Binance is world’s second biggest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of volume and today, Japan’s FSA (financial services agency) said they gave a warning to Binance to stop its operations in Japan. If it does not stops soon enough, it could face criminal charges. Binance CEO, Zhao said that they were working to get a license from Japanese FSA but it was not clear if the company actually filed an application for it.
CarVertical, an ERC20 Ethereum token claimed that they have undergone partnership with the BMW group. This happened few days back and rose the CarVertical token’s price from 0.0025 dollars to 0.005 dollars within 3 hours. However, today, the BMW confirmed on twitter that they do NOT have any partnership with BMW. This is exactly how you destroy your corporate reputation. BMW tweeted, “BMW has not entered into a cooperation/partnership with CarVertical. The company is using our BMW CarData interface available to any third party.”
Bytecoin, which is known as the fully-anonymous cryptocurrency which first implemented the CryptoNote protocol, is publishing a major software and wallet update. This update, learning the lessons from its recent beta release, has proven to solve Bytecoin’s most essential technical issues as well as improve both the stability of the system and its reliability.
BarterDEX is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange that supports atomic swaps. The exchange now supports ERC20 tokens and more than 66 of these were added today. Over the past few years, there have a massive growth in number of cryptocurrency exchanges but most of them are centralized. While the centralized exchanges appear more convenient to users for buying/selling cryptocurrencies, the coins stored on the exchanges are fully under control of the exchange and not you.
If a particular coin has been delisted on Bittrex, its wallet is still accessible to the users so that they can withdraw them and trade them on other cryptocurrency exchanges. After certain period of time, even the wallets are deleted and Bittrex deletes them. Infact, it is going to delete a bunch of them on March 30th 2018. If you still own any of the coins given in the list shown below, we urge you to withdraw them because after March 30, they will no longer be accessible. There are some coins, whose wallets have stopped working and those coins are marked with asterisk. In such cases, there is nothing you can do.
Bytecoin team did their very first AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit on March 13, 2018. The team was asked all sorts of questions and the team did an amazing job in answering them. The AMA went for little more than 90 minutes.
Coinbase is the most popular cryptocurrency exchange for buying Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. The company has received E-Money license from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in UK and have thus updated their privacy policy and user agreement. The E-money license lays the foundation for future product improvements that will be available to customers outside the US/EU. Coinbase has also taken this opportunity to make our terms more accessible and easier to read.
iQuant or 5iQuant.org is a few month old exchange that is doing some overly aggressive marketing these days to get new coins onboard. We were approached by couple of developers that were approached by iQuant marketing agent. We will be sharing some of the screenshots to show how rudely the marketing agents / developers were treated. The iQuant team is approaching developers on reddit by sending private message.
Attorney General National Security Division has served the Bitconnect shillers and court date is right around the corner. The class action lawsuit contains following individuals and corporations. Trevon James, who is listed below is still making videos. And while he has deleted all the tweets about endorsing Bitconnect, anything you tweet is permanent. Not only will twitter have it forever, there are several archives that will have it too.
BlackRock is world’s biggest asset manager and since they are late in the Bitcoin race, they took no time to rip Bitcoin. In a report, their chief investment strategist said that while they do see cryptocurrencies becoming more widely used in future, they are currently too risky and should only be taken seriously by those who are ready for complete losses.