Earlier today, Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it will be opening a new office in the Mediterranean island nation of Malta. The company will also be shuttering its office in Japan after receiving a warning letter from Japan’s Financial Services Agency for operating an exchange in the country without proper registration. Binance CEO […]
For your pleasure, entertainment, and hopefully some information, I present below the wall of shame, starting with a less obvious and perhaps incorrect choice for the repugnant honor of the biggest bitcoin hack and theft of all time. Jed McCaleb, founder of Ripple (publicly announced he was to sell around one billion of them crashing […]
The final member of China’s “big three” bitcoin exchanges has passed a proof-of-solvency audit with flying colors. In an independent audit published by Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas, Huobi appears to have 103.52% of total customer deposits in reserve. Thomas provided the auditing service free of charge, as he did when auditing Kraken and Bitfinex […]
South Korean bitcoin exchange Korbit announced this week that it has joined the ranks of multimillion-dollar bitcoin startup club, gaining $3 million in venture capital in a Series A funding round. The exchange has already received $600,000 in angel and VC investment, bringing its total funding to date to $3.6 million. The most recent round […]
In a new CoinDesk profile of bitcoin-friendly precious metals retailer Agora Commodities, the credit-card eschewing bullion company dropped an interesting detail about their future plans. Agora founder Joseph Castillo told the website that his company is in the process of preparing to open a new digital currency exchange. Although there was no stated timeline for […]
Canadian virtual currency exchange Vault of Satoshi (VoS) recently announced several major new services for its rapidly growing customer base. The announcement is the first of two major “Summer Update” announcements, with the second planned in the near future. VoS Director of Marketing Adam Cochran posted the announcements to several popular bitcoin forums, as well […]