Blockchain & Crypto Archives - Page 241 of 298

Bitcoin Banknotes Now Available in Singapore

May 3, 2018

As cryptocurrency gains mainstream acceptance we have seen Bitcoin take on many of the mediums of fiat money – ATMs, debit cards, financial derivatives, and even cryptocurrencies whose value is tethered to as...

Telegram Reportedly Calls Off ICO Plans After Two Funding Rounds

May 2, 2018

Telegram Group Inc. has canceled its initial coin offering after the popular messaging app raised a record-setting $1.7 billion from a group of less than 200 private investors, the Wall Street Journal reports. ...

UK’s Largest Crypto Firms Implore MPs to Regulate

May 1, 2018

Led by self-regulating body CryptoUK, the British blockchain industry is reportedly urging members of parliament to back their plans for government regulation. CryptoUK’s plans for regulation were laid out in...

Coinbase Values Itself at $8 Billion in Earn.com Acquisition

April 30, 2018

Popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase recently valued itself at $8 billion in an acquisition deal that included its common shares, according to Recode. The latest figure is quite an increase from ...

Binance Pushes Malta to Top of Cryptocurrency Volumes Chart

April 30, 2018

An analyst working for Morgan Stanley has neatly mapped out the locations and trading volumes of cryptocurrency exchanges categorised by country. The research was conducted by a team headed by Sheena Shah, a...

Japan Demands Crypto Exchanges De-List Anonymous Altcoins

April 30, 2018

Reports from Tokyo state that numerous sources within Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) are looking at all possibilities to exhibit pressure on the Japanese platforms for trade. This pressure is there f...

Revolut Adds Bitcoin Cash and Ripple Trading, Raises $250 Million

April 29, 2018

Mobile phone-based bank Revolut is now offering Bitcoin Cash and Ripple trading, according to Global Coin Report. Revolut is a fintech firm that was founded in July 2015 in London. It describes itself as a “...

Malta Moves Further Toward Passing 3 Promising Pieces of Crypto Legislation

April 27, 2018

This Tuesday, three bills related to cryptocurrency were approved by the Cabinet of Malta. Perhaps the most significant of all of these is the Virtual Financial Assets Bill, a piece of legislation that create...

Binance Announces New Feature: Clean Up your Dust

April 26, 2018

Binance, which with more than $3 billion in registered trading volumes in the last 24 hours is currently the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, has announced a potentially significant policy change...

Ripple Releases Q1 2018 Market Report – XRP Market Share Increases

April 26, 2018

Ripple has released its market report for the first quarter of 2018. 160.0 billion USD worth of XRP was traded in Q1 2018. Of this, 16.6 million USD was purchased from XRP II, which is Ripple’s South Carolin...