Two Bitfinex investors reported that the allegations of losing $ 850 million of client and corporate funds put forward by the Prosecutor General of New York did not cause them to worry about the future of the trading platform. It is reported by CoinDesk. So, Bitfinex share holder Zhao Dong, in a conversation with the publication, said that he was “supportive” in relation to Bitfinex and the issuer Tether affiliated with it. Earlier […]
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Recently, the Australian media reported that the fast-food Kebabs Origin began to take over the kebabs and other dishes from their menu cryptocurrency . Receiving payments carries Lightning network jointly owned with partially kriptobirzhe Binance Australian travel company TravelbyBit. Origin Kebab confirmed acceptance of payments in bitcoins in four Queensland stores – Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Westfield Chermside shopping center, in the suburb of Broadbeach and Eagleby. In addition to Bitcoin, the company accepts other coins – Binance Coin (BNB) , Ethereum (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC) , again thanks to integration with the Lightning Network, which provides ultra-fast and…
was detected in the Ledger Live application for hardware wallets Ledger The developers of Ledger hardware cryptographs reported detecting a malicious program that infects a computer on Windows, replaces the desktop version of Ledger Live and requires the user to enter its 24-password recovery password. The company assured that Ledger cryptographs have sufficient protection against such phishing attacks, and cryptoactive assets are safe – until their holders tell their password to hackers. In order to avoid such an error, the owners of cryptographic wallets were recommended never to enter the recovery password on a computer, smartphone, or other devices connected…
The issuer of the Stablecoin Paxos, in partnership with the Ontology platform, will release up to 100 million PAX tokens tied to the American dollar in a 1: 1 ratio, CoinDesk reports. Stablecoins on the new blockchain will be launched next month. According to representatives of Ontology, these tokens will increase the efficiency of transactions to individuals and business structures. Coin Paxos Standard (PAX) was released in September last year. On […]
American broker E-Trade intends to provide its customers with the opportunity to trade in cryptocurrencies, reports Bloomberg, citing informed sources. At first, Bitcoin and Ethereum will be available on the E-Trade platform, but later the company will add support for other cryptocurrencies. Additional details are not yet known. According to the publication, E-Trade can become one of the largest American companies providing the opportunity to trade in cryptoactive assets. The appearance of […]
The main digital coin has risen in price by 36% over the month, analysts are betting on a further appreciation of the course. Does this mean that it is time for single miners to blow dust from their cryptocurrency mining devices, for large players to buy new equipment? RBC Crypto talks about this. According to Google Trends, the largest number of requests for the key phrase “ Bitcoin mining ” was received on April 11, 2019 after the first cryptocurrency for the first time in the current year reached a price mark of $ 5416. On the same day, another…
Cryptocurrency researcher Alex Kruger analyzed the situation around the Bitfinex exchange and its related companies, and came to the conclusion that the stablecoin Tether (USDT) is provided with currency reserves only 75%. Based on the information provided in official documents, Kruger in a series of tweets briefly describes the sequence of events around a well-known trading platform. The first thing he notes about Bitfinex is, indeed, […]
The largest players in the market for trading digital assets have reached an agreement in principle. The news agency Bloomberg told about the event, which happened back in January of this year, but it became known only recently. It turns out that in the first month of the year at least 20 major traders of the digital assets market gathered at a resort in Singapore, where in an informal atmosphere they agreed to create an important brick for the foundation of cryptocurrency infrastructure. Representatives of Binance , Coinbase , and also Galaxy Digital, among others, attended the meeting, which was…
About 550 Bitcoins, abducted from Bitfinex in 2016 and still located at addresses of unidentified hackers, were set in motion the day before. It is noteworthy that it happened shortly before the prosecutor's office of the State of New York charged the exchange that it concealed the fact of loss of about $ 850 million, using the issuer's funds to cover the damage […]
According to a survey conducted by order of the Japanese cryptobirth bitFlyer, 63% of Europeans believe that cryptocurrency will exist in 10 years, and only 49% refer to Bitcoin. The study involved 10 thousand respondents from the UK, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Spain. The most optimistic about the future of cryptocurrency were respondents from Norway – 73% believe in their existence in a decade. Least of all believe in it in France – only 55%. The same percentage of Italians believe that after 10 years Bitcoin will continue to exist, and the French are…