Representatives of the American company Coinbase deny the accusations of the Attorney General of the State of New York, according to which their account accounts for about 20% of the total number of transactions platform. Correcting the record: Coinbase does not engage in proprietary trading. https://t.co/Qhyxy6U5Tf – Coinbase (@coinbase) September 20, 2018 "High turnover of their own trade raises questions about the risks that customers may face," the ministry said. Head of the legal department of Coinbase Mike Lempres stressed that the prosecutor general's accusations are groundless. He also added that a number of media incorrectly interprets the company's data…
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The world's largest in terms of trading volumes , the Binance crypto exchange , plans to open crypto-fiat sites on almost all continents. Founder and CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao spoke at the Consensus Singapore event of the CoinDesk portal, where he talked about how Binance, from a start-up that raised $ 15 million to ICO, developed into a giant in the crypto-currency industry, and also shared plans for the future. Zhao said that he wants a year later Binance had 5-10 crypto-fiat trading platforms, ideally two on the continent. These plans are consistent with the latest initiatives of the…
A group of the world's largest banks, trading firms and a leading energy company have launched a joint venture that will monitor the new Blockchain platform designed to finance commodity trade. The Swiss company, known as komgo SA, was founded by a number of international financial, trading and manufacturing institutions, which include: ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas, Citi, Credit Agricole Group, Gunvor, ING, Koch Supply & Trading, Macquarie, Mercuria, MUFG Bank, Natixis, Rabobank, Shell, SGS and Societe Generale. The company will digitize the financing of commodity trade through an open platform based on Blockchain and developed in partnership with the ConshenSys…
At 6 pm on Thursday, the TOP-10 crypto currency market is predominantly in a downtrend. Bitcoin continues to flutter nerves periodically making sharp lumbago in different directions. During the day it grew by + 0.75% and is traded at the price level of 6 400 $ . Altcoins in this situation also rush in different directions. In the first five, only EOS shows a positive result of + 1.51%. The remaining assets are in the red zone in the range of 1-2.3%. In the second five, the situation is similar. In a good plus, we have Cardano with the dynamics…
The American company Ripple announced a partnership with the largest bank of Saudi Arabia National Commercial Bank. The credit institution will use the decentralized Ripple network to exchange data with other banks. In addition to the transfer of information, National Commercial Bank will be able through RippleNet to transfer money to its customers anywhere in the world, Bitcoin.News reports . The RippleNet network will allow not only to instantly send funds to counterparties, but also to conduct financial transactions at a lower cost than using traditional payment systems. National Commercial Bank was founded in Saudi Arabia in 1953, it has…
The Chinese Center for the Development of the Informatics Industry (CCID) has updated the rating of crypto-currencies, based on the analysis of block-technologies in terms of practical application. Bitcoin finally reached the top ten, jumping six crypto-currencies from 16th place, which was located a month earlier. "In terms of innovation, the recent Bitcoin update updates its rating. In general, the five most innovative coins: EOS, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Hcash and Stratis. " EOS remains a favorite of the Center in terms of basic technology, but lost points on the criterion of creativity. In early July, the coin was gaining 44.1,…
Experts on cybersecurity have discovered a new botnet, which instead of doing malicious activity is engaged in the search and destruction of malicious software for mining crypto currency . Botnet Fbot is a variation of the botnet Satori, which in turn is based on the Mirai program, commonly used to implement DDoS attacks. However, in this case, the element for implementing DDoS attacks has been disabled and replaced with the function of searching for devices infected with a certain cryptographic or hidden miner. Botnet was discovered by the Qihoo 360Netlab team. According to their information, Fbot is looking for com.ufo.miner…
Bryumb and Binance have announced the listing of new coins. Bithumb stated that Waves (WAVES) and ChainLink (LINK) will join the platform, while Binance adds a BNB trading pair for TRON (TRX). Bithumb adds two new tokens Listing crypto on well-known exchanges is always a big news for both tokens and platforms. Coins receive more attention, active bidding and confidence from cautious investors, while exchanges receive more traffic and customers who want to work on their platforms. Waves (WAVES) and ChainLink (LINK) will be listed on Bithumb Today! ■ Date: September 19, 2018 (Wed) 6:30 PM [KST] ▶ https://t.co/QqGmMblmNP -…
MyEtherWallet announced today that it has officially launched the MEWconnect application for secure logon and access to MEW accounts that store Ethereum (ETH) and ERC-20 tokens. MEWconnect works similarly to products like Ledger or Trezor, so users can safely store and access their tokens, and MEWconnect can be downloaded for free. Founder and CEO MEW Kosala Hemachandra stressed in a statement that accompanied the launch of the application: "We believe that this application will play a key role in the wider implementation of the crypto currency, and we look forward to being part of this process" The news came shortly…
On Tuesday, September 18, an unscheduled release of the Bitcoin Core client under version 0.16.3 took place, which eliminated a critical vulnerability that threatened the DOS attack on the network. The exploitation of the bug was, however, not an easy task, and fortunately no one took advantage of them. Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 was released: https://t.co/SsbsJsqSTo Upgrade recommended due to vulnerability fix – Bitcoin Core Project (@bitcoincoreorg) 18 September 2018 As they say in the accompanying comments of Bitcoin Core developers, the vulnerability was told by the user who wished to remain anonymous. The exploitation of the bug, which was called…