2020-11-27 14:50 |
The U.S.-based exchange has told users that they may experience some intermittent delays or errors while transacting.
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SushiSwap cofounder Maki believes the project can expand to include other chains, he told CoinDesk China in an exclusive interview.
2020-9-11 05:05 | |
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In a somewhat surprising turn of events, Roger Ver, the co-founder of Bitcoin fork, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), today told users to buy DASH on Reddit. The statement came as a result of users requesting an Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP) for BCH.
2020-8-19 21:52 | |
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Payments giant PayPal has chosen Paxos to handle digital assets for the upcoming (yet unconfirmed) crypto offering, CoinDesk reported Monday. PayPal the Biggest Financial Firm to Onboard Crypto? Coindesk said “two people familiar with the matter” told the publication that PayPal users will soon have access to crypto services; including trading and storage.
2020-7-20 13:00 | |
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The buzz about PayPal integrating its platform with cryptocurrency dates back to June when a “well-placed industry source” told Coindesk that the payment platform will allow new and already existing users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies directly from PayPal.
2020-7-15 19:16 | |
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According to a report by CoinDesk, online payment giants PayPal and Venmo are looking to make the leap into cryptocurrency. Industry sources have told the news outlet that the change is coming and users will be able to store and send BTC.
2020-6-23 23:40 | |
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[Update at 14:50 UTC] Benjamin Winston, Director of Security at ECC, told CryptoSlate via a tweet the paper was simply a “review” of existing material and proposes a new attack that is based on a “faulty understanding” of the Zcash protocol by the Hush team.
2020-5-13 13:00 | |
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Canada's top financial watchdog has told crypto exchanges they will be subject to securities law if they act as custodians to users' digital assets.
2020-1-18 22:18 | |
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The administrator of failed crypto exchange WEX has reportedly told Russian police that he was forced to hand over users' holdings to the FSB.
2019-11-16 00:22 | |
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Binance has told its customers to take precautions as BitMEX announces a mass leak of its users email addresses from an internal error. BitMEX Displays Private Data in Mass Email Recently, BitMEX users discovered that they could openly view the email addresses of other users after they received an official email related to an update.
2019-11-1 14:08 | |
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Telegram appears to be moving forward with its own cryptocurrency. The company has told investors that it plans to launch its first group of crypto coins within the next couple of months. Additionally, the company is also providing Gram digital wallets to all the current users of the Telegram messaging application. This totals nearly 300-global […]
2019-9-19 09:03 | |
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Another month, another Facebook data breach. As reported by TechCrunch, security researcher Sanyam Jain was able to locate an online database containing phone numbers linked to user IDs for over 419 million Facebook users.
2019-9-5 01:10 | |
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The long-awaited cryptocurrency token from instant messaging platform Telegram is allegedly rolling out to investors very soon, but we should remain skeptical. According to a report from The New York Times, Telegram will be delivering the “first batches” of the Gram tokens to investors by October 31.
2019-8-28 16:53 | |
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Just days after Coinbase announced the removal of support for Zcash for UK customers, reports suggest the cryptocurrency exchange is parting ways with banking mainstay Barclays. Sources familiar with the matter told CoinDesk that Barclays is no longer working with Coinbase.
2019-8-14 11:39 | |
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Coinbase has told customers in the U. K. it will remove support for Zcash (ZEC) on the 26th of August, 2019, just days after British tax authority HM Revenue & Customs reportedly requested customer and transaction data from the cryptocurrency exchange.
2019-8-12 09:51 | |
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A team of researchers in Canada and China are working on a revolutionary new way to track blood pressure: a selfie. The teams, based at the University of Toronto and the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, just published a proof of concept that allows smartphone users to track blood pressure by taking a short video.
2019-8-7 03:14 | |
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Holding, selling, and purchasing of bitcoin are illegal in Iran, an official with the central bank told Tasnim News. Deputy governor for new technologies, Mr. Nasser Hakimi, said on Monday that the Supreme Council on Countering Money Laundering had banned bitcoin trading.
2019-7-8 12:03 | |
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Long before Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram ruled the social media world, there was Myspace. One of the earliest social networks crossed the mark of 100 million users in 2006. However, a report published by Vice today suggests that its employees used a specific tool to spy on its users.
2019-6-25 14:28 | |
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Following its launch in the UK in April, Coinbase is rolling out its cryptocurrency debit card to more European countries, despite users reporting numerous problems. The cryptocurrency exchange will be launching its Coinbase Card in six more European nations.
2019-6-12 12:38 | |
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Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 is on the move. Earlier today, a combined 172. 54 BTC ($1. 37 million) was mysteriously sent from the hacker‘s wallets to an unknown address. Bitfinex’ marketing director Anneka Dew however told Hard Fork that today’s movements had nothing to do with the company at all.
2019-6-7 16:43 | |
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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
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Crypto lender BlockFi is rolling out support for the gemini dollar (GUSD) stablecoin, claiming an expected initial annual percentage yield (APY) of 6. 2 percent for non-U.
