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Inexperienced Chinese investors are getting stung by fintech scams
September 8th, 2016
China is witnessing a fintech boom. Companies providing electronic payments, cryptocurrency trading and other online financial services there are not only mushrooming, they are among the biggest and most highly rated in the world. The Fintech 100, a ranking ...
MetLife joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
August 31st, 2016
Insurance giant MetLife, Inc. has joined the R3 partnership, a consortium of 60 of the world’s largest financial institutions focused on designing and applying distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies for global financial markets. As one of the largest insurers ...
Baidu Freezes Bitcoin related promotions
August 29th, 2016
China’s leading search engine Baidu has halted—sans any warning—all bitcoin and digital currency-related advertising on its network. Chinese media outlet CnLedger broke the news on Friday, with a tweet that said Baidu “has stopped all virtual coin related keyword advertising (paid search), including bitcoin.” Local bitcoin exchanges ...
Litecoin Price Spikes 10% as Coinbase Exchange Turns on Trading
August 24th, 2016
Litecoin prices rose nearly 10% today as word the digital currency would be listed on Coinbase’s GDAX exchange spread among traders. The move by the exchange to list LTC/USD and LTC/BTC currency pairs, however, was long anticipated, given that ...
Bitcoin Volume in Venezuela Surging Amid Hyperinflation
August 11th, 2016
So far, three Bitcoin exchanges have established themselves in Venezuela. SurBitcoin is by far the biggest, whereas Yabit and Cryptobuyer are relatively new on the scene. Bitcoin remains one of the most popular commodities in all of Venezuela. The ...
Bitcoin Sinks After Hackers Steal $65 Million From Exchange
August 3rd, 2016
Hong Kong-based Bitfinex halts trading, deposits, withdrawals Digital currency is down almost 20 percent this week Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million of the digital currency. Bitcoin slumped 5.5 ...
Gibraltar Stock Exchange welcomes BitcoinETI
July 26th, 2016
The Gibraltar Stock Exchange welcomes BitcoinETI (ticker: BTCETI), an asset-backed Exchange Traded Instrument that is invested exclusively in bitcoin, making it the first European regulated product for the leading digital currency. The Bitcoin Exchange Traded Instrument (ETI) was approved for ...
Bitcoin Trading is Exceeding Gold Trading in Brazil
July 14th, 2016
A report has revealed that the total value of bitcoin trading among digital currency exchanges in Brazil has now surpassed that of gold spot trading on the Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange – the country’s securities market authority ...
Just How Big Is the Digital Currency Industry?
July 8th, 2016
New startups, new investment, new innovation and new ideas, we talk of them all often in the cryptocurrency industry, and often talk of the need for the industry to build into a wider audience. But what is the reality ...
Social Media Blockchain Steem Issues $1.3 Million Payout To Steemit Users
July 6th, 2016
Steemit users had countless reasons to celebrate this most recent Independence Day Weekend thanks to a special reward. On July 4, the fast-growing social media site Steemit distributed digital currency payouts worth approximately $1.3 million, or 10% of Steem’s ...