Author: BlockchainJournal

The British company TP ICAP, known as the largest inter-dealer broker in the world, will act as an intermediary in its clients' transactions for buying and selling bitcoin futures , writes Bloomberg . The new division of the company in London will add non-deliverable forwards to the leading cryptocurrency to the list of supported instruments, after which it plans to open trading floors in Asia and the USA. As noted by Bloomberg, inter-dealer brokers have historically conducted transactions for banks, but the volume of their activity declined after the financial crisis. Last year, a warning about lower profits made TP…

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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) believes that the bitcoin industry has changed significantly since 2017 due to increased interest from institutional investors. Bloomberg quotes a report released by the managing director of global market strategy for the largest US bank, Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, in which researchers examined recent phenomena related to cryptocurrency exchanges . As reported in the Bitwise Asset Management study, the bitcoin spot market is “significantly smaller and significantly more efficient” than is commonly believed, as the trading volumes reported by the exchanges are significantly overestimated. Most likely, JPM adheres to the similar point of view. Referring to JPM, Bloomberg notes…

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The leading developer of solutions for the Ethereum ecosystem, Parity Technologies, presented the first alternative client for cryptocurrency Zcash. Today we released ? Zebra, the first alternative #Zcash client, in collaboration with @ZcashFoundation! Check it out at https://t.co/41Tz0CUfRj Learn more: https://t.co/scGwFkmtaL pic.twitter.com/MMBu2hCcit – Parity Technologies (@ParityTech) June 17, 2019 A new client called Zebra is called increase safety […]

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It is expected that today Facebook will publish full information about its own “cryptocurrency” project Libra . However, now we have some information. In particular, it is known that Mastercard, Visa, Stripe and PayPal have already paid $ 10 million to become validators on the network, which provides access to related data. Facebook’s goal is to attract 100 companies to Libra, which will allow Zuckerberg and his company to quickly raise $ 1 billion. Of course, the cryptocurrency segment of Twitter is also full of all kinds of information and conjectures: “Three years ago I argued with Facebook’s management that…

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The Breez payment platform introduced a non-custodial wallet for iPhone that supports the Lightning Network protocol. BIG NEWS: We've brought the service to the iPhone! ⚡️⚡️ ⚡️⚡️ Read more about this update here: https://t.co/hTw9NRdyGl@coindesk piece here: https://t.co/brXq8egCZ0#LightningNetwork #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/8e1G2NHnMn – Breez ( @Breez_Tech) 17 chervnya 2019 r. The basis of the new product is a lightweight client Neutrino. It is also known that the wallet supports […]

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A draft departmental order of Roskomnadzor has been published on the government’s website, which describes in detail the rules for isolating the Russian segment of the Internet. The document says that in the event of a threat, a centralized Internet traffic control regime is introduced. Directing traffic outside of Russia will be prohibited, except when it affects communications between users from the Kaliningrad region and other regions of the Russian Federation. Also proposed to make an exception […]

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Bitcoin starts the week with steady growth, the coin on the night from Sunday to Monday, June 17, again overcame the mark of $ 9000. At the time of publication of this review, the rate of the largest cryptocurrency was $ 9,150, and its market capitalization rose to $ 162 billion, with 57.1% dominating. The value of BTC continues to add thanks to the revitalization of asset holders, observers emphasize. At the end of last week, the number of active Bitcoin wallets has increased to the maximum level since the end of autumn 2017. More than 1 million addresses are…

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In recent days, the Bitcoin rate has updated a maximum of 2019, and also reached the maximum value in the last 13 months. On Monday, June 17, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $ 9161, and the asset capitalization is more than $ 162 billion. The BTC rally turned out to be so swift that some old-timers of cryptocurrency trading did not even have time to react to it and take profits, as described by well-known crypto enthusiast Michael Nye. $ BTC pumped while I was sleeping and I missed this opportunity. @cryptochrisw this is for you. ? pic.twitter.com/mAUflZGxro – Nye…

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