Payments Platform Uphold Completes XRP Ledger Integration
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CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Digital payments startup Uphold has completed its integration with the XRP ledger, it announced Thursday. |
CRYPTO INSIDER: Feds reportedly open criminal probe into crypto prices
CRYPTO INSIDER: Feds reportedly open criminal probe into crypto prices
CRYPTO INSIDER: Feds reportedly open criminal probe into crypto prices
CRYPTO INSIDER: Feds reportedly open criminal probe into crypto prices
US reportedly launches probe into cryptocurrency price-fixing
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Engadget, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST
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It feels like cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are going mainstream. They're becoming more heavily regulated around the world, in diverse places like Japan and New York. Now people are being investigated for price fixing. According to Bloomberg, the US...
‘I’ve Got More Money Than Your Country’: Craig Wright tells Rwanda
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST “I’ve got more money than your country.” With those words, bitcoin cash promoter and self-described bitcoin creator Craig Wright found himself embroiled in yet another controversy, this time at an information technology conference in Rwanda. The nChain Group CTO made this inflammatory statement earlier this month at the Transform Africa Summit, which took place from The post ‘I’ve Got More Money Than Your Country’: Craig Wright tells Rwanda appeared first on CCN |
Distributed Business Accelerator Launches to Cultivate Blockchain Startups
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Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST As part of New York Blockchain Week, Distributed Business Accelerator (DBA) publicly launched their global blockchain accelerator community designed to cultivate an ecosystem of blockchain startups. The CEO of the project is Tom Tao, formerly of IBM and Chainbase Accelerator. In opening remarks, Tao gave his outlook on the industry and extrapolated on where he saw DBA adding value to the blockchain ecosystem, noting that “for startups, obtaining resources and attention quickly is one of the critical factors to attain success.” Tao laid out the goals of DBA which include equipping promising blockchain startups with all the tools necessary to accelerate their growth, giving them access to an incubator in which they can develop their product and helping them to plan out business strategies to deliver that product to the world. He also touched on current issues which seem to be creating a general environment that leaves individual blockchain ecosystems too isolated. He considers the trend of short-term token trading and speculation, combined with early adopter incentive structures which stimulate that speculation, to be concerning. Both practices lead to early speculators earning more than real builders and entrepreneurs. He also finds airdrop methods to be inefficient, for the most part. Offering an alternative and combating some of these entrenched difficulties are goals DBA hopes to achieve through its network and incentive structure. To that end, DBA will generate a token for incentivizing community participation. There will be no ICO. Part of that community structure will also include blockchain-based voting. Community members (voters), vetted and hand-picked advisors (project consultants), investor teams and entrepreneurs who submit projects will make up its organic structural pieces. The engaged community is meant to be collaborative with each piece adding its own value. Token rewards are delivered to members who participate in the creation of value through activities such as identity registration, referrals and voting on submitted projects. Community members are KYC’d to protect the integrity of the processes. Projects nominated by the community are screened by the accelerator, while the centralized investment team makes final decisions on investment. The system is then able to reward the community nominators and supporters through tokens based on the final investment decision for the project. Projects currently in the ecosystem include decentralized storage product Genaro and risk-management platform DRC. Initial advisors to the ecosystem include Qtum founder Patrick Dai, Factom founder David Johnston, and Singapore Management University professor David Lee. Factom’s Johnston also spoke at the event from the perspective of Factom’s experience in the marketplace and where he saw DBA adding value, particularly the incentive structure that will encourage industry investors and community members to work collaboratively, publicly and transparently, in contrast to the system of secretive deals that exists currently. The next month will see the launch of the DBA mobile app and the first community votes on projects. This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine. |
