TimeCoin(TMCN) Protocol’s Second Special Token Sale Now On with Huge Discounts

TimeCoin Network, a decentralized sharing economy protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain, has embarked on a second funding round through TimeCoin (TMCN) token special sale. Notably, TimeCoin protocol seeks to raise more funds to enhance its developments that include fully functional TimeCoin protocols as well as major Dapps like eSportStars. According to the firm, a […]

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Fidelity and Goldman Sachs File for Bitcoin ETFs with SEC

In what is a major step forward for the crypto market, both Fidelity Investments and Goldman Sachs have filed for Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) with the U. S. SEC. Goldman Sachs filed the application on March 19, while Fidelity filed a few days later on March 24.

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Morgan Stanley offers wealthy clients access to Bitcoin funds

Morgan Stanley has become the first major US bank to offer high net worth…

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Major U.S. Bank Morgan Stanley to Offer Bitcoin Funds to Wealthy Clients

Morgan Stanley, one of the world’s largest banks, has published a note recognizing Bitcoin as an investable asset class. The Wall Street investment bank believes that the crypto is reaching a threshold, recommending it to play a role in a diversified investment portfolio.

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RippleNet’s Nium Expands to Four Major African Countries with New Ways of Remitting Funds

Ripple-friendly Nium is expanding its remittance business to four major African markets and has added new ways of making remittances

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Major Corporations Want Bitcoin Exposure Via Grayscale, Following in Footsteps of Tesla

Treasuries of major corporations seek to acquire Bitcoin, and Grayscale is among the hedge funds they are turning to

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Kucoin hack: exchange recovers 100% of stolen funds

After suffering a major hack in September last year, Kucoin, the eight largest crypto exchange by trading volume, today addressed the security incident, which resulted in the theft of $285 million.

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Bridge Mutual Launches IDO, Gives Users Control Over Risk Exposure

Attacks on major cryptocurrency exchanges are regrettably common. Over $200 million dollars have been lost to hacks and exploits on services such as KuCoin and, more recently, Origin Protocol. Although these events are an inescapable risk, there are new services that offer protection against loss of funds for these scenarios. Bridge Mutual is a decentralized […]

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University endowment funds have been investing in crypto

According to Coindesk, major university endowments have quietly been purchasing crypto assets since 2018… The post University endowment funds have been investing in crypto appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Former White House Director of Communications Launches Bitcoin Fund

According to Scaramucci, the fund will target wealthy investors and give them the opportunity to gain Bitcoin exposure with a low fee product offering. A major differentiator between the SkyBridge fund and other funds such as Grayscale’s Bitcoin fund is the minimized fees.

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Peter Schiff, CZ, Pompliano Discussing If Elon Musk Will Grab Bitcoin with Tesla Cash

Three major crypto influencers are discussing the chances of Elon Musk acquiring Bitcoin with Tesla's funds after all; Pomp is not in a rush to bet on a positive outcome

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Bitcoin exodus: OKEx users move crypto off exchange as withdrawals resume

Major cryptocurrency exchange OKEx resumed all withdrawals at 8:00 am UTC on Nov. 26, but users already appear to be pulling out their funds, fast.

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I've Jumped Firmly onto Bitcoin Wagon: Software Giant Intercom Cofounder

Cofounder and chairman of major US software giant, Intercom, boasts entering Bitcoin but is not in a rush to allocate the company?s funds into BTC just yet

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Ripple and Binance Shift 674.5 Mln XRP While Major RippleNet Client Halves Its Remittance Fees

Ripple DLT behemoth and Binance giant have shifted a whopping 674.5 mln XRP, while a major RippleNet client has halved remittance fees to send funds from Australia

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200k BTC Holder, OKEx, Suspends Crypto Withdrawals & Its Founder Gets Arrested

Major cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announced on Friday that it had suspended the withdrawals of digital assets while ensuring “funds and assets are safe and not affected. ” Other functions, meanwhile, are up and running.

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Transfer Money in Nigeria Instantly with Cryptocurrencies using Cryptofully.com

Cryptofully. com is offering Nigerian investors from around the world to transfer money to Nigeria in a simple two-step process through Bitcoin. 12 September 2020, Lagos. Cryptocurrency owners can now send funds across the world to Nigerian Naira accounts without the requirement of registering on a new platform.

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Comptroller of the Currency reveals another ability of US banks

Brian Brooks, the acting US Comptroller of the Currency, recently made a massive crack in the US’ anti-crypto armor by allowing banks to offer crypto custody. Now, the Comptroller made another major announcement, noting that national banks and federal savings associations can hold reserve funds for stablecoin issuers.

