‘Ruff’ Month? Dogecoin’s Price Slid 36 Percent in October
The price of dogecoin fell over 36 percent in October, making it the worst performer out of the world’s 25 largest cryptocurrencies.
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Tether Confirms That It Is Banking With Bahamas-Based Deltec
Tether Limited is back in the news; this time, it has confirmed a banking relationship with a financial institution based out of the Bahamas. The issuer of the controversial USD-pegged stablecoin...
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Hong Kong Securities Regulator Promises to Regulate Crypto Investment Funds
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has claimed that it will include crypto funds under its regulatory umbrella. The SFC issued a statement on November 1, 2018, laying out its new...
View ArticleBinance Signs Up 40,000 Crypto Traders in Its First Week in Uganda
Unlike its parent company, Binance Uganda handles fiat currency (in partnership with a local mobile payment provider) and requires full customer ID.
View ArticleFinancial Advisers Are “Shying Away” from Crypto Despite Investor Interest,...
Investor appetite to crypto is growing, yet independent professional financial advice for it is lacking, according to research. A Genuine Lack of Knowledge The study from social trading and crypto...
View ArticleBlackRock Won’t Launch Bitcoin ETF Until Crypto Is ‘Legitimate,’ Says CEO...
BlackRock — the world’s largest asset manager and ETF provider — has slowly been warming to crypto, but will not launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) until the industry becomes “legitimate,”...
View ArticleAs Ethereum & Ripple (XRP) Plunged, Tron the Only Major Crypto Post Gains in...
The month of October saw many altcoins continue to bleed out in price, with ethereum (ETH) and ripple (XRP) each declining by more than 10 percent. After almost ten months of mostly bearish price...
View ArticleMaking History: CoinJoin Developer Sends Largest-Ever Anonymous Bitcoin...
CoinJoin is a method of anonymizing bitcoins that developer Gregory Maxwell came up with in an effort to help bitcoin users remain anonymous. The idea is simple: when two users both want to make a...
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SEC’s End-of-Fiscal-Year Report Reveals Heavy Action Against ICO-Related Fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases. The...
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Coinbase Is Officially Adding Support for Basic Attention Token (BAT)
On November 2, 2018, Coinbase announced that it would be integrating support for Basic Attention Token (BAT), an ERC-20 token that is designed to work out-of-the-box with the privacy-centric Brave...
View ArticleNight of the Living HODLers: Halloween 2018’s Best Crypto Costumes
CoinDesk looks back at some of the best crypto costumes worn for Halloween 2018.
View ArticleBitcoin Brought Us a New World We Could Have Only Imagined
It’s been 10 years since bitcoin’s white paper appeared and opened up a whole new world of possibilities, says BitGo’s Mike Belshe.
View ArticleBinance Announce Support of Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork
Binance, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges on the planet, has announced full support of the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork scheduled for November 15. More Companies Announce Bitcoin Cash...
View ArticleThis Electric Bike Runs on Lightning Network Bitcoin Micropayments
Matthias Steinig, a German developer whose focus seems to be on the development of Lightning Network-enabled technologies to serve consumers, has created two projects to date which are notable and...
View ArticleBrazil Tax Authority Orders Crypto Exchanges to Provide Monthly Reports
Brazil’s tax regulator, the Department of Federal Revenue, is requiring local cryptocurrency exchanges to report their operations on a monthly basis in order to verify tax compliance and improve the...
View ArticleCrypto 101: Beginner’s Guide to Cross-Chain Atomic Swaps
Atomic swaps mean the ability to exchange digital assets across different blockchain networks without the involvement of central parties. This has piqued the interest of the crypto-community since...
View ArticleSEC Report: Reducing Cryptocurrency Scams Among Their Top Priorities
In the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) latest annual report, the regulatory authority explained that reducing the number of cryptocurrency-related scams is currently among their top...
View ArticleMiddle East Hub? Ripple to Set up an Office in Dubai by Year-End
Ripple has announced that it will be setting up an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates before the close of 2018. Speaking during this year’s Global Islamic Economic Summit that was held in Dubai,...
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China’s Central Bank Wants to Put the Damper Airdrops: Report
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC), China’s central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018,...
View ArticleMusk Impostors Hack Lawmaker, Publisher Accounts in New Crypto Scams
A number of verified Twitter accounts were hacked to look like Elon Musk’s as part of an effort to defraud owners of bitcoin.
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