Bitfury-Backed Group Mined 800 Bitcoins in Q1
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CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Hut 8 Mining Group raised $70 million CAD to invest in mining machines, and mined 828 bitcoins in the first quarter of 2018. |
Breaking: Zimbabwe Court Lifts Central Bank’s Banking Ban on Bitcoin Exchanges
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The Harare High Court has lifted a ban by the central bank which barred all banks and financial institutions from offering services to cryptocurrency exchanges. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) failed to appear for court proceedings in a case in which Zimbabwe crypto exchange, Golix is seeking reversal of the central bank’s directive that The post Breaking: Zimbabwe Court Lifts Central Bank’s Banking Ban on Bitcoin Exchanges appeared first on CCN |
U.S. Justice Department Probes Price Manipulation on Bitcoin Markets
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Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The U.S. Justice Department is looking into whether the price of bitcoin and other virtual currencies are being manipulated, according to a report in Bloomberg that referenced four unnamed sources for the information. Still in its early phases, the criminal probe will bring in other agencies, like the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a regulator that oversees bitcoin derivatives, sources said. On spot markets, like GDAX, Poloniex and Bitfinex, where cryptocurrencies change hands immediately, the price of bitcoin can vacillate wildly in a matter of hours. Starting in early 2017, the price of bitcoin ballooned from $1,000 to a record high of around $20,000 in mid-December. Currently, the price now sits in around $7,500. Unlike in Japan, where virtual currency exchanges are subject the same rules and oversight as any other financial institutions and are required to register with the government, in the U.S. and other countries, cryptocurrency exchanges are still largely unregulated, opening up the doors to fraud and manipulation. As for the U.S. Justice Department, its probe will focus on practices like spoofing, where a trader puts in a large buy or sell order only to withdraw the order as soon as the price starts to go up or down; and wash trading, where an investor simultaneously buys and sells assets to increase the volume of trading. Painting the tape, where traders trade amongst themselves to make it look like there is a flurry of activity going on, is yet another method of market manipulation. All of these illegal trading practices are particularly effective in manipulating asset prices in relatively small markets. Cryptocurrency spot markets are said to handle only a small fraction of overall bitcoin trading, while bigger deals take place in over-the-counter (OTC) markets, like Gemini Global Trading, Circle and Cumberland Mining, where big investors, miners and hedge funds move hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies daily. Earlier this year, Jordan Belfort, the original “Wolf of Wall Street,” who served jail time in connection with stock-market manipulation, warned bitcoin traders of “corruption” and “improper trading practices” in the markets and looming government crackdowns. “If you think the governments of the world don’t have the power to shut this down, you are very wrong. They do,” Belfort said in a video. This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine. |
Fundstrat’s Lee: Bitcoin is ‘Underappreciated’, Will Reach $25,000
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The bitcoin bears may be in control at the moment, but that is not leading one cryptocurrency market strategist to recoil. Fundstrat Global co-founder Thomas Lee is standing firm on his outlook for the bitcoin price to reach USD 25,000 by year-end despite the fact that the leading cryptocurrency has just revisited April lows and The post Fundstrat’s Lee: Bitcoin is ‘Underappreciated’, Will Reach $25,000 appeared first on CCN |
A federal prosecutor appointed by George W. Bush has been hired by crypto exchange Kraken as regulatory challenges mount for the industry
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST
Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange, has brought in a legal heavyweight to navigate the trading firm through the murky regulatory environment for bitcoin, people familiar with the hire tell Business Insider. The San Francisco-based firm has hired Mary Beth Buchanan, a former federal prosecutor appointed by President George W. Bush, as its general counsel.
