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BITTREX ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF OTC PLATFORM On Monday the American cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex launched an OTC trading platform. The new service will allow a limited number of customers to “quickly and conveniently trade digital assets” and will support about 200 cryptocurrencies…
BITMAIN CLOSES ONE MORE OFFICE Chinese mining company Bitmain has decided to close another foreign office-this time in Amsterdam — as part of the ongoing business adjustments. According to an announcement, Bitmain is already implementing its decision to liquidate the representative office….
A. FAVRE & FILS WILL RELEASE A SWISS WATCH WITH A BUILT-IN CRYPTO WALLET The Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches A. FAVRE & FILS will release a hand-made mechanical watch with a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. The company announced last week that the…
THE AUTHORITIES OF ULAANBAATAR WILL USE KOREAN STABLECOIN FOR PAYMENTS FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNAL SERVICES The administration of the capital of Mongolia — Ulaanbaatar – began to cooperate with the Korean company Terra, which released its stablecoin. Within the framework of the…
SIMON MORRIS: TRON WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE VOLUME OF TRANSACTIONS FOR BITTORRENT TOKENIZATION Former leading strategist at BitTorrent Simon Morris is confident that Tron will not be able to cope with the volume of transactions required to tokenize the…
IN 2019, MONGOLIA WILL LAUNCH 1000 NEW MINERS Participants of the mining industry in Mongolia plan to significantly expand the scope of their activities, local media reported on January 11, citing a statement by the Director of one of the largest mining…
HACKER WHO ATTACKED THE ETHEREUM CLASSIC NETWORK RETURNED 100 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE CRYPTO-EXCHANGE On January 12th, a message appeared in the official blog of the Gate.io exchange stating that the hacker responsible for the 51% attack on the Ethereum Classic network…
BITREFILL LAUNCHED THE OPENING OF THE CHANNEL IN LIGHTNING NETWORK Payment platform Bitrefill launched Thor — a service allowing users to access channels in the Lightning Network (LN). Thor will be able to join the Bitrefill node in the Lightning Network, so…
USERS OF AUGUR BET AGAINST ETHEREUM CLASSIC On January 8th Augur, a decentralized oracle and prediction market protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain, appeared to bet on delisting Ethereum Classic from the trading platform Coinbase. The amount of money at the rate is…
THE KIDNAPPERS OF THE NORWEGIAN BILLIONAIRE WIFE REQUIRE $ 9 MILLION IN MONERO The kidnappers of Anne Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, wife of the Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen, demanded from a businessman for a ransom in the amount of 9 000 000 Euro…
SUBSIDIARY OF ALIBABA GROUP HAS INTRODUCED A BLOCKCHAIN SERVICE FOR MONITORING THE SUPPLIES The Chinese financial firm Ant Financial, which is part of the Alibaba Group, has released the blockchain service DoubleChain Connection. It is designed for supply chain participants and allows…
QTUM PLATFORM ADDED THE FUNCTION OF ATOMIC SWAPS WITH BTC Qtum service has added the function of atomic swaps, and now users can directly exchange different cryptocurrencies. This was possible thanks to the technology of the Hashed TimeLock Contracts (HTLC). Atomic swaps – technology that…
ONLY SEVEN KOREAN CRYPTO EXCHANGES PASSED CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM STATE AUDIT The South Korean government has checked 38 cryptocurrency exchanges of the country. As a result of the audit, it was found that only 7 trading platforms meet the security requirements, 17 exchanges…
TOKENIZED SHARES OF APPLE AND TESLA COULD BECOME THE NEXT CRYPTO-HIT On Monday, the Estonian cryptocurrency organization DX.Exchange has launched a trading platform that gives investors the opportunity to buy shares placed on the Nasdaq stock exchange via security tokens, such as…
ONE OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAS INVESTED IN THE CRYPTOCURRENCY PLATFORM BAKKT Bakkt, platform for trading digital assets created by Intercontinental exchange (ICE), has completed its first round of funding on December 31, 2018 (the trading platform was able…
NICK SZABO: INSTEAD OF GOLD RESERVES, IT IS BETTER FOR CENTRAL BANKS TO ACCUMULATE CRYPTOCURRENCIES The famous crypto-enthusiast Nick Szabo believes that in 2019 Central banks can start using cryptocurrencies for reservations. And especially fast integration of digital money will take place…
IN NEVADA 950 COUPLES HAVE ALREADY MARRIED ON BLOCKCHAIN Last year, the city of Reno in Nevada became the first city in the United States to register 950 marriages on the blockchain. The introduction of blockchain in the process of registration of…
HUOBI RETURNS TO JAPAN Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has resumed servicing of the Japanese market with the launch of a new trading platform this Wednesday. Local licensed exchange BitTrade purchased by the company in 2018, was converted into Huobi Japan. Currently, the exchange…
WINKLEVOSS BROTHERS ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP BITCOIN ETF The founders of the Gemini exchange brothers Tyler and Cameron Winkelvoss “determined to make a bitcoin ETF a reality.” They said this during a session of Ask Me Anything on Reddit. According…
SAMOURAI WALLET IS FORCED TO REMOVE PRIVACY FEATURES FROM THE WALLET UPON GOOGLE’S REQUEST On Monday the developers of the bitcoin wallet with increased privacy Samourai Wallet reported that the special features of the Android application were forced to be disabled due…
