Category: Crypto News

Sumokoin Wallet updated, brings bug fixes and new GUI

Sumokoin Wallet updated

Sumokoin developer team has churned out Aomori release point 1 that includes fixes for various important wallet bugs. Newer user interface will be made available in next update that will be released soon. Same goes for the LITE wallet that will be released immediately after GUI update. Lite wallet does not require you to download entire blockchain as it only downloads the headers. This release is mainly to fix various wallet bugs for more reliable / stable CLI / LITE / GUI wallets and to make sure blockchain synchronization work properly after hardfork v3.

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TenX Litecoin debit card coming soon: TenX announces partnership with Litecoin Foundation

tenx litecoin card

TenX developer team has added support for Litecoin on both iOS and Android versions of TenX wallet. The team has already done some live testing of it. Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin tweeted about it saying, “TenX recently added LTC to their wallets, and we are working with them to launch a Litecoin debit card. Stay tuned for more information. LitePay who?”

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Verge hard fork incoming to patch damage, lead dev accidentally forks entire blockchain

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Verge developers are having a hard time today for sure. First, they accidently forked the entire blockchain and today, the developers are saying they will have to re-fork to patch the damage from the 51% attack. The fork, unfortunately, would not be released until tomorrow and this means the Verge’s blockchain will continue to get wrecked. The bug is still being exploited by the hacker and this means the hackers are free to unload their bags on exchanges. This makes it very easy to tank the price of Verge cryptocurrency.

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KuCoin Exchange improves security, adds safe words and security questions

KuCoin Exchange

KuCoin is a fast growing cryptocurrency exchange and today, it has rolled out new features to improve the overall security. The users will now be asked to set up safe words and security questions to prevent hack attacks and phishing. They have also implemented a new login screen. Once, the user has completed the new security settings, you will asked to use security verification process everytime you access your accounts operations. This includes password reset, withdrawals and deposits.

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Nemchange launched, a cryptocurrency exchange for NEM tokens

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Nemchange, a cryptocurrency exchange for buying and selling NEM based tokens called mosaics has been launched. It runs on NEM blockchain – just like ERC20 tokens run on ethereum blockchain. You can trade any mosaics created on Nemchange. Right now, Nemchange does not allow you to trade non-NEM tokens and cryptocurrencies (other than NEM) but team has plans to add support for some of the most popular ones in future.

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Binance has not received any mandates from Japan FSA and is not facing any criminal charges

Binance japan fsa

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.

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BMW has not partnered with CarVertical

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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.”

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Bytecoin’s Latest Wallet Revolution – March 20th

bytecoin new api

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.

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BarterDEX Decentralized Exchange adds 66 new Ethereum ERC20 tokens

BarterDEX Decentralized Exchange

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.

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