2019-10-10 18:00 |
A report from the Canadian Digital Chamber of Commerce compiles fresh data on Canada's blockchain industry – including some promising salary stats. origin »
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The Financial Transactions and Report Analysis Center of Canada(FinTRAC) released a report on 10 July, revealing financial regulations that the Canadian government has planned, for 2020. According to the report, cryptocurrency exchanges will be entailed to register with the Financial Transactions and Report Analysis Center of Canada, in order to restrain money laundering activities in […] The post Canada mandates registration of cryptocurrency exchanges by June 2020 appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-12 23:30 | |
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Reassurance for Canadians: Cryptocurrency exchanges across the nation will now only have to report transfers of more than CA$10,000 ($7,663). It comes after the Canadian government relaxed some of its new anti-money laundering regulations following feedback from payment service providers and cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-7-11 15:50 | |
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Canada has updated its anti-money laundering rules, classing crypto exchanges as MSBs and mandating financial compliance and reporting.
2019-7-11 13:20 | |
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According to a Bloomberg report published on June 17, 2019, Canadian pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart has inked a business deal with distributed ledger technology (DLT) startup TruTrace Technologies to launch a pilot program to track the supply chain of medical cannabis.
2019-6-18 20:00 | |
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According to a report by The Next Web, published on June 5, 2019, the mayor of Vancouver, Canada, has suggested putting a complete ban on bitcoin (BTC) ATMs in the city. Bitcoin ATMs Serve as Money Laundering Vehicles Although an increasing number of countries around the world are steadily warming up to cryptocurrencies, its criticsRead MoreRead More.
2019-6-6 21:00 | |
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By CCN. com: A recent report from news and media platform The Examiner Live has confirmed that four members of an organized crime ring that dealt in crystal meth in Yorkshire have been slapped with a 31-year jail term.
2019-4-29 15:38 | |
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Recently we reported how a privacy-focused future is Facebook’s plan as shared by Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of FB in its quarter first report. While Facebook manages to meet the user growth expectations, in the US and Canada, it has reached saturation.
2019-4-26 19:02 | |
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They’re doing it in British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Labrador — bitcoin miners in Canadian provinces are taking advantage of the country’s cool climate and abundant supplies of hydroelectric power.
2019-4-17 20:52 | |
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QuadrigaCX, once Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has now been declared officially bankrupt after months of financial and legal controversies, reported the Canadian new daily CBC on 8 April.
2019-4-9 08:45 | |
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As part of an ongoing criminal case, a judge in Canada has ordered that a local online drug dealer must forfeit about 281. 41 bitcoin (worth about $1. 4 million) after it was found that he used the cryptocurrency to fund his illegal activities.
2019-4-5 20:02 | |
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Bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 has reportedly laid off roughly half of its staff at facilities in Alberta, Canada
2019-4-5 00:20 | |
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A Judge In Toronto Ruled Drug Dealer Has To Pay $1. 4 Million In BTC Holdings According to a recent report released by the local daily news outlet The Star, a Judge in Toronto ruled that a drug dealer will have to pay $1.
2019-4-4 20:25 | |
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Canada’s once-largest cryptocurrency exchange saw its revival prospects go from bad to worse after their court-appointed independent auditor, Ernst & Young, stated in their April 1 report that the exchange’s only option now was bankruptcy.
2019-4-4 03:30 | |
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A small town in Canada, just north of Toronto, is joining Ohio in providing its citizens with an option to pay some taxes in cryptocurrency – Bitcoin, to be exact. The town of Innisfil will begin accepting Bitcoin as payment for property taxes in April, local news outlet Simcoe.
2019-3-29 13:16 | |
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Quadrigacx co-founder Michael Patryn is actually a convicted criminal who went by the name Omar Dhanani, a Bloomberg report alleges. Dhanani has been previously convicted of identity theft linked to bank and credit card fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a U.
2019-3-20 00:40 | |
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Quadrigacx co-founder Michael Patryn is actually a convicted criminal who went by the name Omar Dhanani, a Bloomberg report alleges. Dhanani has been previously convicted of identity theft linked to bank and credit card fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a U.
2019-3-20 00:40 | |
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According to pseudonymous cryptocurrency researcher “I am Nomad” and a report from The Block, QuadrigaCX co-founder Michael Patryn traded large Bitcoin positions on BitMEX surpassing the tune of $8 million.
2019-3-8 20:36 | |
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The Canada Revenue Agency is reportedly auditing crypto investors, sending them lengthy questionnaires regarding the nature of their holdings
2019-3-7 04:50 | |
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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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Alphabet Inc. ’s Google is banning political advertising in Canada just in time to apply to the 2019 Federal elections. The prohibition came in the wake of the Elections Modernization Act, passed by the Canadian Senate this December, which requires online advertising platforms to monitor and report all political and partisan ads.
2019-3-5 20:01 | |
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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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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 Bank of Canada has recently released a report related to Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. The report makes some observations regarding the cryptocurrency space, how it evolved and the future of Bitcoin (BTC).
2019-2-15 07:57 | |
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The crypto winter that started toward the end of last year doesn’t appear to be showing signs of slowing down. Digital assets like bitcoin lost more than 80 percent of their value while the overall crypto market cap shrunk from over $600 billion in January 2018 to less than $138 billion in December 2018.
2019-2-15 20:17 | |
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When QuadrigaCX announced last month that CEO Gerald Cotten had suddenly died and roughly $150 million in cryptocurrency ($180 million Canadian) was inaccessible as a result, the crypto world went nuts.
