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CoinShares, a digital asset management company, has created a gold-backed DGLD token on the Bitcoin sidechain. It is reported by The Block. The project was implemented by a British company together with Blockchain, a provider of cryptocurrency wallets, and MKS, a Swiss gold trading company. The development of the token took two years and a debut coin with the provision of gold for $ 20 million in the Swiss store. “When we started […]

The Bitcoin Fork Litecoin (LTC), also known as Digital Silver, celebrated its 8th birthday on Sunday, October 13th. One of the oldest cryptocurrencies in the space, today Litecoin takes the sixth place by capitalization in the CoinMarketCap rating. The network was launched on October 13, 2011, and this date is considered the official reference point for the history of LTC. The source code of the project is its creator Charlie Lee […]

Mexico's leading cryptocurrency exchange Bitso has attracted funding from industry-famous investors to expand its operations in Latin America. The amount of investment is not disclosed, reports The Block. The financing round was led by the fintech company Ripple, also the largest US cryptocurrency company Coinbase took part in it. In addition, the participants of the round were Digital Currency Group and Pantera Capital, previously investing […]

The first “Eurasian Forum on Innovations and the Digital Economy” will be held on October 19 in St. Petersburg. The event will feature representatives of the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinsbit, OKEx, Huobi, Bithumb and KuCoin, investment funds and leading projects in the field of tokenization of the real sector of the economy. As the forum organizer told ForkLog magazine, the main theme of the event will be the digital transformation in the era of new technologies. Also forum participants […]

Bitcoin is still the preferred cryptocurrency for cybercriminals, Europol stated in the annual report “Assessing the threats of organized crime on the Internet” (IOCTA 2019). “Although we previously reported a slight shift towards more private cryptocurrencies such as Monero, bitcoin is still the currency of choice for both legal and criminal use,” the organization said. In previous IOCTA reports […]