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Roughly two weeks after rumours emerged that crypto startup, Bakkt will apply for a crypto custodian license with New York regulators, the startup has confirmed its submission of an application in that regard. Bakkt&#8217;s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Adam White notably wrote in a Medium post on April 29, &#8220;To provide regulated custody, we have ... Read more

Closer to Launch? Bakkt Confirms NY License Move; Acquires Regulated DACC

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Ibiam Wayas is an optimistic crypto news reporter who also enjoys graphics designing and tech writing.

He is an introvert and loves to associate with like minds working on similar goal and ambitions. Ibiam spends much of his time on the internet studying facts that will help him excel in the digital economy.

Giant Taiwanese consumer electronics company, HTC, today disclosed plans to launch a second-generation model of its blockchain-powered smartphone before the end of 2019. As reported by the Asian IT news media Digitimes, Phil Chen, HTC’s Chief Decentralized Officer said the innovation is an effort to elevate its smartphone sales and also ensure a continuous enlargement ... Read more

HTC to Launch 2nd Blockchain Smartphone in 2019

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Bitcoin ETF aspirant, Bitwise Asset Management has moved one step closer to cementing its position as one of the leading crypto asset management firm. According to a press release published today April 25, the Nasdaq Dorsey Wright (NDW) Research Platform will now list Bitwise’s Crypto Index family and Point and Figure charts for crypto assets. ... Read more

Nasdaq Dorsey Wright Adopts Bitwise Indexes and Prices

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Crypto Mining News

Final Frontier, a specialist firm that invests in innovative technologies, in collaboration with blockchain firm Bitfury has announced in a medium post, the launch of a regulated bitcoin mining fund which will supposedly reduce the challenges encountered by investors in Bitcoin mining. The new product is reportedly designed to enable professional and institutional investors to ... Read more

Final Frontier’s Regulated Bitcoin Mining Fund Set to Mitigate Risks for Investors

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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday, announced the conviction of two 35-year-olds, Callaway Crain and Mark Sanchez who laundered $2.8 million gained through online sales of steroids and controlled substances. Between 2013 and 2018, the convicts pleaded guilty to selling steroids and other hard drugs such as Viagra across the United States and 16 ... Read more

First Crypto Money Laundering Case Reported in New York

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It is no longer news that one of the challenges facing Bitcoin adoption is the fact that many online platforms do not accept it as a payment option. However, it is news that crypto payment startup, Moon has finally found a way to allow shoppers to pay with cryptocurrency on their favorite online stores. The ... Read more

Do You Want To Shop on Amazon With Bitcoin? Meet Moon

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Crypto Exchange News

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has penalized Eric Powers for a wrong approach in peer-to-peer virtual cryptocurrency exchange. The U.S. regulator FinCEN in a press release on April 18, reported that a California based cryptocurrency trader, Eric Powers, violated the Bank Secrecy Act’s (BSA) program, registration, and reporting requirements. Notably, Mr. Powers conducts an ... Read more

FinCEN Penalizes Crypto Exchanger Eric Powers for AML Violation

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Top cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin today, announced that is launching a new feature that purportedly enables its users to upkeep their own crypto assets while they trade on the platform. The new feature from KuCoin is said to comprise of new technology from the Boston-based startup Arwen, which will allow traders on the platform to maintain ... Read more

KuCoin Adds New Feature to Allow Self-Custody of Crypto Assets

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Right now, there is no U.S crypto firm offering traders a physically delivered Bitcoin Futures contract. Also, while startups such as Bakkt, Seed CX and ErisX are seeking regulatory approval to do so, another firm with more chances of securing the needed license have applied. Cryptocurrency derivatives provider, LedgerX on Monday announced plans to emerge ... Read more

LedgerX Wants to Pip Bakkt to 1st Physically Delivered Bitcoin Futures

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Popular Bitcoin and crypto enthusiast, Anthony Pompliano has become the latest to voice his thoughts against hardfork cryptocurrency, BitcoinSV and its founder, Craig Wright who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. In a tweet on April 12, Pompliano called on all cryptocurrency exchanges to simultaneously delist BitcoinSV from their platform on “May ... Read more

