Two South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges to suspend fiat withdrawals for unverified traders
Attempts of South Korean authorities to fight anonymous trading in the cryptocurrency market have not yet been crowned with success. But the new initiative of the largest crypto exchanges can force traders to pass verification.
US Stock Exchange Nasdaq to buy Sweden-based developer of cryptotrading solutions
Nasdaq, the second largest stock exchange of the world, announced its plans to purchase Sweden-based developer of software for brokers and stock exchanges. Crypto-enthusiasts pay attention to the fact that Cinnober is actively working in the digital assets market.
Криптовалютная платформа EXMO выходит на турецкий рынок
Криптовалютная платформа EXMO объявляет о запуске на турецком рынке: на платформе появилась турецкая лира (TRY), версия сайта и служба поддержки на турецком языке.
WEF: blockchain will help to protect environment more effectively
The World Economic Forum found more than 65 use cases for blockchain implementation. The technology may contribute to solving environmental problems.
ARROUND: expanding the boundaries of reality
September 15 marks the start of ARROUND Token Sale, the project that will allow combining virtual and real environments using augmented reality technologies. How will it work? What does this combination have to offer businesses and regular users? We asked these and a host of other questions to the CEO of ARROUND – Neil Bryant who boasts many years of successful experience in international IT companies and news agencies
MyEtherWallet undergoes up to 40 hacking attempts weekly
The popular Ethereum-service MyEtherWallet faces more hacker attacks than banks from the Fortune 500 list.
Ethereum testnet to activate Constantinople hard fork in October
Constantinople, the upcoming hard fork of Ethereum, is preliminarily scheduled to be activated in the next month. The date of its activation in the Ethereum mainnet will be decided later.
BitGo gets approval on its custodian service for institutional investors
The South Dakota Division of Banking approved the BitGo's request to create a custodial solution for cryptocurrencies focused mainly on institutional investors.
Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley to launch bitcoin swaps
The investment bank Morgan Stanley is studying the possibility of launching complex derivatives that will provide investors with indirect access to the cryptocurrency market.
Report: nine out of ten altcoins are plagiarism
Chinese specialists conducted a research, conluding that 80% of altcoins are plagiarized, and codes of some of them look like a Xerox copy of each other.
Analysis: $5000 is fair price for bitcoin
The cryptocurrency market is unlikely to return to rapid growth in the near term, the chief advisor of Allianz believes. Investors should expect that bitcoin falls even lower.
Opinion: stablecoins are no answer to bitcoin's instability
The fashion for so called stable coins, whose price is pegged to real assets and fiat currencies, is unlikely to correct the instability of the cryptocurrency market and bitcoin, Professor of Economics at the University of Berkeley believes.
US court equates ICO tokens with securities
A district court in the United States rules that tokens issued within tokensales and ICO should be subject to US securities laws.
Report: cybercriminals find new ways to steal cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency exchanges, wallets and other crypto services remain the most vulnerable infrastructure to cyberattacks. The number of attacks on crypto exchanges doubled in the second quarter, a report says.
Statistics: Less than a half of South Korean traders verified their identity
Although all South Korean crypto exchanges have to use the real-name accounts, in reality, only half of their customers verified their identity and converted virtual accounts to real-name ones.
Analysis: ICO projects hold up to 40% of ETH raised
Although many analysts accuse ICO projects of pushing the Ethereum price down by selling of their reserves of ETH raised during crowdsales, a new study proves that this reason may be exaggerated.
