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TRON founder Justin Sun leads or is actively involved in the activities of a major Asian investment group that will support Polo Digital Assets, the new operator of the Poloniex bitcoin exchange. This is reported by The Block, citing informed sources in the startup Circle. Justin Sun wrote that he doesn’t buy anything, but invests a little to “support friends”. I'm not buying anything. […]

Financial corporation Fidelity Investments began a full-scale launch of a custodial service for institutional bitcoin investors after almost a year of closed testing, CEO Abigail Johnson told the Financial Times. “It's not going away. As long as the value is there, people will look to preserve that value. ”@Fidelity CEO Abby Johnson, on #digitalassets with @financialtimes @RobinWigg https://t.co/qR4N7Hhn1Z – Fidelity […]

Fintech-startup Ripple sold XRP tokens for $ 66.24 million in the third quarter. This is 74% less than the previous indicators. The Q3 XRP Markets Report is here. Read the latest on #XRP sales, volume, On-Demand Liquidity traction and more. https://t.co/sAo7DXqvyw – Ripple (@Ripple) October 18, 2019 The company received $ 50.12 million from direct sales to institutional customers, and programmatic sales […]

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange announced a reorganization of the company structure and a number of other major changes. 5/5: Please read this blog post for additional information: https://t.co/jisUlJtq7L – Poloniex Exchange (@Poloniex) October 18, 2019 First of all, Poloniex will separate from the parent company Circle. As a result, a new company is formed – Polo Digital Assets, Ltd, which will be supported by a certain “large investment group”. […]

A Trojan version of the anonymous Tor browser, aimed at Russian-speaking users to steal bitcoins in the darknet markets, was discovered by ESET, an anti-virus software company. Hackers distribute a fake browser through two resources: tor-browser.org and torproect.org, which have existed since 2017. Both mimic the real site of the Tor project, offering to update the browser. Pages are promoted in Russian-language forums. Screenshot of tor-browser.org page Attackers with virtually no […]

Russian experts do not share the point of view of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, which expects a surge in fraud after the launch of digital currencies from Telegram and Facebook. Earlier, a similar idea was expressed by the director of the department for counteracting unfair practices of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Valery Lyakh. He pointed out that young people interested in investment projects could become the most vulnerable to scammers. “Everything suggests that probably in the near future […]

Startup ACINQ introduced a new non-custodian wallet with support for the Lightning Network (LN) protocol, which provides fast and inexpensive bitcoin payments. We're very excited to introduce Phoenix, a 2nd generation Lightning Wallet. ? Phoenix demonstrates what we think is the future of Bitcoin / Lightning UX. # TLC2019 #bitcoin #LightningNetwork pic.twitter.com/TumV3UKyf8 – ACINQ (@acinq_co) October 18, 2019 The company emphasizes that […]

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have not become a “reliable and attractive” means of payment and savings, but stablecoins have potential. This is stated in the report of the “Big Seven” (G7). g7 by ForkLog on Scribd The group, which includes the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Canada, has published a report on stable coins. The authors of the document recognized that global stablecoins, although […]