Category: Cryptocurrency

Integral volumes
January 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Market Synergy goes live with institutional crypto connectivity to Bitfinex

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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10th birthday of bitcoin genesis block: Expert commentary
January 04, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

10th birthday of bitcoin genesis block: Expert commentary

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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DriveWealth and Vested Finance launch digital U.S. equities investment product in India
January 03, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

New York creates a cryptocurrency task force

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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Japan
January 03, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Japan’s FSA dealing with 190 applications for crypto exchanges

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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Asset tokenization: Patrick Springer explains why rebalancing your asset allocation is the next best move
January 03, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Asset tokenization: Patrick Springer explains why rebalancing your asset allocation is the next best move

LeapRate Exclusive...  Patrick Springer, former MD of Morgan Stanley, has joined LeapRate to share some details on asset tokenization and why rebalancing your asset allocation is the next best move. LR: Hi, Patrick and thank you for joining us today. I came across your article about allocating assets the other day. Could you explain LeapRate’s readers why…

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January 02, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

2019 - a good start for the crypto market so far

If 2017 was the "cryptocurrency heaven", 2018 was the "hell". The prices of Bitcoin went from $20,000 per coin in December 2017, to $3,500 in December 2018. Now, the community is wondering what 2019 will bring to the cryptocurrency market, especially when crypto "enthusiasts" like Mike Novogratz are predicting strong bullish trends and cosmic cryptocurrency…

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Abra adds native ETH deposits and withdrawals in the Abra wallet
January 02, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Ethereum to cut its energy consumption by 99%

While most people are concerned with the energy consumption of Bitcoin, or rather, the process of its mining, many fail to acknowledge that Ethereum, among the top three cryptocurrencies in the world by market cap, is consuming not less energy than the "people's currency". Ethereum reportedly consumes around 25%-50% of what Bitcoin does, which means…

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