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5 Major Banks Exposed for Moving Trillions for Mobsters, Onecoin, and Drug Cartels

According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), five major global banks have been exposed funneling trillions of dollars in criminal funds in the recently leaked FinCEN Files.

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Major Milestone: Polkadot Treasury Funds Its First Set Of Projects

The fund management arm of the Polkadot team known as the Polkadot Treasury has just funded its first set of projects. The four projects include Redspot, the development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for pallet-contracts, Centrifuge and the Go Substrate RPC Client, Polkascan, and its essential infrastructure deployment project and Encointer, the quest for […]

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Crypto Whale Warns Of Growing DeFi Scams As Another Protocol Exits Market With Funds Worth $20M

A new liquidity mining pool DeFi project, Yfdexf. Finance has exited the market after defrauding investors of $20 million in total funds locked in its protocol. Yfdexf conducted a two days major advertising campaign on different platforms, including Twitter and Telegram, with promised giveaways for retweets and hashtags.

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Warren Buffett Shifts Funds From US Amid Inflation Fears, Bitcoin’s New All-Time High Expected

Warren Buffett has made another major investment shift, one that reduces Berkshire Hathaway’s dependence on the U. S. economy. This news followed the Federal Reserve’s policy announcement to “push up inflation,” which is seen as bullish for bitcoin, with some predicting that the price of the cryptocurrency will soon reach an all-time high.

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Coinbase-Backed Exchange to Redistribute Seized Venezuelan Funds

A major win for the people of Venezuela and the fight against government corruption.

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Mike Novogratz?s Galaxy Digital, Binance Labs Lead $2.8 Mln Funding Round by Major Investors to 1inch Project

Fast growing decentralized project 1inch has just closed a funding round worth almost $3 mln led by Binance Labs, Galaxy Digital and other major hedge funds

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Crypto Hardware Wallet Company Ledger Suffers Data Breach, 1M Customer Details Exposed

Major cryptocurrency hard wallet company Ledger revealed that the platform suffered a data breach causing customers details to be compromised.   Customer Funds Unaffected By Breach The company made the announcement via a blog post on Wednesday (July 29, 2020).

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Ripple Adds Global B2B Payment Operator Currencycloud to Its Partner List

Ripple has partnered with the major B2B payment company, Currencycloud, to explore new ways of moving funds around the world

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Ripple?s Major Partner Warns of Scammers Stealing Bank Customers? Data Through LINE App

Ripple?s partner, the major commercial Thai bank SCB, warns that scammers are using the LINE app to steal its customers? personal data and funds by making fake accounts

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BitMEX Aims to Achieve ‘Near-Zero Downtime’ with ‘Aggressive’ Hiring After Major Outage

BitMEX has released the postmortem of the downtime it suffered on May 19 ensuring that “at no point during this event were any customer funds at risk,” and that no liquidations occurred while the exchange was offline.

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Crypto Uptick in Asia: Singaporean Wealth Fund Joins Libra, BitGo Custody Comes to India

Facebook’s digital currency project Libra added three major venture funds to its existing investors on May 14; Slow Ventures, Paradigm, and Temasek Investments. On the same day, U. S. custodian firm BitGo partnered with India’s CoinDCX to provide its users with insurance and storage solutions.

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Binance Freezes Funds Sent from Address Linked to $49M Upbit Hack

Hackers breached crypto exchange Upbit in November 2019, making off with $49 million in crypto — yesterday they tried to sell stolen Ethereum on Binance With so many exchanges being breached in the past few years, Binance and other major exchanges have resolved to freeze any hack-related funds sent to their platforms.

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CME Bitcoin Futures COT report indicates short sellers are favored

As of April 28, CME Bitcoin Future COT report showed net short with a major spread between the longs and short; what's interesting is that while retail went long, leveraged funds or institutional moneThe post CME Bitcoin Futures COT report indicates short sellers are favored appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Two Major Investment Fund CEOs Make Opposite Bets on Bitcoin (BTC)

With the BTC halving drawing closer and the recent price crash behind two CEOs of investment funds who seem to be on good terms show totally different take on Bitcoin

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Exclusive: A Major French Bank Is Blocking Customers From Using Coinbase

Initial reports suggest that French bank BNP Paribas has blocked customers from transferring funds to Coinbase

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Crypto wallet Ambo releases update with transaction receipts, token sharing, and more

Ambo, a crypto wallet/exchange application, announced today a major upgrade which includes the addition of new features including: comparing prices across exchanges, easier user experience for depositing funds, transaction receipts, and more.

