FDIC to sell Signature’s Signet network; remaining bank clients given cutoff date

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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FDIC gives Signature crypto customers deadline to close accounts

Signature Bank’s crypto clients have been given a deadline to close down their accounts and move their deposits following the recent takeover of the bank.  According to Bloomberg, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) informed customers of the failed… дальше »

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Advisors: Learn Crypto, or Your Clients Will

The disconnect between financial advisors and their clients around crypto has become increasingly apparent, given that 37% of advisors personally invested in crypto compared to 83% of their clients that have, according to one 2023 survey. дальше »

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Fidelity Is Set To Offer Ethereum Trading Services To Institutional Clients

Fidelity opts to offer Ethereum trading services to customers, given Ethereum’s new deflationary potential post-Merge. In a tweet on Wednesday, Bruce Fenton revealed that Fidelity is set to offer clients Ethereum trading services from Oct. дальше »

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JPMorgan Offering Crypto Funds to Wealth Management Clients

JPMorgan Chase wealth management clients have been given access to six crypto funds, according to sources close to the company. The post JPMorgan Offering Crypto Funds to Wealth Management Clients appeared first on BeInCrypto. дальше »

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Standard Chartered becomes latest major bank to launch crypto service

Top banking corporation Standard Chartered has given its clients access to cryptocurrencies by launching a crypto exchange and brokerage service by launching. The bank stated that SC Ventures, its innovative arm will be setting up the crypto exchange platform. дальше »

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My Clients Care About Bitcoin, I Don’t: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon

The trajectory that bitcoin has seen over the last decade has been nothing if not interesting. There was a time where it was popular among top financial executives to denounce bitcoin and declare it is a scam or fraud at any given opportunity. дальше »

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Crypto Derivatives Exchange ErisX, Opens API Service for BCH, BTC, ETH, and LTC Block Trading

ErisX has now unveiled a REST API that grants its clients access to their Block Trade. This is a facility that allows investors to make big trades, within the given array of listed spot and futures commodities, privately. дальше »

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Bitcoin Suisse Adds Tezos (XTZ) Staking & Custodial Support to Institutional Grade Vault

Bitcoin Suisse – the Swiss crypto brokerage firm – has announced custodial and staking support for Tezos on May 19th, in order to lure more institutional clients to its platform. Staking has been the hottest trend in the crypto space this year, given major exchanges across space have added support for Tezos [like Bitfinex and […] дальше »

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Bakkt Warehouse Reveals Over 70 Institutional Investors Onboarded For Custody Service

Bakkt has just announced that they have added over 70 new custody clients and given them the option to be covered by an insurance policy that provides coverage of more than $600 million. The Bitcoin warehouse made the announcement on Monday, through a blog post. дальше »

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Leading French Bank, BNP Paribas, is Blocking Transfers to Coinbase Crypto Exchange

International French banking giant, BNP Paribas, is allegedly blocking funds transferred to Coinbase crypto exchange. According to one of the bank’s clients, this action began just recently given they could use BNP Paribas as an intermediary at the beginning of March. дальше »

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Poloniex Exchange Users Urged to Reset Passwords After Email Data Leak on Twitter

The Poloniex crypto exchange is once again in the spotlight after the firm confirmed that the password and email data of their clients had indeed been leaked on Twitter. The exchange has since sent out an email to all its users warning of potential account hacking threats following this incident. Given the sensitivity of the […] дальше »

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Bakkt Bitcoin Custody Now Available to all Institutional Clients

Bakkt joins the field of institutional-grade bitcoin custody service providers after obtaining approval from regulators in New York. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin futures product launched by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) subsidiary continues to set new records. дальше »

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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3

Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released. дальше »

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FATF Now Requires Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Share Their Clients’ Data

The members of the FATF are given one year to tame cryptocurrency exchanges, following the newly issued guidelines     дальше »

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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions. дальше »

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Australia’s PCF Capital Group Picks KoreConX For $250M Mining-Focused Security Token Offering

Australia Based PFC Capital Group To Launch 250 Million USD Security Offering With Koreconx PFC Capital Group, an Australian capital advisory company has chosen KoreConX, a permissioned blockchain system, for a 250 million USD digital security offering. дальше »

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Electrum Servers Remain Under Sustained DoS Attack

Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks. дальше »

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In Fourth Report, QuadrigaCX Court Monitor Recommends Bankruptcy Proceedings

QuadrigaCX monitor Ernst & Young suspects that the beleaguered exchange’s late CEO, Gerald Cotten, may have been financing personal expenditures with company funds, and it is now recommending that the assets in Cotten’s estate be placed under a preservation order. дальше »

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Binance Partners With IdentityMind for Enhanced Compliance and Security

Binance has partnered with Medici Ventures’ portfolio company IdentityMind, a risk management and regulatory-technology compliance platform, in a bid to enhance its fraud protection and compliance protocols. дальше »

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Huawei is putting blockchain into the stratosphere

At its 2019 “Cloud Summit” industry conference in Hong Kong, Huawei unveiled a new blockchain-based cloud service. Huawei Cloud now offers blockchain oriented services designed to help Hong Kong-based businesses make use of the decentralized platform’s typical characteristics. дальше »

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As Court Reconvenes for QuadrigaCX, Questions Surround Empty Cold Wallets

As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends. дальше »

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Judge Chooses Representative Counsel for QuadrigaCX Creditors

Justice Wood has appointed legal counsel to represent some 115,000 creditors in incipient legal proceedings against seemingly insolvent cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, documents published today, February 19, 2019, from the Halifax, Nova Scotia court reveal. дальше »

