Centre consortium founders Coinbase and Circle open invitations to other institutions wishing to issue USD Coin. Stablecoins have become rather frequently discussed in the news and social media over the past few weeks, especially with the news of the release of the Facebook-backed Libra coin. The current wave of stablecoin issuance could be attributed to […]
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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are portrayed as the good guys this time in Ben Mezrich’s new book. This interview has been edited and condensed. I don’t normally write the stories here at Cointelegraph — I edit them. But when I got an email from a publicist asking if I was interested in speaking with Ben […]
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Ben Mezrich’s new book about the Winklevoss twins highlights their dislike of both Mark Zuckerberg and Roger Ver. Molly Jane Zuckerman is the head of news at Cointelegraph. The views expressed here are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Cointelegraph. This article contains spoilers. The irony of a book about the […]
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Six crypto exchanges have been hacked so far in 2019. How can cyber attacks be avoided and addressed in the future? Throughout the past six months, seven crypto exchanges have reportedly seen large-scale hacking attacks to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, with the most recent platform to suffer a security breach being […]
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CryptoCompare has launched an Exchange Benchmark product that ranks over 100 crypto spot exchanges worldwide. London-based crypto data provider CryptoCompare has launched an Exchange Benchmark product that ranks over 100 crypto spot exchanges worldwide. The news was revealed in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on June 12. According to CryptoCompare, the new product has […]
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Fintech startup SoFi — known for its online lending services — has seen three top executives depart from the company. Fintech startup SoFi — known for its online lending services — has seen three of its top executives depart from the company, the Wall Street Journal reports on June 4. As Cointelegraph reported at the […]
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Comments from the regulator’s chairman, J. Christopher Giancarlo, suggest an active relationship between the two parties is forming. United States regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is in talks with Facebook about its upcoming stablecoin launch, the Financial Times (FT) reported on June 2. Citing chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, the publication revealed that Facebook […]
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The crypto market dropped off $19 billion as the price of bitcoin briefly dropped to $8,000. On May 30, overnight, the valuation of the crypto market dropped by $19 billion as the price of bitcoin (BTC) briefly dropped from $9,000 to $8,000 — a staggering 11% within a few hours on exchanges like Bitstamp. The […]
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The size of the legitimate BTC trade volume is just as large as the bitcoin futures market, Bitwise tells the SEC. At the 1997 edition of the annual Worldwide Developers Conference — an event put together by iPhone-maker Apple Inc. to communicate directly with its community of developers and users — a participant asked founder […]
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Cryptocurrency asset management company BlockFi announced that it has opened interest-bearing accounts for the gemini dollar. Cryptocurrency asset management company BlockFi announced that its interest-bearing accounts now support the gemini dollar (GUSD) in a post published on May 29. Per the announcement, GUSD deposits will see a yearly yield of 6.2%, paid in the stablecoin […]
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