If in June the trading volume on “full-fledged” cryptocurrency exchanges amounted to $ 111 billion, then in August this figure fell by half – to $ 55 billion. On the most liquid exchanges, such as Binance and Coinbase, the situation is even more depressing – the average daily trading volume on these platforms reached a…
A message posted on Twitter by one of the largest gaming companies in North America has attracted the attention of the crypto community. Specifically, Electronics Arts (EA) posted “Invest in Crypto” and the whole community jumped to comment. The message has been reposted more than 5000 times, in what has proven to be a marketing…
The Iranian cabinet is considering a proposal for an annual licensing of cryptocurrency miners. It is a draft law on mining activity, which is being approved by Tehran. In order to obtain the activity license, the interested parties should make available to the authorities information about the employees, rental contracts and other business activities. The…
Entrepreneur Steven Nerayoff, who participated in the development of Ethereum, CasperLabs, tZero and dozens of other projects, was arrested on charges of extortion. US Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and FBI New York Office speakwith a joint statement regarding the arrest. Together with Nerayoff, Michael Hlady was arrested on a similar charge….
On September 17, the test mode of the Timvi security algorithmic stablecoin (TMV) was launched. As part of the start of the project, a bounty program with rewards of up to $ 15,000 is provided. When creating the TMV token, the developers took into account the problems of existing stablecoins related to audit, issues of…
Blockchain startup SpaceChain won a grant of € 60,000 from the European Space Agency (ESA) to explore options for using the blockchain-based satellite wallet system. ESA grant contributes to SpaceChain’s efforts to launch an ultra-secure distributed satellite network supporting multi-signatures into orbit. The company has already conducted tests to launch blockchain nodes in space. The…
Today, the US branch of Binance has opened user registration and begins accepting deposits. Service will be unavailable in 13 states due to regulatory issues. The platform is launched with support for only six cryptocurrencies at the initial stage – BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LTC and USDT. Binance expects that more crypto assets will be…
According to Arthur Hayes, CEO of the BitMEX crypto-derivative exchange, due to emergency measures of the US Federal Reserve, bitcoin can update its historical maximum. “They do not stop practicing quantitative easing. If the Fed once again prints new money, then you can wait for bitcoin for $ 20,000, ” wrotehe, commenting on an article…
VanECK / SolidX’s Bitcoin ETF proposal was withdrawn – VanEck and SolidX withdrew their Bitcoin ETF proposal on September 17, one month before the SEC decision deadline. The decision was made a few weeks after the companies started offering a limited version of the product for “qualified institutional investors”. The XBTCZ Trust was not very…
The OKEx Korea exchange has announced it will exclude all private cryptocurrencies, including Monero, Zcash and Dash. The South Korean exchange division will list five high-level confidential cryptocurrencies – Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), Zcash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Super Bitcoin (SBTC). The trading platform will cease trading with these currencies on October 10th. In the…
