Fidelity Digital Asset Services actively building customer base for cryptos LeapRate

March 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fidelity Digital Asset Services actively building customer base for cryptos

While the crypto community eagerly anticipates the participation of institutional heavyweights in 2019, Fidelity’s new cryptocurrency company has actually been active, silently surveying, educating, and steadily adding interested institutional investor clients, comprised at this point primarily of hedge funds and family offices. Tom Jessop, the head of Fidelity Digital Assets, recently shared his thoughts in…

Mt. Gox trustee granted another delay for distribution plan for victims

March 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

UN Panel of experts claims North Korea behind majority of exchange hacks

In what many may perceive as a reiteration of the obvious, the Nikkei Asian Review has reported that an unnamed panel of experts has advised the U.N. Security Council that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been the driving force behind crypto exchange hacks since 2016 and has used its ill-gotten gains of $670…

March 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ATFX Forex weekly market update: March 11, 2019

The following article was written by ATFX Chief Analyst of Asia Pacific, Martin Lam. Personal opinions today: Last week, the US ADP reached 183,000, but on Friday, the official US non-farm payrolls fell sharply, only 20,000. It cannot reflect the accuracy of data published by the US official. From the sub-item, the US officially announced that…

March 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bitcoin’s February run breaks six-month losing streak – Can it continue?

Bitcoin enthusiasts have cause for celebration, after many frigid months of Crypto Winter. For the first time since July of 2018, Bitcoin valuations actually appreciated for a month, delivering a respectable growth rate for February of 10.4%. One has to return to July and April of last year to find similar positive performance stats, 21.5%…

March 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Opera extending its cryptocurrency-focused browser to the iPhone

If you are waiting for Samsung or Apple to get with cryptocurrencies and incorporate crypto wallets within their various smartphone sets, you now have an alternative that will achieve the same thing. Opera, a browser software company, announced that it is now testing its Opera Touch browser with built-in crypto wallet in the iOS operating…

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Iran moves closer to crypto reality success with PayMon, ala “crypto rial”

More details have been forthcoming regarding the Iranian government’s attempt to build its own national cryptocurrency. CipherTrace, a digital asset security firm, has reported that this new virtual currency, named PayMon but dubbed “crypto rial”, has a real chance at success, unlike its predecessor in Venezuela. The obvious objective of this effort has been to…

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March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

College campuses are major crypto miners at the universities’ expense

Paying for a college education has always been a daunting task for many students that that were not fortunate to come from a background of privilege. Outside of student loans, these resourceful folks tend to find a clever way or two to earn extra cash, while completing their various curriculums of study. The method employed…

Craig Wright – Satoshi Nakamoto imposter or not – Judge not impressed

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

QuadrigaCX’s sordid saga continues – Cold wallets cleaned out April 2018

QuadrigaCX, the crypto storyline that keeps on giving, took another bizarre twist, as investigators determined that Gerry Cotten, the CEO of the exchange, had cleaned out the cold storage account balances as far back as April 2018, presumably transferring them to QuadrigaCX accounts at other exchanges. Ernst & Young reported these finding to the court,…

March 06, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

As Bitcoin skeptics abound, insiders see an inevitability about the medium

Amazingly enough, Bitcoin, known for its price volatility, has been ranging about the $3,800 price point within tight boundaries for all of 2019. Yes, it has dipped a bit and made a run over $4,200, but for this crypto heavyweight, settling into a tight trading range is, for want of a better word, peculiar. As…

Financial pundits warning that 2020 will be “The Year of the Next Big One”

March 05, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bloomberg reveals crypto companies in the U.S. denied banking services

A persistent problem that all crypto related companies face not only in the U.S. market, but also in many other global jurisdictions, is the inability to obtain even the most basic of banking services from domestic banking institutions. Bloomberg starts by quoting a complaint from Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of quantitative crypto trading company Alameda Research:…

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