Voyager (VYGR.V), a cryptocurrency brokerage firm that provides retail and institutional investors with trading solutions, announced Wednesday that it has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol UCD2. We are pleased to share that Voyager is now listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the 10th largest stock exchange in the world, under symbol […]
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Digital Asset Goes Open Source as Firm Eyes Closer Ties With Hyperledger
Blockchain startup Digital Asset is open sourcing its core software, in part to forge closer relations with other enterprise players.
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Crypto Lawyer Drew Hinkes Joins Firm to Help ICO Issuers Fight Back
Blockchain lawyer Andrew Hinkes has joined has joined legal services firm Carlton Fields, where he will focus on litigating cases for token sellers.
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Mining Firm Canaan Creative Secures Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Funding
The sustained bear market has hit cryptocurrency miners hard and stalled the incredible growth experienced by hardware manufacturers that service the industry. It seems that investors are still willing to pour significant money into the business, however, judging by Canaan Creative’s latest raise.
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Canaan Creative Now Worth Billions
Canaan Creative Co. Ltd, the Chinese company behind the Avalon lineup of ASIC mining chips and rigs, has successfully completed a round of financing worth hundreds of millions of dollars according to media reports from the Asian country. According to these reports, citing unnamed informed sources, the mining hardware manufacturer has now received a valuation in the billions of dollars following the latest funding round.
Malta Appoints Cybersecurity Firm Ciphertrace to Monitor Crypto Transactions
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has appointed U.S. cybersecurity company Ciphertrace to help with compliance monitoring of crypto assets. Ciphertrace will be expected to keep track of transactions that pass through local crypto exchanges and digital wallets including ICOs, screening for potential money laundering and terrorism financing violations.
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Detecting Illicit Financial Flows
The MFSA is currently sifting through applications from 29 cryptocurrency businesses that are seeking approval to operate as what are known as virtual financial agents (VFAs), the Times of Malta reported on March 11. Once the VFAs have been licensed, understood to be by the end of the month, businesses are expected to submit further applications to operate cryptocurrency exchanges, wallets and initial coin offerings.
Startups-Focused Law Firm Now Accepts Bitcoin Payments
Cryptocurrency ventures that don’t wish to convert their holdings to fiat can now pay for legal services with bitcoin cash (BCH) or bitcoin core (BTC) with Atrium. The corporate law firm, which has helped over 300 startups raise more than $ 500 million in venture capital, now accepts direct cryptocurrency payments via Bitpay.
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Atrium Fintech and Blockchain Now Accepts Bitcoin
Atrium, a legal services provider focused on high-growth startups, recently announced the acceptance of BCH and BTC payments for its Fintech and Blockchain practice (AFB) via the popular cryptocurrency payment processor Bitpay. Accepting payment in crypto will make engagement easier for its clients headquartered outside of the U.S. or with substantial cryptocurrency holdings.
Bitfury Partners With R&D Firm to Launch Crypto Mining Center in Paraguay
Blockchain firm Bitfury will develop a bitcoin mining center in Paraguay. The new mining operation is in partnership with Seoul-based research and development firm Commons Foundation.
The collaboration is backed by the government of Paraguay, whose goal is to make the South American country a cryptocurrency mining hub.
The new center, which is a part of Commons Foundation’s “Golden Goose” project, will help to facilitate the innovation of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies across Spanish-speaking countries. Bitfury will provide product and technical support for the project.
$950 Million Stolen from ‘Immature’ Cryptocurrency Exchanges & Wallets in 2018: Analytics Firm CEO
$ 1.7 billion was stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges, custodial services, and in ICO exit scams in 2018. That’s a dramatic rise from the year before, despite the shrinking market. And according to the Q4 CipherTrace Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report, that money needs to be laundered. But here’s the kicker: with a global wave of regulations going into effect later this year, laundering cryptos will be increasingly harder to do. CCN caught up with Dave Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace and co-chair of the Cryptocurrency Working Group at the APWG.org to find out what this means. Like Taking Candy from a Baby Of
Crypto Payments Firm CEO: Hacks, Scams, and Volatility Discourage Mass Adoption
AtomicPay’s CEO believes that scams and volatility are the primary things holding back public mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. The Thailand-based company is a non-custodial crypto payment processor. They are one of the few crypto payment processors that facilitates payments for multiple cryptos without holding merchant funds in escrow and charging a fee before releasing funds.
