The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb signed a memorandum of understanding with the company Nvelop from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to launch a licensed trading platform for digital assets supporting Fiat, CoinDesk reports. As the newspaper notes, the new partnership should help Bithumb in the future to reach the markets of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Note that Nvelop was founded by the investment fund E11 and […]
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The CEO of the Binance Crypto Exchange Changpeng Zhao in his Twitter announced the start date of the public testing of his company's blockchain Binance Chain. “Finally we have a date. We plan to open a testnet Binance Chain for public testing on February 20, he wrote. This is a test network, so your feedback will be of particular value. ” During a recent stream, Zhao reported that 11 nodes from close exchange partners were selected for the Binance Chain test network. In the future, developers intend to maintain a small number of nodes in their network, comparable to EOS…
The chief strategic director of Californian fintech startup Ripple Corey Johnson left the organization, reports The Block. “Last year, Corey successfully represented our company to investors, the press and regulators. However, in connection with the prevailing market conditions, a decision was made to abolish the position, ”the press service stressed. Note that Johnson also removed the mention of his position from his Twitter account. AT […]
has begun The Tron Foundation has announced the launch of the airdrop BitTorrent (BTT) coin. Free distribution of tokens will be held for holders of TRON cryptocurrency monthly for 6 years in a row, that is, until February 2025. As is known, the total BTT issue will be 990 billion coins, of which 10.1% will take part in the first distribution, that is, 990 million. The first such airdrop will take place after a block of 6,000,000 has been found in the TRON network . It is known that in 2019, the owners of TRX will be able to receive…
The CEO of Binance, the largest in terms of trading volume, Changpeng Zhao, announced the date of the upcoming launch of the Binance Chain blockchain test network, which is the basis of the Binance DEX decentralized exchange. Finally got a date. Targeting to release Binance Chain testnet (@binance_dex) for public testing on Feb 20th. This is a testnet, your feedback would be most valuable. – CZ […]
The head of Twitter and Square Payment service, Jack Dorsey, said that he considered it only a matter of time to integrate the Bitcoin microtransaction protocol into the Cash App, Cointelegraph reports. He said this in an interview for a podcast about Bitcoin, which is conducted by Stefan Leiver. Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, was another interviewee for the presenter. SLP52 @jack (CEO @square) & @starkness […]
On Monday, February 11, the native token of the Binance exchange updated the historical maximum in relation to Bitcoin, rising in price to 0.0026880 BTC. It turned out to be the highest rate of BNB against BTC in the one and a half year of the coin’s existence. At the time of writing, the BNB rate has undergone a slight correction and is trading at about 0.0026000 BTC. At the same time, speaking of […]
The popular Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX stated that its impressive insurance fund, which today amounts to more than 21,000 BTC (about $ 75 million), is necessary to provide support for the margin trading model offered to users. In its blog, the company describes the principles of this model and the “unique challenges” that it faces when working outside the institutional financial system. The BitMEX […]
The Monero network hash rate has increased significantly over the past month, almost tripling in a matter of days and approaching the historical maximum. “More than 85% of Monero hashrate is accounted for by ASIC miners, where each device produces 128 kh / s ,” writes the author of the new study. The discovery made on the basis of the analysis of nonce values in each block and patterns traced in connection with it caused active discussions in the cryptocurrency community regarding the need to change the mining algorithm every 3 months to make the development of ASIC miners for…
Coinify, the leading European Bitcoin buying and selling platform and payment service provider, added support for three new assets, giving users the opportunity to buy Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV and Stellar via bank transfers and credit cards. This is reported by Bitcoin.com. BCH, BSV and XLM will start trading on Tuesday, February 12, and as the co-founder and CEO said […]
