The HitBTC cryptocurrency exchange reacted to the recent reports of its probable insolvency, stating that such statements do not correspond to reality. The exchange also clarified its position regarding strict AML / KYC procedures, which many users accuse of it. As a member of the board of the exchange Joan Geld writes in the company's blog, HitBTC was one of the first in the industry of trading platforms, starting its […]
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Fintech-company Robinhood Markets Inc., which is the mobile application for trading stocks and cryptocurrency Robinhood, may soon close another round of financing, in which its investment valuation will exceed $ 7 billion, reports The Information, citing informed sources. It is noteworthy that Robinhood is allegedly in talks about another round of funding, after which the company's capitalization will reach […]
More than half of the full nodes in the main Bitcoin network still have not installed the Bitcoin Core client update, which eliminated a critical vulnerability that allowed sabotaging the work of 90% of the nodes for double spending. This was reported at the beginning of the month by the Cointelegraph, citing developer Luke Dash Jr. However, today the situation has not changed. 44.3% […]
The popular LocalBitcoins p2p platform has ceased to provide its services to Iranian users. The likely reason for such a decision could be US sanctions, although the service representatives did not state this directly, reports CoinDesk. It is noteworthy that within a few weeks, trading volumes in Iranian rials on LocalBitcoins increased significantly, eventually reaching the figures for January 2018 (45.64 billion Iranian rials in a week). […]
Binance cryptocurrency exchange leading in terms of trading volume confirmed its readiness to launch margin trading. In its Twitter account, the site showed an updated interface with a new tab “Margin”. Dark mode ? or Light mode ?? #Binance pic.twitter.com/pGSb1np4yp – Binance (@binance) May 24, 2019. Note that the screenshot shows a warning about the risks associated with margin trading. Nevertheless, so far […]
The San Francisco-based blockchain-startup Unstoppable Domains declares its mission to fight for Internet freedom, at least in part, control over the registered domains. Now the company’s famous Bitcoin enthusiast Tim Draper Draper Associates has made an important contribution to this initiative, CoinDesk writes. Unstoppable. https://t.co/upx2GcwhPS – Adam Draper ? ? ? (@AdamDraper) May 23, 2019 Draper Associates led the round of financing […]
The US Exchange and Securities Commission (SEC), as some experts had suggested, once again postponed the decision on the bitcoin fund traded on the Bitcoin Fund (ETF) from VanEck and SolidX to a later date. In a document published on Monday, May 20, the Commission also appealed to the public to leave comments on the application for the launch of the foundation […]
Cryptocurrencies contribute to the withdrawal of capital from the Russian budget to offshore, and if they appeared in the 1990s, Russia would have “completely ruined”. This was stated by the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship Nikolai Arefyev during a press conference organized by the NSN. In particular, Arefiev said that since 1994 there have been […]
Ethereum customers who fail to upgrade to fix known vulnerabilities are a threat to the entire network. This is stated in a new study based in Berlin Security Research Labs. Blockchain technology assumes that participants take rational actions. Among all blockchain users: https://t.co/oBWTudCqZR#blockchain #cryptocurrency #ethereum #SRLabs #patchgap […]
Technology giant Amazon became interested in cryptocurrency technology research. This is evidenced by the patent received by the company, which, among other things, mentions the consensus algorithm Proof-of-Work and the Merkle Tree data structure, reports CoinDesk. The patent application was filed back in December 2016, and it describes the PoW-based system, which provides access to the resource for the computational work performed. […]