In the traditional Sunday digest – Bitcoin continues to flat near the $ 4,000 mark, the hash rate has grown, Parity has released a new client for the ZCash network and other key events of the outgoing week. Flat without borders During the week, the weighted average rate of Bitcoin, according to CoinMarketCap, was in the range of $ 4,000- $ 4,095. At the same time, on Friday the trading volumes of the first cryptocurrency and steyblecoin USDT updated […]
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A recent study by Hootsuite has shown that South Africa leads the world in the number of Internet users who own cryptocurrencies. The report showed that 10.7% of South African Internet users own a cryptocurrency . This is twice the world average (5.5%). So, in Switzerland this value is 7%, in South Korea 6.3%, in the USA – 5.3%, and in Japan – only 4.3%. As in the rest of the world, Bitcoin is the most frequently used cryptocurrency. BTC dominates the market at 51%, but in South Africa this value is even higher. “Bitcoin is the dominant cryptocurrency, but…
The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said that members of the GPU and the Security Service (SBU) conducted a large-scale operation against an organized criminal group (OCG), which included up to 1,000 people. The participants of the organization traded narcotic substances through sites and chat bots in Telegram, and also accepted cryptocurrency for payment. During the searches, drugs, weapons and $ 10 were seized directly […]
Co-founder and CEO of the BitMEX cryptocurrency trading platform Arthur Hayes (Arthur Hayes) gave his forecast for the price of Bitcoin : in his opinion, the BTC rate by the end of 2019 will return to $ 10,000. Heys is confident that in the second half of this year we will have to wait for the recovery of the entire cryptocurrency market, which has been in a state of crisis since the spring of 2018. Digital currencies will begin to rise in price closer to the fourth quarter, at the same time the BTC coin has a real chance of…
The leading daily trading volume, the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, can provide retail investors with tools for margin trading. So far, the initiative is at an early stage of development, reports The Block, citing informed sources. As the newspaper notes, in Binance they discuss a scenario in which traders will have to hold a steak in Binance Coin (BNB) in order to trade with leverage. Many observers […]
According to Bitcoin Magazine, members of the cryptocurrency community are working with Canadian regulators to create industry-specific rules. Last week, in conjunction with the Canadian Organization for the Regulation of the Investment Industry (IIROC), Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a “New Proposed Platform” for discussion. This structure was created to adapt the existing rules in order to eliminate the risks and problems associated with cryptocurrency exchanges . Cryptocurrency and fintech companies, as well as investors and other interested parties are invited to discuss on 22 issues. The purpose of this collegial work is to get an idea of the rules…
One of the world's largest cryptobirms, OKEx announced the imminent launch of its own blockchain OKChain and the decentralized exchange OKDEx. “Currently, OKChain is in the final stages of development, and we are looking forward to launching it on the test network in June 2019,” the company said. After the blockchain network becomes stable, its own exchange token, OKB, which the company introduced in January last year, will be transferred to it. The token will become a means of calculating on the decentralized exchange OKDEx, whose launch will follow OKChain. In this regard, OKEx plans to place its OKB on…
On Monday, March 25, the Celer Network token (CELR) will appear in the listing of the largest cryptobirds Binance. #Binance Lists @CelerNetwork Token ($ CELR) and Completes Distribution of $ CELRhttps: //t.co/CzGdwH847F pic.twitter.com/fyggkeCcz2 – Binance (@binance) 23 March birch 2019 р. Bidding on new assets will be available in pairs with Bitcoin, Binance Coin (BNB) and tokenized Tether dollar (USDT). Binance also announced the completion of the distribution […]
The Center for Information Technology of China (CCID) has published the eleventh rating of cryptocurrency . This month, as in the previous month, 35 projects were evaluated. Tron debuted last month, replacing Ethereum in second position. EOS tops the list since June 2018. BTC ranks 15th, down two places from the previous rating. BCH also worsened its result – from the 27th position, it went down to the 31st. “The results show that EOS, Tron and Ethereum still occupy the first three positions, the ratings are, respectively, 155.7, 146.7 and 142.8 ,” writes CCID. All 35 cryptocurrency projects were evaluated…
Specializing in asset management and lending, BlockFi, on its blog, announced a reduction in deposit rates for amounts above 25 BTC or 500 ETH. The company presented its BlockFi Interest Interest Account (BIA) with a yield of 6.2% per annum in March. Initially, the rate was the same, but later analysts of the company came to the conclusion that the balance sheets of 75% of service users were […]
