From November 12, the popular analytical service CoinMarketCap will launch a new cryptocurrency exchange liquidity assessment system. This was stated by company representatives during a round table of the organization “Alliance for Accountability and Data Transparency” (DATA), writes Cointelegraph. According to the CoinMarketCap team, the need to improve liquidity metrics when ranking crypto sites is due to the problems of laundering trading. “Using liquidity as a metric is difficult, because […]
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The analytic data provider Nomics announced the launch of the “Transparent Volume” service, designed to show the percentage of reliability of trading volumes on exchanges, reports The Block. Coinmarketcap competitor provides information on trading volume transparency among more than 3800 coins and 167 exchanges. To do this, the trading volume of the asset is summed up at several exchanges, after which it is divided by the total registered volume. […]
Only a part of the population of the Russian Federation is positive about the development of modern technologies. Moreover, 60% of the total number consider themselves poorly informed on this topic. Such results were shown by a survey conducted by the NAFI analytical center in conjunction with the Digital Economy organization. So, 44% of respondents rarely pay attention to news from the world of high technologies, and every fifth – 21% – absolutely […]
The non-custodial multicurrency crypto wallet Button Wallet has added support for the Telegram Open Network (TON) in test mode and offers 6.6 Gram test tokens to users who activate the application for free. About it writes Forbes. According to Alex Safonov, co-founder and CEO of Button Wallet, this should give users the opportunity to gain practical experience in conducting transactions with digital currencies without any associated risks. […]
Over $ 2 million in various grants has been allocated in recent months to prepare for the launch of Ethereum 2.0, the Ethereum Foundation said in a statement released Monday, August 26. Approaching Serenity: Announcing Ethereum Foundation and Co-Funded Grants! Https: //t.co/ImJ3MrHre3 – Ethereum (@ethereum) August 26, 2019 Grants were allocated to the development teams of the leading Ethereum network clients currently occupied […]
25-year-old resident of Los Angeles, Kunal Kalra, pleaded guilty to providing services for the implementation of money transfers without a license and laundering $ 25 million in cryptocurrency. According to The Block, citing a statement by the Ministry of Justice, the defendant now faces life imprisonment. According to the investigation, from May 2015 to October 2017, Calra managed a cryptocurrency exchanger and, without […]
Analysts at The Block found that since the beginning of the year, the number of bitcoins in the insurance fund of the BitMEX crypto derivative exchange has grown by 50.7%. The fund currently holds 31,305 BTC (more than $ 320 million at the current exchange rate). This is 0.15% of the total market supply of the first cryptocurrency. “The insurance fund is used to prevent car dealerships (ADL, [automatic leverage reduction]). If the resources […]
Nelson Minier, the head of the Kraken OTC trading division, expressed the opinion that the cryptocurrency market is gradually growing, institutionalizing and becoming similar to Wall Street in the old days. It is reported by CCN. However, according to Nelson, the current Wall Street, associated with the entire US stock market, is no longer what it used to be. “Over the course of my first 15 years on Wall Street […]
Circle cryptocurrency company CEO Jeremy Allair said China is significantly ahead of the US in creating a national digital currency, CoinDesk reports. Allair noted that thanks to the digital currency, over time, China will be able to circumvent the “Western rules”, since the new means of payment will open up great opportunities for the country and local companies. “Circle is also confident that all the world's largest reserve currencies, which […]
Two years after the activation of Segregated Witness, the share of bitcoin transactions using this protocol reached 61.93%. Segregated Witness (SegWit) was activated on August 24, 2017. The protocol eliminated a number of problems that stood in the way of Bitcoin, opening up opportunities for network scaling, including through the Lightning Network. In particular, with the introduction of SegWit, the method of storing data in […]