Nasdaq (NDAQ), the world's second largest stock exchange in the world, recently announced that it offered a deal to the Swedish provider of crypto trading solutions Cinnober. The exchange will buy Swedes for $ 190 million – with cash settlement. Nasdaq launches public offer to acquire Cinnober: https://t.co/R03TXjpKGH Nasdaq Tech (@NasdaqTech) September 14, 2018 The purchase of Cinnober will bring the exchange and holders of its shares a fairly large profit. The site will also receive a package of new technologies for internal operations and external products. Cinnober provides solutions for asset trading and clearing throughout the entire transaction chain,…
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The Coil platform, created by a former Ripple technician, is now integrated with YouTube and Twitch. This system allows content creators to receive donations from users in XRP tokens. Coil, a company that seeks to provide new ways for Internet content creators to monetize their work, has entered the beta testing phase. To date, the company has integrated the service into such popular services as YouTube and Twitch, which allows viewers to donate to XRP tokens to their favorite channels. Users can also use a donation platform for Wikipedia or the Internet Archive service. Coil uses the Interledger protocol, created…
Traders put on a drop in the price of Ethereum (ETH) quite large sums. Bitcoin shorts (BTC) also indicate a bearish mood. But short positions on the air for 10 days increased at a record pace. New positions are being opened constantly, and many are betting on the price cut to $ 200. At the time of writing, the coin is traded at $ 211. ~ 4600 $ ETH shorts opened around 5am today https://t.co/o7WEBio5XP We're bearish on #ethereum for now. Chart Guys on the ETHUSDSHC chart: pic.twitter.com/6qoediXC6q Degenerate Chain (@DegenerateChain) September 17, 2018 The trend in ETN shorts became…
Developers of the popular wallet MyEtherWallet presented the final version of the mobile application MEW Connect. pic.twitter.com/INZSK0ydWq – MyEtherWallet.com (@myetherwallet) 18 весня 2018 р. The application provides a secure login to user accounts. With MEW Connect, users do not need to enter a private key to open a wallet. Instead of using a private key, the introduction of which may pose a security risk, the user reads a special QR code. A full version of the application is available only for the mobile operating system iOS. Service MyEtherWallet.com daily visits about 600 thousand users. Recall, the beta version of MEW…
On September 25, the Poloniex Exchange will issue a delisting of eight assets: BitcoinDark (BTCD), Bitmark (BTM), Einsteinium (EMC2), GridCoin (GRC), NeosCoin (NEOS), PotCoin (POT), VeriCoin (VRC), Bitcoin Plus (XBC) . On Tuesday September 25th, at 12:00 ET, the following assets will be delisted from Poloniex: BTCD, BTM (Bitmark), EMC2, GRC, NEOS, POT, VRC, XBC. – Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) 18 весня 2018 р. The exact reasons for the decision are not indicated. However, all these assets, with the exception of BitcoinDark , do not even enter the first hundred of the CoinMarketCap rating. This indicates the extremely low liquidity of…
The second largest exchange in the world Nasdaq reported that it is negotiating the purchase of Swedish supplier of trading solutions Cinnober. Cinnober is known as a company that positively perceives digital assets and attracts institutional clients to invest in them, CCN notes. One of the company's steps in this area was cooperation with the developer of custodial solutions of the institutional level of BitGo. BitGo, for its part, has also concluded a number of agreements that help it achieve its goal of improving the crypto-currency sector, including an agreement to purchase a licensed asset keeper, the Kingdom Trust, and…
Pharmaceutical company Verseon from the US has become one of the last medical organizations that conducts experiments on the introduction of blockchain technology, according to a September 18 press release. The main product of Verseon is its own physical platform for drug research. The company was founded in 2002 and now its shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of 211 million pounds sterling (277 million US dollars). To follow the growing trend among the main players in the pharmaceutical industry to take advantage of all the benefits and security of Blockchain technology, a subsidiary…
In business matters, businessmen trust IBM more than Microsoft and other manufacturers. This was clarified during the September study of Juniper Research, conducted in North America. 65% of respondents would choose IBM Blockchain for embedding a distributed registry in their business. Microsoft collected only 7% of the vote. Accenture, Deloitte and Oracle got even less. Analysts of Juniper Research interviewed the heads of enterprises, which employs more than 10,000 people. The Blockchain Enterprise Survey: Deployments, Benefits & Attitudes also noted that businessmen prefer Ethereum to run decentralized applications and related solutions. This platform received 50% of the vote. Paid decisions…
Specialists in the field of cyber security have discovered a new botnet, which instead of malicious actions searches for and destroys programs for hidden mining. This is reported by CoinDesk . Botnet called Fbot is a variation of the so-called Satori, which in turn is based on the Mirai program. The latter is often used for DDoS attacks. However, in the case of Fbot, the module for DDoS attacks is deactivated and replaced by the device search function with the software installed for hidden mining. The new botnet was investigated in detail by the Qihoo 360Netlab team. As noted in…
Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings is going to launch this year the payment application MoneyTap for mobile operating systems Android and iOS, CCN reports. The main feature of the new application is that it will be based on Ripple technology (however, it is not known whether this solution will be xCurrent or xRapid using the XRP token). To send a transaction through MoneyTap, users will only need to specify the bank account and phone number or scan the QR code. Through the application, users will be able to make payments in 24/7 mode. The launch of the new application will…