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Hunt for XEM 526m Coincheck Hackers Intensifies, Several Men Suspected
24.12.2019
Source: iStock/Marco_Piunti
Japanese police appear to be close to a breakthrough in the ongoing search for hackers who made off with NEM (XEM) 526 million (around USD 400 million at the time and USD 17 million today) from the Coincheck crypto exchange in January 2018.
The hack, the biggest...
Buterin: Binance DEX Should Be Criticized for Centralization, Not ETH
23.12.2019
Binance’s decentralized exchange Binance DEX is a “way better target” for criticism over being centralized than Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin believes
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 51
23.12.2019
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know...
Disappointing IEOs, Up To USD 150M IPO, Bitcoin ETF Battles + More News
23.12.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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BitMEX Research says that all 11 Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs) they looked into in their May report have seen...
BitMEX: Crypto IEO ‘Poor Performance’ Sees Investors Lose up to 98%
23.12.2019
IEO investors face up to potential near total losses, with most crypto tokens hemorrhaging value versus launch price
EOSIO Proposal Would Prevent Users From Buying Blockchain’s Resources
23.12.2019
EOSIO proposed a system that would prevent users from owning CPU time and bandwidth on the network, and would rent it instead
Coinbase Phases Out Earn.com, Doubles Down on Coinbase Earn
23.12.2019
Coinbase shuts down its Earn.com crypto educational platform to focus on its in-house counterpart Coinbase Earn
Bitcoin Price Breaches $7,400 Mark as Most Top-20 Coins See Gains
22.12.2019
Bitcoin approaches the $7,400 mark again as most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies report moderate gains
Real Bitcoin Double Spends Are Hard, Looking Into Alleged Issue
22.12.2019
Bitcoin Cash point-of-sale payment system provider BitcoinBCH potentially misinformed the public into believing Bitcoin double spending is easy to carry out
Ripple: XRP Price Lost 95% in 2 Years — Is It Time Now to Get Bullish?
21.12.2019
Ripple’s XRP just hit the lowest price level in over 2 years — time to buy?
Bitcoin Price Diary: Long BTC From $6.5K and Back in Altcoin Positions
21.12.2019
The return of volatility to the crypto market and Bitcoin’s drop to $6,400 allowed traders to easily secure a 10% on BTC price action and even higher gains from altcoins
Bitfinex Now Enables Users to Purchase Crypto With Credit and Debit Card
20.12.2019
Crypto exchange Bitfinex now enables its users to purchase cryptocurrencies with both credit and debit cards
Ripple Raises $200M, Calls 2019 Its Strongest Year of Growth
20.12.2019
Ripple announces $200 million Series C, claims that the firm sees its “strongest year of growth” despite its sales dropping 73% in Q3
Ripple Raises USD 200M From Tetragon, SBI Holdings & Route 66 Ventures
20.12.2019
Ripple, a San Francisco-based blockchain startup focusing on the payments technologies, announced that is raised USD 200 million in Series C funding from a group of notable investors.
The funding round was led by global investment firm Tetragon, with participation from SBI Holdings and Route...
Bitcoin Retains $7K as 'Extreme Fear' Clashes With Parabolic Forecast
20.12.2019
Bitcoin sentiment is more deeply entrenched in “extreme fear” than at the 2018 bear market bottom
FTX Token Rallies on Binance and Derivatives Exchange FTX Deal News
20.12.2019
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, and Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX. Source: Twitter, @SBF_Alameda
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance invested in the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX, and FTX Token (FTT) rallied.
The unspecified "strategic equity investment" into the company that...
Monero Malware Botnet Lurks Behind Taylor Swift JPEGs
19.12.2019
The MyKings botnet is aggressively propagating Monero mining malware concealed behind online content that includes Taylor Swift photos, researcher say
Maker Foundation Announces $27.5 Million MKR Sale, Expands DeFi to Asian Market
19.12.2019
Maker Foundation Sells $27.5 million MKR to Dragonfly Capital and Paradigm, driving DeFi adoption in Asia
IOTA Pledges a ‘Bright 2020’ in New Roadmap but Market Is Unimpressed
19.12.2019
IOTA (MIOTA) prices have fallen in the past 24 hours – despite upward trends in most altcoin prices and the release of a new roadmap.
At the time of writing (11:46 UTC), IOTA, ranked 23rd by market capitalization, is down almost 2% on the past 24 hours, at a time when tokens like Ethereum (ETH)...
MoneyGram's Success Depends on Ripple's Success - CEO
19.12.2019
While major money transfer company MoneyGram has already pushed more than USD 100 million through Ripple's platform, the blockchain-based startup's capability to lure more clients will be crucial to the partnership’s future, according to Alex Holmes, CEO and Chairman of MoneyGram.
As reported...