Canadian Crypto Exchange Has Lost Access to its Cold Storage

Customers foolish enough to leave funds at the Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX have a lot to be worried about.  According to a post by the company’s board of directors, the platform has lost access to the digital assets it held in cold storage.

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Coinbase Unveils Services for High-Volume Crypto Investors in Asia and Europe

On January 22, 2018, Coinbase, the American cryptocurrency exchange, announced the launch of new trading and custody services for Coinbase Prime and Coinbase Pro which will allow high-volume investors in Asia and Europe to trade virtual currencies, make cross-border payments, and store digital assets in its cold storage.

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Living on Bitcoin Day 4: The Uphill Climb

This is the fourth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 and on Day 3.

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Goldman Sachs-Backed Startup Unveils Cold Storage Cryptocurrency Trading

Palo Alto-based blockchain security company BitGo has developed a platform which will enable traders to buy and sell cryptocurrencies without having to take it out of cold-storage.   A Focus on Security Days after the cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia got hacked, Palo Alto-based security company, BitGo, announced that it has developed a platform allowing traders to buy and sell digital assets right from BitGo’s cold storage custody.

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BitGo Partners Genesis to Allow Institutions Trade Digital Assets Avoiding Crypto Exchanges

CoinSpeaker BitGo Partners Genesis to Allow Institutions Trade Digital Assets Avoiding Crypto Exchanges Owing to a recently signed partnership between blockchain custodian BitGo and over-the-counter exchange Genesis, there is no need to lose time transferring your crypto-assets from a cold wallet to the exchange as you can trade directly from BitGo.

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New BitGo Partnership Lets Clients Trade Crypto Directly From Cold Storage

American crypto wallet and custodial firm BitGo has teamed up with Genesis Global Trading, a digital asset trading firm, to improve the crypto trading experience for its institutional investors.

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Shapeshift Admits ‘Imposition of KYC’d Accounts’ Hurt Company Financially

The instant digital asset exchange platform ShapeShift has laid off one-third of its team because of the “dramatic and severe” crypto recession as well as being cautious in “a challenging regulatory environment.

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Coinbase Transfers Biggest Amounts of BTC, ETH and LTC to Cold Storage Ever

The largest crypto exchange in the United States and one of the most relevant in the world today, Coinbase, has decided to take almost $5 billion USD in cryptos (mostly BTC, ETH and LTC) to its cold storage vault as part of an effort to make the company’s assets safer. This huge transaction will be […]

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New Shakepay Feature Turns Your Spare Change Into Bitcoin

Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post.

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Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange To Offer Crypto Insurance

The policy will insure hot and cold wallets and all forms of professional indemnity.

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Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange is now providing insurance coverage for crypto assets on its platform

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), a subsidiary of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange, is now providing insurance coverage for crypto assets listed on its platform. On December 10, the company announced that it has partnered with a local provider called Callaghan Insurance to provide the policy to cover both hot (online) and cold (offline) wallets listed […]

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Gibraltar Exchange Obtains Insurance for Crypto Assets as Cyber Attacks Soar

With cyberattacks on the rise, Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has announced an insurance policy to cover its digital assets in partnership with Gibraltar-based Callaghan Insurance. Cryptocurrencies held in both the hot and cold wallets of the trading platform will be insured.

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New Report Updates Cryptocurrency Exchange Ratings

A quarterly ratings report has upgraded the score previously given to seven cryptocurrency exchanges, while downgrading four. It has also added seven new exchanges, rating them on such metrics as trading volume, security, and compliance.

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CryptoCompare Report Shows Exchange Security Still Worrying

Don’t drink and drive, and don’t keep your coins online. Exchange security is still largely dismal, according to a sobering report by CryptoCompare. Many trading venues are still lacking when it comes to protecting users’ funds, and only one third of exchanges store the vast majority of their users’ coins in cold wallets.

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Op Ed: It’s Time to Reject Mediocrity, #ExitFiat and Embrace Bitcoin

When the towers in New York fell, I became obsessed with economics. I wanted to follow the money to understand what happened on that dreadful day. During that time of inquiry, I found myself very interested in Austrian economic theory.

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Moonday Mornings: The SEC has issued its first ever fines for ICO violations

There’s one thing that keeps us warm on cold days, Moonday Mornings. If you’re feeling a bit frosty this morning, here’s a wrap-up of the weekend’s cryptocurrency and blockchain news. 1. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Zeniex is going to shut its doors and cease operations a mere five months after it launched.

