Entries from 2019-03-21 to 1 day

Clients of Coinsbit exchange will be able to buy cryptocurrency via POS-terminals

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsbit, which received a license for trading in the EU, announced the integration with 200 000 POS-terminals, which will allow customers to purchase digital coins for Fiat without intermediaries. This was reported…

Mining company Balmain presented Antminer Z11 for ZCash

The largest manufacturer of equipment for mining cryptocurrency Bitcoin presented the device Antminer Z11 for mining ZCash and other cryptocurrencies based on the Equihash algorithm. The company claims that the new miner is three times mor…

CoinMarketCap has added a rating system for crypto-currencies

A leading provider of market data on cryptocurrencies CoinMarketCap has added support for the crypto core assets result rating system (FCAS) from a startup of the other side of crypto. This was reported by the head of the latter Dave Bolte…

The number of cryptocurrency companies lobbying their interests in Washington has tripled in 2018

In the fourth quarter of 2017, only a dozen cryptocurrency and blockchain companies paid for lobbying their interests in Washington. During 2018, their number has almost tripled to 33 organizations, according to Politico.

Bitcoin exchange Bithumb fired half the staff

The largest South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb confirmed CoinDesk's intention to reduce 50% of its employees. Thus, the updated staff of the company will be 150 people.

The head of the Circle: stabilini with an open standard will dominate

The head of the bitcoin startup Circle Jeremy Allair expressed confidence that the stablecoin on the basis of open standards will dominate the coins issued by individual companies.

"Patent Troll" Craig Wright is waiting for approval of 155 applications for blockchain solutions, which never mentions bitcoin

Senior researcher at nChain Craig Wright since August 2017 filed 155 patent applications with the mention of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. This writes the Next Web, citing data from the world intellectual property organization…

The Swiss giant of online retail has added support for cryptocurrencies

Digitec Galaxy s, a leading player in the Swiss online retail market, has added support for cryptocurrency payments. This is stated in the press release.Thus, the company intends to accept bitcoin, Bitcoin Cashu, Bitcoin SV, Ethereum, Ripp…

Galaxy Digital billionaire Mike Novogratz has invested in startup Bison Trails

Blockchain startup from new York Bison Trailers has successfully closed the sid round of financing led by firms Initialized Capital and Accomplice. The total investment amounted to $5.25 million. Notation Capital, Homebrew, cryptocurrency …

Japan has limited leverage for margin trading in cryptocurrencies

Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges will be forced to limit leverage for margin trading of digital currencies. If earlier the maximum limit for such instruments was x25, now the leverage should not exceed the size of the initial Deposit more…

Parity creates The first alternative client for zcash cryptocurrency

Leading developer of solutions for The Ethereum ecosystem, Parity Technologies has announced a partnership with the Zcash Foundation. As part of this cooperation, the first alternative client for the private cryptocurrency Zcash will be cr…

One of the largest technology corporations in the United States began to accept bitcoins

Avnet, a Fortune 500 technology solution provider, has announced support for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as payment options. The company from Phoenix, Arizona, implemented this opportunity with the support of BitPay processing servi…

With the help of Binance, Australian residents will be able to buy bitcoins in newsstands

The cryptocurrency exchange Finance has announced the launch of the Finance Lite Australia platform, through which Australians will be able to purchase bitcoin at more than 1,300 newsstands across the country. In the message of the exchang…

How do changes in the balances of "whales" wallets affect the price of bitcoin?

The bear market is changing the landscape of the cryptocurrency market - while some investors are disappointed in the prospects of new assets, others buy them at a bargain price, increasing the volume of portfolios. At the same time, the s…

Bitcoin will grow to $ 250 thousand and will take 5% of the total share of the global economy

An influential venture investor, the head of Draper Associates and one of the early followers of bitcoin, Tim Draper is known to many thanks to his repeated statements that in the next few years the price of the first cryptocurrency will g…

Nasdaq, Bloomberg and Reuters will start displaying coinmarketcap cryptocurrency indices

On Wednesday, March 20, the NASDAQ Global Index Data Service (GIDS), Bloomberg Terminal, Thomson Reuters Eikon (Refinitiv) and Stuttgart stock exchange platforms launch two benchmark cryptocurrency indices from the leading market data prov…

Nvidia expects to be able to sell "stale" video cards for mining

The top management of the manufacturer of video cards and chips Nvidia expressed the hope that in the foreseeable future the company will be able to sell the accumulated stocks of equipment in its warehouses, a significant part of which in…

Bitcoin hashrate reached its highest levels in the last four months

The total computing power in the bitcoin network reached the indicators of the beginning of November last year, which is the maximum level for the last four months. So, according to the data Blockchain.com, on Tuesday, March 19, the figure…