GMO Internet Reports Cryptocurrency Exchange Profit Rose Over 34% in Q3 2018

GMO Internet, the Japanese technology and online finance conglomerate, presented its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2018 on Nov. 12. The presentation included new details about the performance of the Tokyo-listed group’s cryptocurrency-related businesses.

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Japanese IT Gaint GMO Internet, Reveals a Boost in Profit From Cryptocurrency Business

The Japanese Technology Giant GMO Internet just published its report for the third quarter. According to the report, the IT company recorded continuous viable performance in its crypto-related businesses.

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CoolBitX and Circle Join Forces To Integrate USDC Stablecoin Into CoolWallet S

CoolBitX, the secure cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer has collaborated with Circle Internet Financial, the global crypto finance company. With the new alliance, CoolWallet S users can now store the USDC stablecoin on their hardware devices and exchange it for other digital assets seamlessly.

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nOS (NOS) gets listed on Switcheo, the exchange launches nOS trading competition

nOS (NOS) is the Virtual Operating System for a new, transparent internet. Powered by the NEO Smart Economy. The nOS token sale ended on November 8. The project raised $9,185,751 (55% of the hard cap).

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Crypto Exchange Gate.io Suspends StatCounter Service after Reports of Hackers Hijacking Bitcoin Transactions

Cryptocurrency exchange Gate. io has removed StatCounter, one of the most popular web analytics tools, from its website following reports of a security breach, the company announced in a blog post on November 7, 2018.

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Tron [TRX] Listed on Crypto Exchange Indacoin, Can Be Purchased With Five Fiat Currencies

As the Tron ecosystem is developing and moving closer to its goal of creating a decentralized internet, the native token of the Tron mainnet, TRX is getting listed in several new exchanges. Recently, the Tron Foundation announced that the token had been listed on cryptocurrency exchange Indacoin.

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Japan’s LINE (LN) BITBOX Crypto Exchange Introduces New Trading App for Android Devices

This week, the BITBOX cryptocurrency exchange announced the release of its Android app. BITBOX is a subsidiary of LINE Corporation, a Japanese company that deals with the development of mobile apps and internet services.

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Hackers breach web analytics site to target crypto exchange Gate.io

According to a report from internet security firm ESET on November 6, bad actors compromised Ireland-based web analytics site StatCounter, in an attempt to steal bitcoin from the customers of a crypto exchange Gate.

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Hackers infect nearly 700,000 sites with Bitcoin-stealing malware

Cryptocurrency hackers have attacked one of the internet’s most used traffic analytics services, StatCounter, in order to siphon Bitcoin from users of online exchange desk Gate. io. In a targeted attack, hackers breached StatCounter to such an extent that over 688,000 websites were caught loading the malicious script, ZDNet reports.

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This exchange turned a bus into a Bitcoin ad to bypass Google’s crypto-ban

Online advertising giants like Google and Facebook promised entrepreneurs an effective way of reaching consumers at an affordable cost. But following a series of policy crackdowns, this wasn’t exactly the case for cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses.

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Justin Sun Announces Tron (TRX)’s Listing on Coinsuper, a Hong-Kong Based Fiat-to-Crypto Exchange

Tron has a focus, projected towards building an infrastructure that would decentralize the internet, using the blockchain technology. It aims at enhancing the entertainment industry, other blockchain networks, and smart contracts.

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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive

As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency.

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Coincheck reopens new account signups and limited trading

On October 30, Monex Group, the Japanese internet broker that purchased hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, announced it had reopened new account signups and limited trading. The latest phase of a step-by-step reboot of Coincheck, Monex added users could also begin depositing and purchasing certain cryptocurrencies. From October 30, users will be able to deposit four […]

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Korean Crypto Exchange Earns Key Government Cybersecurity Certification

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange GOPAX has become the first blockchain company to attain K-ISMS certification, the official standard in Korea for information security management systems.

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Poloniex Revised Terms of Use, Shutters Services in Several Countries

With a revision to the popular exchange’s terms of use, users from a handful of jurisdictions will have their access to Poloniex shuttered. According to an October 18, 2018, update, “the websites and the services offered by Poloniex (as defined below) are NOT addressed to persons who have their registered office or place of residence in China, Germany, Pakistan, the U.

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Bitcoin Magazine Week in Review: Stablecoins Take the Spotlight

With the exception of the SEC’s FinHub announcement, it has been a quiet week for regulatory news — something we’ve been getting a lot of recently as U. S. officials clamp down on unscrupulous coin offerings and crypto companies.

