Category: Cryptocurrency
Coinhive, mining service is shutting down as the project has become economically inviable. The project will stop its service on March 8, 2019, while users can have access on their dashboards until April 30, 2019. Among the reasons behind the closure, the developers note the over 50 percent drop in hash rate following the last […]
Dukascopy Bank’s initial plans were to become the first regulated bank to launch its own ICO starting from March, 1 2019. However, the Japanese Mizuho Bank has equally announced their token to be unveiled on the same day, so Dukascopy moved the date a day earlier. “We got to know that Japanese Mizuho Bank has equally announced their token […]
Coinbase announced on their official blog, that will add on the Coinbase Pro platform the third largest cryptocurrency by market cap XRP. Once sufficient supply of XRP is established on the platform, trading on the XRP/USD, XRP/EUR, and XRP/BTC order books will start in phases, beginning with post-only mode and proceeding to full trading should our […]
CoinFLEX – The new Hong Kong based leveraged trading platform will launch futures contracts to the Asian Market in February 2019. The new contracts for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum will provide possible leverage of up to 20 times. The new product is now live, as CoinFLEX is launching its physically delivered cryptocurrency futures exchange. […]
AERGO partners with SatoshiPay to Improve Crypto Micropayments AERGO, the open-source hybrid blockchain and serverless cloud platform, announced a partnership with SatoshiPay to improve the cryptocurrency payment systems, creating the fastest micropayments system to date. AERGO’s Chairman, and CEO, Phil Zamani commented that: Enabling frictionless payments for blockchain applications and services is one of the […]
JP Morgan Chase will be the first major bank to embrace the crypto revolution in a significant way by issuing its own proprietary stable coin to speed up cross-border payments and gain other operating efficiencies, as well. JP Morgan Chase moves over $6 trillion across the globe every single day for corporations that are clients […]
Nasdaq will launch two new indices tracking cryptocurrency prices on Feb 25. Bitcoin Liquid Index ( BLX) and the Ethererum Liquid Index (ELX). The indices, will offer real-time price updates in thirdy-second intervals for clients using NASDAQ’s Global Index Data Service (GIDS). According to Nasdaq Trader: Effective Monday, February 25, 2019, Nasdaq, through its data dissemination relationship […]
Opera Mobile Browser – The Norwegian browser-maker Opera has announced that Opera users will not be able to buy cryptocurrencies direct from their website browser. However, will enable users to buy cryptocurrencies directly on their smartphones using Opera for Android. The app features a digital wallet top up option via an integration with Sweden’s online […]
Canada’s largest cryptocurrency QuadrigaCX exchange is unable to access millions in digital currency following the sudden death of its founder. It seems that they took security seriously as only the CEO knows the password. Quadriga has filed for creditor protection and estimates that about C$180m ($137m; £105m) in cryptocurrency coins is missing. It has not […]
UAE Central bank and the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), have announced a digital currency called Aber. The news was reported by the National Saudi Press Agency on Jan 29. The use of Aber, digital currency, will be limited to financial settlements using distributed ledger technologies (DLT) “on a probational basis and for exclusive use by […]
