SBI Holdings-owned cryptocurrency exchange VCTRADE began accepting deposits in Bitcoin, Air and XRP. However, it will be possible to send funds only to the so-called designated company wallet. This hardware wallet, which is associated with a specific user of the exchange, was created as part of compliance with measures to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Representatives of the exchange promised to report information about the wallet in the near future. The output of these cryptocurrencies will be available from January 2019. In the future, VCTRADE is considering supporting Bitcoin Cash (BCH) deposits. Recall that the full launch…
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The second largest in Germany and the ninth in Europe Stock Exchange Boerse Stuttgart Group from Stuttgart continues to successfully advance the use of cryptocurrency in the interests of its customers. As early as January of next year, beta testing will begin on the Bison cryptocurrency platform developed by Sowa Labs, reports CCN . On the eve of Christmas, the developers of the Bison App informed users about the start of the application testing phase. All clients from the VIP category of the company can take part in the registration process. In addition, in early January, BISONews subscribers will be…
A married couple from Kursk, together with four accomplices, sold drugs and laundered the funds received through the EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, reports 46tv.ru. The group began its criminal activities in the summer of 2017. Spouses received large quantities of prohibited substances in several regions of Russia, transported them and hid in caches. The accomplices took the goods at the appointed place and then sold them. "One of the group members made financial transactions with money from the sale of drugs through the international cryptocurrency exchange EXMO, " said Kursk District Deputy Prosecutor Kirill Pankov. The court sentenced members of the…
Combined Altcoin Market Bitcoin Binance, the largest in terms of trading, will rename the ETH market to the Altcoin Combined Market (ALTS). From now on, the Binance Cryptocurrency Exchange adds two new trading pairs with the Ripple token (XRP) : TRX / XRP and XZC / XRP to the Altcoin Combo Market (ALTS), which will now be called the ETH trading market. According to the company, the renaming was carried out in order to further add support for an even greater number of different listed cryptocurrencies. “Please note that ALTS is not a new coin or token. This is a…
Ethereum, the third largest cryptocurrency market capitalization, is trading at $ 148, a significant increase of 86% compared to the recent low of $ 81, which was formed on December 7th. Looking at the Ethereum hour chart, it becomes clear that the downtrend has clearly ended, and the bulls have taken control of the situation. This is due to the fact that the price has broken through the downtrend line, shown in orange. Another evidence of an uptrend is the fact that the price is trading above the 50-day and 100-day moving averages (50-day green, and the 100-day pink.) The…
The head of ConsenSys and co-founder of the blockchain Ethereum Joseph Lubin (Joseph Lubin) announced that the current state of the cryptocurrency market will not deteriorate, since this year it "reached its bottom", which is marked by an epic wave of fear, uncertainty and doubt. In addition, the head of ConsenSys assured the cryptocurrency community that, despite the recent staff cuts, nothing bad happens to the company – this is just a reorganization. “ConsenSys remains a healthy company and is simply rethinking priorities and actions that began about nine months ago ,” said Lyubin. He also noted that the startup…
Today, December 24, amid growing trading volumes, the price of Bitcoin continues its upward movement to the level of $ 4,400, which represents a serious level of resistance . As CoinDesk analyst Sebastian Sinclair notes, the first cryptocurrency turned out to be inside a “symmetrical triangle” , which held back the price of $ 3,788 and $ 4,153 for four days. BTC has already tried to go beyond the upper limit of this geometric figure, however, it encountered powerful resistance from the bears. After that, the price abruptly rolled back approximately to the middle of the range indicated above: BTC…
The Chinese Information and Industry Development Center (CCID) creates ratings of digital assets that were first published in May of this year. In total, the rating includes 34 top cryptocurrencies, which compete on the basis of such indicators as "basic technologies", "applicability" and "creativity". But the results of these ratings often cause controversy, especially regarding the consistently low Bitcoin cryptocurrency rates. EOS, starting from June, always in the first place, and Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency took the second place. Domestic Chinese startup GXchain also ranked third. Bitcoin this time dropped to 18th place. CCID representatives wrote the following in the…
The data provider for the cryptorink Coinmetrics has published a report titled “Do not trust, verify: an example of Bitcoin Private”. It states that the developers quietly increased the maximum supply of this coin, violating the provisions of the whitepaper. Bitcoin Private (BTCP) created as a result hardforka Bitcoin and ZClassic (fork Zcash). The coin supports evidence of the zk-SNARK zero disclosure and is thus endowed with a high degree of anonymity. Initially, the volume of offers for Bitcoin Private is limited to 21 million coins, by analogy with Bitcoin. However, researchers at Coinmetrics found out that the developers of…
A single digital currency in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) may appear as early as 2020-2021. Reported by the IA TASS. According to Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev, the project of the single digital currency of the EAEU will be an analogue of the ECU, which has already been used in the European currency system of the EEC and the EU earlier. Speaking of deadlines, Moiseev noted that five countries are included in the EAEU : Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan. Therefore, negotiations on the introduction of a single digital currency can take the whole of 2019, and the direct…
