Research: Twitter Is Filled With Thousands Of Cryptocurrency Scam Bots
Researchers found a ramified network of bots promoting cryptocurrency fraudulent schemes in the social network. The most popular way to cheat investors is so called giveaways of coins.
Former Visa CEO's startup runs the fastest crypto transactions in the world
Blockchain based fintech startup Crypterium challenges classic banks by introducing its new feature that allows its users to transfer any amount of cryptocurrency using not the complicated wallet addresses, but simply the recipient phone number.
Cryptocurrency ATMs Number In The World Exceed 3500
Since the beginning of the year, the number of ATMs providing services for purchase or sale of cryptocurrencies has almost doubled. The majority of them allows to buy and sell bitcoins and is located in the US.
Pumpers Made $825 Million In Six Months Manipulating Cryptocurrency Market - WSJ
Trades on the largest cryptocurrency exchanges are manipulated by groups of scammers who use the "pump and dump" schemes forbidden in the traditional financial market.
Bitmain Invests $500 Million In New Mining Center in US
Bitmain, Chinese manufacturer of mining equipment, confirmed that it is opening a cryptocurrency mining enterprise in the United States. Investments in the data center are estimated at about $500 million.
Blockchain Smartphone Developer says "no" to IOTA and chooses Ethereum
Israeli-based Sirin Labs decided to change its plans for the use of Internet of Things blockchain platform IOTA. Now Sirin Labs' future blockchain smartphone will be launched on Ethereum.
Ukraine Proposes 5% Taxation On Cryptocurrency Exchange Operations
The Ukrainian parliament is preparing a bill proposing to introduce a 5% tax on exchange of cryptocurrency assets in fiat. Additionally, individuals will have to pay another 1.5% of military fees.
Swiss bank UBS: bitcoin is not comparable with fiat
The Swiss financial UBS holding again came out to criticize bitcoin, while acknowledging that in the future bitcoin will be able to replace fiat currencies, but currently bitcoin does not fit this role.
Second largest German stock exchange to launch ICO platform
Stock Exchange of Stuttgart announced its plans to develop and launch special infrastructure for digital assets. A platform for tokensales will be the first stage of this plan.
OTC platforms beats crypto exchanges by trading volume
Trading volume on OTC platforms is several times higher than the volume on cryptocurrency exchanges. Large investors need high liquidity, something that crypto exchanges can not yet brag of.
Russia meets mining boom with overall 75,000 mining farms
The number of mining companies in Russia has grown to 75,000 in 2018. Despite the fall of the cryptocurrency market, Russian entrepreneurs continue to enter mining business.
Bitfinex changes fee tiers in order to attract more institutional-grade traders
Bitfinex, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, decided to decrease trading fees for large-scale traders. It is another step of Bitfinex on the way to become an institutional-grade platform.
Bithumb looses bank support and halts new virtual accounts registration
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb failed to renew its contract with the bank to service customers' accounts. Under current legislation, the exchange no longer has the right to open new accounts.
Vitalik Buterin about cryptocurrencies: the bubble almost burst
Ethereum co-founder is sure that the cryptocurrency market is in a bubble stage, but it already started deflated.
Bank transfers on blockchain: rivalry or synergy
The distributed ledger technology is often considered rival of traditional financial systems of bank-to-bank communication.
McAfee raises bounty for hacking his wallet, refutes all malware allegations
John McAfee's cryptocurrency wallet BitFi runs spyware, sending information to Chinese servers. But McAfee refutes all vulnerabilities and accuses researchers of not even holding BitFi in their hands.
