Search Results for: Virtual currencies
Hong Kong unveiled first set of rules governing the cryptocurrency market
November 2nd, 2018
Hong Kong’s financial watchdog unveiled on Thursday a comprehensive set of regulations governing cryptocurrencies in a move to enhance investor protection which analysts believe could help make the city a major trading centre for virtual assets, analysts said. The ...
Crypto’s plunge worse than dot-com crash
September 14th, 2018
As virtual currencies plumbed new depths on Wednesday, the MVIS Crypto-Compare Digital Assets 10 Index extended its collapse from a January high to 80 per cent. The tumble has now surpassed the Nasdaq Composite Index’s 78 per cent peak-to-trough ...
Online lawyers to offer ‘smart contracts’; Blockchain technology to be used
September 10th, 2018
Smart contracts for everyday legal transactions will use blockchain technology as legal and blockchain providers join forces. Online legal services pioneer Rocket Lawyer has announced plans to offer its clients ‘smart contracts’ by integrating blockchain technology into everyday legal ...
The EU is taking another look at regulating crypto
August 30th, 2018
Cryptocurrency traders and issuers of virtual currencies are in for a fresh round of scrutiny from European politicians. Finance ministers from the European Union’s 28 member states will discuss a host of challenges posed by the growing popularity of ...
Cryptominers dreaming of rebound after price crash
August 27th, 2018
Surrounded by the cryptocurrency mining “rig” that is taking over his bedroom, “Ali” lays bare the risks of his trade, revealing his profits “are a tenth of what they were”. Prices of cryptocurrencies have plunged since the heady heights ...
The people who got burned by the Bitcoin boom
August 23rd, 2018
Pete Roberts of Nottingham, England, was one of the many risk-takers who threw their savings into cryptocurrencies when prices were going through the roof last winter. Now, eight months later, the US$23,000 ($34,638) he invested in several digital tokens ...
Bets against bitcoin have doubled since the beginning of August, exchange says
August 17th, 2018
Betting on bitcoin isn’t for everyone. However, according to data from a leading cryptocurrency exchange, interest in betting against the worlds biggest digital currency is growing. Bitfinex, the fourth largest cryptocurrency exchange with 24-hour volume of $614.8 million, has ...
Bitcoin dropped below $6,000 as almost every Cryptocurrency tumbled
August 15th, 2018
Bitcoin dropped below $6,000 and dozens of smaller digital tokens tumbled as this month’s selloff in cryptocurrencies showed few signs of letting up. The largest digital currency fell as much as 6.2 percent to $5,887 as of 3:07 p.m. ...
The top 3 trends in forex trading of 2018
July 30th, 2018
We are almost halfway done with the third quarter of 2018, but there have already been a lot of local and global events that have impacted the foreign exchange market during the first half of the year. The ongoing ...
CFTC announced $1.9 Million penalty for Bitcoin and Binary options fraud scheme
July 25th, 2018
On July 9, 2018, a New York federal court ordered Dillon Michael Dean (Dean) of Longmont, Colorado, and The Entrepreneurs Headquarters Limited (TEH), Dean’s UK-registered company, to pay over $1.9 million in civil monetary penalties and restitution in connection ...