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Early Win for Shrem: Judge Unfreezes Assets in Winklevoss Lawsuit

In a short-term win for bitcoin advocate Charlie Shrem, a federal judge has lifted the freeze on Shrem’s financial accounts in an ongoing legal battle against the Winklevoss twins.

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Changelly Exchange Assists Bithumb In Recovering 1 Million XRP Coins Worth $460,000

The biggest crypto exchange in South Korea, Bithumb was a victim of a massive hack that resulted in a loss of over $30 million of virtual assets. The breach in hot wallet resulted in the exchange immediately stopping their deposits and withdrawal while they moved their funds to the safety of cold storage. Bithumb also […]

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WEX Funds Frozen on Binance amid Suspicions of Attempted Exit

The exchange, an heir to BTC-E, has seen trading grind to a halt in the past days, while traders noticed an outflow of funds from its cold wallets into Binance.

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Breach of Cold Storage Wallet Effectively Handled by Trade.Io

Trade. io recently managed a breach of funds, with no customer funds thankfully unaccounted for. Further steps have been taken to beef up security all around as well as a fork of the TIO Token. Breach Details Crypto Exchange Trade.

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trade.io Announces Hard Fork After $8 Million Worth of Crypto Stolen From Bank-Secured Cold Storage

Swiss crypto exchange trade. io reported on October 20th that $8 million dollars worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from its cold storage devices by hackers. It is at this point unclear how the funds were withdrawn.

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Swiss-Based Trade.IO Exchange Loses 50 million TIO Tokens

Just as reports of increased hacking activity are surfacing, another exchange faced a mysterious vulnerability which affected a supposedly secure cold storage wallet.

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$8M in cryptocurrency bizarrely goes missing from bank-protected wallets

Swiss digital asset exchange Trade. io claims hackers have stolen nearly $8M million worth of cryptocurrency directly from its cold storage devices, which were supposedly kept under lock and key in a bank.

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Hackers stole 50M of Trade Tokens (TIO) from Trade.io

On October 21, a crypto exchange Trade. io announced that on October 20, its security team was alerted to a large transaction from one of the wallets held in cold storage.   As they investigated, they started noticing some irregular trading activity in TIO pairs on Bancor & Kucoin.

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Fidelity Unveils New Institutional-Grade Cryptocurrency Investment Service

Fidelity Investments has launched a new business to allow its institutional clients to trade in digital currencies such as bitcoin, a press release reveals. Known as Fidelity Digital Asset Services, LLC, the company will purchase and sell cryptocurrencies for family offices, hedge funds and other monetary ventures.

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Bitfinex Concerns Persist as Tether (USDT), Bitcoin (BTC) Wallets Keep Fluctuating

The Bitcoin cold wallet of Bitfinex loses another 3,000 BTC as banking woes hit the exchange again.

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Reasons Why Bitcoin Crashed Today

It only takes a few minutes for Bitcoin to lose $200 and that’s exactly was happened today. Not only has Bitcoin crashed earlier today but it took the whole market down with it including Ethereum, XRP, Monero, Stellar and so on.

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Neglected BCH Companies Have Been Offered New Solution

Digital currency businesses have seen several difficulties in securing banking services in the UK and now they have a new option. LBX has launched a new service which offers access to an account where customers can store, manage and transfer both their traditional currency and their holding of digital currency.

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Blockstream’s Liquid Network for “High Value” Bitcoin Payments Is Live

The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.

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Bitfinex Challenges Insolvency Rumors, Provides Proof of Wallet Reserves

Top-three cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is pushing back against claims that call its solvency into question. The Hong Kong-based company released a blog post on October 7, 2017, that states, contrary to recent rumors, it is not insolvent.

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Bitfinex Attempts To Prove Solvency, Denies Exposure To Noble Bank Woes

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex denied what it called “rumors” and “allegations” about its alleged insolvency on October 7, revealing cold wallet balances in an attempt to prove its financial stability.

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Op Ed: Why Is There So Much Talk About a Bitcoin ETF?

An exchange-traded bitcoin fund (ETF) would signal greater acceptance of bitcoin as a mainstreet investment, while also making it much easier for both institutional and retail investors to get involved.

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Coca Cola Vending Machine Operating On Lightning Network For Bitcoin Payments

We all dream of the day we can buy a coke (or other cola flavoured soft drink) through the power of the lightning network. Wouldn’t it be great if we could swap a few satoshi’s for a nice cold glass of coke? Well, now, thanks to the creative mind of Ricardo Reis, a hardware hacker from Spain, you can do just that.

