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 […]
BitPay cryptocurrency processing service will add support for Ripple's XRP token by the end of this year. This was reported in the official Ripple Twitter account. More exciting news: Ripple has partnered with @BitPay to enable thousands of businesses to accept #XRP for payments. https://t.co/oFzM1p37LC – Ripple (@Ripple) October 2, 2019 According to media reports, BitPay entered into a partnership with the Ripple division […]
Seoul District Court ordered Coinone bitcoin exchange to partially compensate the client for the amount of about $ 50,000, whose account was hacked by hackers. It is reported by the local edition of IT Chosun. The affected client has been trading on the exchange since April 2017. As of November 2018, its deposits were estimated at about 58 million won ($ 48.3 thousand). However, December 23 […]
La criptomoneda más grande pudo encontrar un punto de apoyo y ahora tendremos que reanudar el rally. Esta opinión es compartida por muchos comerciantes y expertos. Uno de los partidarios…
Boston-based startup Nebulous, which developed the Sia Network cryptocurrency project, will pay a fine of $ 225,000 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for selling unregistered securities. Big news! We entered into a settlement with the SEC for our 2014 offering of Siafunds (our security token), and the SEC took no enforcement action […]
As part of a special operation, the German police established control over the so-called “cyber bunker” with hundreds of servers for the darknet drug markets and child pornography and arrested seven suspects. Law enforcers also seized $ 41 million. German cops raid "CyberBunker 2.0," arrest 7 in child porn, dark web market sting. Bulletproof hosting facility was staged inside old NATO bunker in Germany; was […]
Tomorrow, October 1, the Law on Digital Rights will enter into force. It enshrines the concept of digital law in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and regulates the use of smart contracts. According to the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation Pavel Krashennikov, it is this law that is fundamental for regulating relations in the digital economy. As reported on the website of the faction "United Russia", the official is convinced […]
California-based fintech startup Ripple hopes to step up operations in Europe with the acquisition of Icelandic crypto trading firm Algrim. Ripple continues its acquisition streak, and launches operations in Iceland. Welcome to the family, Algrim! https://t.co/suIyB4PVs4 – Ripple (@Ripple) September 30, 2019 Ripple representatives emphasized that Algrim will play a key role in developing products that provide liquidity on demand. These products […]