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INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Sep. 22, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has listed OTCcoin (OTC) on September 22, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the OTC/USDT trading pair is now officially available for trading. Providing blockchain-based P2P exchange service, OTCmarket enables its users to buy and sell crypto assets in an easy, safe, and fast way. Its native token OTCcoin (OTC) has been listed on LBank Exchange at 6:00 UTC on September 22,...

The blockchain company Ripple joined forces with the music integration platform Styngr and the record label Armada Music to release an exclusive album in Maladroids (a video game built on the XRP Ledger). It is worth noting that Armada Music is one of the leading entities in its field, while the renowned DJs – Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron, and David Lewis – are its three Co-Founders. Ripple’s New Project According to a recent press release, the collaboration will aim to...

Tether, the operator of the third-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of almost $70 billion, announced the USDT launch on Polkadot. Thus, the stablecoin is now available on roughly a dozen blockchain networks. The announcement from the company described Polkadot as a “full-stack Web 3 ecosystem built for the multi-chain future.” Adding that it has a “multi-chain application environment where activities such as cross-chain registries and cross-chain computation are...

The IRS is going after crypto owners who fail to report gains on their taxes. The US tax authority got a court order Thursday enjoining an NYC bank to turn over records on potential crypto tax dodgers. While crypto markets appear in the throes of “winter” against buys made last November to date, half of the bitcoin holders are holding at a profit. The IRS requires US taxpayers who sell bitcoin or any cryptocurrency at a profit to report it. And it is willing to use all means...

Harmony Protocol, which suffered a hack in June, has shared an update on its recovery plan for the community. The team stated that there would be zero percent minting, at least for now. In an amended recovery proposal published in a Medium blog post on Friday (September 23, 2022), the Harmony team said there are no plans to mint additional ONE tokens, nor would there be a hard fork. The latest development shows a shift from an earlier recovery plan in July, which proposed a...

Not that long ago, the Central African Republic (CAR) – one of the poorest nations on the continent of Africa – announced that it was basically following in the footsteps of the Central American nation of El Salvador (also an extremely impoverished country) and that it was going to run its entire economy on digital currency. Initially, everyone thought this meant bitcoin, though the region eventually turned out its own digital asset called Sango Coin. The Central African...

Faruk Fatih Ozer – the alleged founder of Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex – has been arrested in the European nation of Albania and is now on the verge of being sent back to Turkey where he will face trial for reportedly making off with all the digital assets invested by his company’s clients. The Founder of Thodex Is Heading Back to Turkey Crypto crime involving exchanges has become a big deal in recent years given how unregulated the digital currency space truly...

Voyager Digital’s Chief Financial Officer, Ashwin Prithipaul, is set to exit the company after a transition period to “pursue other opportunities.” The exec joined the company as the CFO in May this year. Voyager’s current Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Ehrlich, will step into the role to assume Prithipaul’s duties in the interim. In addition to a brief stint as a CFO in Drive Digital, Prithipaul also served executive positions at Galaxy Digital, initially as Chief...

Ripple, as the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, saw increases of over 30% during the last 7 days, according to CoinGecko.  The price extended to nearly $0.56 on Friday but got quickly rejected. Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart The XRP/USDT trading pair reached a key support turned resistance level, for the first time since May 9, on the daily chart. Additionally, the price finally closed a daily candle above the 200-day moving average line...

Virtuzone – a company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that assists with business formations and provides corporate services – has announced it will begin accepting cryptocurrency payments. Virtuzone Says “Yes” to Crypto The move is pushing the goals of bitcoin and its digital counterparts closer to being achieved. What many people likely forget is that while bitcoin and many of its crypto cousins have taken on either speculative or even hedge-like statuses in...