New York-based Gemini exchange adds a Chicago office in a move to extend engineering expertise for the platform. Winklevoss brothers-led Gemini crypto exchange is launching a new office in Chicago, the firm officially announced on June 27. Headquartered in New York, Gemini adds its new Chicago office to their existing office in Portland, Oregon, Gemini […]
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Square has just made bitcoin deposits available to the general public on its Cash App. San Francisco-based payments company Square has just made bitcoin (BTC) deposits available on its Cash App on June 26 Cash App users will now be able to deposit bitcoins from external wallets into their app bitcoin address. According to Square’s […]
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In the wake of CCN’s Google saga, CT looks at which centralized companies have been hostile to crypto firms in the past. On June 10, one of the top cryptocurrency media sites, CCN, initially announced that it would shut down, citing a June 3 Google Core Update for stifling its traffic. Writing on the website, […]
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One of the oldest crypto sites shuts down, then comes back up immediately, citing loss of traffic. Here at Cointelegraph, we were as shocked as everyone else in and around the crypto-sphere when we learned about the abrupt closure of stalwart crypto media outlet CCN. Established at around the same time as Cointelegraph and CoinDesk, CCN […]
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The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland approved a ConsenSys-backed blockchain firm to operate as e-money business. The Financial Supervisory Authority (FME), Iceland’s sole financial regulator, has approved the first blockchain-powered e-money firm in the country, crypto media outlet CoinDesk reported June 14. Reykjavik-based Monerium, backed by blockchain software company ConsenSys, has reportedly been approved by […]
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CCN, one of the top crypto media sites globally, has announced that they are shutting down. Top cryptocurrency media site CCN is shutting down today, June 10th, according to an announcement on their website. The post, written by Jonas Borchgrevink, director and founder of CCN Markets and Hawkfish AS, states that the reason behind the […]
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The number of open contracts for CME bitcoin futures is reportedly at an all-time high. The number of open contracts for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) bitcoin (BTC) futures is reportedly at an all-time high, cryptocurrency news outlet Coindesk reported on June 3. According to visible data released by the United States Commodity Futures Trading […]
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Walmart is planning to pilot a blockchain project allowing to track pharma products using MediLedger tech U.S. FDA in early June. Global retail giant Walmart is expanding its blockchain expertise by joining blockchain-powered pharmaceutical consortium MediLedger, industry media outlet CoinDesk reports on June 3. Walmart is reportedly planning to roll out a pilot project to […]
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Next week’s mobile wallet trading will mark the return of a fifth cryptocurrency to the company’s wallet. Cryptocurrency data aggregator and wallet provider Blockchain.info will launch trading of its fifth coin, paxos standard token (PAX), on Monday, the company told industry news outlet CoinDesk on May 31. Paxos is a United States dollar-pegged stablecoin, and […]
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A security firm analyzing the content of the emails believes a Pyongyang hacker group masterminded the scheme. Hackers from North Korea were behind a phishing scam targeting users of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UpBit, Korean-language cryptocurrency news outlet CoinDesk Korea reported on May 29. According to findings by local cybersecurity firm East Security, the scam […]
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