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Only 1% of the US population owns bitcoins, which is too small for the institutional market, says Tom Lee, managing partner and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisor. In an interview with The Block, Tom Lee called the main barriers that prevent large players from investing in bitcoin, pointing to the underdeveloped infrastructure, as well as the size of the market itself, which, in his opinion, is "too small." […]

The development of stablecoins can provoke serious regulatory problems, said Randall Quarles, chairman of the Financial Stability Board (SPS). Speaking at @EBFeu # EBS2019 in Brussels FSB Chair Randal K. Quarles reviews the FSB's first 10 years & considers its future role in an evolving financial system https://t.co/kCqvM44KiG pic.twitter.com/UsUQwyDoY2 – The FSB ( @FinStbBoard) October 3, 2019 “At the moment […]

MakerDAO developers fixed a critical vulnerability that could lead to the loss of more than 10% of the total collateral funds of users of the DAI token, reports CoinDesk. The user HackerOne under the nickname lucash-dev found an error in the planned update of the Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) system during the testing phase. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to steal the entire security, which is at the liquidation stage in MCD, in one transaction. According to lucash-dev, an opportunity for […]

A critical vulnerability was discovered in the Tendermint Core protocol, on the basis of which the Cosmos cross-platform blockchain platform works, Recently, a high-severity security vulnerability that impacts all versions of Tendermint Core was reported. A non-breaking patch for the issue has been released for versions 0.31.9 and 0.32.5 of Tendermint Core and for version 0.34.8 of the Cosmos SDK: https://t.co/cg0DzNpfTI pic.twitter.com/8ZpTxnhI4D […]

TokenAnalyst researchers found that in 2019, the price of bitcoin showed an increase in the day of issuing USDT tokens on the Ethereum blockchain in 70% of cases. Over the course of 2019, there has been a net total of $ 1.5B worth of Tether minted on both Omni (USDT Omni) and on Ethereum (USDT ERC2O). We took a look at […]

BitGo custodian solutions provider offered customers the opportunity to receive passive income on the cryptocurrencies Dash (DASH) and Algorand (ALGO). BitGo is excited to announce it has acquired Hedge and launched staking for #cryptocurrencies. https://t.co/0lN9f3UK8W pic.twitter.com/2DmQ73JfVa – BitGo (@BitGo) October 3, 2019 Holders of these coins can expect an annual yield in the range of 7-13%. “Staking provides an opportunity to generate revenue […]

The largest US cryptocurrency company Coinbase has announced that exchange customers will be charged 1.25% per annum on their deposits in the dollar-linked stablecoin USDC. Starting today, eligible US customers will earn 1.25% APY rewards on every USD Coin held on Coinbase. Read more here: https://t.co/IqyStL1OPo pic.twitter.com/yhiAiN4tgw – Coinbase (@coinbase) October 2, 2019 Users can accrue interest […]

Russia has shown a “phenomenal” increase in the number of cashless payments – over eight years this figure has increased by 30 times. At the same time, Russia has become the largest market in Europe in terms of the volume of transactions using digital wallets and the world leader in the field of secure tokenized transactions. This is evidenced by the study of the international consulting company The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). According to the report, […]

Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprag announced the suspension of the OhioCrypto.com web service, which allowed companies registered in the region to pay taxes in bitcoins. Ohio opened the opportunity for businesses to pay taxes with cryptocurrency in November 2018. The service was organized in partnership with BitPay processing, which converted bitcoins into US dollars. The author of the initiative was the previous state treasurer, Josh Mandel. Robert […]