According to the Paxful p2p platform, more than 17,000 p2p transactions are made daily in Africa to buy Bitcoin, according to CCN . Most African Paxful users use iTunes and Amazon gift cards as a means of payment. The latter can be bought for local fiat currency. In the screenshot you can see that, indeed, these payment methods are in the top of the payment options. Africa is currently the main market for the Paxful platform. In 2018, the total volume of p2p transactions using iTunes gift cards amounted to $ 300 million; using Amazon cards – about $ 165…
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oriented crypto-exchange Huobi Pool, a division of the third cryptobirds trading volume, will launch in the first quarter of next year a trading platform oriented towards EOS digital currency. This is reported in a press release . According to representatives of Huobi, on the new stock exchange, EOS will trade in pairs with “many cryptocurrencies”. “As the supernodal of EOS, Huobi Pool puts environmental development at the top of its priorities. The launch of the EOS-exchange is just the next logical step in this context , ”said Cao Fei, CEO of Huobi Pool. Note that at the moment Huobi Pool…
We list seven trends that will dominate the cryptocurrency industry in the next 12 months. On the eve of 2019, the Bitcoin.com portal noted the most significant trends in the development of the cryptocurrency market. Stablecoin perspectives There is no doubt that the steablokoiny became the leading theme of 2018. Whether they continue to dominate in 2019 depends on what results traditional cryptoactives will demonstrate. If the current bear market continues or deepens, then stablockcoins will continue to enjoy increased demand. If the market recovers, they will be forced into the background, making room for the usual cryptocurrencies. The development…
Криптозима, смертельная спираль, кровавая баня – какими только эпитетами не награждали рынок криптовалют в 2018 году. Как бы то ни было, уходящий год по праву может считаться одним из самых разочаровывающих за всю 10-летнюю историю индустрии с точки зрения ценовых корреляций. Как мы все это пережили?! Вспоминаем 2018 в нашем обзоре главных событий года. Январь — эйфория плавно переходит в похмелье В первый месяц года криптоиндустрия вошла на волне эйфории, которая в декабре 2017 подняла биткоин, а вместе с ним и остальной рынок на исторические максимумы. При курсе биткоина около $14 000 по состоянию на 1 января стартапы строили грандиозные…
Small events taking place on large stock exchanges can often have a huge impact on the price of Bitcoin and altcoins. The upcoming Bitfinex and Ethfinex data migration is no exception. Today it was announced that on January 7, 2019, Bitfinex and Ethfinex will be offline for 3-7 hours. IFinex (a financial and technology company that owns Bitfinex and Ethfinex) will switch from AWS cloud to a new Swiss data center with its dedicated servers and high-end equipment for high-volume trading. IFinex cited speed and safety as two main reasons why they switch to a Swiss data center. Temporary…
The popular Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex and its subsidiary platform Ethfinex will suspend trading on Monday, January 7, 2019, in connection with the transition to new servers. It is expected that this process will take from three to seven hours. The message iFinex says that the company finally refuses to use the cloud service AWS and goes to its own infrastructure with hosting in a data center in the Swiss Cryptodoline. Technical support is provided by the company Market Synergy. On the 7th of January 2019, there will be a bit of a breeze through which it can be used. https://t.co/uzeW1rSUZl…
TRON's blockchain project now has over 1 million accounts and has reached 100 million registered contracts. TRON founder Justin Sun congratulated all users of the project on Twitter: The number of TRON addresses, or users, grows from 10,000 to 40,000 per day. According to tronscan.org, the growth of TRON user addresses now looks like this: This is good news for TRON, but the addresses of its main competitor, Ethereum, are also growing rapidly. Etherscan.io shows that the address of Ethereum increases by more than 50,000 per day. TRON Dapp's weekly report released the news pointing to the “rapid expansion”…
Wallet.fail, a Berlin-based security research team, has launched a series of successful physical attacks on popular hardware devices from Trezor and Ledger . During the presentation at the 35th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, Josh Datko, Dmitry Nedospasov and Thomas Roth successfully demonstrated a series of various attacks on popular hardware wallets Trezor and Ledger. Vulnerabilities that have been presented range from those that can be fixed by updating the firmware, to errors that will require new equipment, reports Bitsonline . compromising the bootloader to run snake ? pic.twitter.com/AUNzR0HGar – Afri ?️ (@ 5chdn) December 27, 2018 In particular, some…
By June 2018 , the Russian Finance Ministry, together with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, was to develop a procedure for regulating cryptocurrency and conducting ICOs, as well as determining the status of such concepts as “distributed registry technology”, “digital letter of credit”, “digital mortgage”, “cryptocurrency”, "Token" and "smart contract". On May 22, the draft laws “On digital financial assets (CFA)”, “On introducing amendments to the first, second and fourth parts of the Civil Code (GC) of the Russian Federation”, “On alternative ways of attracting investments (crowdfunding)” were approved in the first reading by the deputies of the…
margin trading The popular Bitcoin exchange Kraken launched on Saturday, December 29, margin trading with Bitcoin Cash and XRP. We have enabled margin trading for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Ripple (XRP)! The addition expands our margin offering to 8 assets. Read more on our blog: https://t.co/DSBaMBdOR7 – Kraken Exchange (@krakenfx) December 29, 2018 According to the exchange, trading with leverage for BCH and XRP is available in pairs with bitcoin, dollar and euro. The size of the shoulder itself is quite modest: BCH / XBT – 2x; BCH / USD – 2x, 3x; BCH / EUR – 2x, 3x, XRP…
