Facebook hired the well-known lobbyist Edward Bowles of Standard Chartered, a British banking corporation, to work on an alleged payment network based on steaklkoin GlobalCoin in a project codenamed Libra, reports the Financial Times. It is assumed that he will completely go to Facebook as early as September of this year. At the same time on his page in LinkedIn the place of work is still […]
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Popular trading platforms Bitfinex and OKEx conducted a mutual listing of exchange tokens. So, today, on June 13, in the Bitfinex listing, a native OKEx exchange token appeared under the name OKB, as well as a steakblokoin USDK provided by the US dollar. OKB and USDK are making their way to Bitfinex! Trading for both assets will go live on Thursday, June 13th, at 10.00 […]
Dmitry Gurkovsky, leading analyst of RoboForex, tells about further possible scenarios for the movement of the price of Bitcoin and several popular altcoins. At the moment when Bitcoin tests resistance and forms another reversal model, Litecoin storms new tops. Based on the technical analysis of the structure of the LTC / USD price movement, we are only in the middle of the growth phase. One should not exclude the powerful continuation of the rally with the aim of […]
Aon, one of the world's largest insurance brokers, has formed a group of specialized companies that will deal with the cryptocurrency insurance of Metaco's clients. It is reported by CoinDesk. Thus, the group consists mainly of European insurers, and it is not known from which of them exactly. She will develop a cryptocurrency asset insurance solution, which she will later offer to her Metaco users. In Aon declare, […]
Payment giant Visa Inc has launched a corporate payment network B2B Connect based on the blockchain, reports Reuters. The network was created to improve the efficiency of cross-border payments between financial institutions. In particular, B2B Connect implies fast and inexpensive payments without the involvement of intermediaries. Currently B2B Connect serves 30 payment corridors, the number of which Visa plans to increase to […]
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. […]
The well-known cryptonews website CCN.com announced the closure after a significant reduction in the decline in mobile traffic. According to representatives of the news resource, the share of traffic from mobile devices declined by 71% soon after the June update of Google Core Update. “CCN was founded in the summer of 2013, its former name is CryptoCoinsNews. We existed for six years, being a kryptonovost site with the highest traffic. […]
BitForex Turbo trading platform will start selling Mycro project tokens on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 16:00 Moscow time. This was reported to ForkLog by platform representatives. Mycro is a decentralized platform for finding simple work. Mycro users will be able to: earn money on simple tasks; look for the executors of their errands. Reviews of customers and performers are recorded in the blockchain. […]
Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart supported the local police, who called the cryptocurrency exchange terminals “the perfect money laundering tool,” suggesting that their installation and operation in this third largest city in Canada be completely banned. However, such a step, as emphasized by a well-known lawyer and supporter of Bitcoin, Christine Duime, will require appropriate legislative solutions at the national level, including […]
The tough demands of the Russian authorities to provide them with encryption keys from various services provoke an outflow of users to the foreign market. This was stated by the founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov. A vivid example of such pressure on the Russian IT-business entrepreneur called the situation with Yandex. “The Russian authorities are forcing Yandex to give them uncontrolled access to personal user data. It is characteristic that this trend […]