Belonging to the Winklevossam brothers, the Gemini Bitcoin Exchange added support for the native SegWit addresses of the bech32 format. In particular, one of the Reddit users paid attention to this: PSA: Gemini is full on with native SegWit !!! (And uses Blockstream's block explorer ….) from Bitcoin He also noted that the exchange uses Blockstream block browser. It is noteworthy that in the social media channels Gemini there is no official […]
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Especializado en asegurar el anonimato en Internet, el Proyecto Tor comenzó a aceptar donaciones en varias criptomonedas . El otro día en el sitio del proyecto apareció una lista de…
Specializing in ensuring anonymity on the Internet, the Tor Project began accepting donations in various cryptocurrencies. The other day on the project site a list of digital assets taken as donates appeared. Raising funds for the project, Sarah Stevenson, in a conversation with CoinDesk, noted that the organization has been accepting payments in Bitcoin for several years. However, previously receiving funds was carried out through processing […]
In February, the volume of futures trading on the Crypto Facilities platform grew by more than 500%, almost reaching $ 1 billion. CoinDesk reports this, citing company representatives. Crypto Facilities offers Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash futures contracts. The company admits that such a strong growth is due to the deal with the Bitcoin exchange Kraken, which acquired […]
The operator of the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, the investment application Circle Invest and the developer of the stablebcoin USDC startup Circle intends to attract an additional $ 250 million investment. It is reported by The Information. In the previous rounds of financing, Circle raised over $ 240 million from Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital and other investment firms. According to the results of the last stage of financing, when it was possible to get $ 110 million from […]
Consulting firm Ernst & Young (EY), which was entrusted to act as an auditor at QuadrigaCX, said that since April last year, no significant activity has been identified on the cold wallets of the Canadian stock exchange. There are also no traces of more than 26,000 BTC that the exchange owes its users. The relevant information was presented in the framework of the “Third Monitoring Report” of EY, dedicated to […]
Part of the missing assets of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX may “with a high degree of probability” be on the Poloniex and Bitfinex exchanges. This was reported in a report by the authors of the blog Zerononcense. The report's authors claim that they were able to track transfers in the amount of 649,708 ETH (about $ 100.4 million at the time of operations). They installed 12 Ethereum wallets, which, according to their assumption, belong to […]
The popular Bitcoin exchange Kraken has announced its willingness to pay a reward of $ 100,000 for information that will help in the search for cryptocurrency assets missing from the Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX. As stated on the website of the exchange, since 2014, Kraken has invested significant resources and provided expert assistance to the trustee and investigators conducting the case of Mt. Gox, supporting the return to the lenders of the exchange as possible […]
The Canadian bitcoin exchange QuadrigaCX, which got into the lenses of the media after the death of founder Gerald Kotten, filed for bankruptcy, reports The Wall Street Journal. At the same time, during the investigation, the publication discovered that funds ranging from $ 10.1 million to $ 24.7 million were withdrawn from the stock exchange. Montreal hoping to pick […]
According to the skew analytical company, the volume of trades in perpetual Bitcoin swaps on the leading crypto Derivatives exchanges has increased three times over the past day. Volumes up 3x ~ nearly $ 5bln perpetual swaps traded last 24h pic.twitter.com/5rQomhNMF5 – skew (@skew_markets) 18 February 2019 р. As you can see, BitMEX and bitFlyer have the highest trading volumes. With a large margin […]