The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) informed that it has obtained a court order halting an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) that targeted retail investors to fund what it claimed to be the world’s first “decentralized bank.” According to the SEC’s complaint, filed in federal district court in Dallas on Jan. 25 and unsealed…
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Bitcoin has been popular in Japan for quite some time. A lot of Japanese companies are now paying salaries in Bitcoin. And now, as of January 2018, Yamada Denki, one of the biggest consumer electronics chains in Japan, announced that it is going to start accepting bitcoin payments at two of its largest stores in Tokyo.…
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It is very much a buyer-beware world in the game of ICOs. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has obtained a court order halting an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) that targeted retail investors to fund what it claimed to be the world’s first “decentralized bank.” According to the SEC’s…
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A series of industries have been now disrupted by blockchain and Bitcoin. The next in line is none other but the law sector. Many law companies across the world are now accepting Bitcoin as an official payment method for various legal services. The law industry seems to be catching up with the blockchain innovations and…
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With Bitcoin's recent big plunge and its steady recovery just in the last week, investors are literally scratching their heads to how most accurately on how to most accurately predict Bitcoin's volatile price. The weirdest theories have been developed as to what really drives Bitcoin's price. Now, the most widely used search engine in the…
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Continuing our coverage of the interesting ways leading Retail FX brokers are spending their offline advertising dollars, especially in the area of sports sponsorships, CySEC licensed RoboMarkets has announced that it has become the official sponsor of Muay Thai fighter and kickboxing world champion Andrei Kulebin. Under terms of the agreement, the popular Belarusian athlete will take…
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Stryking Entertainment, developer and operator of the innovative fantasy football platform Football-Stars, announced the upcoming introduction of its own Ethereum-based utility token STRYKZ. Stryking informed that it plans to revolutionize fantasy sports by integrating a cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. As passionate fantasy sports fans ourselves, we're aiming to extend our existing platform with the introduction…
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Robinhood, one of the unicorns of Silicon Valley, and the app that targets millennials to trade zero-fee stocks, has now set its eye on the hottest market:cryptocurrencies. This is a hugely positive news for US investors, since the option to trade zero-fee cryptos will be limited to certain states. Robinhood users will be able to…
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In response to changing global market drivers and technical innovation, GMEX Technologies Ltd (GMEX), a provider of multi-asset exchange and post-trade business and technology solutions announced GMEX Fusion, a unique integrated centralised and distributed solution set. GMEX Fusion combines the established GMEX centralised technology– currently live in multiple exchanges and post trade venues, such as…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via court filings made in Israel (see source below) that the country's highest court has rejected an appeal made against the new Binary Options ban legislation. As such, Israel's Binary Options ban law takes effect today, January 23, 2018, as planned. All Binary Options activity, from offering binary trades to…
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