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Quadrigacx Battles Bank Over $21.6M in Frozen Funds

Cryptocurrency exchange Quadrigacx has blamed an ongoing legal dispute over $21. 6 million worth of funds that were frozen by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in January for delays experienced by some of its customers when requesting fiat currency withdrawals.

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Japan’s GMO Internet Group Announces Yen-Backed Stablecoin

Japanese internet giant GMO has just announced plans to launch a new stablecoin backed by the Yen. The new coin will be called GMO Japanese Yen and is expected to arrive at some point in 2019. The company is already invested in mining hardware and cryptocurrency exchange businesses, and the launch of the coin will.

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TRON Still Best Performer Against BTC, XRP & ETH

In recent months, TRON has seen some slight upward movement and currently sits at number eleven on the top 100 cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap. September is where TRON really found its legs as it was listed on the Crypto Exchange Platform.

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Japanese Internet Giant GMO to Launch Yen-Pegged Cryptocurrency

Japan’s GMO Internet Group has announced plans to issue a yen-pegged stablecoin called GMO Japanese Yen. Already in the crypto exchange and mining hardware businesses, the company plans to launch its third crypto enterprise with this stablecoin.

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Japanese Internet Monolith GMO to Launch Yen-Pegged Stablecoin

GMO Internet Group is working to launch a stablecoin by 2019. In an announcement released on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, the Japanese IT conglomerate said it is putting all gears in place to begin building its stablecoin, called the GMO Japanese Yen (GJY).

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With the CBAC, East Meets West in Search of Adoption and Innovation

The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.

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ADA, ELA, LINK & More Coins To Watch This Month

With the market’s value jumping all over the place and there being plenty of opportunity for investors, let’s look at some of the coins to look at this month. ADA The co-founder of Etherum, Charles Hoskinson set up this blockchain project a few years ago under the name Cardano.

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Chinese and US Investors Team Up to Create a Global Crypto Investment Fund

The latest crypto investment fund on the block is Dragonfly Ventures, a $100 million traditional venture fund investing only in crypto assets, managed by partners Alexander Pack from Bain Capital Ventures and Bo Feng, founding partner of Ceyuan Ventures.

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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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Tron Combines Blockchain And Filesharing Via Project Atlas Launch To Lure BitTorrent Users

The long-awaited Project Atlas has finally been launched and it seems like the reason behind it is not to simply transform the internet and how filesharing procedures take form, but to lure in more users, namely that of BitTorrent.

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EOS Creator Block.one Releases Statement on Block Producer Collusion and Mutual Voting Allegations

Rumors circulating the Internet suggest that EOS might be facing a scandalous situation involving an illicit mutual voting partnership, led by Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Huobi. EOS has become one of the most widely used and high performing blockchains in the world.

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SPIToken ICO

SPIToken. network is a platform market exchange that will play a major role in the Internet Value ecosystem. Where cryptocurrency will be traded against each other, gateways to and bridges across multiple value networks supported by different blockchain / cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH ).

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Justin Sun’s TRON to Get TRX/BNB Trading Pair on Binance Crypto Exchange

TRX/BNB Pair Added on Binance Exchange TRON (TRX) continues to be one of the most popular altcoins in many parts of the world. The cryptocurrency is the backbone of TRON’s efforts to create what they call a decentralized internet, and the concept alone has already created excitement among investors from many different backgrounds. #Binance Adds […]

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Japan’s GMO Launches Live Crypto Trading Platform, Adds Mining Facilities

Japanese internet giant GMO has launched a live crypto trading platform via its subsidiary GMO Coin. This is the company’s third crypto exchange and trading service. Meanwhile, the group has established more mining facilities and has mined almost 3,000 BTC and over 660 BCH so far.

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STED (Secure and Trusted Exchange of Data) Set to Launch SUPA Token For Monetizing Everything

Everything Can Be Monetized With STED – Secure And Trusted Exchange Of Data There are currently 10 billion smart devices that are connected to the internet. By 2025 this number could increase and receive 45 billion devices more.

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V-ID ICO

The V-ID validation service uses blockchain technology to end all document fraud. Our client base, with customers like Airbus Space & Defence, operates in various fields, including education, medical, research and tech.

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Rakuten Acquires Crypto Exchange to Fast-Track Into the Japanese Market

Japanese mega e-commerce and internet company Rakuten Inc. is entering the crypto space. Instead of submitting a new application to the country’s financial regulator, Rakuten is acquiring an existing crypto exchange to fast-track into the Japanese crypto market.

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Japanese Internet Giant Rakuten Buys Crypto Exchange

Rakuten says it believes that cryptocurrencies will have a larger role in e-commerce in the future.

