In 2018, the OTC platform for the purchase and sale of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from the payment company Circle concluded transactions totaling $ 24 billion. This is stated in the blog Circle. Our co-founders reflect on a transformative 2018 that included a global financial system. @Poloniex @centre_io @circleinvest @ResearchCircle @jerallaire https://t.co/1sATjRn0xf – Circle (@circlepay) January 3, 2019 According to the company, last year, over 10,000 transactions were concluded on its OTC-platform Circle Trade with 36 different cryptoactive assets, with more than 600 users participating. Circle Trade operates around the clock, serving customers from the US, Europe and Asia, and…
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In 2017, the blockchain technology was revolutionary, about to destroy the global financial system. 2018 was a year of frustration. In 2019, cryptocurrencies and blockchain will become an ordinary financial instrument and technology. This opinion is shared by researchers from the MIT Technology Review, working under the auspices of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Analysts from the most prestigious university in the world believe that there are three main reasons for universal adoption of the blockchain and digital assets. Blockchain for giants from Walmart to Wall Street Walmart has been testing the blockchain for many years to manage the logistics…
2018 год закончился неопределенностью на рынке: биткоин не умер, как ему предрекали сотни раз, но и не совершил “туземун”, что предрекали ему не меньшее количество раз. Однако на фоне падения цен на криптовалюты у представителей бизнеса появилась возможность показать, что их деятельность, связанная с криптовалютами и блокчейном, имеет право на жизнь, может быть ценной и полезной даже на падающем рынке. Хочется надеяться, что эта тенденция сохранится и в 2019 году. Но каким видится будущее криптовалют и децентрализованных технологий внутри бизнес-структур? И чего ждать от 2019 года? Журнал BlockchainJournal собрал мнения по этому поводу от ведущих блокчейн-экспертов и представителей криптобизнеса из…
Bitcoin Exchange Bitcoin Binance, the largest in terms of trading, will restart the Launchpad platform for holding Tokensales. #Binance Launchpad Will New Projects in 2019 https://t.co/vso8jm6iOf pic.twitter.com/YWqNILxsV9 – Binance (@binance) January 3, 2019 So, initially Launchpad was launched in August 2017. For its base, the BREAD ($ 6 million) and GIFTO ($ 3.4 million) tokensles were held in seconds. Note that residents of the United States, China and South Korea will not be able to take part in the tokensale because of prohibitions and regulatory restrictions. In Binance, they promise to hold at least one tokensail every month in 2019,…
The group, known as The Dark Overlord, threatens to make publicly available confidential documents that "reveal the truth" about the events of September 11, 2001, if those who may be affected by this information do not pay a ransom in Bitcoins . The group’s statement also says that the names of all interested parties can be removed from the documents if they cooperate and pay the required amount. If you believe the attackers, the documents contain information about the real circumstances under which the attacks of September 11 occurred. And these circumstances may be very different from the version in…
protocol took place On Thursday, January 3, the day of the 10th anniversary of the creation of the genesis block of Bitcoin, the ecosystem was replenished with another product aimed at ensuring the privacy of users. They became a new cryptocurrency based on the Bitcoin blockchain Beam from the eponymous startup from Israel. First introduced in 2016 , the Mimblewimble project was initially focused on scaling Bitcoin and increasing user privacy. After some time, the developers of Mimblewimble, however, came to the conclusion about the need for their own cryptocurrency. Grin was considered the flagship and best-known project all this…
On December 31, 2018, the founder of the Ethereum blockchain, Vitaly Buterin, published a series of tweets with thanks to those groups that he considers to be “external” or do not usually thank – both inside and outside the cryptocurrency space. He included Bitcoin supporters, governments, fiat money, religions, centralized applications, Proof of Work , etc. Buterin began his “New Year's Speech” with thanks to the Bitcoin community. According to him, Bitcoin supporters do a lot for the development of “technology of freedom”, which is very important and valuable, but is often overlooked in cryptospace. In particular, this concerns developments…
cryptocurrency exchange Estonian regulated exchange DX.Exchange announced the launch of a trading platform on which tokenized shares of top companies from the Nasdaq stock exchange listing will be quoted. At the same time, users will be able to purchase them both for cryptocurrencies and for Fiat. In addition, peering trading in digital currencies will be available at the site. https://t.co/gavrewTi9F is ready to go live! The platform will launch on the 7th of January #exchangeyourway https://t.co/naAIacseUb – DX.Exchange (@DXdotExchange) December 23, 2018 DX.Exchange uses a bidding and processing mechanism from Nasdaq to trade digital shares and prevent market manipulation. Users…
DX.Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange regulated by the European Union, based in Estonia, is going to offer tokenized securities on its platform, which will launch on January 7, 2019. The platform will allow users of cryptocurrency to invest in real stocks, and not in CFDs. According to a press release from CryptoGlobe, DX.Exchange will offer its users securities in the form of tokenized shares of large companies, including the parent company Google Alphabet, Facebook and Amazon. This, according to the document, is the first securities to be tokenized and sold as ERC-20 tokens in the Ethereum blockchain. These tokens are…
The mining pools of Antpool and BTC.com, controlled by the largest manufacturer of equipment for the extraction of cryptocurrency Bitmain, lost about 28% of their market share in the second half of 2018. So, if in June they controlled 41% of the hashrate on the Bitcoin network, now this figure, according to Long Hash , is in the region of 29%. If, however, refer to the data blockchain.com, then you can find that the total share of Antpool and BTC.com is only 25.9%. At the same time, the bitcoin network hashrate reached 42.17 EH / s. Data Blockchain.com Note that,…
