Category : Crypto News

FINRA Fines Ex-Merrill Lynch Employee For Mining Crypto

The U.S. Financial Industries Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined and suspended a former Merrill Lynch representative for cryptocurrency mining. The undeclared outside business activity is also what lost Kyung Soo Kim his job. Moonlighting As A C...

SendFriend Unleashing xRapid For Faster And Cheaper Payment To The Philippines

Ripple’s race to dominate the global remittance market has now touched down in the Philippines. The blockchain company working alongside SendFriend is pushing Ripple’s cross border remittances services to the Southeast Asian nation. Send...

Blockchain startup replaying 10 years of Bitcoin transaction history in an hour

Radix, a public trustless decentralized ledger, plans to replay 10 years of Bitcoin transaction history with full signature and transaction validation in under an hour. A new layer for the internet Radix describes itself as a new layer for the intern...

Ethereum Price (ETH) Could Continue Higher Versus Bitcoin (BTC)

Ethereum price started a strong upward move from the 0.0300 support against bitcoin. ETH to BTC is currently gaining pace and it could continue higher towards the 0.0330BTC level. Key Talking Points Ethereum price is currently placed nicely ab...

CNBC reports Bitcoin underperforming the S&P 500 this month, but BTC up 111% this quarter

According to CNBC’s Fast Money, Bitcoin has been underperforming the S&P 500 since the beginning of June, losing just under 4 percent of its value against the USD. CNBC’s observation, however, turned out to be a significant turning po...

Block.one CEO expects $50-100 million payday for top influencers on EOS Voice

A screenshot of what appears to be a message from Block.one CEO Brendan Blumer reveals that he expects top social media influencers to be able to generate $50–100 million in revenue from Voice, EOS’s new social media platform. In the message, Blumer...

All-in On Bitcoin: Square’s Crypto Division Snags Google Alumnus

Square Crypto Takes the Plunge (… Finally) A little over an hour ago, Square Crypto, the Silicon Valley firm’s Bitcoin (BTC) centric initiative/division started making some, uh, odd tweets. Introducing itself as Gary Fuches, the handl...

Jack Dorsey’s open-source Bitcoin initiative makes its first hire

Jack Dorsey’s open-source Bitcoin initiative, Square Crypto, brings on a former Google project manager as its first hire. Jack Dorsey launched Square Crypto this March as an open-source project to improve the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystem “ind...

Ripple XRP Opens Office in Brazil to Dominate Crypto Remittance

Ripple, the parent company to XRP, has made an effort to crack open the billion-dollar remittance market in South America by opening an office in Brazil. Billion-Dollar Remittance Industry The company has been outspoken in the past about targ...

Binance lowers its fee structure as BNB price surges

After a steady increase in the market valuation of Binance Coin, Binance DEX announced it would lower its fee structure. #Binance Chain Mainnet Lowering Fee Structurehttps://t.co/xnEfGiO8We pic.twitter.com/n4xnbngyS5 — Binance DEX (@Binance_DE...

Bitcoin (BTC) Needs to Pass $8,200 to Kickstart Next Leg Higher

Bitcoin Needs $8,200 Over the past few days, Bitcoin (BTC) bulls have made their presence known once again, boosting the leading cryptocurrency from a multi-week low of $7,450 to $8,150 as of the time of writing this. While this solid price actio...

‘Ultra-Bull Case’ for Bitcoin Driven By Central Banks – Anthony Pompliano

Anthony ‘Pomp’ Pompliano of Morgan Creek Digital believes Bitcoin is about to experience an epoch-defining next 18 months. ‘A Perfect Storm for Bitcoin’ Speaking to Bloxlive TV earlier in June, Pompliano said the next 18 months will be c...

Coinbase crypto debit card now available in six more countries in Europe

Coinbase announced the expansion of its crypto Visa debit card service to six new countries across Europe. The expansion follows the card’s April debut in the U.K. and should see a rollout to more countries in the coming months. Six more countr...

‘Totally Absurd’ – New FATF Rules To Turn Bitcoin Exchanges Into Banks

Intergovernmental body the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has committed to making 200 countries treat cryptocurrency exchanges like banks. FATF Among ‘Biggest Threats’ To Crypto As Bloomberg reported June 11, an update to how nationa...

Miss Hong Kong Explains ‘Bitcoin Time Traveler’ On Biggest TV Channel

The winner of the Miss Hong Kong 2015 pageant has appeared on the territory’s most popular TV channel explaining the ‘Bitcoin Time Traveler’ theory. Explaining The ‘Bitcoin Time-Traveler’ Theory The theory stems from a...