Financial Services Provider Fidelity, managing funds for $ 7.2 trillion, announced that the platform for trading and storage of cryptocurrency is in the final stages of testing. This is reported in the company's blog. For the final testing phase of the Fidelity Digital Asset Services platform, the company selected “several suitable customers”. “The clients we have selected are an important part of the final stage of testing and improving processes. This stage […]
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The Chicago Stock Exchange (Cboe) re-applied to the US Securities and Exchange Commission with a proposal to make a change to the current rule, which, if approved, will allow it to launch a Bitcoin-linked Exchange Investment Fund (ETF). The application form 19b-4 is dated January 30 and published on the Cboe website. The previous application was withdrawn earlier in January. As explained […]
The Financial Services Authority of New York (NYDFS) has issued a license to work with virtual currencies to the operator of Bitcoin-ATMs Cottonwood Vending LLC. DFS Grants Virtual Business Roadmap for Newspapers – NYDFS (@NYDFS) January 31, 2019 р. The company said in its Twitter that it had the 14th license […]
Over the past few years, February has been one of the most successful months for digital gold. CoinDesk analyst Omkar Godboul draws attention to this. On the other hand, he notes, the pressure of bears is now much stronger than in previous years. In the coming days, the price of BTC risks failing an important level of support at the 200-week moving average (MA) passing through the […]
Lightning Network (LN) continues to grow rapidly. Over the past 30 days, the number of channels of this second tier network has grown by almost a third, and the capacity has exceeded 600 BTC (over $ 2 million). The LN network has 22,618 payment channels interconnected by 5,791 nodes. Lightning Network is one of the most important decisions for scaling Bitcoin, reducing transaction fees and […]
Germany’s second largest stock exchange, the Börse Stuttgart Group, has officially confirmed the launch of the previously announced Bison cryptocurrency trading application. Das Warten hat ein Ende: BISON ist da. App ab sofort in den deutschen App Stores verfügbar. https://t.co/58RNUUso48 @bisonapp pic.twitter.com/7MwoWnZdWj – Börse Stuttgart (@boersestuttgart) January 31, 2019 The application was developed by the subdivision of the Sowa Labs exchange, and originally its […]
Crimes in the crypto industry have increased significantly over the past year. There were many reports of cyber-theft, trade manipulation and other types of crime, which led to the fact that from 2018 about $ 1.7 billion was stolen from investors. For example, a huge amount of IOTA coins in the amount of $ 11 million was stolen from investors' wallets. However, the perpetrator was discovered and IOTA representatives stated that most of the stolen funds were returned, but funds are being held for use as evidence. Europol, together with law enforcement agencies in the UK and Germany,…
The leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced on Thursday, January 31, that its users now have the opportunity to make deposits using Visa and MasterCard credit cards. This option was realized due to the partnership with the Simplex processing service. “We want to provide Binance traders with quick and easy access to cryptocurrencies, making it as safe as possible. The partnership with Simplex allowed us to […]
What will be the cryptocurrency market in 2019 and how relevant is the "home mining" in today's realities? We bring to your attention an interview with the famous miner Proton – the author of one of the most popular and useful mining channels in Russian-language YouTube. How do you see the place of cryptocurrency in the modern economy? Is there a real need and demand for “digital assets” now? Currently, a cryptocurrency is rather a speculative tool than the real sector of the economy, but the technology behind the cryptocurrency is the future that awaits us not only in the…
The number of Bitcoin-ATMs in Russia for two months decreased by 32% – from 75 to 51 units. This is evidenced by the results of a study of the Russian Association of cryptocurrency and blockchain (RAKIB) and the company "Nanobit", writes RBC. Nine terminals are located in Moscow, five in Omsk and Rostov-on-Don, in Voronezh and Krasnoyarsk – three each. 47% of Bitcoin ATMs belong to the company […]
