The desk’s first two altcoins could be a taste of more to come, the company suggests. Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has added its first two altcoins to its recently launched over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk, Cointelegraph Japan reported on April 15. Coincheck, which began operating its OTC service with Bitcoin (BTC) at the start of the […]
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Japanese crypto startup FXCoin revealed it has completed a third-party allotment of shares with SBI Holdings, as part of its aim to launch a licensed crypto exchange. Japanese crypto startup FXCoin revealed it has completed a third-party allotment of shares with financial services giant SBI Holdings. The development, which contributes to FXCoin’s aim of launching […]
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Blockchain Exchange Alliance will use the funds to expand outreach and add extra trading pairs, the company says. The parent company of major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has received $200 million in funding from Japan’s ST Blockchain Fund, the latter confirmed in a press release shared with Cointelegraph Japan on April 15. The cash, […]
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Bithumb used a third-party accounting firm to assess its holdings after losing funds to what it suspects was a company insider. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has conducted a professional external audit of its funds after a major hack last month, the company confirmed in a statement on April 11. Bithumb, South Korea’s largest exchange, […]
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Minutes of a meeting held last month reveal discord over Bitcoin’s ultimate status for the Japanese regulator. Japanese finance regulator the Financial Services Agency (FSA) no longer wishes to describe Bitcoin (BTC) as a virtual currency, Cointelegraph Japan reported on April 8, quoting minutes of a meeting originally held on March 4. During a plenary […]
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Major open-source browser Mozilla Firefox announced new protections against crypto mining attacks in its new browser versions. Major open-source browser Mozilla Firefox has launched new protections against crypto mining malware in its new browser versions, according to a blog post published on April 9. In its latest Firefox Nightly 68 and Beta 67 versions, Mozilla […]
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San Francisco-based cryptocurrency lending firm Dharma Labs announced that it has launched its service to the public. San Francisco-based cryptocurrency lending firm Dharma Labs announced that it has launched its service to the public in a Medium post published on April 8. As Cointelegraph reported in February, Dharma Labs has previously raised $7 million from […]
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Bitcoin wallet Electrum faces another hack that involves fake software versions stealing users’ money. Bitcoin (BTC) wallet service Electrum is facing an ongoing Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack on its servers, the company reported on Twitter on April 7. According to tech news website The Next Web, the new attack has caused users to lose estimatedly millions […]
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This week, PayPal ventured into blockchain for the first time, and Coinbase turns to cross-border payments. Top Stories This Week PayPal Invests in Digital Identity-Focused Blockchain Startup in Apparent First Global online payments firm PayPal has invested in startup Cambridge Blockchain, a firm that focuses on leveraging the tech in order to give users more […]
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The decisions over rehabilitation claims have been sent to customers of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. Nobuaki Kobayashi, trustee of the notorious Japanese Bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox, has announced Wednesday, April 3, that all creditors who had filed rehabilitation claims have received decisions. In late March, Kobayashi had announced that the processing of filings had […]
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