With recent news reporting that over 800 cryptocurrencies are now considered dead, is the end of Bitcoin upon us? Are cryptocurrencies a fad that will be obsolete within 5 years? Cryptocurrency Experts give their insight into whether the death of crypto is upon us. Max Kortrakul, Founder and CEO of social crypto trading platform Carboneum,…
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On 22 February 2018, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) published an analysis on its website concluding that crypto derivatives may be legally considered financial contracts. As such, the AMF and the ACPR have decided to jointly publish a blacklist with the websites that offer crypto derivatives without authorisation in France. Here is the list…
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India had a deadline for deciding the faith of cryptocurrency-related trading in the country. The deadline expired today, on the 5th of July and the Reserve Bank of India decided to ban all cryptocurrency-related activities. However, the new decision affects Indian citizens to the extent that they will not be able to transact on exchanges,…
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Block.one, publisher of the EOSIO blockchain software protocol and seller of the EOS Token, a top-five cryptocurrency by market cap at approximately US$8 billion, has announced that former Jefferies Asia CEO Mike Alexander has joined as CEO of its US$1 billion EOS VC venture capital arm, effective today. Based in Hong Kong, Mike Alexander will…
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Secure cryptocurrency trading platform Blockbid has today announced their partnership with BitSpread as their liquidity provider, ensuring they continue to stand by their vision of ‘Trading with Confidence’. Aligned in their values of transparency and accountability, the partnership is a significant milestone for the trading platform as they look to strengthen their offering and position…
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The Australian digital currency exchange Independent Reserve has just announced that it will commence trading in Ripple (XRP) on 7 July, 2018. All XRP trades will be discounted to 0.1% for the first two weeks. XRP is the third largest digital currency by market cap after Bitcoin and Ether. Developed by Ripple Labs, the protocol and…
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Qiwi, the Russian e-payment provider is launching a cryptocurrency investment bank. The name of the bank will be HASH, as reported by Kommersant on June 29th. The bank will be founded by Qiwi Blockchain Technologies, which is a subsidiary of Qiwi. Qiwi is the leading provider of payment services in Russia and the CIS. The…
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Binance was recently the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in respect to volume traded. CoinMarketCap’s ranking of cryptocurrency exchanges recently changed to promote CoinEx as the largest exchange by traded volume. CoinEx is currently processing a trade volume of around $1.5 billion on a daily basis, while Binance handles around $ 1.3 billion. The third place…
Read moreAustralia financial regulator ASIC has issued what amounts to a warning to FX, CFD and Binary Options brokers in the country to clean up their act, in a release entitled ASIC calls on retail OTC derivatives sector to improve practices. ASIC formally stated that it has called on participants in the retail over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives sector…
Read moreSwarm, the blockchain for private equity, today announced the launch of DMN Token representing fractional ownership of a Dash masternode, extending block rewards and voting rights to all token holders. Additionally, investors may now use Dash to participate in all investment opportunities on Swarm’s marketplace. Dash is a leader in cryptocurrency, and at Swarm we…
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