Exchanges Should Delist BitcoinSV on May 1 — Anthony Pompliano

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Some users have reported on the social media that the United States Federal Reserve System, also known as Fedwire, went down for a noticeable period on April 2. The US-based fund’s transfer system was not available for several minutes, and many users claimed that they couldn’t process several deals because banks were not able to ... Read more

U.S Federal Reserve System Fails to Match Bitcoin’s 99.98% Uptime

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Today April 2, the cryptocurrency market is bubbling with new life after Bitcoin surpassed $4800, an all-time high for 2019. Roughly $10 billion was injected into the cryptocurrency’s market cap in under two hours with industry experts failing to understand what could be responsible for the latest spike and good mood everywhere. Well, a report ... Read more

Mysterious 20000BTC Order Responsible for April 2 Spikes

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Within the last couple of weeks, cryptoanalysts predicted that Bitcoin chart patterns were showing signs of a breakout although it wasn&#8217;t apparent whether it would be bullish or bearish. Well, the breakout has eventually taken place in the hours leading up to press time with the price of Bitcoin pumping from less than $4200 to over ... Read more

Bitcoin Moons to $4700 in less than 2 Hours; Will it Hold Above $4500?

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The Bitcoin Lightning Network, on which Bitcoin developers hope to solve the network’s scalability issues reached two milestones at the weekend. First at the Lightning Hackday, in Hong Kong, on March 31, Felix Weis, a freelance developer unveiled the first Bitcoin ATM powered by the lightning network. While Bitcoin ATMs are fast becoming popular in ... Read more

Bitcoin Lightning Network Breach 1050BTC As First Lightning ATM Arrives

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Avnet, a leading global technology firm and Fortune 500 company said in a March 19 press release that is has partnered with crypto payments processor, Bitpay to allow their customers use cryptocurrency to pay for products and services. Following the announcement, Avnet clients who are mainly developers taking their product to market can choose to ... Read more

Shame the Bears? Avnet Now Accepts Cryptocurrency

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The Tokyo District Court has ruled that Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the now-defunct crypto exchange, Mt Gox is not guilty of embezzlement and breach of trust leading to the hack and subsequent collapse of the business in 2014. However, according to a Bloomberg report on March 15, the exchange operator was found guilty of ... Read more

Court Ruling — Mt Gox Founder Mark Karpeles Didn’t Embezzle Funds

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Crypto Wallet News

Crypto lending startup, BlockFi seems to have bitten more than it can chew in the last few hours with its website being bombarded by crypto users in the hours leading up to press time. Earlier in the day, the startup announced that it had opened a new service that allows crypto holders to deposit their ... Read more

BlockFi Reports Downtime After Announcing 6% Interest On Crypto Savings Accounts

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The crypto market has shown signs of recovering following massive losses posted on the previous trading day. The graph below from Coin360.io shows that most of the top twenty cryptocurrencies are posting healthy gains with Binance Coin (BNB), Litecoin (LTC) and EOS catching the eye with double-digit increases within the last 24 hours. BTC/USD Major ... Read more

Crypto Market Back in Greens - BTC Battle $3.9k

Crypto Market Back in Greens &#8211; BTC Battle $3.9k

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Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market have continued the bullish outlook in recent times, leading to a belief that the bears have finally been defeated. Although the crypto market rarely records a bullish performance during the weekend, the current prices have defiled those odds with roughly $6 billion pumped in within the last ... Read more

Crypto market watch: BTC above $4100 as recent rally continues

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Ruth Shadrac

Ruth Shadrac is new to the crypto space and finds it very fascinating. She is currently an intern at Coinfomania and hopes to work her way to success.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and a technology entrepreneur, asserts that the structural formation of Bitcoin can best be tagged “quite brilliant” as digital currency becomes “a far better way to transfer value than pieces of paper.” On Feb 19, Elon Musk made those remarks at an interview on advisory services firm ARK invests ... Read more

