Tag Archives: Exchange News

South Korea is cracking down on cryptocurrency exchange activity within its borders. South Korea Is Taking a Stance South Korea, at one time, accounted for more than one quarter of the world’s bitcoin and crypto transactions, though it appears the country’s presence within the digital currency space has died down a bit over the last three years. Nevertheless, the nation is still looking to purge all foreign digital currency exchanges from its terrain as a means of ending...

Not too long ago, Jackson Palmer – the co-creator of the popular meme currency Dogecoin – issued a series of attacks on the cryptocurrency space, calling it inherently “right wing” and an arena that has allowed a bunch of people to build their wealth through “tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity.” It looks like Brian Armstrong – the CEO of Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world – is not taking these words...

Massachusetts’ democratic senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest politician to express her disapproval and distrust for cryptocurrency exchanges. In a recent letter, she asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to examine the prospects surrounding crypto exchanges and do an analysis regarding the harm and risks they potentially pose to consumers. Elizabeth Warren Isn’t Crazy About Crypto Exchanges Crypto exchanges have often taken guff for their lack of...

Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency space have fallen hard in recent weeks, but according to Oppenheimer analyst Owen Lau, these moves should not be affecting Coinbase stock, and the exchange’s public listing does not deserve to get swept under the bus. Coinbase Should Not Be Associated with BTC’s Drops Coinbase made its public debut on the Nasdaq in mid-April. At first, things started out great. Stock shares in the exchange began at more than $300 each, while bitcoin...

Coinbase is arguably one of the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the western hemisphere. The company has become the first and only crypto exchange as of late to be listed publicly, and it is estimated that the firm has a valuation of approximately $70 billion or more. However, it looks like the company is experiencing some solid competition in the form of bitcoin payments firm Strike. Strike Is Bringing the Heat to Coinbase Over the years, Coinbase –...

Mercado Bitcoin – which means “Bitcoin Market” in English – is a Latin American cryptocurrency trading platform based in Brazil. Through a Series B funding round, the company managed to garner a whopping $200 million in additional funds through the SoftBank Latin America Fund, suggesting the growing presence of bitcoin and cryptocurrency in Latin American regions. Mercado Bitcoin Is at the Top of Its Game At the time of writing, the parent company of Mercado Bitcoin –...

Not long ago, the largest crypto heist in history was recorded. Africrypt, an exchange stationed on the continent of Africa, saw as much as $3.6 billion in crypto funds vanish without a trace. Africrypt Owners End Their Lawyers’ Services While at first the platform appeared to be the victim of a hack, things took a unique and ugly turn when the brothers that ran the exchange – Ameer and Raees Cajee – told their customers not to report the incident to law enforcement, as...

A division of Binance has been banned in the United Kingdom. Regulators from within the country are no longer permitting a sector of one of the world’s biggest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges to provide services to residents of the UK as they work out regulatory guidelines for the crypto space. Binance Markets Limited Is No Longer Working in the UK While Binance.com is still accessible to traders in the country, they will no longer be able to garner services...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has hit a new peak. Just one month after launching its new bitcoin micro futures, the company has seen approximately one million of these contracts traded, suggesting that institutional investing in the bitcoin space has not died down since the currency began experiencing heavy losses from its mid-April high. The CME Has Struck a Top Chord CME put out the following message on Twitter: Today, we announced a new milestone for micro...

It has happened again, folks. Another big crypto-related crime has been added to the books, and this time, the lost figures are more than what could have ever been anticipated. Two brothers that opened a crypto exchange in Africa known as Africrypt have made off with more than three and a half billion dollars in customers’ digital money. Africrypt May Be the Biggest Crypto Theft in History The brothers – known as Ameer Cajee and Raees Cajee – founded the cryptocurrency...