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The rumor in the air has been that Binance has shutdown its Shanghai following a police raid. On Thursday, November 23, several online publications including CoinSpeaker reported that Binance has relocated its 100-member Shanghai team to other offices in Singapore.The report also states that Binance has planned to shut down its Shanghai office completely. Furthermore, it added that Binance CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao and the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Yi He, have already moved...

Recent reports currently suggest that one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, has had its Shanghai office shutdown causing its many staff members to either work remotely or even completely abandon China and move to Singapore. According to sources familiar with the matter as cited by The Block, there is currently no fully functioning Binance Shanghai anymore.The cited sources have also added that the office was recently raided by police in the area, for unknown reasons....

Many of the people working in the cryptocurrency industry had a negative banking experience. Some were prevented from accessing their funds while others lost their accounts. It’s no surprise that many people are working hard to disrupt the banking industry. Many of today’s leaders in the cryptocurrency space were victims of poor banking. To some, the experience was so bad that they are now spearheading the disruption of the banking system. For instance, Changpeng Zhao, chief...

The Bitcoin futures market has exploded like no one could have expected over the recent years, and it continues to grow. This summer, BitMEX hit a new record for BTC futures trading at over $16 billion.CME recently petitioned the CFTC to double its BTC futures trading capacity in the face of soaring interest. Binance had recently entered the space, and Bakkt has launched with its physically delivered BTC futures product (albeit somewhat tepidly).In the light of so much action among the margin...

PayPal has recently stopped processing payments connected to the popular adult website, PornHub. The news wasn’t received well by numerous affected users. However, the company accepts cryptocurrencies, and famous crypto proponents seem to be pushing for further adoption.PornHub’s Payment Future Is With Crypto?PornHub announced today that PayPal cuts off payouts to “over a hundred thousand performers who rely on them for their livelihoods.”PayPal was one of the more commonly used payment...

By pretty much any standard, Craig Wright easily became the most controversial person in crypto over the years. For a long time now, Wright has been at the center of a suit brought against him by the Kleiman estate, representing Dave Kleiman, Wright’s former business partner.Wright has also proclaimed himself as the real Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, and has even gone ahead to bring legal action against people who have refuted this claim. A few months ago and in his usual fashion,...

$16,000 seems to be a popular number amongst bitcoin price predictors. Recently, Live Bitcoin News reported on a source that claimed bitcoin could potentially reach that number by the time November began. Sadly, this prediction didn’t come true, but that’s not stopping Changpeng Zhao – CEO of Binance, arguably the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange – from touting $16,000 as a figure that will arrive “soon.”Changpeng Zhao – $16,000 Is On Its WayThe prediction that stated...

Growth in the crypto market is almost always measured by price trajectories and the likelihood that an asset would find adoption, consequently increasing its price. With Bitcoin being the asset with the largest market cap and consequently the highest priced and strongest market dominance, the cryptosphere is almost always waiting for a Bitcoin price surge.In the midst of all the bullish predictions that usually trail Bitcoin, Changpeng Zhao who is the CEO of the world’s largest crypto...

In an expansion of its market offerings, indications have emerged that premier cryptocurrency exchange Binance is set to add support for crypto-fiat exchange for the Kazakh and Ukrainian currencies. This comes after the recent addition of support for Nigeria’s currency the Naira which was done in partnership with Flutterwave which is a Nigerian payment gateway based both in Nigeria and the United States.Moreover, it’s worth mentioning that Binance also added the Russian Ruble to the row of...

Binance’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) believes bitcoin will hit $16,000 very “soon-ish.” A 4chan anonymous user who accurately predicted bitcoin’s trajectory earlier this year turned out to be wrong in October. CZ claims 1.4 billion people are behind bitcoin. Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of Binance, recently stated that 1.4 billion people are working on getting bitcoin to $16,000. And, this upswing is currently in the works. Putting a Price on Bitcoin The CEO of the largest...