At Bryan Cave, Buchanan was a partner covering white collar and securities-related cases. Buchanan is also featured in the Netflix four-part series "Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist," which explores a bank robbery case for which she served as prosecutor. Buchanan will be based in New York, according to a person familiar with the hire. Kraken made headlines recently for refusing to participate with the New York Attorney General's April inquiry into cryptocurrency exchanges. The AG's office asked 13 cryptocurrency exchanges, including Kraken, to share information regarding market manipulation and investor protections. "Kraken is always willing to work with regulators and law enforcement," chief executive Jesse Powell said in a blog post responding to the AG's inquiry. "Whether you think you have us by the balls or not, approaching us with some basic respect and having a conversation is always going to make the interaction smoother and help you get what you want faster than storming in with your “or else” list of demands." Outside of the AG's inquiry, a number of legal question hang over cryptocurrency exchanges, incuding how they should be regulated. Peter Van Valkenburgh, the director of research at Coin Center, a policy research firm in Washinton DC, said the landscape for crypto exchanges is "complicated." "The first question they have to think about is going to be 'what are we,'" Van Valkenburgh said in an interview. "And the possible answers you'll have range from commodity spot exchange, which is not regulated, but there is policing authority from the CFTC, to money transmitter, which requires licenses in all 50 states." "Or maybe you might inadvertently be a securities exchange of some sort because maybe some of the tokens you are trading are thought to be securities by the SEC." While it is widely agreed upon that bitcoin is a commodity, given its decentralized nature, it is not clear if other tokens fit into the same category, Van Valkenburgh said. In addition, the US Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into potential market manipulation of bitcoin prices, according to a Bloomberg report. The investigation is said to focus on "spoofing" — in which false orders are placed on exchanges and then withdrawn to manipulate prices — in an attempt to lure other people into buying or selling and "wash trading," in which market participants trade with themselves to create the illusion of market activity. To navigate these choppy waters, crypto companies have been plucking top legal talent. Bitfinex, for instance, announced earlier this month that it hired Peter Warrack, a former anti-money laundering executive, as chief compliance officer. He joined from the Bank of Montreal. Marco Santori also left Cooley LLP to become the chief legal officer of Blockchain, a crypto-wallet firm. Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: How socially responsible investing can help you avoid catastrophic drops within your portfolio |
Buchanan, who is joining Kraken from law firm Bryan Cave, is known for being the youngest person appointed to the position of US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She was also the first woman.The Alphacat (ACAT) Token Can Now Be Traded on HitBTC Exchange
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST This is a paid-for submitted press release. CCN does not endorse, nor is responsible for any material included below and isn’t responsible for any damages or losses connected with any products or services mentioned in the press release. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned … Continued The post The Alphacat (ACAT) Token Can Now Be Traded on HitBTC Exchange appeared first on CCN |
Revolut App Adds XRP, Bitcoin Cash to Crypto Options
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CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Mobile banking app Revolut now lets users buy, sell and hold Ripple's XRP and bitcoin cash, in addition to bitcoin, litecoin and ether. |
Revolut App Adds XRP, Bitcoin Cash to Crypto Options
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CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Mobile banking app Revolut now lets users buy, sell and hold Ripple's XRP and bitcoin cash, in addition to bitcoin, litecoin and ether. |
Revolut App Adds XRP, Bitcoin Cash to Crypto Options
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CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Mobile banking app Revolut now lets users buy, sell and hold Ripple's XRP and bitcoin cash, in addition to bitcoin, litecoin and ether. |
Gold spikes after Trump scraps North Korea meeting
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST
Gold rallied Thursday morning after President Donald Trump canceled a meeting between the US and North Korea. Gold was up 1% to $1306.18 an ounce around 10 a.m. ET. On Thursday, the White House called off a planned summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time , to have this long planned meeting," Trump wrote in a statement. The cancellation, which dampens the emerging prospect of diffused high-stakes tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, sent investors running for save-haven assets. Additionally propping up the yellow metal, the Federal Reserve released Wednesday meeting minutes from its last policy gathering, showing officials are okay with inflation temporarily overshooting a target level of 2%. That sent the dollar lower. Gold is up less than 1% this year.
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Gold spikes after Trump scraps North Korea meeting
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST
Gold rallied Thursday morning after President Donald Trump canceled a meeting between the US and North Korea. Gold was up 1% to $1306.18 an ounce around 10 a.m. ET. On Thursday, the White House called off a planned summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time , to have this long planned meeting," Trump wrote in a statement. The cancellation, which dampens the emerging prospect of diffused high-stakes tensions between Washington and Pyongyang, sent investors running for save-haven assets. Additionally propping up the yellow metal, the Federal Reserve released Wednesday meeting minutes from its last policy gathering, showing officials are okay with inflation temporarily overshooting a target level of 2%. That sent the dollar lower. Gold is up less than 1% this year.
