According to a story published late last week by Swiss newspaper Handelszeitung, major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is in the process of relocating to Switzerland. Bitfinex CEO Jean Louis van der Velde confirmed that the exchange is in the process of merging “operations previously spread over several locations,” adding that his company has held high-level discussions […]
According to a report published in South Korean business publication The Bell, electronics giant Samsung has partnered with a Taiwan-based hardware manufacturer TSMC to produce a new line of ASICs for the cryptocurrency mining market. The report states that prototyping and development began last year, with mass production of the chips starting earlier this month.
Since late November 2017, South Korea has looked to regulate cryptocurrency trading in domestic exchanges. South Korea’s primary financial regulator is in discussions with counterparts in China and Japan toward the regulation of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. South Korea is the world’s third largest market in bitcoin trading, after Japan and the U.S., and the largest […]
Last week, Chinese financial regulators sent shockwaves across the cryptocurrency world when reports surfaced that authorities were preparing for a crackdown on ICOs and exchanges in the country. Although hardly surprising given the Chinese government’s often tense relationship with the booming blockchain sector, many suspected that the so-called “ban” on ICOs wasn’t quite what it […]
In a new ruling published on Monday, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) declared ICOs and similar cryptocurrency-based fundraising tools to be illegal within the country. The PBOC’s statement also demanded that all current ICOs on China-based exchanges be halted immediately, and that funds from previous ICO rounds be returned. The ruling follows an extended […]
The People’s Bank of China’s “bitcoin ban” has finally claimed another victim: cryptocurrency exchange NiuBTC. Back in March, the PBoC began quietly pressuring the country’s banks to close the accounts of digital currency-related businesses in an effort to curb rampant bitcoin and litecoin speculation. The result was a wave of bitcoin and alt-coin exchange closures, […]
Within an hour after opening their new Digcoin “hashing power mortgage” product to users, Beijing-based bitcoin exchange Huobi had sold out of all available shares. The interest-bearing Dig-VC mining service, which is arranged to suggest a “certificate of deposit”-style of investment, provides a guaranteed, monthly interest rate of 1.2%. Each share has a minimum 60-day […]
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 […]
Another of China’s “big three” bitcoin exchanges has seemingly passed a proof-of-reserve audit with flying colors. BTC China announced the results of their audit on Monday, although translations of the full text have only recently become available in English. The audit was verified by a panel of five well-known Chinese bitcoin advocates, who checked BTC […]
Chinese bitcoin exchange OKCoin have announced the results of their recent audit, revealing that the exchange holds 104% of the BTC needed to all cover customer deposits. The audit was conducted over four days by Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas, who performed similar audits for Kraken and BitFinex earlier this year. OKCoin announced the results […]