trade measured in BTC.
2018-12-13 12:50 | |
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CryptoCompare recently released its monthly exchange review for November 2018, aggregating data from over 70 trading venues. The report suggests that futures volumes are still lingering at one-fourth of the market as the rest is controlled by spot trading.
2018-12-7 16:35 | |
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Report From Aion Foundation Shows Selloff Of “Decent” Level Of Bitcoin And Ethereum, Projecting 18-Month Runway On Wednesday, Aion Foundation published a report, starting off with discussing their $23 million raised from the sale of both Bitcoin and Ether, which happened on October 2017.
2018-12-6 01:04 | |
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Global leaders walked away from the latest G20 Summit with a rough game plan for crypto regulation. This year’s G20 Summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 30 to December 1.
2018-12-4 23:44 | |
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Bitcoinist once again caught up with the one and only Max Keiser, Wall Street veteran and host of the Keiser Report. He explains why he isn’t fazed about the Bitcoin price drop, why he pays no attention to ICOs, and why Bitcoin will be around longer than humans.
2018-11-30 20:00 | |
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World Trade Organization (WTO) Report: Blockchain has $3 Trillion Economic Value Potential by 2030 World Trade Organization (WTO) Report: Blockchain has $3 Trillion Economic Value Potential by 2030 Billionaire Crypto Investor Tim Draper: Bitcoin Will Still Rise to the Top and Pass Fiat Currency Billionaire Crypto Investor Tim Draper: Bitcoin Will Still Rise to the […]
2018-11-29 23:04 | |
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Tether is launching a new liquidity portal, one that will finally allow the direct redemption of Tether’s stablecoin USDT back into fiat. According to a new report released on the company’s website, Tether is going to “launch a redesigned platform allowing for the verification of new customers and direct redemption of Tether to fiat.
2018-11-28 01:21 | |
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The attestation report made by Grant Thornton US has verified Circle’s claims that more than 127.4 million USDC coins in circulation were backed by the same amount of fiat money in custody accounts.
2018-11-22 20:07 | |
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Bitcoin has experienced a bear market since the end of the last year. However, it does not seem that the issues finished here. According to a report from Chainalysis, the popular virtual currency is struggling to become a replacement for fiat currencies.
2018-11-22 18:23 | |
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Despite a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market and regulatory uncertainties, OKCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is expanding to Latin America launching a new exchange platform headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018-11-15 17:45 | |
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In this edition of The Daily, we report on Coincheck’s decision to resume nem (XEM) trading and relist two other coins — ether (ETH) and lisk (LSK). Also, Digital asset exchange Okex has added support for the Vietnamese fiat currency on its C2C platform and we cover the reasoning behind the move.
2018-11-14 14:25 | |
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Binance released a report Oct. 24, outlining its role in the aid of the victims of the 2018 West Japan floods. According to the report, the exchange donated 63. 03 BTC and 169. 85 ETH, the combined fiat equivalence of which exceeded $500,000 at the time of donation.
2018-10-27 02:41 | |
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IBM and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) have released details of a joint investigation into the effectiveness of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) as a replacement for government-issued fiat.
2018-10-25 16:54 | |
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Business Wire reported on Oct. 9 that Juniper Research, a UK-based research firm, released a report stating that Bitcoin’s price not only has plummeted since the beginning of the year but also has failed to take advantage of ongoing US–China trade wars, weak fiat currencies, and Brexit uncertainty.
2018-10-11 19:39 | |
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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 | |
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On Tuesday, Oct. 2, the Wall Street Journal released a report claiming that trading bots, a popular tool for both cryptocurrency and fiat investors, could be at the heart of the crypto market’s infamous volatility.
2018-10-4 04:00 | |
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Traditional venture capitalist (VC) investments are leveraging the decline in initial coin offerings (ICO) as the cryptocurrency industry tries to find bearing amid regulatory shifts and losses across the crypto markets.
