Category: Cryptocurrency

Refereum launches Community Growth Engine for blockchain companies
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Refereum launches Community Growth Engine for blockchain companies

Refereum has just announced the launch of its Community Growth Engine, a web widget that will let blockchain companies directly reward their most active community members for their engagement and interactions with tokens and other prizes. With Refereum’s Community Growth Engine, companies can design a series of quests, like micro-tasks, for users that are fun…

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STOXX Low Carbon products licensed to Italian bank IMI
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

STOXX licenses fully automated Blockchain Index to Coincapital

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has just announced that it has licensed the STOXX® Yewno Developed Markets Blockchain Index to Toronto, Canada-based Coin Capital Investment Management Inc. (Coincapital). The index uses artificial intelligence to select its constituents. It is comprised…

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Hybrid cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform BBOD goes live
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hybrid cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform BBOD goes live

Hybrid cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, Blockchain Board of Derivatives (BBOD), has launched Friday, 3 August in partnership with GMEX Technologies enabled by its GMEX Fusion Technology Suite. What is a Hybrid trading platform? Until now, cryptocurrency traders have had to choose between centralised and decentralised trading platforms, with no options in between. Centralised exchanges process…

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CoinBene starts trading Electroneum
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CoinBene starts trading Electroneum

The British mobile-based cryptocurrency Electroneum (ETN) will now trade in India, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia after its listing on cryptocurrency exchange CoinBene. Within nine months of its launch in November 2017, CoinBene’s daily trading volume was more than $300 million. Electroneum will be paired with Bitcoin (BTC) under CoinBene’s trading rules, which see…

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Turkey forex regulation
August 13, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

How Bitcoin can help Turkey

Bitcoin has been often used as a store-of-value cryptocurrency, rather than as a transactional one. Countries that face problems with their own currencies have now turned to Bitcoin as if it would be the "gold of tomorrow". Turkey may be the next country to bet on Bitcoin, given that the Turkish Lira is currently plunging.…

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WinMiner announces launch of its mining platform
August 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

WinMiner announces launch of its mining platform

WinMiner has announced the official launch of its platform with over 160,000 registered users, returning mining to the decentralized ethos blockchain was founded on. WinMiner is the mining optimization platform that provides a one-click solution and easy to understand dashboard. With WinMiner, the complicated world of cryptocurrency mining is opened up to the masses. This…

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August 12, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Intuit wins a patent for Bitcoin payment processing platform

Intuit Inc., one of the American's most innovative fintech - audit companies, has been awarded a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for a new, bitcoin payment processing platform. Intuit is based in Mountain View, California and currently has a headcount of around 8,000 people. With subsidiaries that include Mint.com and PayCycle, Intuit…

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August 12, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

#Findsatoshi - the hunt for Bitcoin's creator

It was about time for the international hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto to begin. It's been 10 years since the creation of Bitcoin, and still, nobody knows for sure who the genius creator behind blockchain and the "people's currency" is. Now, in the summer of 2018, the international campaign called #findsatoshi, has ignited a worldwide search…

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BitMEX releases a record daily turnover of 1 million bitcoin traded
August 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

BitMEX hits again 1 million bitcoin daily turnover record

BitMEX, the crypto-coin trading platform, has just informed the public that, for the second time, it has met its own industry record for daily bitcoin trading volume. The 24-hour trading period of August 8 saw 1,027,214.62 bitcoin traded on BitMEX, following the company setting the world record on July 25. The achievement comes as BitMEX…

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