A group of investors filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York on the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, its US division of HBUS and on the ICO-startup Elastos, reports Cryptobriefing. The reason for the suit was the alleged violation of securities laws. In particular, the main plaintiff Mark Owen is sure that the initial offer of the Elastos project coins, which took place last year, violates Section 5 of the Law on Valuable […]
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The head of Twitter and Square Payment service, Jack Dorsey, said that he considered it only a matter of time to integrate the Bitcoin microtransaction protocol into the Cash App, Cointelegraph reports. He said this in an interview for a podcast about Bitcoin, which is conducted by Stefan Leiver. Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs, was another interviewee for the presenter. SLP52 @jack (CEO @square) & @starkness […]
Eventualmente se aprobará un fondo cotizado en bolsa (ETF) vinculado a Bitcoin (BTC) , uno de los cuatro comisionados de la Comisión de Bolsa y Valores de EE. UU. Es…
Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures trading platform from the New York Stock Exchange Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) continues to expand its staff. This time top managers joined the team, reports The Block. Thus, Eric Haas, who was responsible for working with regulators at ICE for the past nine years, became head of the legal compliance department. The position of strategic operating director was given to […]
The cryptocurrency broker Voyager, founded by veterans Uber and E * Trade, will be released on the Canadian TSX Venture Exchange through a reverse takeover of a public company. The deal amounted to $ 60 million. #Investvoyager – Voyager (@investvoyager) February 7, 2019 So, New York Voyager Digital Holdings successfully acquired UC Resources Ltd . shell company for […]
The court of the Southern District of New York decided to recover from the founders of the Bitcoin Exchange Gemini Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss $ 45,000 in favor of businessman Charlie Shrem. This is evidenced by a court decision of February 7. In this amount, Shrem estimated the legal costs incurred in seeking to cancel the freeze of his assets. Recall that the Winklevossians accuse Shrem of misappropriating 5,000 bitcoins, which they did not receive in […]
The American Exchange of Cryptocurrency Derivatives LedgerX presented a fundamentally new type of derivative contract, the payment on which will depend on the time of the next halving (halving) rewards to miners in the Bitcoin network. Announcing the world's first #Bitcoin native derivative. Read more on the @ledgerx blog: https://t.co/chqf0OOxgd – LedgerX (@ledgerx) February 6, 2019 The new product is called LedgerX Halving Contract (LXHC) and […]
The Gemini bitcoin-owned stock owned by the Winklevossam found itself at the center of a new scandal after operators of two over-the-counter trading platforms (OTC) said their accounts were closed without any explanation when trying to pay off Gemini Dollar (GUSD). This writes CoinDesk. As the newspaper notes, the platforms that complained about the closure of accounts, in order to avoid damage to their reputation, wished to keep […]
A 20-year-old college student who used the SIM card swapping method to steal more than $ 5 million in cryptocurrency, pleaded guilty and sentenced by a court in California to a ten-year prison term. This writes the Motherboard. In total, about 40 people have become victims of Joel Ortiz, and as representatives of law enforcement agencies believe, this is the first time in the United States when […]
The New York blockchain startup Blockstack reported on the ongoing work on a new distributed protocol called Stacks, which uses the hash power of the Bitcoin network in combination with the Proof-of-Burn mechanism (PoB). The presentation of Stacks took place in January at an event organized by a startup in Hong Kong. An explanation of the principle of the new consensus algorithm is also available in the video posted by the lead developer of the project […]