People always complain about cryptocurrency exchanges. No exchange is perfect but there is one exchange that is in the lime light lately and getting a lot of ‘smack’ from people. It’s HitBTC. Several have been complaining about inability to withdraw their funds from the exchange. One user had to be wait for full four months and several tickets just to get his funds withdrawn from the exchange.
Telegram Passport has been launched which is a unified authorization method for services that require personal identification. This lets you store your identity documents and personal data in the Telegram cloud using End-to-End Encryption.
Popular cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex has announced that on August 2nd 2018 UTC +0, it will delist a number of currencies from its exchange. This includes FLO, FLDC, XVC, BCY, NXC, RADS, BLK, PINK and RIC. Users have been told to finalize all trades and close any positions in these assets prior to August 2nd. Keep in mind that once these cryptocurrencies are delisted, you will only be able to withdraw them but that too till September 2nd – no more than that.
BitGo has announced support for Zcash. BitGo is a popular cryptocurrency wallet and world’s largest processor for bitcoin transactions. Infact, BitGo processes around 15 percent of total bitcoin transactions and total of 15 billion dollars across all of the supported cryptocurrencies. It has customer base in more than 50 countries around the world.
If you live in Baltic and fan of cryptocurrency, CopPay has got you covered. You will now be able to pay for Samsung products using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Dash, Nem, and Steem. CopPay is also being accepted in the local restaurants and other retailers as well. CopPay has also initiated a referral program to accelerate cryptofication all over Europe.
Switcheo Exchange has announced partnership with Ledger, which is the most popular hardware wallet for storing cryptocurrencies. Under this partnership, Switcheo and Ledger will work together and enable users to trade directly from their hardware wallets while Switcheo exchange goes multi change and then cross-chain.
Nebulas team has partnered with KingSoft Cloud to explore blockchain games. Nebulas, as we know is the next generation public blockchain and currently ranked sixth globally by China’s ministry of industry and IT. Under this partnership, Nebulas team will provide tech support for the development of blockchain games to KingSoft Cloud.
Looks like Zencash can’t have a day without hacks. The team is now sending emails to all Zen Help users that ZenHelp website, a dedicated support system was compromised by hacker. In the hack, admin credentials were hacked and hacker got control of tickets data.
Coinbase just announced on their plan with intention to add four new coins to their website. This includes Cardano (ADA), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC) and 0x (ZRX). Also, for Zcash, only t-addresses will be supported which are not used for private transactions.
ElectrumG Bitcoin Gold wallet is now available for download, which is basically an electrum wallet for the BTG. This allows the users to manage their funds without downloading Bitcoin Gold blockchain that runs into many gigabytes. So think of it like your typical android wallet but made for desktop – you don’t have to download blockchain – simply use seed or private keys to send funds.