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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the apex bank of the country, has warned investors to be wary of a scam bitcoin investment website that has been soliciting for funds from members of the public by using false statements purportedly made by Goh Chok Tong, the former Prime Minister of Singapore, according to a pressRead MoreRead More.
2019-8-1 01:00 | |
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In a development in Texas, the federal court has fined two convicts a total of $360,000 USD in respect to solicitation of funds from the public over a fraudulent scheme. The amount raised from the public investors since January 2017 is yet to be revealed.
2019-7-12 00:50 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has continually denied crypto-related endeavors to get exchange traded funds and broker-dealers in the crypto industry approved. However, to help the public gain a better understanding, the SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have made a joint statement, explaining why there are many concerns that need to […]
2019-7-9 03:55 | |
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Bitfinex has been the subject of scrutiny from the public as their funds are locked up with Crypto Capital. A recent blog post announced that Bitfinex would be purchasing outstanding LEO to burn. The Tokinex platform was developed by Bitfinex as a way to launch initial exchange offerings, though it is now finding a different […]
2019-7-9 22:52 | |
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YouNow — a live streaming venture that is funded by Union Square Ventures — recently filed a public offering for its native token offering (called ‘Props’) with the US Securities and Exchange Commision.
2019-6-21 22:26 | |
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Dengba inn, the predecessor of Dengba planet, was founded in 2007. After 12 years of operation and development, 88 Dengba inns have been established in 70 cities in 10 countries around the world. More than 1,000,000 Backpackers come to Dengba every year, and nearly 50,000 online Backpackers have formed in recent years.
2019-6-18 22:51 | |
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By CCN Markets: According to a recent press release, more than 300 private and public sector law enforcement officials and crypto experts gathered to help Europol understand the changing tides in money.
2019-6-18 20:00 | |
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With a ready state-of-the-art produced working live platform, Capitual is already bringing crypto-currencies to people in different sectors. With your help, we can popularize crypto-currencies' usage across the whole world! Capitual brings the evolution of crypto-currencies for the rest of us by allowing instant exchange between fiat and crypto-currencies.
2019-6-13 21:03 | |
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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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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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Security token offerings (STOs) were hailed to be the modern-era initial public offering (IPO). Security tokens are financial securities that and their issuers must abide by the regulations of the financial watchdogs of their HQ country.
2019-5-24 19:49 | |
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The Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has shut down cryptomixing site Bestmixer. io. According to local media, Dutch authorities moved to shut down the site on May 22, 2019, as part of a joint operation with police agencies from several European nations, including France, Latvia and Luxembourg.
2019-5-22 21:13 | |
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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 | |
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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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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 | |
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Several major cryptocurrency traders have reportedly begun discussing plans to enact an industry-wide blacklist of suspicious actors, to stem the tide of scams, theft and fraud in the crypto space.
2019-5-10 15:52 | |
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Chinese crypto exchange Binance suffered a major hack on Tuesday, which the company’s CEO responded to by proposing a rollback of the Bitcoin blockchain to rectify — a suggestion that riled up the community.
2019-5-8 21:39 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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Ever since the QuadrigaCX case opened up to the public, the risks of blockchain technology are becoming a huge topic for conversation around cryptocurrency circles. The loss of over $190 million USD of users’ funds due to the lack of a private key to the cold wallet storage highlights these types of risks a blockchain […]
2019-5-3 20:38 | |
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According to a study released by Longhash on April 29, 2019, the relative usage of CoinJoin out of all bitcoin transactions has tripled in one year, currently sitting at 4.
2019-5-2 23:50 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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By CCN. com: Just one month after a coordinated global law enforcement operation executed a sweeping takedown of dark web drug dealers, rumors are swirling that a popular dark-net market has allegedly attempted a major exit scam.
2019-4-23 08:30 | |
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Binance and ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchanges announced that they would delist the controversial Bitcoin SV, supported by Craig "False Satoshi" Wright. Other crypto services are likely to follow them and stop supporting Bitcoin SV.
2019-4-18 10:40 | |
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Welcome to another Monday and with that, another Moonday Morning – where we take a look at the weekend’s top blockchain and cryptocurrency news. Here’s Hard Fork’s selection of last weekend’s top stories: 1.
2019-4-15 12:40 | |
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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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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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Cryptopia Troubles Continue, Notifying Public That Funds Deposited After Breach Was Announced Are Unrecoverable Cryptopia, a cryptocurrency exchange that is based in New Zealand, was hacked back in the middle of January on two separate occasions.
