Conservative investment advisors are of a different breed, especially when it comes to appraising the merits of cryptocurrencies. This part of the institutional investor arena will generally be the last ones to come to the crypto party, but not everyone of this genre is solidly in this “stay-away” camp. One of these contrary fellows is…
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Global provider of online trading CMC Markets Plc (NYSE:CMC) just announced that they have added CFDs trading on another seven cryptocurrencies. The company has also started offering spread betting to its clients. In addition to bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash, litecoin and ripple, now also available to trade on the Next Generation platform are: dash, EOS,…
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France is not usually under the “cryptocurrency” radar when it comes to hot news about regulation and “innovation”. However, the country may soon be imposing serious bans on several digital coins. According to press, under the French Law, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Private, Monero and Dash could soon be forbidden as a new law is…
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Coinhive, a crypto exchange with a ne’er-do-well reputation and based out of Germany, has announced that it will be shutting its doors this week. Its Monero mining script will no longer be supported. The firm cited multiple money related reasons, but in the end, it claimed that its operation was no longer “economically viable”. In…
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Fortnite is a popular online game that was released in 2017 and developed by Epic Games. It has garnered significant interest from gamers because of its high quality interface and overall appeal. Now, the merchandise store for the game has made Monero its exclusive cryptocurrency payment. The announcement was made on January 1, 2019. The…
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White the total supply of Monero is estimated to be mined by 2022, over 90% of the cryptocurrency is already mined. The information comes from Moneroblocks, which states that as of December 20th, 16.6 million of the privacy-focused coins are already mined, and the rest 1.8 million will be mined in 3 years. The major…
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Digital Asset Custody Company (DACC), a custody solution purpose-built for institutional investors holding digital assets, has announced that it has expanded its custody solutions to cover Monero (XMR). Launched in April 2014, XMR is frequently cited as one of the most private tokens available in cryptocurrency markets. Given the complexity of supporting Monero in a…
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Mining cryptocurrencies is like "drinking water" for hackers. From Starbucks coffeeshops to Tesla's high-tech engines, crypto miners have found a way to abuse the system to mine cryptocurrencies of different types. Now, the latest victims seem to be none others but Apple users. The Verge just reported that one calendar app that could be found…
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As the world has gone mad on cryptocurrencies and mining them, the latest casualty became millions of Android users, whose phones were hijacked and redirected to a website that mines Monero. The cybersecurity company, Malwarebytes, discovered that the so-called 'drive-by cryptomining' malware had managed to infect Android phones and redirect them to a website running…
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Global forex broker Admiral Markets just announced that three new cryptocurrency CFDs have now been made available for trading on Admiral.MT5 accounts. DSHUSD – Dash Vs. US Dollar CFD Dash (DSHUSD) was first created in 2014 and, since then, has risen to become one of the most established projects on the cryptocurrency market. This cryptocurrency…
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