Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange announced the suspension of trading and the beginning of unplanned technical work. It happened at 12:17 UTC. We are undergoing unscheduled maintenance with trading temporarily halted. All wallets remain unaffected and they are available. Thank you for your patience. – Bitfinex (@bitfinex) July 11 […]
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South Korean giant LG Electronics is presumably working to create a cryptocurrency wallet, as evidenced by the application on the website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The application states that the corporation registers the ThinQ Wallet trademark, which involves several usage scenarios, including a “software computer platform for the blockchain”, a “mobile electronic wallet for cryptocurrencies” and a “payment application for mobile phones”. Remarkably, […]
Today, July 8, a number of media reported that Beijing police are conducting searches in the local office of the blockchain project TRON. Probably the Twitter tweet by Hayden Otto, Twitter, was the primary source. He also pointed to a large transfer of TRX tokens in the amount of $ 23.58 million, which recorded the account of the Whale Alert. Police raids at #Tron offices in Beijing? Additionally, there are many angry people […]
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, […]
Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Exchange announced the beginning of the repayment of debt to its affiliated company Tether. As part of the Bitfinex process, the first $ 100 million was transferred to the Tether account. Bitfinex Repays $ 100M of Outstanding Loan Facility to Tether.https: //t.co/NIcUAehGtY – Bitfinex (@bitfinex) July 2, 2019 Recall that at the end of April the Prosecutor General’s Office New York brought Bitfinex accusations that, having suffered losses in […]
The prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region accused the former operative of the drug control service and his trainee in the sale of narcotic substances and the laundering of illegal income on a large scale through cryptocurrency. This is stated on the official website of the department. Thus, the accused began his activities in 2016 after being dismissed from law enforcement. To her, he drew his […]
The issuer of steablcoin USDT company Tether has displayed data on tokens produced by it using the EOS blockchain, on a specialized page. According to the information provided, the authorized issue volume of EOS-USDT is only $ 0.5, since the official operation of the instrument has not yet begun. At the same time, the volume of authorized USDT tokens on the Tron blockchain is $ 38 million. Issue […]
Cryptocurrency startup Ripple expands its geography – the company intends to develop business in Latin America and has already opened an office in Brazil. Reported by the Cointelegraph. It is worth noting that Ripple has not yet officially announced the opening of a new division. It is expected that this will happen at CIAB Febraban – an event for financial and banking, which will be held from 11 to 13 June. […]
Citizens of India, convicted of conducting cryptocurrency operations, will face up to 10 years in prison. Such a preventive measure is spelled out in the bill "On the prohibition of cryptocurrency and the regulation of official digital currencies" from 2019, reports BloombergQuint. It is proposed to apply the punishment against persons “directly or not directly connected with mining, generation, storage, sale, transfer, sale, issue and conclusion of transactions […]