Showing posts with label Bitcoins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bitcoins. Show all posts

March 18, 2019

Stablecoins, Bitcoins, and Alt-Coins — How Trading Pairs Work.


All cryptocurrencies on the market can be divided into three types - bitcoin (as the leading and most popular cryptocurrency), steybcocoins (as an analogue of the fiat dollar, we will consider them identical), alt-coins. These three categories of cryptocurrency are interconnected in trading pairs. Depending on the situation on the cryptocurrency market, trading pairs will go through different cycles.

March 7, 2019

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hints at spending $ 10,000 a week on bitcoins.


Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey alluded to spending $ 10,000 a week on Bitcoin (BTC) in the Tales from a Crypt podcast on March 4th.

March 4, 2019

Over the past 24 hours, “cryptocurrency whales” have made 4 major transfers in bitcoins.


Over the past 24 hours, four major transactions have been recorded by “cryptocurrency whales”. All transactions were carried out at BTC.

March 3, 2019

Beyond all laws: like a pair of crypto-enthusiasts built a house in neutral waters behind Bitcoin.


An early Bitcoin investor and self-proclaimed libertarian built the first floating house solely on cryptocurrency earnings. His new home is located in neutral waters, so the tenants are not formally subject to the laws of any state. According to the owner of the house, the housewarming was supposed to coincide with the decade of Bitcoin, but the strong storms near Thailand forced him to postpone a significant date to the last month.

March 2, 2019

EY did not find bitcoins on the six cold wallets of the QuadrigaCX crypto exchange.



The auditing company Ernst & Young (EY) published the “Third Registrar Report” in a trial of the Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX with clients.

February 28, 2019

Miners earn millions of dollars without processing transactions.



Miners who are engaged in the extraction of various cryptocurrencies, were able to earn millions of dollars without processing transactions. That is, they made a profit, actually doing nothing.

The number of money laundering cases in Japan has increased.



The number of money laundering cases in Japan has increased
On February 28, the National Police Administration (NPA) disclosed that in 2018, more than 7,000 cases of money laundering involving cryptocurrency were reported, according to Mainichi Japan. The figure sounds even more alarming when you consider the tenfold increase since 2017.

February 27, 2019

Coinomi's desktop wallets check spelling of seed phrases. The function allowed to steal $ 70,000 in cryptocurrency.

The user under the warith nickname reported the loss of $ 60,000 - $ 70,000 after installing the Coinomi wallet from the official site.


“My main Exodus wallet did not support some assets and I decided to move them to Coinomi using the same seed phrase,” he writes.