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QuadrigaCX Sent Deposits Allegedly Linked to CEO’s Widow, Mailed Withdrawals in Cash

For those QuadrigaCX users who were fortunate enough to have withdrawal requests honored, some appear to have received their funds through unconventional means. An anonymous QuadrigaCX user who corresponded with Bitcoin Magazine said that they received a bank deposit from Robertson Nova Consulting Inc. дальше »

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B2C2 Gets Go-Ahead from U.K. Regulators to List Bitcoin Derivative

B2C2, a cryptocurrency “liquidity provider” and electronic OTC trading magnate, has recently announced that British regulators have given their U. K. -based subsidiary approval to offer the crypto space a new investment derivative. дальше »

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Metal Pay Crypto Rewards App Surpasses 20,000 Downloads on Apple App Store

Metal Pay is an app that enables users to securely send and receive digital currencies. The service rewards its clients with 5% of the transaction value each time they use the app. The rewards are given in MTL, the native cryptocurrency of Metal Pay. дальше »

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Israel shipping giant opens its blockchain after successful trial

Israel‘s largest shipping firm is opening up its blockchain to all of its clients of specific trades following a successful trial. Shipping firm Zim took the decision to roll out its blockchain for electronic bills of lading (eBLs) following a successful trial last year, TradeWinds reports. дальше »

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Neutrino: A Privacy-Preserving Light Wallet Protocol

Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server. дальше »

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eToro to give dollar equivalent of Bitcoin Cash SV (BSV) to pre-fork Bitcoin Cash (BCH) holders

On December 27, the U.S.-based investment platform eToro announced that customers who were holding Bitcoin Cash (BCH) leading into the hard fork last month will be given a cash amount per BCHSV. The platform said it made the decision to do so, despite being “not obligated to support forks.” eToro clients who held long (buy) […] дальше »

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A CBC Casper Tutorial

In order to help more people understand “the other Casper” (Vlad Zamfir’s CBC Casper), and specifically the instantiation that works best for blockchain protocols, I thought that I would write an explainer on it myself, from a less abstract and more “close to concrete usage” point of view. дальше »

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Negotiating Bitcoin Ransomware With Cyber-Criminals as a Service

Despite oft-repeated advice to never pay in response to a ransomware attack, the reality is that this is not always a possibility. However, the desire to pay as little as possible has given rise to companies like Coveware. дальше »

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Bitcoin Trading Options Given To Morgan Stanley Customers

The global investment bank based in the United States, Morgan Stanley is looking to offer Bitcoin swap trading for its clients according to sources. According to Alistair Marsh, a reporter from Bloomberg, people who are familiar to the matter have said that the giant company “plans to offer trading in complex derivatives” linked to Bitcoin. дальше »

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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. дальше »

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Crypto, Blockchain Companies Shine in LinkedIn’s Top 50 U.S. Startups

LinkedIn has been keeping its finger on the pulse of the United States’ most thriving startups, and crypto organizations are showing tremendous signs of life — and growth. дальше »

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Coinbase Eyes ETF With Help From BlackRock: Business Insider Report

In an effort to expand its institutional services, Coinbase is joining an industry chase for the ever-elusive bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF). As reported by Business Insider, the cryptocurrency exchange provider has been liaising with BlackRock, a U. дальше »

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Goldman Sachs Puts Plans for a Crypto Trading Desk on Backburner (Updated)

Update (September 7): Goldman Sach’s CFO Martin Chavez has since called reports of dropping the bitcoin trading desk “fake news. ” (The original Business Insider report quoted unnamed sources as the basis of the information. дальше »

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Goldman Sachs Puts Plans for a Crypto Trading Desk on Backburner

Goldman Sachs is struggling to find a way to trade bitcoin. The financial services giant has scratched its plans to open a desk for trading cryptocurrencies, at least for the near term, according to a Business Insider report on September 5, 2018. дальше »

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Bittrex and Rialto Team up for New Trading Venue

Bittrex is partnering with a registered broker-dealer, Rialto Trading, to create a new trading venue for blockchain-based digital assets. The firm announced on Thursday, Aug 23, that it is talking to the regulators about the same, but they have not given any details of when the trading venue will be available. дальше »

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Paragon Partners With Civic Technologies to Deliver Transparency, Digital IDs to Cannabis Industry

Paragon, a blockchain company that develops seed-to-sale tracking solutions for the marijuana industry, is joining hands with Civic Technologies Inc. , a digital identity firm, to bring secure and trusted identity services to Paragon’s digital community. дальше »

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Maerki Baumann Is the Latest Swiss Bank to Embrace Crypto

Maerki Baumann — a private bank based in Zurich, Switzerland — has announced it will manage its clients’ cryptocurrency assets. This makes it the second Swiss bank to make such an announcement following Hypothekarbank Lenzburg (Hypi), which stated in June that it would open business accounts for cryptocurrency companies. дальше »

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More Bittrex Users Gain Access to USD Trading

Cryptocurrency exchanges need to continue to grow and add support for additional currencies. Bittrex made it clear that it would introduce USD trading for regular clients very soon. Although a few users can access this service already, it appears more users will be given access to this service in the very near future. Bittrex Expands USD […] дальше »

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Stronghold and IBM Collaborate to Launch FDIC-Insured Stablecoin on Stellar

Stronghold, a cryptocurrency trading platform housed by Stellar, is launching a stablecoin on its parent network’s blockchain in collaboration with IBM. Stronghold USD will be backed with “one-to-one U. дальше »

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