2019-3-26 23:30 | |
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BlockFi trims payouts for hedge funds and VCs provides a boost for “average crypto investors”. The BlockFi Interest Account (BIA), which launched as a private beta in January, before rolling out to the public at the start of March, has so far been dubbed a “huge success” by the firm.
2019-3-24 14:02 | |
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There is a common motif within the crypto markets that the advent of “do-no-harm” regulation would allow for an influx of institutional, corporate, and public funds that will help propel Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies higher.
2019-3-23 01:00 | |
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We’re going to have to take a step back and rethink the whole “Bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETFs) are coming” trope. In February earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) put out a solicitation request opening the floor for the public to comment and provide their thoughts on the possibility of allowing a regulated and recognized Bitcoin ETF.
2019-3-19 17:48 | |
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On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more than just Bitcoin voices from every corner of the industry.
2019-3-15 01:08 | |
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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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Most cyberattacks in the crypto space involve hackers finding a way around the security of crypto exchange platforms and gaining access to users’ funds. Last year saw the entry of a new breed of cyber extortionists that seems to be gaining ground, so much so that they were able to steal over $300,000 in bitcoin (BTC) tokens in 2018.
2019-3-1 18:10 | |
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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 | |
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The cryptocurrency industry is still reeling from the recent Cryptopia debacle. When the exchanges confirmed someone stole funds, there was a lot of public outrage. Several weeks later, the investigation is still ongoing and customers are waiting to access their funds.
2019-2-25 11:55 | |
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The University of Michigan plans to increase its stake in a16z, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed cryptocurrency fund. This news is yet another indication of growing interest in virtual currency investments from endowments, family offices, public pension funds, and other institutional investors.
2019-2-24 02:00 | |
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Brian Armstrong, the CEO and co-founder of Coinbase, made a public statement speculating that QuadrigaCX—the exchange that lost $135 million in customer funds—may have used its CEO’s death as cover for earlier mismanagement.
2019-2-22 12:35 | |
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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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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is facing an increasing publicity nightmare after it emerged the CEO of a company it took over sold private user data to governments. Coinbase: Neutrino ‘Will Help Prevent Theft’ Announced February 19, Coinbase now owns Italian blockchain surveillance startup Neutrino, having acquired the company for an undisclosed sum.
2019-2-19 20:00 | |
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The recent scandal of QuadrigaCX in which Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange lost $150 million worth of crypto shocked the financial space. It deteriorated the public image of the cryptocurrency sector overnight as analysts condemned the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars following the alleged death of CEO Gerald Cotten who had sole control over the company’s holdings and user funds.
2019-2-17 15:46 | |
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Jennifer Robertson, the widow of the late QuadrigaCX exchange CEO, appears to be liquidating and shuffling some estate assets. When QuadrigaCX founder and CEO Gerald Cotten passed away suddenly in December of 2018 in India, he was allegedly the only person with the knowledge of the exchange’s cold storage keys.
2019-2-15 22:06 | |
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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For those QuadrigaCX users who were fortunate enough to have withdrawal requests honored, some appear to have received their funds through unconventional means. An anonymous QuadrigaCX user who corresponded with Bitcoin Magazine said that they received a bank deposit from Robertson Nova Consulting Inc.
2019-2-15 20:28 | |
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Two American public sector pension funds have reportedly backed a new cryptocurrency industry venture capital fund with a large tranche of a combined $40 million investment. The deal is being hailed as a show of confidence in the field from some of the most conservative types of investment managers.
2019-2-13 23:32 | |
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Anthony Pompliano's firm raised $40 million, with the two largest investments coming from public pension funds.
2019-2-13 21:29 | |
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Frequent Bitcoin commentator and t-shirt salesman Anthony Pompliano told Bloomberg this morning that two Fairfax County, Virginia pension funds have gone in on Morgan Creek Digital’s new fund for cryptocurrency companies.
2019-2-12 19:27 | |
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Two US public pension funds that mange close to $6 billion in combination have become anchor investors in a new $40 million venture-capital fund. The Police Officer’s Retirement System and... The post Two American Pension Funds Invest in Crypto appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-2-12 18:37 | |
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A brace of public pension funds is backing a $40 million venture-capital fund established by Morgan Creek Digital which focuses on cryptocurrency investments. This development marks the first ever involvement of U.
2019-2-12 17:00 | |
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