Amid rising tension regarding the vulnerability of crypto assets and increased vigor of double spending attacks on cryptocurrency networks whose climax hitherto has been the recent reorganization of transaction on the Ethereum Classic Blockchain, Grayscale Investment, the startup which underpins the Ethereum Classic Investment Trust (ETCG) has came out tongues blazing to defend its Fund. […]
Crypto Exchange
Breaking: CoinCheck to commence operations as a licensed exchange after years of setbacks and delays
It’s the beginning of a new era for the Japanese based crypto exchange CoinCheck after the Kanto Financial Bureau, the country’s overseeing regulator granted it the license to operate as one. Until the close of last year, the Crypto exchange giant had been operating on a “waiting license” despite speculations that the media and other […]
ErisX raises 27.5 million in order to improve blockchain infrastructure
Crypto exchanges are not being left out this sales season with crypto exchange ErisX, raising 27.5 million from fidelity investments, NASDAQ ventures, among other investment firms. The NASDAQ is the world’s second largest stock exchange while US-based fidelity investments maintain about 7.2 trillion in client assets. A Reuters report revealed that ErisX will offer both […]
Amazon Web Services Glitch Puts Major Crypto Exchanges Offline
Nationwide failure of critical Amazon web services (AWS) servers caused two major South Korean crypto exchanges to go offline Thursday morning. Major internal server failures plaguing AWS, one of the leading cloud services providers led to activities at crypto exchanges, Coinone, and Upbit to come to a grinding halt. Several e-commerce hubs were also affected […]
Basic Attention Token (BAT) Slows Down After the Coinbase Listing
Basic Attention Token was announced for listing on one of the biggest and more popular exchanges, Coinbase, back in mid-July. Months back, the exchange announced that the Coinbase team is looking into adding several tokens and coins, which included 0x (ZRX), Cardano (ADA), Stellar Lumens (XLM), ZCash (ZEC), and Basic Attention Token (BAT). ZRX was […]
Coinbase Raises Series E Round of Funding to Finance Efforts to Accelerate Crypto Adoption
Coinbase is an organization with the firm belief that cryptocurrencies and the technologies behind them will bring about an almighty breakthrough in computer science, that will forever change both the internet and the global financial system as we know it. According to Coinbase COO Asiff Hirji, Coinbase sees tremendous promise in crypto’s ability to build […]
Binance Launches a Blockchain Platform Based on Donation Platform
Binance’s blockchain charity foundation (BCF), the social project belonging to the world’s largest crypto exchange has introduced a blockchain based donation platform. The donation project was announced Wednesday, during the world investment forum in Geneva Switzerland organized by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) chengpeng Zao of Binance was among those in attendance […]
0x (ZRX) and the Brilliant Performance of the First ERC20 to Get a Coinbase Listing
Ever since 0x (ZRX) was mentioned in the official announcement that came from the officials of Coinbase exchange, the currency is gaining an increased momentum alongside with several other mentioned tokens and coins like Basic Attention Token (BAT), Cardano (ADA), Stellar Lumens (XLM), and ZCash (ZEC). Although ZRX was doing rather well in the market […]
Japanese ‘expert meeting’ seeks to simplify tax payment for digital assets
Japanese Investigation Committee has commenced discussions aimed at improving the system by simplifying tax payment procedure for virtual currency holders. Reports by regional news outlet Sankei indicated that the committee, which also serves as the main advisory body for the prime minister commenced discussions on improving the policy on taxation on a general assembly meeting […]
Leaked NSA Software tip Causing Bitcoin and Monero to Becoming targets for Hackers
It has been revealed that hackers are illegally generating Bitcoin, Monero and other cryptocurrencies by making the most out of a software flaw leaked from the United States government. This information raises serious questions about the security of one of the fastest growing financial markets. Recently, illicit crypto mining has risen by 459 percent compared […]