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Bitcoin Price Will Tank to ‘Zero’, Claims Investment Firm Chief at Davos
By CCN.com: Heated debates are warming up the icy snow-capped city of Davos during this year’s World Economic Forum. BOE senior adviser yesterday said that cryptocurrencies were worthless. Today, BCG Digital Ventures founder Jeff Schumacher said Bitcoin price will fall to zero. Schumacher is a top investor and relative veteran in the space. He told
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PwC Thinks India will Outperform the U.K.’s Economy: Here’s what the ‘Big Four’ Firm and the ‘GDP’ Indicator get Wrong
By CCN.com: A publication by accounting firm PwC has placed India on track for a 7.6 percent growth in 2019, setting a path for the country to surpass both the U.K. and France in terms of economy. But ask any economist, and they would point towards why the coveted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – which
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Bitcoin Price Could Crack $10 Million, Become New Gold Standard: Asset Management Firm
By CCN.com: Throughout the 2017 crypto market bull run, bitcoin price predictions kept the crypto hype train fat and happy. Whether it was eccentric ICO promoter John McAfee promising to emasculate himself if bitcoin failed to reach $ 1 million within three years or Fundstrat setting a “conservative” price target at $ 25,000, every crypto influencer had
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Fossil Shares See New Life after Firm Sells Smartwatch Tech to Google
Watchmaker Fossil Group’s shares spiked today on news it had sold some of its smartwatch technology to Google in a deal worth $ 40 million. Announced today and expected to close in January, the deal launched Fossil’s share price as high as 10%. By close, though, it had ebbed back to $ 18.00 for a single-day gain
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PG&E, US’ Largest Energy Utility Firm, to File for Bankruptcy as Potential Liabilities From California Wildfires Reaches Billions
U.S. utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) disclosed on Monday that it will file for bankruptcy. US’ largest energy utility firm with a market cap of $ 13+ billion said that the decision was forced by the wildfires which destroyed lives and property in California in 2017 and 2018. Per a BBC report, the utility
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Canada’s First All-Crypto Legal Firm Opens Its Doors to Global Clientele
Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
Cameron-Huff has worked as the lawyer for a Bitcoin core developer, several token-based companies, and dozens of crypto startups. As president of Decentral Inc., he managed a staff of 30 and helped to take the company to 750,000 monthly wallet users.
As the first, all-crypto legal services firm in Canada, Cameron-Huff expects the ongoing uncertainty around Canada’s cryptocurrency regulations to create some business for him, but he is also looking to build a global presence.
Research Firm Charts Unspent BTC and Calls a Market Bottom in Q1 2019
“How many unspent bitcoins exist?”
“How many bitcoins have been lost?”
“How many bitcoins are left sitting in wallets, and how does this affect price?”
If any (or all) of these questions have ever popped into your head, you’re in good company: They’ve crossed the minds of analysts at Delphi Digital, the self-named “research & consulting boutique specializing in the digital asset market.”
The firm just released research on the current state of the bitcoin market, and they believe they’ve forecasted a potential bottom for its declining prices (FYI, they think it’s coming sometime in Q1 of 2019, but more on that later). Delphi Digital gave us an early peek at the report before announcing it on social media January 10.
Apple Plunged 10% in Hours and the Firm Still Doesn’t Know the Root Issue
Apple is in deep trouble. With a ten percent drop in its stock price on the day and low sales forecast in China, the technology behemoth is facing a tough quarter ahead. Samsung, the largest conglomerate in South Korea, is also struggling to deal with low sales. As smartphones users feel less compelled to acquire … Continued
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Litigation Firm Files Lawsuit Against Nvidia for Statements Regarding Crypto
Shall Law Firm, an American shareholder rights litigation firm, has announced the filing of a class action lawsuit against Nvidia with regards to statements pertaining to the company’s outlook regarding the effect that declining cryptocurrency prices could have on the performance of its shares.
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Firm Files Class Action Against Nvidia
A Los Angeles-based law firm has announced the filing of a class action lawsuit accusing graphics card manufacturer, Nvidia, for “violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.”
Crypto Firm Fragments Launches Stablecoin Following ‘Ampleforth’ Rebrand
Fragments protocol, an effort at stabilizing the buying power of cryptocurrency, has rebranded itself to Ampleforth as of today, renaming the crypto project after the “1984” character whose job is to translate poetry into Newspeak. Ampleforth aims to preserve the unit of account and money properties of its tokens. Instead of pegging to a fixed
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Why a Little-Known Crypto Mining Firm is Suing Bitcoin Cash’s Biggest Backers
After reporting on the story that Miami-based UnitedCorp had filed suit against Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Bitmain, Bitcoin.com, and Kraken exchange, CCN had the opportunity to talk to Lawry Trevor-Deutsch, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, about the motivation for the lawsuit. The first thing that should be disclosed is that UnitedCorp says that it is not
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