The US-based financial services company, Robinhood, just received the virtual currency license, called BitLicense by the state of New York. Robinhood is one of the most popular cryptocurrency “exchanges” as it offers commission-free trading – a feature that has attracted many customers and new features to the exchange. Some time ago, Robinhood was rumored to…
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Coinbase, based out of San Francisco and one of the most popular and trusted crypto platforms in the world, has announced that it will expand its newly developed custodial services into the Asia market. The move is seen as two-fold – to attract major institutional players in the region and to provide custodial services for…
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MyCrypto, Inc. has just announced that it has acquired Ambo, a company that aims to make cryptocurrency easy through the development of crypto wallets. With this move, MyCrypto will leverage Ambo’s technology and talent to build a suite of cross-platform mobile tools for mainstream digital asset investors. The open-source blockchain interface plans to expand into…
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Have you ever woken up in a cold sweat in the early morning hours, suddenly thinking that you had sold your bitcoin for $35 instead of $3,500? Did you rush to your computer to check to see if the order had been entered correctly? Some poor fellow or woman in South Korea is living a…
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Huobi Japan is now a wholly-regulated crypto exchange, supervised by the Financial Services Agency in Japan. The cryptocurrency exchange was created through a merger between Huobi Group and BitTrade. The Founder and CEO of Huobi Group commented on the milestone: This is an important milestone for us," said Leon Li, Huobi Group Founder and CEO. "Firstly,…
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Bithumb, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is looking to go public in the US through the mechanism of reverse merger. Bithumb can become the very first crypto exchange to be traded publicly in the United States. The holding company of Bithumb, BTHMB, which is based in Singapore, is seeking to be listed in…
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Blockport, the European social crypto trading platform, kicks off 2019 by moving out of the beta version of its exchange. User funds will be stored on the blockchain and most leading cryptocurrencies and tokens will be available for trading on the exchange. Over the past several months, our team has worked incredibly hard to get…
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In the latest chapter of the continuing saga of Cryptopia, Binance has stepped forward and claimed to have frozen a portion of the stolen assets from the beleaguered crypto exchange. New Zealand police and the High Tech Crime Consortium (HTCC), an agency that deals with cybercrime, are presently conducting their investigation. All trading activities have…
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Blockchain assets exchange platform Gate.IO has just announced that it has launched a new perpetual BTC/USD contract feature. BTC/USD is going to be with optional leverage scalings from 1-100. The feature also includes the following contracts: ETH/USD, EOS/USD, XRP/USD, BCH/USD, BSV/USD, LTC/USD, TRX/USD, ADA/USD, XMR/USD, and XLM/USD. The current maximum principal for every investor is…
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Earlier this week, the news of the first hack of a crypto exchange in 2019 hit the airways. The Cryptopia exchange in New Zealand suspended operations, citing “significant losses”. Local police are investigating, with very few details forthcoming. The lack of information has led to widespread speculation as to the nature of the hack, whether…
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