Category: Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin
December 25, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

$45 billion added to the crypto market in 10 days

Bitcoin has tumbled big time, going from almost $20,000 in December 2017 to almost $3,000 in December, 2018. While the "people's currency" has dragged other alt coins to the near bottom, including Ethereum, Litecoin and many more, the crypto market managed to add around $45 billion in less than 10 days to its market capitalization.…

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December 24, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

ICO regulations in the United Arab Emirates

Back in October 2018, the United Arab Emirates announced its plans to make ICOs official corporate funding options and further expand its leading cryptocurrency position in the world. Reuters reported that the new regulation will come into effect some time in 2019, with ICOs legitimately "replacing" IPOs, if companies decide to do so. The major…

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Binance seeks to curb SEC’s hunt for “fraud”
December 24, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Binance adds two XRP-based trading pairs

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has recently added Ripple as a base trading pair, said Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao. According to a blog post from today, December 24th, the new trading pairs will be TRX/XRP (Tron) and XZC/XRP (Zcoin) on the Combined ALTS Trading Market. The so called ALTS will replace the current ETH Trading Market,…

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December 21, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

The "Perpetual Swap" by OKEx

OKEx, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by traded volume, has recently launched a new product called Perpetual Swap, which is a virtual derivative based on BTC/USD price speculation. The mechanism behind the new derivative product is similar to the one of futures contracts. The major difference, however, is that the perpetual swap does not have daily…

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Bitcoin
December 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bitcoin is once again back above $4,000

Bitcoin is back once again over an all-important psychological support level of $4,000. The price of the most popular cryptocurrency dropped to its lowest point since August 2017 last month. Its price however is now slowly, but steadily, rising more than 7% yesterday alone and 33% over the last 5 days. According to some, this…

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December 20, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Venezuelan pensions converted to Petro without consent

The Venezuelan government recently introduced a state-backed digital coin, called Petro. The country has been facing economic downturn and the Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, introduced the oil-backed digital coin to fight the dying economy. Back in the summer of 2018, the situation in Venezuela was so critical that people had to line with days for food…

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FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
December 20, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Two new executives join CertiK's team

CertiK, the formal verification platform for smart contracts and blockchain audits, has added two new executives to its team. Daryl Hok will be the new Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and Yvan Nasr steps in as Head of Business Development and Partnerships. CertiK has recently expanded its headquarters in New York City. Commenting…

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Dukascopy Bank launches Dukascoin
December 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FINMA gives a green light to Dukascoin

The ICO of Dukascoins/Dukasnotes has been a subject to a green light from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) for two months now and the good news has finally arrived. FINMA has given a green light to Dukascoin, making it the first ever ICO of a Swiss Bank. Dukascopy Bank has announced the Live…

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Kripto Mobile Corporation teams up with Dash Text
December 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Kripto Mobile Corporation teams up with Dash Text

Payments and e-commerce currency Dash and Kripto Mobile Corporation (KRIP) have announced that they have expanded the Dash/KRIP Phone ecosystem through a new partnership with Dash Text. Users of the non-smartphone model KRIP K1 phones will now be provided with the ability to send and receive Dash seamlessly through SMS. 66,000 KRIP phones have been…

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Crypto derivatives exchange LXDX goes live
December 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crypto derivatives exchange LXDX goes live

Last month, crypto derivatives exchange LXDX has opened its platform access, so traders would be able to create accounts and begin Know Your Customer (KYC) processes ahead of the live trading launch. The cryptocurrency exchange has just announced that the platform is now officially open to the public for live spot trading. People will now have…

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