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Exchange Floats New Product for Mining BTC
Binance also disclosed that the BTC mining subscription service will only be active for 180 days or thereabout. The weight of regulatory pressure from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) appears to have little or no effect on the activities of crypto exchange Binance. This follows after the exchange recently announced the Binance cloud mining product and services. According to the announcement, the service goes live on Thursday, June 15th, and access to it will be subscription-based. That is, from Thursday, Binance users who would love to mine Bitcoin…
ChatGPT-Based Tool Lands on Crypto Exchange Bybit’s Trading Platform
The new feature, called ToolsGPT, is an AI chatbot that users can query for “technical analysis, backtested price data, and other essential metrics,” the firm said in a press release on Thursday. For example, Bybit traders will be able to analyze future price trends based on past data and technical indicators using the tool. Source
Crypto Exchange Bit2Me Raises $15M to Grow in Spain and Latin America
“This funding will boost our acquisition of new customers specially thanks to Investcorp, an international partner with significant financial muscle, and to Telefónica, who will give us more channels in Latin America,” Leif Ferreira, co-founder and CEO of Bit2Me, said in a statement. Source
MetaMask Developer ConsenSys Challenges SEC’s Proposed ‘Exchange’ Definition, Citing Blockchain Misunderstandings
Blockchain tech company ConsenSys, represented by lawyer Bill Hughes, has formally objected to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) concerning the redefinition of a securities “exchange”. Hughes voiced these objections in a series of tweets today. ConsenSys contends that the amendments proposed by the SEC would be unlawful if finalized in their current form, as they are intended to apply to blockchain protocols. They allege that the reopening release fails to rectify key legal deficiencies in the proposed amendments, misinterprets the term “exchange” as per…
North Korean Hackers Launder Stolen Crypto Funds Through Sanctioned Exchange
Blockchain security firm Elliptic has revealed that the attackers responsible for the recent $35 million exploit of crypto wallet Atomic Wallet are moving the stolen funds through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)-sanctioned exchange Garantex. Elliptic investigators strongly believe that the notorious North Korean hacking group, Lazarus, was behind the hack, as previously reported. Garantex, which was sanctioned by the OFAC last year due to lax anti-money laundering measures and its facilitation of illicit activities, has become the channel for transferring the pilfered funds, according to Elliptic. While several…
Crypto Exchange Binance Seeks to Withdraw Cyprus’ Unit Crypto Service Registration
“We are working hard to prepare our business to be fully compliant with MiCA when it is implemented in the next 18 months,” a Binance spokesperson said in an email to CoinDesk. “To that end, we have made the decision to pull back efforts in Cyprus to focus on our efforts on fewer regulated entities in the EU.” Source
Binance CEO Refutes Claims of Exchange Selling Bitcoin to Stabilize BNB Price
Several market analysts, including Dylan LeClair and Cory Klippsten, CEO of Swan Bitcoin, have voiced concerns about Binance’s alleged activities in manipulating the market. Following the recent United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Binance Holdings Limited and Binance.US, the American arm of the largest global crypto exchange, on June 5, the company’s US market share has dwindled significantly to around 78% as market makers and traders flew the exchange due to the regulatory pressure in the country. Amid these challenges, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has refuted…
Bittrex U.S. to Allow Withdrawals Starting Thursday After Crypto Exchange Wins Bankruptcy Court Ruling
In his Tuesday ruling, Judge Brendan Shannon authorized Bittrex U.S. and its affiliates “to permit their customers holding undisputed, noncontingent, and liquidated claims to withdraw cryptocurrency assets and fiat currency from the Debtors’ trading platform to the extent of such claims.” Source
Binance’s CZ Hits Back at Rumors of Exchange Selling Bitcoin (BTC) For BNB Coin (BNB)
On Tuesday, tweets from popular traders @JW100x and @52kskew, which pointed to short-term price correlations between a sell-off in bitcoin (BTC) and a purchase of BNB, went viral. The tweets were viewed over 3 million times cumulatively, as per Twitter data. Source