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Two bitcoin-based companies in Canada, Bitbuy and Knox, are working together to offer clients full insurance on all their deposits.Knox and Bitbuy Join Hands Over InsuranceLagging insurance protocols have brought the cryptocurrency space down for years. This could arguably be why so many institutional players and others have been reluctant to get involved in digital currency trading. While these assets are prone to volatility, the space has also been very vulnerable to theft and cyberattacks....

International financial broker Robo Forex has added more crypto trading pairs to its platform. In addition, the company has also worked to improve trading pairs for customers with higher-end accounts.Robo Forex: It’s Now Easier to TradeUp until the time of writing, customers of Robo Forex could only trade and sell digital currencies that were paired with fiat. Some of these pairs included BTC/USD, ETH/USD, and LTC/USD. However, those with pro-standard and ECN accounts will have the ability to...

Bitcoin has had a rough couple of days with its latest dip below $9,000. While that didn’t last long (the asset has since risen back to about $9,100 at press time), other coins – such as OmiseGO – have utilized this period to exhibit bullish activity and rise beyond what anybody thought possible.OmiseGO Is Pumping Like MadOmiseGO (OMG) is a coin that probably nobody’s really heard of before, but that’s all about to change considering Coinbase – the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency...

Crypto exchange BitMEX has suffered an outage this week, and many people are pointing the finger and accusing it of being a “rotten” trading platform.BitMEX Is Having a Tough TimeBased in Seychelles in Africa, the exchange specializes in bitcoin derivatives and has often been labeled a “bitcoin casino” over the years. The crypto trading platform experienced an outage earlier this week that isn’t sitting well with a lot of bitcoin fans, who say that the company is not reliable, and that any...

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A standard financial institution is backing crypto. J.P. Morgan – arguably one of America’s biggest banking firms – has announced its support for cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase and Gemini in New York.J.P. Morgan Is A Huge AdvocateThis is a major step forward in the right direction, and sure to make cryptocurrency far more mainstream and legitimate. It also represents a huge change for the CEO of the bank Jamie Dimon, who in the past, has often...

The past few weeks have been relatively up and down for bitcoin, the world’s number one digital asset by market cap, but for Changpeng Zhao – CEO of Binance, the most popular and largest crypto exchange across the globe in terms of volume – the good news is just getting started for BTC.Changpeng Zhao Thinks Use Will Increase for BTCDuring the last few months, there has been serious hype surrounding the bitcoin halving, which occurred roughly 48 hours ago. For the most part, the leadup to the...

The bitcoin crash that occurred roughly 24 hours ago has caused Coinbase – a popular cryptocurrency exchange – to experience a brief period of inactivity before finally restoring its services later in the day.Coinbase Crashes for the Second Time in WeeksThis marks the second time the trading platform has crashed in the last two weeks. The first occurred when bitcoin first rose into the high $9,000 range and gained virtually $1,000 overnight. At that time, the exchange was experiencing such...

Cascadia Blockchain Group Corp. in Vancouver has announced that it has developed a new payment system that would allow for crypto to fiat transactions.Cascadia Empowers Crypto to Fiat PaymentsThe entire payment platform would be powered through debit cards, which would contain the fiat currency that has come from the digital coins in question. Once digital coins are transformed into fiat, they are stored on cards that the customers keep in their wallets. They can then be used for purchasing...

Binance – the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume – has issued a new report praising Libra.Libra Gets Touted by a Major ExchangeThe exchange refers to Libra as a “gamechanger” in the payments industry and believes that it could potentially bring financial services to people who would otherwise always be cut out by banks and traditional finance institutions. The report explains:It is important to note that there are very few payment systems, and most of...

Bitcoin is on the rise, and according to new evidence, the reason may be due to increased buying on cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase.Coinbase Is Bursting with BTC TradesBitcoin is trading for just shy of $8,900, though last week, it briefly shot up to the mid-$9,000 range. While originally it was believed that buying activity had increased on derivatives platforms, some analysts believe purchases on spot crypto exchanges may be the real “culprit” behind bitcoin’s meteoric...