Coinbase raises $300 million to accelerate global expansion
Coinbase is working hard on a worldwide expansion. The crypto exchange has now raised 300 million dollars in an investment round to make this possible. The company is now estimated to be worth eight billion dollars.
The investment round was led by Tiger Global Management and included investments fro... Read more
Cryptovalutabeurs canceled due to hack, but is possible exit scam
A small Canadian exchange for cryptic currency has been closed down, after it claimed to have been hacked. The scholarship that bore the name MapleChange is accused by critics of cheating on people. On the stock exchange, 62 crypt currencies, including bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin, could be traded... Read more
Australian woman arrested for robbery $450,000 in cryptic currency
An Australian woman was arrested after it turned out that she had stolen no less than 100,000 tokens of cryptovaluta ripple. The tokens had a combined value of almost half a million Australian dollars at the time they were stolen. The 23-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday morning.
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“Hundreds of Dutch routers hacked to generate cryptic currency.
Dutch routers are used by hackers to generate cryptographic currency monero. Hundreds of routers would have been hacked. These are MikroTik brand routers, which have a vulnerability that has been known for months. A patch was released last April, but many have not yet installed it.
Today, RTL News r... Read more
Investment market around blockchain and cryptic currency bigger than ever
Despite a drop in the number of initial coin offerings, and a falling price of several crypt currencies, the broader investment market around blockchain and cryptovaluta startups seems stronger than ever. At least today, new figures show this.
Research group Diar, active in blockchain, reports today... Read more
Crypto Fairs accused of corruption around EOS Blockchain
Chinese cryptographic currency exchanges are accused of colluding in an attempt to take control of the EOS Blockchain platform. Parent company Block.One raised a record $4 billion through an initial coin offering (ICO) in May, before launching the platform in June. Since then there have been several... Read more
Google is going to allow certain crypto-foreign trade show advertisements again
Google announced yesterday that it is reversing an earlier decision to completely ban advertisements around cryptic currency. From now on, certain regulated crypto-foreign exchanges will be able to advertise in the United States and Japan. This means that the policy is loosened up a little.
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Morgan Stanley wants to offer derivatives associated with bitcoin
After the price of most crypt currencies suffered from the rumour that Goldman Sachs would not set up a bitcoin desk, confidence has now been restored. That's because of the story that Morgan Stanley plans to offer bitcoin derivatives.
Financial press agency Bloomberg, which usually has reliable sou... Read more
BMW invests heavily in block chain technology
Car manufacturer BMW is taking new steps to further develop its blockchain strategy. Today, the company announces a program to help startups working on blockchain get started extra quickly. It has already made two investments in this area.
BMW hopes that its investments will streamline its blockchai... Read more
Co-founder ethereum: Days of explosive growth are over.
The crypto-currency market will no longer experience strong growth. That's what the co-founder of ethereum thinks. Vitalik Buterin tells us that the time of explosive growth is most likely over and that investors should rather assume that the blockchain market is stabilising.
Buterin told the press ... Read more