After the hard fork of Ethereum that happened on the 16th of October, the community seems more united, judging by the record number of transactions handles by Ethereum with speed and no delays. The network now boasts low fees and no congestion. According to Cryptoinvest, the Ethereum network manages almost half a million transactions daily,…
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CharityStars, the online fundraising auction platform, today announced that cryptocurrencies will be accepted on the platform for the first time. A bid of $36,000 USD worth of bitcoin awarded the auction winner with the opportunity to meet the legendary soccer champion, Cristiano Ronaldo. This marks a significant milestone for CharityStars as the company further cements its…
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RoboForex, an international brokerage group which provides online trading services on the global financial markets, just announced that it has expanded the list of its offers available to clients and enabled access to trading CFDs on cryptocurrencies. Two of the most liquid digital currencies, bitcoin and ethereum, have been added to the list of trading…
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With cryptocurrencies becoming more popular and maturing in the investment world in thousands of portfolios, industries and innovations, all of them at some point must go through an upgrade. For Ethereum, this upgrade will happen on October 17th, and what is known as "hard fork" will come to life. For many investors, the difference between…
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The 23-year old co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, gave an interview to two of the largest news reporting companies in South Korea, JoongAng Daily and JoongAng Ilbo, expressing his thoughts on the future of Ethereum, ICOs and the cryptocurrency merits, as reported by Cointelegraph. Vitalik spoke about the issues that Ethereum is currently facing with scaling.…
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The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has made a statement in which cautions investors, as the commission has noted the emergence of digital token based fundraising activities / investment schemes in Malaysia and elsewhere, which may be referred to as “initial coin offerings”, “initial token offerings”, “token pre-sale”, “token crowd-sale” (collectively referred to as ICO schemes…
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Along with the Bitcoin Cash addition, global forex broker Admiral Markets has announced that CFDs on Bitcoin and Ether are now enabled for short selling. Sell stop and sell limit orders are now also available. Traders with an Admiral.Markets account will now have the opportunity to capitalise either on trends and corrections of the world's two most…
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UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) today announced that has launched trading on Ether, the token of the Ethereum network. This development enables traders to take a position on whether the value of the cryptocurrency will rise or fall, without having to take the risks associated with buying and storing it. Rupert…
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ShapeShift AG just announced that has acquired Seattle-based KeepKey, a secure hardware wallet for digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The vertical integration of KeepKey and ShapeShift enables users to safely store assets on a KeepKey device, while trading these assets directly over the ShapeShift API from the device's interface. KeepKey integrated ShapeShift’s API…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that has issued an order granting LedgerX, LLC registration as a derivatives clearing organization under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). Under the order, LedgerX will be authorized to provide clearing services for fully-collateralized digital currency swaps. LedgerX, which was also granted an order of registration as…
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