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The Justice Department is investigating crypto market manipulation — here's why it's such a big problem
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST
Market manipulation is nothing new: spoofing and wash trading — the forms of market manipulation the probe is focusing on — have been around for years. But the attributes of cryptocurrency markets make them particularly susceptible to this type of fraud. An unregulated wild westFor one thing, cryptocurrency markets remain largely unregulated. The likes of the SEC and CTFC are beginning to try and get a handle on parts of the industry (ICOs, futures) but secondary trading on exchanges is still a wild west. Most platforms forbid market manipulation but our investigation last year found it going on relatively openly on several major platforms. Manipulation is bound to proliferate if people can get away with it. The relatively small market capitalization of most cryptocurrencies also makes them relatively easy to manipulate. There are over 1,400 coins in circulation but, outside the top 20, most have less than $100 million-worth in circulation. The organiser of "pump and dump" scams told BI in an interview last year that his group use just $5 million to manipulate prices. 'Driven purely by the mood swing of investors'There's another peculiar feature of cryptocurrency markets that make them susceptible to manipulation: most prices aren't underpinned by fundamentals. In most mainstream financial markets, such as stocks, bonds, or commodities, there tends to be data that influences the price of an asset: revenue figures, sales numbers, or, in the case of steel prices, even Chinese building activity. These numbers help establish a price range that the bulls and bears can play in. But cryptocurrencies have few fundamentals. Morgan Stanley said the true price of bitcoin could be $0 when it was trading at over $14,000 — how's that for a spread? A working paper from the Warwick Business School published on Wednesday concluded that "cryptocurrency prices are not influenced by any economic factors and instead are driven purely by the mood swing of investors." Dr Daniele Bianchi, who authored the paper, said in a statement: "These are not like normal currencies where a country’s economy will influence the price. Instead, they share similarities to investing in an equity from a high-tech firm. "As a result, the market for cryptocurrencies may look similar to the dot.com bubble at the end of the 1990s, and it may be that only a handful of them survive, so for investors, it is like choosing who will be today’s Amazon." How does all this relate to market manipulation? Well, if there are no fundamentals and everything is driven by mood then it's easier to engineer price swings. All you have to do is convince people that the mood in the market is changing and you could trigger a stampede. As we highlighted last November, a typical "pump and dump" scam involves jacking up the price of a cryptocurrency by placing high orders — real or fake "spoof" orders — and then convincing unsuspecting investors that this is the start of a prolonged rally. You then offload your holding to the new investor at an artificially inflated price, pocketing the difference between the prices you paid and sold at. Generally, prices come crashing back to earth minutes after the pump.
Time's up for scammers?The victims in these types of scams are the investors who buy the assets at artificially inflated prices. When cryptocurrencies were a niche affair, investigating this abuse wasn't worth regulators' time. But the explosion of the market over the past year has made an investigation more urgent. Mainstream investors, particularly in the US, have rushed into crypto and that's why the Justice Department is now turning up the heat. Trading platforms where manipulation takes place are also waking up to the problem. At the turn of the year, as prices boomed and new members flooded to sign up to platforms, it was all the exchanges could do just to keep their heads above water. Now things have calmed down, they're starting to get their houses in order. Bitfinex, one of the largest exchanges in the world, announced a deal in March with a market surveillance company to "identify and investigate manipulative behaviours and suspicious trading practices on its exchange." And Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange run by the Winklevoss twins, recently signed a partnership with Nasdaq to do something similar. Time could be running out for cryptocurrency scammers. |
Dr Bianchi concluded that "pricing is entirely influenced by past returns and the hype and emotion of investors as they watch the price climb or drop." It's not hard to see how bad actors could exploit these market dynamics.German Stock Exchange Wants to Launch Bitcoin Products
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CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Deutsche Boerse AG is assessing whether to offer cryptocurrency-related products, a company exec has said during an event. |
Bitcoin Price Drops to $7,300 as Cryptocurrency Market Correction Continues
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The bitcoin price has dropped below the $7,300 mark as the valuation of the cryptocurrency market declined by more than $25 billion, from $350 billion to $325 billion over the past 24 hours. Within the past three days, within merely 72 hours, the valuation of the cryptocurrency market sharply dropped from $390 to $333 billion, The post Bitcoin Price Drops to $7,300 as Cryptocurrency Market Correction Continues appeared first on CCN |
