When it comes to JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) and all things crypto, Jamie Dimon, its outspoken chairman and CEO, just cannot keep his mouth shut. Jamie Dimon and his bank were recently the center of attention when it became the first bank to issue cryptocurrency, but praise soon turned to criticism when it became known that…
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Dukascopy Bank’s initial plans were to become the first regulated bank to launch its own ICO starting from March, 1 2019. However, the Japanese Mizuho Bank has equally announced their token to be unveiled on the same day, therefore Dukascopy moved the date a day earlier. Dukascoin, the first cryptocurrency issued by a regulated bank, has been launched…
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Digix, a blockchain platform that allows users to buy gold in divisible units, today announced that its DGX token has been listed on ProBit, a Korean exchange. The listing expands Digix’s presence in Korea following its recent collaboration with Blucon, a Korean-based global digital assets payment platform, which allows Korean residents to make daily purchases…
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The price of Bitcoin may be plunging, but there are pretty interesting statistics to acknowledge. According to data from Data Light, around 74% of all bitcoin nodes are located in only 10 countries, with the United States having the largest number of nodes. In the US there are 2,625 Bitcoin nodes, while in Germany there…
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After JP Morgan Chase created its very own cryptocurrency, the JPM, tech giants such as Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Telegram are also thinking about creating their own digital coins in the very near future. According to press, Facebook is currently talking to different exchanges about the eventual listing of the Facebook digital coin. The speculation or…
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Coinbase and San Francisco-located online lending company, SoFi, are partnering on a new trading “initiative”. SoFi plans to let its users trade cryptocurrencies on its platform with the help of Coinbase’s partnership. The news comes from CNBC. The new feature will be made available to SoFi’s clients on the SoFi Invest platform. The project is…
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Nice Actimize, a business owned by NICE (Nasdaq: NICE), was yesterday named by Circle as the company that will execute its market surveillance strategy, which also involves protection. Circle will use NICE Actimize’s Cloud Markets Surveillance (MS) product to strengthen its existing systems that prevent market manipulation on its trading and exchange products, which currently…
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Brett McDowell a former security advisor at PayPal was yesterday appointed as Founding vice Chair and Executive Director of Hedera Hashgraph’s Governing Council. Hedera Hashgraph is a public ledger created to diversify governance through scalable distributed consensus. McDowell has over 20 years’ experience within the IT industry and was also a founding executive at DMARC.org,…
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Leaprate Exclusive... The cryptocurrency trading platform Overbit went live 10 days ago, on February 18th 2019. It allows cross-market trading using Bitcoin as the underlying asset and is an all-in-one platform, offering the ability to buy and sell cryptocurrency and various financial products. Users will be able to buy and sell currency transactions, stocks around the…
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The Litecoin Foudation is the main organization campaigning for the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies by the public. In order to further its mission, the foundation has partnered with the organizers of major events to allow participants to pay with the major cryptos such as Litecoin, Bitcoin and Ethereum. The foundation has also been aggressively recruiting…
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