Crypto Survey: 60% of crypto users uncomfortable after sending payments LeapRate

Berkshire Bank offers real-time payments with Finastra

March 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crypto Survey: 60% of crypto users uncomfortable after sending payments

In order for cryptocurrencies to gain widespread public acceptance as something other than a pure investment vehicle, the process for making payments or transfers must be convenient, straightforward, and easy to do. Trust and confidence can only come from this triad of sorts, and the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO), a concerned group within the…

March 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

South Korea and Russia moving to block unknown users of cryptos

If there is one thing that troubles regulators and law enforcement officials the world over about cryptocurrencies, it is the fact that the criminal element in our society is given free rein to gallop about the blockchain of its choice, knowing full well that the anonymity of the technology will disguise its every move. A…

March 13, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Analyst predicts Facebook’s FaceCoin could earn up to $19 billion by 2021

It is always encouraging for crypto enthusiasts when one of the titans of Fintech makes a demonstrative move in the crypto space. These moves are what must happen in order to raise public awareness to the next level, and one such highly anticipated move has been the development of a Facebook-based cryptocurrency, FaceCoin. The social…

March 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fidelity Digital Asset Services actively building customer base for cryptos

While the crypto community eagerly anticipates the participation of institutional heavyweights in 2019, Fidelity’s new cryptocurrency company has actually been active, silently surveying, educating, and steadily adding interested institutional investor clients, comprised at this point primarily of hedge funds and family offices. Tom Jessop, the head of Fidelity Digital Assets, recently shared his thoughts in…

Mt. Gox trustee granted another delay for distribution plan for victims

March 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

UN Panel of experts claims North Korea behind majority of exchange hacks

In what many may perceive as a reiteration of the obvious, the Nikkei Asian Review has reported that an unnamed panel of experts has advised the U.N. Security Council that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been the driving force behind crypto exchange hacks since 2016 and has used its ill-gotten gains of $670…

March 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bitcoin’s February run breaks six-month losing streak – Can it continue?

Bitcoin enthusiasts have cause for celebration, after many frigid months of Crypto Winter. For the first time since July of 2018, Bitcoin valuations actually appreciated for a month, delivering a respectable growth rate for February of 10.4%. One has to return to July and April of last year to find similar positive performance stats, 21.5%…

March 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Opera extending its cryptocurrency-focused browser to the iPhone

If you are waiting for Samsung or Apple to get with cryptocurrencies and incorporate crypto wallets within their various smartphone sets, you now have an alternative that will achieve the same thing. Opera, a browser software company, announced that it is now testing its Opera Touch browser with built-in crypto wallet in the iOS operating…

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Iran moves closer to crypto reality success with PayMon, ala “crypto rial”

More details have been forthcoming regarding the Iranian government’s attempt to build its own national cryptocurrency. CipherTrace, a digital asset security firm, has reported that this new virtual currency, named PayMon but dubbed “crypto rial”, has a real chance at success, unlike its predecessor in Venezuela. The obvious objective of this effort has been to…

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March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

College campuses are major crypto miners at the universities’ expense

Paying for a college education has always been a daunting task for many students that that were not fortunate to come from a background of privilege. Outside of student loans, these resourceful folks tend to find a clever way or two to earn extra cash, while completing their various curriculums of study. The method employed…

Craig Wright – Satoshi Nakamoto imposter or not – Judge not impressed

March 07, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

QuadrigaCX’s sordid saga continues – Cold wallets cleaned out April 2018

QuadrigaCX, the crypto storyline that keeps on giving, took another bizarre twist, as investigators determined that Gerry Cotten, the CEO of the exchange, had cleaned out the cold storage account balances as far back as April 2018, presumably transferring them to QuadrigaCX accounts at other exchanges. Ernst & Young reported these finding to the court,…

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Crypto Survey: 60% of crypto users uncomfortable after sending payments

South Korea and Russia moving to block unknown users of cryptos

Analyst predicts Facebook’s FaceCoin could earn up to $19 billion by 2021

Fidelity Digital Asset Services actively building customer base for cryptos

UN Panel of experts claims North Korea behind majority of exchange hacks

Bitcoin’s February run breaks six-month losing streak – Can it continue?

Opera extending its cryptocurrency-focused browser to the iPhone

Iran moves closer to crypto reality success with PayMon, ala “crypto rial”

College campuses are major crypto miners at the universities’ expense

QuadrigaCX’s sordid saga continues – Cold wallets cleaned out April 2018

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