10 things you need to know before the opening bell (SPY, SPX, QQQ, DIA, TSLA, LB, DB, HMNY)
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST
Here is what you need to know. Trump is reportedly considering a plan to slap tariffs on imported cars. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Trump administration is considering a plan to impose tariffs on imported cars by undergoing an investigation through Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which allows the president to impose trade restrictions on the grounds of national security. Italy has a new prime minister. Giuseppe Conte, a law professor without any political affiliation, was named Italy's prime minister by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the far-right League parties on Wednesday. The US has reportedly opened a criminal probe into market manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The US Justice Department is working with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees cryptocurrency derivatives, to investigate potential market manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Bloomberg says. Deutsche Bank is axing 7,000 investment banking jobs. The equities sales and trading headcount is being slashed by 25% and the investment bank leverage exposure is being cut by 10%. Elon Musk bashes the media. "The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them," Musk said in a Twitter rant Wednesday, during which he vowed to start a website that would score journalists over time. MoviePass said a $300 million lifeline could sustain it for over a year, but that money could slip through its fingers. MoviePass has repeatedly said it's not worried about sustaining further losses because it has a $300 million "equity line of credit" that could keep it going for over a year, but financial experts say the financial instrument described by CEO Mitch Lowe is not what is generally considered to be an equity line of credit and is subject to the whims of the public market. Victoria's Secret parent L Brands tumbles after lowering guidance. Shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the retailer beat on both the top and bottom lines but lowered its full-year 2018 earnings-per-share guidance to $2.70-$3.00 from $2.95-$3.25. Stock markets around the world trade mixed. Japan's Nikkei (-1.11%) led the losses in Asia and France's CAC (+0.47%) is out front in Europe. The S&P 500 is set to open little changed near 2,734. Earnings reports trickle out. Best Buy reports ahead of the opening bell while Gap and Ross Stores release their quartertly results after markets close. US economic data keeps coming. Initial claims will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET before FHFA home prices and existing home sales cross the wires at 9:45 a.m. ET and 10 a.m. ET respectively. The US 10-year yield is up 2 basis points at 3.01%. |
10 things you need to know before the opening bell (SPY, SPX, QQQ, DIA, TSLA, LB, DB, HMNY)
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST
Here is what you need to know. Trump is reportedly considering a plan to slap tariffs on imported cars. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Trump administration was considering a plan to impose tariffs on imported cars by undergoing an investigation through Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which allows the president to impose trade restrictions on the grounds of national security. Italy has a new prime minister. Giuseppe Conte, a law professor without any political affiliation, was named Italy's prime minister by the antiestablishment Five Star Movement and the far-right League parties on Wednesday. The US has reportedly opened a criminal probe into market manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The US Justice Department is working with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees cryptocurrency derivatives, to investigate potential market manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Bloomberg says. Deutsche Bank is axing 7,000 investment-banking jobs. The equities sales and trading headcount is being slashed by 25%, and the investment-bank leverage exposure is being cut by 10%. Elon Musk bashes the media. "The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them," Musk said in a Twitter rant Wednesday, during which he vowed to start a website that would score journalists over time. MoviePass said a $300 million lifeline could sustain it for over a year, but that money could slip through its fingers. MoviePass has repeatedly said it's not worried about sustaining further losses because it has a $300 million "equity line of credit" that could keep it going for over a year, but financial experts say the financial instrument described by CEO Mitch Lowe is not what is generally considered to be an equity line of credit and is subject to the whims of the public market. Victoria's Secret parent L Brands tumbles after lowering guidance. Shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the retailer beat on both the top and bottom lines but lowered its full-year 2018 earnings guidance to a range of $2.70 to $3.00 a share from $2.95 to $3.25. Stock markets around the world trade mixed. Japan's Nikkei (-1.11%) led the losses in Asia and France's CAC (+0.47%) is out front in Europe. The S&P 500 is set to open little changed near 2,734. Earnings reports trickle out. Best Buy reports ahead of the opening bell, while Gap and Ross Stores release their quarterly results after markets close. US economic data keeps coming. Initial claims will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET before FHFA home prices and existing-home sales cross the wires at 9:45 a.m. ET and 10 a.m. ET. The US 10-year yield is up 2 basis points at 3.01%. |
