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The New York State Financial Services Authority (NYDFS) has issued another virtual currency license (BitLicense). Its owner was the oldest and largest cryptocurrency exchange in Europe Bitstamp. Note that Bitstamp was one of the first companies to apply for BitLicense in June 2015 after the relevant legislation was passed in New York. LICENSED: Excited […]

April 8 in the test network Binance Chain, which forms the basis of the decentralized Binance DEX exchange, took place hardfork. As of 12:00 UTC, the test network services are stable. #Binance Chain Testnet has been stable and the testnet services are stable. What's new and improved after hardfork: Upgraded core Tendermint components Refined the governance of workflow for validators […]

As a result, the “sophisticated” DoS attacks against the servers of the popular Electrum Bitcoin Wallet, which have been going on for about a week, have already lost “millions of dollars”. About this with reference to the statement of an unnamed security expert writes The Next Web. Earlier, representatives of Electrum confirmed the fact of the attack, but did not make any statements regarding the possible loss of users. Electrum servers are currently under a DoS attack. […]

Last week, the launch of a new cryptocurrency exchange platform Boltz took place without wide publicity. The site is open in alpha mode and offers Bitcoin to Litecoin (LTC) and vice versa using the Lightning Network and Submarine Swaps protocols. The creators of Boltz also make it clear that the new platform can be considered a competitor to ShapeShift, which, by announcing new rules that require […]

Since early April, the volume of trading in Bitcoin futures at the largest exchange of CME derivatives has grown by 950%. CME bitcoin futures had a record of 22.5K contracts (112.7K equivalent bitcoin), surpassing 18.3K (64.3K equivalent bitcoin) on February 19. More # Bitcoin futures. $ BTC_F https://t.co/kWYK203apA pic.twitter.com/CX5nF8dXyv […]