2018-10-3 19:39 | |
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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 | |
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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National cryptos seem to have become something more common after the controversial Petro was launched by the government of Venezuela. Now, the National Bank of Ukraine has been considering to launch a new state-owned token that will be based on the blockchain technology, local media outlets report. The bank affirms that the “e-hrevnia” will be […]
2018-9-27 01:46 | |
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Morgan Creek Capital Management, the American asset manager claims in its second quarterly market outlook that cryptocurrencies will replace fiat currency eventually. What Does the Report Say? The second quarter market outlook report by Morgan Creek states that investors will remain interested in digital currencies.
2018-9-25 16:49 | |
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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 | |
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If a recent interview from a Duke professor is something to go by, the U.S. national fiat currency could soon be replaced by a national cryptocurrency. Per a report published by The Chronicle, dated September 19, 2018, Duke Fuqua School of Business’ professor, Campbell Harvey, not only believes that the United States should create a national cryptocurrency, but concludes that...The post %%POSTLINK%% appeared first on %%BLOGLINK%%.
2018-9-22 23:00 | |
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In April 2018, former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent off inquiries to more than a dozen cryptocurrencyexchanges to learn more about their internal operations.
2018-9-19 02:06 | |
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A survey carried out by research service YouGov Omnibus shows that while cryptocurrency prices are tumbling, 48 percent of millennials have no problem switching to crypto as a primary currency. The report, which collected answers from 1202 respondents from August 29-30, 2018, revealed that 79 percent of Americans are familiar with at least one cryptocurrency.
2018-9-11 00:07 | |
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Hong Kong-based blockchain start-up named Crypto. com is set to launch Asia’s first cryptocurrency enabled Visa debit card. Per a report on South China Morning Post on September 5, 2018, the firm has applied for a license and plans to issue 100,000 cards globally over the next two months, starting with Singapore.
2018-9-7 13:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency market may have experienced a flat run over the course of 2018 thus far with Bitcoin prices failing to break through the $10,000 barrier since early March, but new research published by ING demonstrates that adoption rates are rising rapidly.
2018-9-2 15:00 | |
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The peer-to-peer BTC markets of numerous emerging markets have witnessed significant action this past week, with the Localbitcoins markets of Venezuela, Argentina, and the Philippines posting record weekly fiat trade volume.
2018-8-17 19:30 | |
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Tether, the celebrity of the stablecoin world and one of the most ‘traded’ ‘cryptocurrencies’ in the world. I say this in inverted commas, as it’s status is a little hard to grasp, this aside, Tether has made a name for itself and is now as viable an asset as the US Dollar, and the range of other FIAT currencies that is is tied up too.
2018-8-13 13:00 | |
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An in-depth analysis of the fintech sector by the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs revealed a highly nuanced EU Parliament position on cryptocurrencies, with the committee stating the possibility for crypto to function as an alternative to fiat currency in a variety of different applications.
2018-7-27 13:00 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Technology giants IBM have been at the frontline of the blockchain and cryptocurrency revolution for quite some time now. According to a Reuters report, IBM in collaboration with financial services provider, Stronghold has launched a stable coin backed by the fiat dollar.
2018-7-18 00:02 | |
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In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover a new mobile app from Poloniex, the addition of USD fiat at Cobinhood exchange and the expansion plans of Bitmain in Israel. We also report about a triad boss who claims to have raised $750 million in a recent ICO.
2018-7-16 11:20 | |
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When it comes to cryptocurrency, it seems that there are always two sides of the (bit)coin. On the negative side, there’s everything that can go wrong.
2018-7-14 19:30 | |
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Using fresher data from August to October, crypto.news examines South Korea as the crypto market’s speculative frenzy cools off and casual readers lost interest.
Pencil Finance raised $1 million for first blockchain-based student loans.
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) may not be essential to achieving intended policy goals, instead addressing underlying constraints and improving other digital payment systems may be a more practical alternative, a survey of 19 central banks in the Middle East and Central Asia (ME&CA) region by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) has said.
The notice came more than a month after over a thousand users reported losses from the JPEX crypto exchange.
Asian and European stocks registered a bullish surge on Tuesday owing to the Fed’s hawkish outlook on interest rates.
Kapital Bank and Ravnaq Bank got approval from the National Agency for Perspective Projects to participate in the digital sandbox of crypto regulation.
Major stablecoin issuers Tether and Circle are focusing on markets outside the United States, where adoption is growing.