2019-5-30 19:44 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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The popular peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network LocalBitcoins has shut down all trading operations for Iranian users. LocalBitcoins’ website offers a variety of pages for users of different nations and, as of May 24, 2019, the Iranian page displays a message that “LocalBitcoins is currently not available in your selected region,” in English only.
2019-5-25 20:14 | |
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The Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has shut down cryptomixing site Bestmixer. io. According to local media, Dutch authorities moved to shut down the site on May 22, 2019, as part of a joint operation with police agencies from several European nations, including France, Latvia and Luxembourg.
2019-5-22 21:13 | |
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Security tokens are coming to Bitcoin, courtesy of Blockstream. The Bitcoin and blockchain technology company announced on May 15, 2019, the final day of the Consensus 2019 conference, that Liquid Securities, a platform for issuing and managing security tokens on its Liquid sidechain, is ready to go live.
2019-5-16 19:14 | |
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One of Deloitte’s blockchain specialists has said that the privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) will struggle to develop a long-term use case because it ultimately relies on trust and could end-up jeopardizing users.
2019-5-14 22:03 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Electronics company HTC has announced that it is launching a smartphone to bring crypto and blockchain technology to a wider audience in Q3 2019. According to a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine, “The EXODUS 1s will be the first smartphone ever to have full node capabilities” containing the full Bitcoin blockchain.
2019-5-12 22:20 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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By CCN. com: The cryptocurrency space is concerned about whether or not the upcoming Facebook Coin will hurt the Bitcoin market. But according to Spencer Bogart, the social media giant’s entry into the crypto space could be the best thing that ever happened to bitcoin.
2019-5-8 11:46 | |
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Maker Foundation Imposes “Critical Update,” Urging Users To Move MKR Tokens To Personal Wallets “Immediately” Second round of auditing with Maker Foundation reveals the need for “critical update. ” Users are told to pull any MKR tokens they have in voting contract to their wallets right away.
2019-5-7 22:54 | |
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May the 4th is almost upon us, and if you’re anything like me, you’re going to indulge in some Star Wars video games, which let you live out your space-faring action hero fantasies. Luckily for us, most gaming platforms are eager to cater to this love, as several of them are offering sales on the best Star Wars games ever made.
2019-5-4 23:10 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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Federal tax season just passed in the United States, but if you’re one to leave responsibility to the wayside and had to apply for an extension, that might just pay off.
2019-5-1 23:39 | |
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According to the New York Times journalist Nathaniel Popper, eTrade, a US-based major financial assets and stocks exchange, is preparing to integrate bitcoin and ethereum for 5 million users. “In the wake of TD Ameritrade quietly opening Bitcoin trading for some of its customers, I was just told that eTrade is preparing to begin offering […] The post Major exchange eTrade reportedly integrating Bitcoin and Ethereum for 5 million users appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-4-27 00:42 | |
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Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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By CCN. com: The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance has launched Binance Decentralized Exchange (DEX) on April 23 following the official release of the Binance Chain mainnet. Binance DEX, a non-custodial and decentralized exchange that operates on top of the Binance Chain blockchain protocol, enables users to trade crypto assets while maintaining full control over their funds at all times, processing trades on the blockchain.
2019-4-23 13:40 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server).
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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It’s been a long and winding road with many twists and turns for the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX and its 115,000 former users who are owed roughly $190 million.
2019-4-10 17:39 | |
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Adult entertainment company CamSoda has integrated cryptocurrency payments, enabling users to purchase tokens on the platform using seven different coins, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. In addition to BTC and ETH, CamSoda users can also spend their Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Tron alongside privacy-oriented coins Monero and Zcash.
2019-4-9 18:42 | |
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Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.
2019-4-9 23:28 | |
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At the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong’s Lightning Hack Day on March 31, 2019, Bitcoin developer Felix Weis presented a successful demonstration of his Lightning-enabled plugin for a Bitcoin ATM.
2019-4-2 22:02 | |
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“You are not your user” A reminder that you are not designing the product for people like yourself. Often used as a way to encourage more user research in a project. “If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have told him faster horses”Used as a counter-argument to the previous statement, when you start to realize you won’t have time or money to do enough user research.
2019-3-31 22:00 | |
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After a year on its testnet, the VeriBlock blockchain went live yesterday on the Bitcoin mainnet, allowing exchanges, wallet providers, merchants and other crypto businesses to leverage Bitcoin’s robust blockchain security.
2019-3-27 19:35 | |
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As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-3-20 18:42 | |
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“The biggest problem I could think of was distribution. How do you share and educate both consumers and merchants on the power of bitcoin? I learned how much consumers loved earning and why merchants make decisions to adopt new technology.
2019-3-19 23:06 | |
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Google Cloud and the government of El Salvador have entered into a seven-year partnership to digitize the country’s infrastructure in various sectors.
AWS is building a $100 million artificial intelligence center to keep up with increasing competition in cloud infrastructure services.
The role will be tasked with raising awareness about Google Cloud’s Web3 initiatives in addition to eventually building customer demand for the related offerings.
The decentralized space continues its expansion and major brands are adopting Web3 tools, including Google’s cloud unit.
Hedera Hashgraph intends to integrate the Now Platform to create a new level of trust and accountability in digital transformation transactions.
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