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American broker E-Trade intends to provide its customers with the opportunity to trade in cryptocurrencies, reports Bloomberg, citing informed sources. At first, Bitcoin and Ethereum will be available on the E-Trade platform, but later the company will add support for other cryptocurrencies. Additional details are not yet known. According to the publication, E-Trade can become one of the largest American companies providing the opportunity to trade in cryptoactive assets. The appearance of […]

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, […]

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 […]

Oriented to institutional investors, the lender Genesis Global Capital, a division within the brokerage company Genesis Global Trading from the business empire of Barry Silbert, processed $ 425 million in cryptocurrency loans in the first quarter of 2019. Since launch in March 2018, a total of $ 1.53 billion has passed through the firm. We’ve been proud of highlight with another huge quarter with over $ 425 […]

Having successfully guessed weakly protected private keys in the Ethereum blockchain, an unknown attacker kidnapped about 45,000 ETH. Wired wrote about this citing a study conducted by the cybersecurity company Independent Security Evaluators (ISE). As stated by Adrian Bednarek, senior security analyst at ISE, the hacker, who was nicknamed Blockchain Bandit, was discovered by accident. Assuming that the combination of characters […]