US Government Opens Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation: Report
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The United States’ Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into possible market manipulation of prices of cryptocurrencies including bitcoin by traders. Citing sources familiar with the probe, Bloomberg is reporting that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is working alongside the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the markets regulator, to focus The post US Government Opens Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation: Report appeared first on CCN |
(+) Five Low Market-Cap Altcoins With Huge Potential
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The post (+) Five Low Market-Cap Altcoins With Huge Potential appeared first on CCN |
Bitcoin Faces Drop to $7K as Bull Defense Crumbles
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CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Bitcoin looks set to test $7,000 in the next 24 hours, courtesy of a bear flag breakdown on the technical charts. |
The US has reportedly opened a criminal probe into market manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
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Business Insider, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST
Bloomberg reported that the Justice Department is working with the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which oversees cryptocurrency derivatives, to investigate potential market manipulation. The investigation is said to focus on "spoofing" — where false orders are placed on exchanges and then withdrawn to manipulate prices — in an attempt to lure other people into buying or selling and "wash trading," where market participants trade with themselves to create the illusion of market activity. These kinds of activities allow bad actors to manipulate the price of assets in their favour. Spoofing and wash trading are illegal in mainstream regulated markets such as equities and futures. There are around 26 different ways to manipulate a market, according to a study last year. A Business Insider investigation last year found so-called "pump and dump" scams are rife in cryptocurrency markets. This is where people "pump" a price of a certain crypto by bidding up the price before "dumping" it on unsuspecting traders who are lured into the market by the pumpers who say the price is only going up. The US Securities and Exchange Commission subsequently cited Business Insider's investigation in a report highlighting concerns about cryptocurrency markets. Anonymous Twitter account Bitfinex'ed, which has over 38,000 followers, has also repeatedly drawn attention to alleged instances of wash trading and spoofing, calling for action from regulators. Bloomberg reports that the US regulators' investigation, which is in its early stages, focuses on bitcoin, ether, and other major cryptocurrencies. Business Insider interviewed an alleged "pump and dump" ringleader last year who claimed to have been involved in bitcoin price manipulation in the past but said the size of the market made it too hard to manipulate today. "We did manipulate these but now it's too hard with big market capitalization," the trader, who went by the name Nico, claimed. "Our biggest power ever has been around $5 million... [for] one of the groups." SEE ALSO: WALKTHROUGH: How traders 'pump and dump' cryptocurrencies |
Tech Giant GMO to Roll Out World's First 7nm Bitcoin Miner
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CoinDesk, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Japanese IT giant GMO Internet says it will ship the world's first bitcoin mining device based on 7nm chips before November. |
Revolut adds Ripple and Bitcoin Cash support
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TechCrunch, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Fintech startup Revolut is adding Bitcoin Cash and Ripple to its cryptocurrency feature. While cryptocurrency isn’t really Revolut’s focus point, it’s a good way to get started with cryptocurrencies. If you have a Revolut account, you can now buy and hold Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash. Behind the scene, the startup has partnered […] |
Revolut adds Ripple and Bitcoin Cash support
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TechCrunch, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Fintech startup Revolut is adding Bitcoin Cash and Ripple to its cryptocurrency feature. While cryptocurrency isn’t really Revolut’s focus point, it’s a good way to get started with cryptocurrencies. If you have a Revolut account, you can now buy and hold Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash. Behind the scene, the startup has partnered […] |
Revolut adds Ripple and Bitcoin Cash support
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TechCrunch, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Fintech startup Revolut is adding Bitcoin Cash and Ripple to its cryptocurrency feature. While cryptocurrency isn’t really Revolut’s focus point, it’s a good way to get started with cryptocurrencies. If you have a Revolut account, you can now buy and hold Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash. Behind the scene, the startup has partnered […] |
Bitcoin Price Has Hypotehtical Value of $1,800: Federal Reserve Report
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco released a report on May 18 discussing the volatility of the bitcoin price and its impact on the ways bitcoin should be classified, whether as a currency, security, or commodity. Joost van der Burgt, author of the publication and fintech policy advisor at the Federal Reserve’s San Francisco branch, The post Bitcoin Price Has Hypotehtical Value of $1,800: Federal Reserve Report appeared first on CCN |
