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Hasegawa Yun, the founder of Omise, the company behind the cryptocurrency project OmiseGo (OMG), denied the latest rumors that it was acquired by the largest private company in Thailand. Reported by the Cointelegraph. The information that Omise passes into the hands of the Charoen Pokphand Group for $ 150 million, was distributed the day before by The Block. In a letter to the Cointelegraph, Hasegawa Yoon, however, stated […]

Specializing in ensuring anonymity on the Internet, the Tor Project began accepting donations in various cryptocurrencies. The other day on the project site a list of digital assets taken as donates appeared. Raising funds for the project, Sarah Stevenson, in a conversation with CoinDesk, noted that the organization has been accepting payments in Bitcoin for several years. However, previously receiving funds was carried out through processing […]

The operator of the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, the investment application Circle Invest and the developer of the stablebcoin USDC startup Circle intends to attract an additional $ 250 million investment. It is reported by The Information. In the previous rounds of financing, Circle raised over $ 240 million from Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital and other investment firms. According to the results of the last stage of financing, when it was possible to get $ 110 million from […]

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 […]

According to Forbes, in 2018 in the cryptoindustry there were mergers and acquisitions (M & A) totaling $ 559 million. The largest transactions of last year were the acquisition by Circle startup Poloniex for $ 400 million, and the purchase by Coinbase of the Earn project for $ 120 million. Also , the largest US cryptocurrency company acquired analytical services for $ 14.8 million […]

TradeBlock researchers have concluded that investor interest in bitcoin futures on the US stock exchanges CME and Cboe is gradually fading. We published a new report analyzing #bitcoin futures trading activity over the past year: https://t.co/3udwo6wQie pic.twitter.com/uMBDffnsnx – TradeBlock (@TradeBlock) 7 January 2019 p. Regulated futures contracts were launched almost overnight – […]

Ethereum's $ 1 million coins were transferred from QuadrigaCX to other sites in December, on the eve of the death of Gerald Kotten, founder of the exchange. It is reported by CoinDesk. Some transactions from the QuadrigaCX hot wallet for a total of more than 9,000 ETH were sent to the Binance, Kraken and Poloniex exchanges. At the same time, payments for 5000 ETH were made between 2 and […]

The San Francisco-based Kraken Exchange has acquired the British Crypto Facilities adjustable crypto-derivative platform, according to a press release. The exact amount of the transaction is not specified, it says only that it is expressed in "a nine-digit number." Crypto Facilities features Bitcoin, Live, XRP, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash futures. The platform also delivers CME pricing data. "I am pleased to welcome the team Crypto Facilities in the family […]