BTC News was in Riga, the capital of Latvia, last weekend report to do from the Baltic Honey Badger 2019. This event focuses primarily on bitcoin maximists. The famous bitcoin investor Tone Vays was also one of the speakers and he made remarkable statements. Alcoins have no use case and are all worth 0 Tone…
B2Broker, a provider of liquidity and technology for Forex brokers and cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced integration with Tools for Brokers and AMTS, industry leading liquidity bridge providers. The integration will allow bridge users from Tools For Brokers and AMTS to connect to the deepest liquidity in the industry, which B2Broker aggregates. Along with the integration,…
Co-founder and chairman of the board of investment giant Blackstone Stephen Schwarzman (Stephen Schwarzman) said that he is not a supporter of bitcoin and does not plan to buy it. “I’m not too interested in bitcoin, since it’s hard for me to understand it,” said Schwartzman. The chairman of the board of the investment group…
On the Binance Launchpad platform, the BandO startup protocol IEO tokens passed. Binance Exchange shared the results of the token sale. The percentage of winning tickets determining the right to purchase tokens was 9.43%, which is almost two times higher than in the case of the previous IEO Perlin, where the indicator was about 5%….
Payment giants Mastercard and Visa have invested in fintech company Plaid, which has recently reached $ 2.5 billion. The amount of investment is not disclosed. Plaid co-founder and CEO Zach Perret announced this on his blog, saying the firm is on its way to creating a consumer-oriented financial ecosystem that will “greatly enhance the ability…
Deutsche Bank has become the newest member of JPMorgan’s blockchain payments initiative. Currently, the Interbank Information Network (IIN) includes 320 banks, according to an article published by the Financial Times. Launched in October 2017, IIN is built on Quorum, the Ethereum-like blockchain network developed by JPMorgan and uses JPMCoin stable cryptocurrency. At launch, the banking…
BitPay, a large cryptocurrency payment operator, announced that soon outlets connected to the system will be able to accept payments on the air. BitPay was launched in 2011 and offers its services in 200 countries. Previously, buyers in stores connected to the operator could pay for purchases in bitcoins and Bitcoin Cash, but soon BitPay…
The U.S. Treasury Department has announced sanctions against North Korean cybercriminals responsible for stealing $ 2 billion from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges. According to the press releaseThe United States Department of the Treasury, the Foreign Assets Control Office (OFAC), is launching a crackdown on three North Korea-sponsored hacker syndicates – the Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and…
Multiple organizations have warned that the bee population is declining at an alarming rate worldwide. The global decline in the number of bees is a threat to food security and the maintenance of biodiversity. In addition, the analysis of the monitoring agencies shows that the market is invaded by counterfeit bee products, such as honey…
As Tomer Barel, Facebook’s Calibra blockchain unit’s operations director, said that options for the Libra investment token are already offered on the secondary market, but Calibra has nothing to do with it. Finance Magnates, citing several sources of its own, reports that institutional investors are already trading derivatives on the Libra investment token in the…