Coinbase Takes Another Step Toward Trading ICO Tokens by Acquiring Paradex
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Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has taken another step toward trading ERC20 tokens by acquiring decentralized relayer Paradex. ERC20 is the Ethereum technical standard that the majority of initial coin offering (ICO) tokens are based on. Paradex announced the news on its website today, May 23, 2018, adding that its site will be down temporarily while it works to make the integrations with Coinbase. Paradex bills itself as a decentralized exchange (DEX), meaning no third party is involved in holding the funds. Instead, users can use the platform to trade ERC20 tokens directly wallet to wallet. Paradex is built on top of the 0x (pronounced “zero x”) protocol. Right now, Coinbase trades four coins: bitcoin (BTC), bitcoin cash (BCH), ether (ETH) and litecoin (LTC). Adding ERC20 tokens could significantly boost the number of digital assets it carries. Due to the ICO boom that has taken place over the last few years, thousands of different ICO tokens are now available. But because U.S. regulators are in the midst of clarifying their stance on virtual currencies, many exchanges are holding back from listing ICO tokens. In March 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a clear warning to virtual currency exchanges that some ICO tokens may qualify as noncompliant securities, and any exchange that lists security tokens needs to either register as a national securities exchange or operate under an exemption and set itself up as an alternative trading system (ATS). To that end, in April 2018, Coinbase reportedly entered into talks with the SEC to take steps to become an ATS. In a possible lead-up to those plans, in late March 2018, Coinbase announced it was adding support for ERC20 into all its trading platforms. In a blog post, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that Coinbase is initially planning to offer Paradex to customers outside of the U.S. and eventually to its U.S. customers. Coinbase offers two types of trading platforms: Coinbase for novice traders and GDAX for the more experienced traders. According to Reuters, Coinbase is revamping GDAX and rolling it over to a new service dubbed “Coinbase Pro” next month. This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine. |
Coinbase Takes Another Step Toward Trading ICO Tokens by Acquiring Paradex
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Bitcoin Magazine, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has taken another step toward trading ERC20 tokens by acquiring decentralized relayer Paradex. ERC20 is the Ethereum technical standard that the majority of initial coin offering (ICO) tokens are based on. Paradex announced the news on its website today, May 23, 2018, adding that its site will be down temporarily while it works to make the integrations with Coinbase. Paradex bills itself as a decentralized exchange (DEX), meaning no third party is involved in holding the funds. Instead, users can use the platform to trade ERC20 tokens directly wallet to wallet. Paradex is built on top of the 0x (pronounced “zero x”) protocol. Right now, Coinbase trades four coins: bitcoin (BTC), bitcoin cash (BCH), ether (ETH) and litecoin (LTC). Adding ERC20 tokens could significantly boost the number of digital assets it carries. Due to the ICO boom that has taken place over the last few years, thousands of different ICO tokens are now available. But because U.S. regulators are in the midst of clarifying their stance on virtual currencies, many exchanges are holding back from listing ICO tokens. In March 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a clear warning to virtual currency exchanges that some ICO tokens may qualify as noncompliant securities, and any exchange that lists security tokens needs to either register as a national securities exchange or operate under an exemption and set itself up as an alternative trading system (ATS). To that end, in April 2018, Coinbase reportedly entered into talks with the SEC to take steps to become an ATS. In a possible lead-up to those plans, in late March 2018, Coinbase announced it was adding support for ERC20 into all its trading platforms. In a blog post, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that Coinbase is initially planning to offer Paradex to customers outside of the U.S. and eventually to its U.S. customers. Coinbase offers two types of trading platforms: Coinbase for novice traders and GDAX for the more experienced traders. According to Reuters, Coinbase is revamping GDAX and rolling it over to a new service dubbed “Coinbase Pro” next month. This article originally appeared on Bitcoin Magazine. |
Argentinian Bank Drops Out of SWIFT, Favors Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
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CryptoCoins News, 1/1/0001 12:00 AM PST According to Toshi Times, Jose Dakak, the principal shareholder of Argentinian bank Banco Masventas, has stated that the bank will drop out from the global financial network SWIFT and begin utilizing the Bitcoin blockchain network to settle international payments. Can Bitcoin Replace SWIFT? Through a strategic partnership with Bitex, a cryptocurrency payment service provider based … Continued The post Argentinian Bank Drops Out of SWIFT, Favors Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency appeared first on CCN |