As China's BitKan announced it would officially ban both over-the-counter bitcoin and bitcoin cash transactions, bitcoin fell to around $3,800, denoting more than 20% drop in value, after reaching almost $5000. According to TheStreet, BitKan informed that as the trading of initial coin offerings or ICOs is also suspended, the ban on bitcoin was the…
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The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has made a statement in which cautions investors, as the commission has noted the emergence of digital token based fundraising activities / investment schemes in Malaysia and elsewhere, which may be referred to as “initial coin offerings”, “initial token offerings”, “token pre-sale”, “token crowd-sale” (collectively referred to as ICO schemes…
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The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Member of the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS. Hello, A new week begins, but it never really ends for cryptocurrency traders who can trade 24/7. Today, we’ll be looking into the hot rally of Bitcoin and Ether. Have a look at the two charts below. What…
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Along with the Bitcoin Cash addition, global forex broker Admiral Markets has announced that CFDs on Bitcoin and Ether are now enabled for short selling. Sell stop and sell limit orders are now also available. Traders with an Admiral.Markets account will now have the opportunity to capitalise either on trends and corrections of the world's two most…
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ASIC regulated Retail Forex broker IC Markets announced today that has added Bitcoin (BTCUSD) to its growing product offering. The addition of Bitcoin, 2017’s best performing asset with a price increase exceeding 350%, comes after burgeoning client demand as the Cryptocurrency soars to record highs. The IC Markets Bitcoin product is traded as a CFD,…
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Global retail forex and multi-asset broker HotForex just announced that has now added Bitcoin to its Cryptocurrency CFDs to allow traders to buy and sell it after starting to offer it as a deposit option earlier in the year. A HotForex spokesperson commented: Bitcoin has been rapidly changing the financial world since it was created.…
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ShapeShift AG just announced that has acquired Seattle-based KeepKey, a secure hardware wallet for digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The vertical integration of KeepKey and ShapeShift enables users to safely store assets on a KeepKey device, while trading these assets directly over the ShapeShift API from the device's interface. KeepKey integrated ShapeShift’s API…
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Match-Trade Technologies LLC, headquartered in Irvine, California, has announced the launch of a new cryptopayment gateway which will enable various institutions to handle payments in the most popular cryptocurrencies. Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009, cryptocurrencies market is constantly gaining popularity among clients around the world. As a result, Match-Trade is responding with innovative…
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The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has taken note of recent articles in the media referring to virtual currency ATMs and the installation of a first such ATM in Malta. The MFSA informed that a virtual currency (also known as cryptocurrency) such as Bitcoin is an unregulated digital instrument used as a form of money…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that has issued an order granting LedgerX, LLC registration as a derivatives clearing organization under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). Under the order, LedgerX will be authorized to provide clearing services for fully-collateralized digital currency swaps. LedgerX, which was also granted an order of registration as…
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