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Bitcoin Whales on the Move: $414M in BTC Transferred for Mere $0.68 Fee

Whales are moving their funds again on the Bitcoin network. A whopping 47,452 BTC ($414 million) was just withdrawn from Bittrex for a measly fee of $0. 68. Major sums of money are being moved around yet again on the Bitcoin (BTC) network, showcasing just how cheap it is to transfer BTC.

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Ripple's $11.3M infused funds recorded as 'contra expense:' MoneyGram

The San-Francisco blockchain company Ripple Inc. has forged many successful partnerships over the years. Among them, the firm's relationship with one of the major players in the money transfer sector,The post Ripple's $11.

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European Space Agency Funds Blockchain Project Recording Satellite Data

Major global space exploration organization, the European Space Agency, continues to explore the benefits of blockchain use for space

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A major crypto scam’s Bitcoin is moving and if history repeats, it may start a correction

A Chinese multi-billion dollar scam known as PlusToken is moving their holdings of Bitcoin once again. In 2019, when the price of BTC dropped to the $6,000s, analysts attributed the fall to the dumping of funds by the fraud.

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Nearly 68.5 Mln XRP Transferred to Bybit From Anonymous Wallet With Major Exchange Behind It

Whale Alert detects another impressive move of funds in XRP from an ?unknown wallet? to the Bybit platform but a large exchange seems to be involved

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Crypto Companies Process $2 Billion At Major Banks Without Their Knowledge: CipherTrace

CipherTrace launched a press release on December 16, claiming it has discovered that each of the most important commercial banks in the US has an unregistered crypto business using their own payment networks in order to process funds.

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South Korea: Crypto Exchange UpBit Hacked; Reports $51 Million Ethereum (ETH) Withdrawal

Major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, UpBit, announced that over 340,000 worth of Ethereum (ETH) was transferred to an anonymous wallet. While the exchange did not explicitly mention a hack attack nor specify how the withdrawal was done, the company pledged to cover up the missing funds.

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Ethereum Whale Sends $35M Worth of Ether for Just $0.07

One major player in the cryptocurrency industry has just moved 257,491 ETH — valued at almost $35M at the time of writing. The total fee for the Ethereum transaction was just $0. 07. One Ethereum whale in the market seems to be consolidating its funds in a major move that set off alarm bells.

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.

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Dow Falters as Trump Threats Negate Stellar US Housing Market Data

A major slide in Home Depot and China-reliant stocks pushed the Dow Jones lower on Tuesday. Donald Trump’s tariff talk is mostly falling on deaf ears as hedge funds load up on risk ahead of an anticipated trade deal.

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Bitcoin Use Case Underlined by Indian Bank PMC Woes

In recent months, authorities in India have been investigating the management of a major private bank, Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank, for fraud, amounting to $600 million. The investigation has left nearly 1 million bank customers without access to their funds – the sort of situation that could be avoided with Bitcoin-related financial services.

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Bitcoins Worth $83M Moved Between Wallets for Only $1.64

A major transfer has just occurred between two external wallets. 9,013 bitcoins ($83M) have been moved for just a fee of $1. 64 as a whale presumably consolidates its funds. Whale Alerts (@whale_alert) has notified its followers on Twitter of a major Bitcoin (BTC) transfer that occurred earlier today.

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Australian Federal Police Take Hold of Artillery Dealer’s Bitcoin, Flip into Major Profits

Drug cartels and other criminal activities are mostly associated with Bitcoin trading. This is to raise funds to enhance their criminal activities. In the event, however, when the police confiscate $BTC from these illegal activities, where do they go? In Australia, for instance, it’s has been disclosed that in one scenario, the police collected a 20-fold […]

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CNBC’s Brian Kelly Doesn’t Think Crypto Needs A Bitcoin ETF; Major On-Ramps Already Exist

If you were keen on the industry news concerning Bitcoin for the past two years, you would have noticed a recurring trend in the Bitcoin exchange-traded funds. They are financial vehicles that are believed to be a catalyst that will take the nascent market to greater heights. Some analysts think so even though these vehicles […]

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MakerDAO Vulnerability Would Have Let Criminals Siphon ETH-Powered DAI Stablecoin

MakerDAO network had such a major bug that, Ethereum (ETH) that powers the DAI stablecoin could have been stolen due to an exploit. According to the reports, a hacker could use a single transaction to steal the tokens.

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DeFi portal InstaDApp raises $2.4 million in seed round

InstaDApp, a portal that simplifies interactions between major DeFi protocols, raised $2. 4 million in seed funding from a line-up of high profile strategic investors. InstaDApp raised a $2. 4 million seed round from a host of strategic investors.

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