Coin Futures and Lending Exchange, or CoinFLEX for short, has announced that it will be offering futures contracts as soon as next month to the Asian market. The new contracts for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum will provide possible leverage of up to 20 times. All futures traded on the exchange will be physically-delivered. Such…
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Tax time is coming, but unlike Winter in the popular series, Game of Thrones, it will not threaten mankind with extinction, but, perhaps, with financial ruin if you are unprepared. These words are especially relevant if you have invested, traded, or transferred the cryptocurrencies of your choice during the latest taxing period or before for…
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In the beginning of the week, on Monday 7th, 2019, most of the top cryptocurrencies by market cap are seeing their prices go up. The gains, while moderate, have been seen in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin surpassed the $4,000 level. At the time of this writing, the price of the "people's currency" is $4,029,…
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The year has began and so have the attacks by cyber criminals. Coinbase, the US largest cryptocurrency exchange, was forced to cease the trading of Ethereum Classic after the network experienced unusual high hashing power. The burst was caused by an unknown miner. Coinbase has publicly announced through a blog post that they have detected…
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Blockchain assets platform Gate.IO has just launched its latest report looking at the predictions on market fluctuation, caused by Ethereum Hard Fork. Gate.IO will support the Ethereum Constantinople, which will be released on January, 14th. In the case of it generating a new valued fork chain, Gate.IO will distribute the assets to all users based…
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Market Synergy can now be used by brokers and hedge funds, offering digital assets to their client base, for institutional standard cryptocurrency connectivity and security and take a FIX feed or ISP link to Bitfinex’s digital asset gateway. Institutional firms and professional traders can now connect to Bitfinex through Market Synergy. Swiss-based Market Synergy was selected to design…
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Ten years ago on January 3, an anonymous figure dubbed Satoshi Nakamoto “mined”, or verified, the first block of transactions on the Bitcoin network. In the decade that followed, Bitcoin would face a litany of organized attacks, the price of the currency would collapse 4 times by upwards of 70%, and it would be subjected…
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Fortnite is a popular online game that was released in 2017 and developed by Epic Games. It has garnered significant interest from gamers because of its high quality interface and overall appeal. Now, the merchandise store for the game has made Monero its exclusive cryptocurrency payment. The announcement was made on January 1, 2019. The…
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While the US State of Ohio may have become the first US state to accept cryptocurrencies for tax payments, New York is the first state to form a special cryptocurrency task force that will study how to define, user and regulate digital coins in the most suitable way. New York State Governor, Mr. Andrew Cuomo,…
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The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s regulatory watchdog, like many other oversight agencies around the world, is doing its level best to deal with digital currencies in an accommodative way without stifling innovation. The job is going to get tougher. According to an unnamed FSA staff member, the regulatory agency has received 190 cryptocurrency exchange…
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