Cryptocurrency researcher Alex Kruger analyzed the situation around the Bitfinex exchange and its related companies, and came to the conclusion that the stablecoin Tether (USDT) is provided with currency reserves only 75%. Based on the information provided in official documents, Kruger in a series of tweets briefly describes the sequence of events around a well-known trading platform. The first thing he notes about Bitfinex is, indeed, […]
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About 550 Bitcoins, abducted from Bitfinex in 2016 and still located at addresses of unidentified hackers, were set in motion the day before. It is noteworthy that it happened shortly before the prosecutor's office of the State of New York charged the exchange that it concealed the fact of loss of about $ 850 million, using the issuer's funds to cover the damage […]
The trading volume of bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) for the last day amounted to $ 279.65 million. This exceeds the similar indicators in all spot markets, according to data from Bitwise Asset Management. Thus, the daily bitcoin spot trading volume amounted to $ 600.62 million, of which $ 255 million fell on the Binance exchange, $ 80 million on Coinbase and $ 70 million on Kraken. Note, […]
Data from the US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission show that institutional investors have set themselves up to play Bitcoin…
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency company in the United States, is developing a new, more productive infrastructure for matching trade requests, reports The Block. Coinbase Markets product manager Paul Bauerschmidt noted that the transition to a new infrastructure is planned later this year. According to one source, this may happen as early as June. In a conversation with the publication, Bauershmidt noted that the company is preparing […]
Bitfinex Bitcoin Exchange launched beta trading platform EOSfinex based on EOSIO technology. Today's launch of eosfinex brings unparalleled opportunity to innovate. We couldn't be more excited. https://t.co/hkznkhj6kd – eosfinex (@eosfinexproject) 28 birch 2019 p. According to the developers, some time a new […]
The bear market is changing the cryptocurrency market landscape – while some investors are disappointed in the prospects of new…
On Friday, March 15, the daily trading volume of the first cryptocurrency exceeded $ 11 billion. The last time this figure was recorded on April 25 last year, when Bitcoin was trading around $ 8.845, according to CoinDesk Markets analyst Sam Umet. According to him, high trading volumes indicate investor interest in Bitcoin. However, he notes, the correlation between volumes […]
Part of the missing assets of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX may “with a high degree of probability” be on the Poloniex and Bitfinex exchanges. This was reported in a report by the authors of the blog Zerononcense. The report's authors claim that they were able to track transfers in the amount of 649,708 ETH (about $ 100.4 million at the time of operations). They installed 12 Ethereum wallets, which, according to their assumption, belong to […]
During January and February 2019, large investors or so-called “whales” aggressively bought up cryptocurrencies . During this period, they dramatically…