Crypto is a far better way to transfer value than pieces of paper - Elon Musk

Crypto is a far better way to transfer value than pieces of paper &#8211; Elon Musk

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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has today Feb 15, published in the Federal Register, a proposed rule change by NYSE Arca and Bitwise Asset Management to list a Bitcoin ETF. The recent development means that the securities watchdog has started to review the proposed rule change and will make its first decision ... Read more

NYSE Arca/Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Application Published by SEC

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Within the two years that the Binance cryptocurrency exchange has served the industry, one of the biggest challenges faced by traders is how to buy crypto on Binance with credit cards. As the largest exchange by trading volume, users believed that this feature would come at some point and the Chapeng Zhao-led platform has not ... Read more

Finally? You Can Buy Crypto on Binance With Credit Cards

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VanEck executive reveals why the CBOE Bitcoin ETF application was withdrawn. Get the latest insights on this major crypto development...

Update: VanEck Executive Reveal Reason For CBOE Bitcoin ETF Withdrawal

VanEck Exec Explains CBOE Bitcoin ETF Withdrawal Decision

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Malta-based OKEx, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has today announced the launch Thai Baht (THB) and British Pound (GBP) on its over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform.   This introduction of the two currencies will allow verified customers in the UK and Thailand to trade fiat-to-cryptocurrencies on OKEx OTC trading platform. Users ... Read more

OKEx OTC Trading Platform Adds Support For Thai Baht (THB) and British Pound (GBP)

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Falcon private bank, a Swiss company, announced today that it has added support for four major cryptocurrencies on its e-banking channels and rolled out the option for both individual and institutional clients. Falcon clients can now directly transfer either Bitcoin, Ether, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin via e-banking applications provided by the firm or through a ... Read more

Switzerland's Falcon Private Bank Introduce Direct Crypto Transfers Via New Wallet

Switzerland&#8217;s Falcon Private Bank Introduce Direct Crypto Transfers Via New Wallet

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One of the first yen-pegged stablecoins in Japan could launch early next year after regulators approved a trial application submitted by Crypto Garage, a subsidiary of the popular internet company, Digital Garage. An announcement released by the startup today, January 21, confirmed that it received approval from the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan to carry out ... Read more

Yen-Pegged Stablecoin Approved For 2019 Trial By Japanese Regulators

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Lele Jima

Lele Jima is a writer by heart and a crypto enthusiast. He has been a writer for over two years.  So far, he has written on topics that cut across various industries ranging from fintech to ICT.  He hopes his words bring the desired change we crave for, which is to make the world a better place.  His pen is his might, and the sky, his starting point.

Despite market challenges, the Winklevoss twins believe cryptocurrencies will thrive again. Explore their insights on the future of crypto.

Winklevoss Twins Believe Cryptocurrencies Would Be Great Again Despite Current State

Winklevoss Twins Confident Crypto Will Rise Again

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India's Crypto Taxes: CoinDCX CEO Clarifies Rules and Industry Effects

The ban on crypto in Indian has taken a drastic approach as its banks are asking customers to promise never to transact in cryptocurrencies.

Indian Banks Forcefully Ask Customers To Vow Never To Use Bitcoin

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A renowned Russian Economist, Vladislav Ginko has admitted that the European nation looks set to explore Bitcoin as an alternative to the U.S dollars which they have been barred from using through a sanction. To this respect, he expects the government of Russia to invest heavily in Bitcoin in the coming months since the cryptocurrency ... Read more

Will Russia Invest $10 billion in Bitcoin During Q1 2019?

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CoinFLEX, a derivative-focused company launched last year by crypto exchange, Coinfloor has revealed that it will launch a physically backed Bitcoin futures contract next month. A Bloomberg report confirming the development stated that CoinFLEX will be based in Hong Kong and will for a start offer futures contracts backed by the top cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, ... Read more

Coinfloor’s Subsidiary To Offer Physical Bitcoin Futures Next Month

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