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A New Exchange Will Help ICOs Launch Their Product

A new French exchange is willing to protect their clients’ funds by keeping nearly all their funds in cold storage and sticking to strict rules to ensure that they stay on the right side of the law.

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Mt. Gox Trustee Confirms He Sold off $230 Million in Cryptocurrency

A man known as “Tokyo Whale,” for the enormous amount of bitcoin he controls, confirms he unloaded another big chunk of it earlier this year. Nobuaki Kobayashi, the trustee of now-defunct Tokyo exchange Mt.

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Another Cryptocurrency Exchange Hack Hits Japan

Another cryptocurrency heist has shaken Japan. This time, 6. 7 billion yen ($60 million USD) worth of company and user funds have vanished from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Zaif.

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[promoted] Equity Trust Builds New Frontier of Crypto-Based Retirement Accounts

Index funds have more than proven their worth as a preferred option for those with an eye on retirement. But now there is conversation about the value of adding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to this investment mix.

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DINNGO Breaks Ground With Bluetooth Integration of Cold Wallets and Mobile Devices

DINNGO, a Singapore-based exchange, looks to solve the problem of deciding between cold and hot wallets with the help of Bluetooth integration. The post DINNGO Breaks Ground With Bluetooth Integration of Cold Wallets and Mobile Devices appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Crypto Exchange DINNGO Announces Innovative Bluetooth Integration Between Cold Wallets and Mobile Devices

There is a reason why the first advice any cryptocurrency trader gets is to never keep their assets on exchanges. The industry is awash with horror stories about hacks and security breaches that has resulted in the loss of funds.

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Coinbase Details Extraordinary Security Practices, Including Electromagnetic Tents Used to Generate and Protect Private Keys

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts know that the safest way to store their digital assets is offline in cold storage. Generally, this is done via a hardware or paper wallet, but according to Wired, it seems that Coinbase has an alternative approach to storing crypto offline.

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DINNGO Hybrid Exchange Announces Bluetooth Integration Between Cold Wallets and Mobile Devices to Change the Way we Trade Digital Currencies

Bitcoin Press Release: DINNGO is tackling a core issue when it comes to trading crypto. We’ve all heard the horror stories about hacked centralized exchanges and experienced for ourselves the inefficiencies of a decentralized alternative.

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[promoted] Equity Trust Forges a New Path for Crypto-Based IRA Investments

Asset diversification has long been touted as a critical strategy for wealth building. This method of portfolio management, which traditionally involves a mix of stocks, fixed assets and commodities allows for maximum return at the least amount of risk — an important element for retirement savings.

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BitFex.Trade ICO

BitFex. trade is a cryptocurrency exchange developing based on the requirements of traders and that has profitable conditions for trading. Our mission is to make cryptocurrency trading available to anyone.

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Excoins Exchange ICO

Excoins Exchange enables users to sell and purchase digital assets, utilizing bank transfers and cryptocurrencies. Excoins Exchange ensures the safety and security of client funds by utilizing cold storage methodologies, backed by a trust and smart contracts, in which we have very strict rules and guidelines pertaining to seller selection.

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Dinngo ICO (DGO Token): Mobile Crypto Exchange & Cold Wallet?

What Is Dinngo? DINNGO has become the first exchange to allow a two-step verification process between the cold wallet and the mobile device. By doing this, it has been able to revolutionize the manner in which cryptocurrency enthusiasts get to trade digital currencies.

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On a Path to Recovery: Bithumb Reopens Deposits and Withdrawals

Following a disastrous security breach in June that led to losses of more than $30 million, Korean cryptocurrency exchange giant Bithumb has announced that it is set to resume deposit and withdrawal services on its platform.

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Ruby, using a Cryptocurrency exchange 100% cool wallets, opens its beta

This cold wallet system will eventually prevent any hacking attempts and hence make the exchange platform more stable. On 10 August, the sale of Ruby token (RBY), the main currency of Ruby-x, begins along with its beta service.

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Ruby, A Cryptocurrency Exchange Using 100% Cold Wallets, Is Opening its Beta

Ruby-X.io is Crypo-Currency Trading Platform.

The post Ruby, A Cryptocurrency Exchange Using 100% Cold Wallets, Is Opening its Beta appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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DINNGO ICO

DINNGO is an exchange that will enable simple two-step verification with the mobile device and cold wallet.

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