Blockchain & Crypto Archives - Page 264 of 298

BitFury Group and Hut 8 Team Up to Establish 60 MW Bitcoin Mining Farm

December 4, 2017

Blockchain infrastructure provider BitFury Group today announced a partnership deal with Hut 8, a Bitcoin mining company, to set up a project that they described as probably the largest cryptocurrency mining ...

The Biggest Country in Southeast Asia to Ban Cryptocurrency

December 4, 2017

Indonesia is to ban all cryptocurrency use, according to a local media report. Pikiran Rakyat reports that the legislation will prohibit payment providers from cooperating in any way with “parties that facil...

Petrodollars are Dead, Long Live the Petro – Venezuela’s New Cryptocurrency

December 4, 2017

President Nicolas Maduro has declared that Venezuela will launch its own cryptocurrency to circumvent financial sanctions. “Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency … the ‘petro’, to advance issues of monetary...

Hauser: “Bitcoin’s Value is Out of Control, It’s Like the Gold Rush All Over Again”

December 4, 2017

What does the future hold for the Israeli cryptocurrency market? According to the current regulator, it doesn’t seem promising. Prof. Shmuel Hauser, the head of the Israeli Securities Authority (ISA), is dete...

After NASDAQ, Moscow Stock Exchange is Planning to Introduce Bitcoin Futures

December 4, 2017

Russia’s largest stock exchange, the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX), is now planning to introduce Bitcoin futures on the platform, as reported by news.bitcoin.com. As initially reported by the Russian news age...

CFTC Urges Bitcoin Exchanges Surveillance to Prevent Futures Manipulation

December 1, 2017

The US CFTC has just stated its worries related to the launch of Bitcoin futures contracts and regulated binary options. As the CME, the CBOE and Cantor Exchange are each preparing to launch their own derivat...

CME Group Bitcoin Futures to Require 35% Margin, Launch in Mid-December

December 1, 2017

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOE) have both issued separate announcements to specify details about their upcoming Bitcoin futures contracts. The CME said that live tr...

Coinbase Ordered to Submit to IRS Summons

November 30, 2017

A legal case filed by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) against the largest crypto exchange in the US was just won by the petitioner. The firm has been ordered to submit to the summons which the IRS prese...

Cradle of Cryptocurrency: Digital Money and Africa

November 30, 2017

Yesterday, the price of one bitcoin hit $10,000 for the first time, which was big news in the West. However two weeks earlier, while the coin was trading at around $8,000 at most exchanges, it had actually re...

Lykke Wallet to Offer VISA Prepaid Card

November 30, 2017

Global credit card giant VISA is pushing hard to dominate the blockchain platform. Lykke, a Swiss blockchain-based fintech company, recently launched a VISA-based prepaid card called Lykke Card. Just like an...