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Tron Network Has Listed TRX At KuCoin Blockchain Asset Exchange Platform

KuCoin is captivated to announce that today they have listed another promising token called TRX. It is the fundamental and trade currency of Tron network, a blockchain-based platform establishing a truly decentralized Internet.

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Merculet (MVP) Today Got Listed At KuCoin Cryptocurrency Exchange Market

KuCoin, cryptocurrency exchange platform, is delighted to announce the listing of another promising token, Merculet’s MVP.  Merculet’s MVP is the transaction currency of Merculet which is a decentralized project striving to empower internet businesses using the blockchain technology.

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Op Ed: Making Friends With Time in the Cryptocurrency Space

What follows is an open letter from Jimmy Zhong, co-founder and CEO of IOST, to his team members and shared with Bitcoin Magazine with permission. Recently, I’ve been thinking about an ultimate way of safely storing value — gold, Bitcoin, real estate and power all came to mind.

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Pornhub’s Tube8 Brings Porn to Blockchain by Rewarding Viewers with Vice Industry Token

Porn Site Tube8 Will Pay You Crypto for Watching Porn It could be the best news in the history of the internet. Pornhub subsidiary Tube8 just announced plans to pay users crypto in exchange for watching pornography.

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Bitcoin ETFs are a Terrible Idea: Andreas Antonopoulos

Announcing this week he intended to “burst” the ecosystem’s “bubble” because of “Lambos” and “to the moon, and all that,” one of the most respected thought leaders in cryptocurrency, Andreas M.

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Japan’s Biggest Chat App Line Expands Cryptocurrency Offering

Line Corporation, a Japanese Internet firm and the operator of the country’s most popular messaging app, has added Tron (TRX) to its cryptocurrency exchange platform Bitbox. Tron is the first crypto-token to pass the review process by the Bitbox open-listing committee and joins other cryptocurrencies already available in the platform including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, […] The post Japan’s Biggest Chat App Line Expands Cryptocurrency Offering appeared first on Coinjournal.

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Gratzio ICO

Gratzio is a global marketplace for favors based on Stellar blockchain that offers its users an ability to order or perform people-to-people instant services in exchange for cryptocurrency. The marketplace is accesible by Gratzio decentralized application that will be available via iOS store, Android Google Play as well as via regular browser with Internet access.

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Japan’s Internet Giant GMO Unveils New Crypto Priorities, Exchange Profits Up 7-Fold

Japan’s GMO Internet has unveiled new priorities for its cryptocurrency business along with the performances of its crypto exchange and mining operations. The changes going forward result from the bear market and increased total hash rate.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is composed of physical devices, appliances, and other items that have sensors, software, actuators, and network connectivity. This makes it possible for them to connect and exchange data.

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.Luxe to Introduce Human-Readable Ethereum Addresses

Ethereum users will soon be able to redirect a .com-like address to their wallet addresses. The new top-level domain, is .luxe, which stands for “Lets You eXchange Easily.” “The .luxe [addresses] will also allow names to resolve over the internet in the normal way for email or web-based traffic. Users will therefore be able to […]

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.Luxe to Introduce Human-Readable Ethereum Addresses

Ethereum users will soon be able to redirect a . com-like address to their wallet addresses. The new top-level domain, is . luxe, which stands for “Lets You eXchange Easily. ” “The .

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Millions of webstores can now accept cryptocurrency through Coinbase

Coinbase announcements are dropping faster than exchange hacks these days. It’s just released a brand-new plugin that makes accepting cryptocurrency way easier for millions of websites. The new plugin, spotted by DailyHodl, enables WooCommerce webstores to accept major cryptocurrencies directly into a user-controlled Coinbase wallet.

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International Exchange CoinBene Opens Trading for Digital Asset Platform IoP

The current state of the internet is dominated by Cloud technology and social media platforms like Google and Facebook where users don’t own their data. In the absence of interoperability, people are losing “citizenship” of their private information when switching providers.

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Bitflyer Cracks Down on Market Manipulation – Coincheck Eyes August Relaunch

Japan’s largest crypto exchange, Bitflyer, may freeze accounts caught manipulating prices. Meanwhile, GMO Internet has released quarterly earnings for its crypto exchange subsidiary, currently looking to borrow some BTC from customers.

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Japanese Class Action Against Gambling Coin Claims $12m Damages

Withcoin, a virtual currency reportedly designed for casinos, and listed on the Hitbtc exchange around May, is accused of selling coins using a promotional video propagating alleged lies and misleading information.

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