OkCoin International is a Hong Kong based crypto currency exchange which has announced that starting July 15th, 2017, they will start offering Ethereum Classic services. ETC has been maintained as original ethereum blockchain without any changes to its history of transactions. The company listed ethereum in may and now that the demand for Ethereum Classic is increasing, the company will be enabling that as well.
Stellar Labs are having a twitter war with Poloniex. It is about their ongoing program where they used to be giving free Lumens currency to people who already hold bitcoin. Under their scheme, users who hold bitcoin in kraken, BTC38, Poloniex, deribit, Bit-Z, NaoBTC and Yuanbag. Poloniex said that it was not clear to them why Stellar included their name on their website as participants in 6/27 giveaway. This was done without their consent and they did not agree to participate nor did they possess the Stellar Labs for this giveway.
Bitpanda, a bitcoin exchange has partnered with Austrain post office to offer bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum and dash at 1800 post office branches all over Austria. If you an Austrian, you will be able to buy the popular crypto currencies with euros at all the post office branches easily.
Changelly is a very popular crypto currency exchange website and today, it has announced its partnership with Jaxx which is one of the most popular multi currency crypto coin wallet. With their partnership, Jaxx users will now be able to change between coins using Changelly service. This was one of the most asked features by users and Changelly is perfect for this job.
Litecoin wallet has been disabled on the popular crypto currency stock exchange, Poloniex. This is the message that has been posted on Poloniex website.
LTC is currently under maintenance or experiencing wallet/network issues. Deposits and withdrawals will remain disabled until a solution is found, which may require an update from the LTC team. Any updates must be tested and audited before enabling.
Folks at ZcashCo have finally issued an official statement on the whole Poloniex situation. Poloniex is second largest crypto currency exchange and they had disabled Zcash withdrawals and deposits due to wallet issues. When one opens the page for ZEC / BTC trading, a yellow warning banner with following text is shown.
ZEC is currently under maintenance or experiencing wallet/network issues. Deposits and withdrawals will remain disabled until a solution is found, which may require an update from the ZEC team. Any updates must be tested and audited before enabling.
A new contract trading website called Libertex has been launched with support for both bitcoin and litecoin. This allows one to stake on either buying or selling of the crypto currencies. Andew Nikolaev who is the business development manager of Libertex said,
Cryptobuyer is a latin American cryto currency startup that has now become the first company to install bitcoin ATM inside a commercial bank. Jorge Luis Farias is the CEO of the company who has played integral part in joining hands with popular South American banks in setting up physical ATMs inside banks. Right now, cryptobuyer has installed two of these.
Darknet criminals known as “All Base service” are demanding bitcoin fee to stop spamming. The company specializes in sending out spam email campaigns for a bitcoin fee. Spam services are getting increasingly popular in which the recipients get lot of spam emails and later the “All base service” ask for an amount in crypto currency to get them removed from their hit list.
Solidity, a popular contract oriented programming language has just received an update. It includes bugfixes that fixes many trivial yet annoying bugs that popped up on 0.4.12 version. The developers have also depreciated some old features in order to prepare for 0.5.0. The most notable is the remove of throw() and some people on twitter said that were emotional about its removal – in a good way, of course.