2019-2-5 20:35 | |
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One of Canada’s top crypto exchanges, Coinsquare, is reportedly laying off almost 30 percent off its staff, including its CFO and COO
2019-2-2 18:19 | |
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Elections Canada, the official elections agency in Canada is seeking views on how to go about handling the usage of crypto donations when fundraising for political causes. Political Parties Asked To Provide Input On Cryptocurrencies According to a report published on iPolitics, the elections agency has sent out a formal invitation to political parties to […]
2019-1-11 18:39 | |
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When it comes to bitcoin mining, Canada is a natural. A temperate climate helps to keep mining equipment cool, and plentiful renewable energy from hydroelectric dams gives Canadian provinces like British Columbia a natural advantage with cheaper electricity costs.
2018-12-22 21:41 | |
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Although the cryptocurrency market has been in a bearish condition since the beginning of the year and the trend has worsened in that last month, the crime rate involving cryptocurrencies has shown a steady increase.
2018-12-13 00:30 | |
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According to a brand new in depth report taken up and jointly published by the collective central banks of Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore on November 15th, shed some profound light on the impact that Central bank Digital Currencies would have on interbank payments and transactions. According to the report, CDBC's would help improve […]
2018-12-4 11:48 | |
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In a November 2018 report by the Bank of Canada, Bank of England and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, emerging technologies and opportunities in the banking industry have been explored including the use of Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies.
2018-11-16 16:05 | |
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The School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph has partnered with an award-winning startup to revolutionize connectivity across Northern Canada. The Maple Ridge-based tech company Left has teamed up with the University of Guelph to launch a $2.
2018-11-9 23:04 | |
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Most digital exchanges are unregulated and therefore unqualified to safely process cryptocurrency transactions. They don’t employ necessary know-your-customer (KYC) tactics, and roughly $1 billion in digital asset funds have been stolen since the start of 2018.
2018-10-13 23:34 | |
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The digital currency ETF is a big part of the debate in a recent Bloomberg interview which had JP Morgan’s Asset Management Head of International ETFs, Bryson Lake on the panel. The interview looked at how JP Morgan believes in the latest mover advantage in terms of the digital currency market and ETFs.
2018-10-12 12:00 | |
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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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Canadian Cryptocurrency Firm Launches LDGR ETF Per a report from The Globe And Mail, a subsidiary of Canada’s leading cryptocurrency platform, Coinsquare, has just launched two new, technology-focused exchange-traded funds (ETF) on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).
2018-9-23 21:22 | |
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Canada’s first ever blockchain technology-focused course will commence this fall, per a report by Now Toronto, published on September 12, 2018. Toronto’s George Brown College will see its students attend a three-semester Blockchain Development program.
2018-9-14 21:00 | |
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A recent Bank of Canada working paper argues for a trustless blockchain securities settlement system.
2018-9-12 21:07 | |
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Ripple Cheaper Than Banks By Up To 46% Most of the equity studies are focused on short-term targets, usually one year. It is very rare that analysts concentrate on long-term prospects of crypto firms.
2018-9-11 18:56 | |
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The cryptocurrency world has been rocked by the news of Kraken closing its support centre and offices in Halifax, Canada. The report first appeared on Reddit, and soon made its way to Twitter. The first Reddit user to break the news claimed that Kraken had just “laid off hundreds of people in response to a security breach” at its unit at 60 Highfield Park.
2018-9-9 18:00 | |
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The town of Ocean Falls in British Columbia, Canada, is set to become yet another example of a rejuvenated small town with a new crypto mining facility in town. A report on September 4, 2018, shows that after four long decades of little to nothing happening, the fortuitous presence of cheap hydroelectric power has attracted a bitcoin miner to town,...The post %%POSTLINK%% appeared first on %%BLOGLINK%%.
2018-9-7 01:00 | |
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Electricity is the number one cost for cryptocurrency mining, giving an edge to whoever can secure it for the lowest price. Bitfarms, which has access to cheap renewable energy in Canada, reports that mining a single BTC cost the company just $1567 in the first half of the year.
2018-8-30 20:35 | |
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The Canadian government has postponed the release of its final regulations for cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. The final published regulations were due this fall, but the government now says they won’t be published in the Canada Gazette until late 2019.
2018-8-28 20:18 | |
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According to a report published on August 22, 2018, a new blockchain exchange-traded fund based out of Vancouver, Canada has surfaced in the cryptocurrency world and is set to be traded on the Aequitas NEO Exchange in Canada in September 2018.
2018-8-26 01:00 | |
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Following “frustrating” process of receiving the final approval from Canada’s regulators, Novogratz’ cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital gets listed on Toronto’s TSX Venture Exchange. According to the latest report from Bloomberg, Mike Novogratz’s cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital is all set to trade on the Toronto’s TSX Venture Exchange from the 1st of August, 2018.
2018-7-31 11:55 | |
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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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A recent report from the Canadian financial authority investigates central bank-issued digital currencies and how they might improve the economy.
2018-7-27 22:01 | |
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The Bank of Canada recently released a report conducting new research into the different forms of consensus verifying technology used in blockchains all over the sector. In its report, the bank concluded that the superior form of consensus verification is PoW, or Proof of Work. This is the type of system employed by the biggest […]
2018-7-27 10:59 | |
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Most Canadian Bitcoin Owners Use It For Investment Purposes Only A report by Bank of Canada (BoC) published on July 23rd shows that 58% of Canadians own Bitcoin for investment purposes. The top four reasons for Canadians owning Bitcoin, according to the study, were: purchasing it as an investment, friends owning Bitcoin, being interested in […]
2018-7-25 01:47 | |
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