Litecoin

The Japanese Bitcoin exchange BitPoint underwent a hacker attack, which resulted in theft of about 3.5 billion yen ($ 32 million) in cryptocurrency equivalent. Currently all operations on the platform are suspended. Bitpoint, one of the licensed exchanges in Japan, hasn’t been lost for millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies. Gox incidents are nothing new but […]

The US rating agency Weiss Ratings first assigned Bitcoin a grade of A-, stressing that at the moment the potential benefits of investing in the first cryptocurrency exceed the risks, its technology is updated, and the network is stable, reports ForkLog.Media. “Bitcoin has come a long way from C + in January 2018 to today. Then the investment risks were extremely high, ”the agency stressed. Representatives of the organization […]

The Singapore Tax Administration (IRAS) has published a guide in which it proposed to abolish VAT on operations for the exchange of cryptocurrencies for fiat funds. Now the changes must be approved at the legislative level. Draft E-Tax Guide _GST_Digital Payment Tokens by ForkLog on Scribd The IRAS defined the following characteristics of digital payment tokens: interchangeable; not tied to existing currencies and not denominated in […]

Shares of the Scottish brewery BrewDog are now available to investors for Bitcoin and almost a dozen other cryptocurrencies, according to a company press release earlier this week. Sale of shares for cryptocurrencies started in the framework of the new investment round of the Equity for Punks campaign and will last until April of next year. In addition to Bitcoin, you can also purchase them for Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, […]

The developers of the confidential cryptocurrency Beam based on the MimbleWimble protocol have implemented support for atomic swaps for Bitcoin and Litecoin in the new version of the client. It is a time of release of #AtomicSwaps $ Beam – $ BTC and $ Beam – $ LTC. We give you Bright Boson 2.2.5635 https://t.co/Aw0tMYfTbB #privacymatters #mimblewimble – @Beamprivacy […]

The American rating agency Weiss Ratings assigned Litecoin a B rating (“excellent”), taking into account the significant investment attractiveness and the degree of mass adoption of cryptocurrency. On the other hand, such a factor as the ratio of risk and return was estimated slightly lower than the rest of the Litecoin parameters, having been rated B-. The screenshot below shows that the overall rating of LTC is lower than that of Bitcoin and […]