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Bancor Halts Operations After Reportedly Over $12 Million Hack

July 9, 2018

Bancor, a Switzerland-based exchange that provides an automated conversion mechanism for blockchain tokens, shut down Monday morning due to a “security breach.” Before it announced the attack, Bancor said its...

Vitalik Buterin Would Like Centralised Exchanges to “Burn in Hell”

July 8, 2018

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin does not like centralised exchanges. Speaking to TechCrunch columnist Jon Evans at an event in Zug last week he said: “I definitely personally hope centralised exchanges burn...

Binance CEO Expects Net Profit of $1 Billion in 2018

July 8, 2018

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, told Bloomberg in an interview that he expects his company to make a net profit of up to $1 billion this year. He revealed that revenue in the first ha...

Bitmain to Buy Majority of Shares in Opera Internet Browser

July 8, 2018

Bitmain is reportedly going to invest $50 million in the initial public offering of Opera Ltd, the company behind the familiar web browser. An IPO is when a company sells its shares to the public for the fir...

Cryptocurrency Visa card startup buys Crypto.com domain

July 6, 2018

Monaco, the startup behind a cryptocurrency Visa debit card, has rebranded after forking out millions of dollars on the Crypto.com domain name. Crypto.com was registered in 1993 by Matt Blaze, a University...

Wolves to Display Logo of CoinDeal Exchange on Kit Next Season

July 5, 2018

Wolverhampton Wanderers, an English professional football team, has signed a partnership with cryptocurrency exchange CoinDeal. The exchange’s logo will appear on the sleeves of the footballers’ shirts and a...

Binance Briefly Halted Trading After Syscoin Traded for $626,000

July 4, 2018

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, briefly halted all trading following reports of irregular transactions of the SYS coin. The incident began at roughly 21:00 UTC on Tuesday, Jul...

Rakuten Coin to Launch on Viber Messenger in Russia Next Year

July 4, 2018

Viber Messenger will be used to launch the cryptocurrency of Japanese firm Rakuten in Russia next year, according to Russian news source Tass. Viber Viber is a messaging application operated by Rakuten, a...

Japanese Man Sentenced to a Year in Prison for Using Cryptojacking Malware

July 3, 2018

Japanese news media sources reported earlier this week that a man has been sentenced to a year in prison, with a three-year sentencing suspension. His crime? Employing ‘cryptojacking’ malware–a piece of softw...

Indian Supreme Court Upholds Cryptocurrency Ban

July 3, 2018

The supreme court of India will not be telling the Reserve Bank of India to relent in its decision to keep banks free of cryptocurrency, according to Quartz. https://twitter.com/cryptokanoon/status/101403590...