Category: Cryptocurrency

January 15, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

The Lost Bitcoins and the Satoshi Coins

It's 2018, the crypto market is going through the roof, Bitcoin's price still enjoys a huge volatility, and yet, we still don't know who Satoshi Nakamoto, the legendary creator of the "people's currency", is. However, there may be even more interesting things to consider other than the identity of Nakamoto. By the year of 2040,…

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January 15, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

South Korea now in two minds about cryptocurrency trading ban

After coming with a decision to ban cryptocurrency trading, South Korea may be now reconsidering its decision. The country's government just came out with a statement saying that the ban will be enforced once enough consultation and opinions are coordinated and taken into consideration. According to the South Korea's news agency YonhapSoutht the South Korea's…

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INTL FCStone’s Carsten Hils discusses the impact the current crisis has on FX markets
January 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cryptocurrency operations forge ahead despite rising regulatory concerns

Mentioned in an article regarding the cryptocurrency market published recently on CBSNews.com MoneyWatch , a small bright spot for the cryptocurrency future, JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told Fox Business News he regretted calling bitcoin a "fraud" and threatening to fire employees who traded the digital money. Though Dimon described bitcoin's underlying blockchain technology as…

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January 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Latoex launches Ethereum blockchain trading platform for digital assets

Latoex, the development company that introduces the financial industry of Latin America to the crypto space, just announced its trading platform for digital assets. The trading platform, named Andes, provides ready-to-use tools to implement the strengths of blockchain into traditional assets. From comprehensive technical analysis to descriptive components - the platform grants its financial institutions…

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January 12, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Korean banks and their rally against cryptocurrencies

The crypto market is rumoured to reach 10% of the world GDP by five to 7 years, thus booming to around $7 trillion in market capitalization. With the current growth of digital currencies, some of the heat is coming off with Korean banks trying to block virtual accounts. The Korean government is working to phase…

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TechFinancials rocket
January 12, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

TechFinancials shares soar on increased Cedex ICO size

Shares of binary options technology (and more recently Blockchain tech) provider TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) were soaring by 28% to an all time high of 37 pence on Friday morning, after the company announced that it was increasing the size of the planned token sale for Cedex Holdings Ltd. TechFinancials recently invested in Cedex, which is setting…

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January 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SETL and OFI AM process Blockchain transactions on IZNES fund platform

IZNES, the pan-European platform for funds powered by SETL’s blockchain technology, announced that it has now started to process live transactions. OFI Asset Management has successfully used the IZNES system in a series of trials with selected clients. Following the development and integration of the IZNES platform with OFI Asset Management. Other asset managers in…

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everate BTCUSD trading 2017
January 11, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Bitcoin CFD pair BTCUSD has become most traded instrument on Leverate platform

Broker technology and platform solutions provider Leverate has reported that over the course of 2017, trading volume for the Bitcoin-US Dollar currency pair BTCUSD grew exponentially, eventually superseding the volume of all other individual forex pairs at brokers running its platform. Furthermore, this growth of interest in Bitcoin CFDs has contributed to increasing the cumulative…

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January 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

BNP Paribas Asset Management completes end-to-end fund transaction test using Blockchain

BNP Paribas Asset Management announced that it has successfully completed a full end-to-end fund transaction test late last year, using blockchain technology. The test has been conducted leveraging on BNP Paribas Securities Services’ blockchain programme, Fund Link and FundsDLT, a blockchain-based decentralized platform for fund transaction processing, which has been developed through collaboration between Fundsquare…

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