Crypto futures platform ErisX adds three heavyweights to executive staff LeapRate

February 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crypto futures platform ErisX adds three heavyweights to executive staff

ErisX moved one step closer to its second quarter opening by beefing up its executive staff with three industry veterans. Thomas Chippas, the CEO of ErisX, recently described his initiative’s primary objective: ErisX stands to provide the most robust, secure and regulated digital asset offering available to both institutional and individual participants. To achieve such…

February 13, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Will a recent survey persuade Amazon to expand its crypto footprint?

Is Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) considering a “Big Play” in Crypto-Land? As news begins to trickle in that high-tech giants like Google, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Samsung, and others have several efforts in the works to incorporate blockchain technology and possibly cryptocurrencies, as well, into their daily operating systems, speculation continues to mount as to what Amazon might be…

How will Google’s Cache product leverage banking links for unique value?

February 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Google tiptoes into Crypto-Land with release of Blockchain Search tools

How would you like to search for patterns in the blockchain of your choice in much the same way as you would search the Internet today? Believe it or not, Google just made search tools available that will perform that task for eight separate blockchain ledgers. Transaction datasets have been loaded upon its “BigQuery” platform…

Digix lists on Korean exchange to boost its local market presence

February 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crypto Winter consequences - South Korean exchanges struggle to survive

As the crypto bear market drags on, the consequences of what has been termed Crypto Winter continue to spread across the globe, especially in South Korea, a known hotbed of cryptocurrency trading and popularity. Recent reports detail a level of carnage that matches in many ways the decline in market values over the past year.…

February 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CEO of Binance: Amazon will have to issue a currency sooner or later

The CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, is a talkative fellow and never one to shy away from expressing his opinions quite publicly. In a recent tweet, CZ expressed his consternation that more major retailers on the Internet have not begun to accept cryptocurrencies for online payments. In his tweet, CZ explained: For any internet…

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Australian Government paper puts unique positive spin on crypto ICOs

Amidst all of the negative press of late related to crypto Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the Australian Government’s Treasury department has recently released an issues paper that draws attention to the many advantages and opportunities that ICOs can bring to businesses and to the Australian economy as a whole. The 27-page paper does not ignore…

China to carry out the initial real-world trial of its central bank digital currency

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Will Chinese New Year celebrations put a dent in crypto trading volumes?

“Gong hei fat choy” or “Gong xi fa tsai”, if you prefer Mandarin to Cantonese, are the preferred ways to wish “Happy New Year” for most of the Chinese population on the planet. While these words actually wish for prosperity in the year to come, this period of the year is usually accompanied by a…

New Broadridge portal automates and transforms the MBS Trade Assignment Process

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Attendees at Paris Fintech Forum lose crypto fever and focus on banking

Paris in the middle of winter can be brutal, but one year ago, attendees at the Paris Fintech Forum were hot with crypto fever. When one of Europe’s biggest annual gatherings of its kind convened this year in the City of Light, over 3,000 entrepreneurs, investors, bankers, and regulators braved the cold once again, but…

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Venezuela in financial and political turmoil, but approves crypto legislation

Desperate people are known to do desperate things, but is that maxim also true for countries? Venezuela, a failing socialist state, has two competing presidents at the moment and an inflation rate of 1.7 million percent. Yes, that is correct. It is not a typo. Due to inflation and a host of other reasons, the…

February 06, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Mac Users Alert: New CookieMiner malware strain targets crypto accounts

According to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, a multinational cybersecurity company, a new insidious malware strain, given the name “CookieMiner”, is targeting Mac users in order to compromise their cryptocurrency accounts. The firm noted that: The attack targets cookies associated with cryptocurrency exchanges that include Binance, Coinbase, Poloniex, Bittrex, Bitstamp, MyEtherWallet, and any website having…

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Crypto futures platform ErisX adds three heavyweights to executive staff

Will a recent survey persuade Amazon to expand its crypto footprint?

Google tiptoes into Crypto-Land with release of Blockchain Search tools

Crypto Winter consequences - South Korean exchanges struggle to survive

CEO of Binance: Amazon will have to issue a currency sooner or later

Australian Government paper puts unique positive spin on crypto ICOs

Will Chinese New Year celebrations put a dent in crypto trading volumes?

Attendees at Paris Fintech Forum lose crypto fever and focus on banking

Venezuela in financial and political turmoil, but approves crypto legislation

Mac Users Alert: New CookieMiner malware strain targets crypto accounts

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