Day: January 17, 2019

South African Gov’t Reveals It Has No Plans to Ban Crypto in Recent Consultation Paper

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The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has issued a consultation paper assessing the benefits and risks of cryptocurrencies. The paper, developed jointly with a number of the country’s government agencies, was announced in an official statement published Jan. 16. In the document, titled “Consultation Paper on Policy Proposals for Crypto Assets,” South Africa’s government clarifies that it does not intend to ban either cryptocurrency trading, or crypto payments at the moment. The consultation paper further proposes that all crypto asset trading platforms, as well as custodial services, payment service providers,…

Investors Are ‘Thoughtfully Dipping their Toes into Crypto,’ Not Taking the Plunge

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Sterling Witzke, partner at the Winklevoss twins’ family office Winklevoss Capital, says she doesn’t think 2019 will be the watershed year for institutional investors to get into crypto. Witzke backed her claim by arguing that expectations are running ahead of facts on the ground. Witzke made her remarks during an interview with Cointelegraph at the Crypto Finance Conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Jan. 17. She argued that the upshot of the 2017 crypto market bull run — when Bitcoin soared to all-time highs of $20,000 a coin — has been…

ConsenSys’ Lubin Joins Wall Street Crypto Exchange ErisX: Ethereum Futures Inbound?

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Crypto Veteran Lubin Joins ErisX Board On Thursday, amid a crypto market lull, ErisX, an up-and-coming Bitcoin services provider backed by Wall Street powerhouse TD Ameritrade, made a surprising, forward-thinking announcement. Per a company release, issued via BusinessWire, the American upstart announced the addition of two board members. Alongside Accel Partners ‘executive in residence’ Cris Conde, a fintech entrepreneur, Joseph Lubin, the founder of ConsenSys and one of the minds behind Ethereum, will be joining ErisX’s board as the platform purportedly nears its inaugural day online. Conde replaces Cliff Lewis…

BitTorrent’s Tron-Based BTT Token Integration Will Launch by Summer

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BitTorrent’s system dubbed BitTorrent Speed, which will integrate the Tron-based BTT token into the popular µTorrent Windows client, will launch by summer. The company has confirmed this in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Jan. 19. BitTorrent Speed will issue cryptocurrency token rewards to users that serve content to others via the µTorrent network. The client’s users — which number more than 100 million, according to BitTorrent — will also be able to pay for faster downloads with the same tokens. The company also announced that to all accounts…

Crypto News | UPS Invests in Blockchain & Circle Stablecoin Fully Backed

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All major cryptocurrencies are seeing red again today. This week has brought higher-than-normal volatility for most of the top digital currencies on the market, making investors scratch their heads. Today, we’ll take a look at the latest trending crypto news. Crypto News: UPS Invests in Blockchain Today, the top crypto news is surrounding the logistic giant, the United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS). It was announced that the investment arm of the shipping company made an undisclosed equity investment in the US enterprise blockchain company, Inxeption. This UPS investment will be used…

Police Are on the Case While Community Tracks Down Stolen Funds

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In what seems to be one of the first major security breaches of 2019, New Zealand-based digital assets exchange Cryptopia was allegedly hacked this week. The platform reported the incident via Twitter on Jan. 15, mentioning “significant losses.” While the incident has been confirmed by the local police, many crucial details — including the amount and titles of stolen tokens — remain undisclosed. Brief introduction to Cryptopia, an essential exchange for altcoins Cryptopia Limited, the company behind the self-titled exchange, was registered in July 2014, and the platform itself was…

Bitcoin Giant Grayscale Bolster Institutional Offerings, Launches Stellar Lumens Trust

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While Bitcoin (BTC) and a majority of cryptocurrencies, save for Augur’s REP, have remained in a mundane price lull to start 2019, this industry’s upstarts have forged ahead. Grayscale Investments, a self-proclaimed “global leader in digital asset management,” recently launched an investment vehicle centered around Stellar Lumens (XLM) in a seeming bid to spark Wall Street interest. Related Reading: Bitcoin Startup BitGo May Spark Wall Street Participation In Crypto Meet Grayscale’s Trust For “Ripple Competitor” Stellar Lumens On Thursday, Grayscale, one of crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group’s foremost branches, launched an…

BTC Cap Up $700 million From $3,700 Support

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Bitcoin price ranging, up $700 million in the last 10 Hours Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis research confirms there is BTC demand Transactional volumes low. Drops from 18k to 15k in three days Market participants are optimistic and for good reasons. Candlestick arrangement points at bulls, and as prices swing between Jan 14 high low, our immediate triggers will be at $3,800. All the same ideal targets are at $4,500 and $6,000 on the upside. Bitcoin Price Analysis Fundamentals Aside from supervising and regulating financial institutions in the US,…

MIT, Stanford Researchers to Fund New ‘Globally Scalable’ Cryptocurrency, ‘Unit-e’

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A group of researchers from top United States universities have announced the launch of a “globally scalable decentralized payments network,” according to a press release published today, Jan. 17. The development of the cryptocurrency, dubbed “Unit-e,” is being funded by Distributed Technologies Research (DTR) — a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, whose official launch was also announced today in the press release. DTR includes researchers from seven major U.S. universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, as Bloomberg reports. The organization…

Crypto Payments Service BitPay Reports It Saw Over $1 Billion in Transactions in 2018

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Major cryptocurrency payment service provider BitPay has reported $1 billion in transactions this past year, according to a press release Jan. 16. According to the report, the company also set a new record for itself in terms of transaction fee revenue. Among major new customers this past year, BitPay named Dish Networks, HackerOne, and the State of Ohio. BitPay also reported that its B2B business has grown by almost 255 percent from 2017. Despite a massive crypto decline in 2018, BitPay’s CEO and co-founder Stephen Pair argued that the firm…