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Leading Indian Cryptocurrency exchange Zebpay adds Litecoin support

January 31, 2018 by Akshay Makadiya at Altcoins, Business, Finance, News

On January 25, 2018, India’s leading crypto exchange, Zebpay, added support for Litecoin to its trading platform to serve its vast user base of over two million. In a company blog post, it stated that there are more cryptocurrencies such as ether and ripple slated to be added to the...

Class Action Suit Filed Against BitConnect by Investors Following Closure

January 30, 2018 by Andrew O Malley at Altcoins, Finance, News, Regulation

Following the sudden closing down of BitConnect, an exchange and lending platform for cryptocurrencies, a group of investors began legal proceedings recently to get back their funds according to a document that was made public. This is a class action case, and it was filed on January 24, 2018, with...

Will Ripple Recover From Latest Crypto Market Selloff?

January 28, 2018 by Guest Post at Altcoins, Commentary, ICO/IEO, News

With the best part of the cryptos market being in the red since the beginning of this year, investors across the globe are worried that the long-prophesied crypto bubble has finally popped. Since December last year, the digital currencies market has been on a steady decline with most cryptos shedding...

Venezuela Prepares To Launch National Cryptocurrency Petro Amidst Mixed Reaction

January 28, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Commentary, Finance, News

Venezuela has taken a decisive lead against all its peers planning on developing a national cryptocurrency. The economically troubled country is soon going to launch its own "petro" virtual currency through a token sale. Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan President, had earlier ordered 100 million Petros, of which nearly 38 million...

Coincheck is Refunding Investors Who Lost their NEM (XEM) during Cyberheist

January 27, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Business, News

Coincheck has confirmed that it will soon start refunding investors who lost their NEM holding during the cyberheist on January 26, 2018. In an official communiqué on its website, the troubled exchange apologized for the inconvenience caused to its investors and other stakeholders. It assured that everyone who found themselves...

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AEON’s Rebase to Monero’s Code is Within Reach

January 27, 2018 by Jamie Holmes at Altcoins, Commentary, News

AEON, the private altcoin based on the CryptoNight-Lite protocol, looks almost set to make the switchover to Monero’s codebase, which has been anticipated for many months by the community. The announcement was made by AEON and monero developer smooth on January 23. AEON has not yet upgraded to Monero’s codebase,...

More than $400,000 of Stellar Lumen Stolen By Hackers

Largest Theft in Crypto History, Half a Billion Dollars Worth of NEM Stolen

January 27, 2018 by Robert DeVoe at Altcoins, Finance, News, Tech

In what some are calling the biggest theft in all of history, 526 million units of XEM have apparently been stolen from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck. The value of the stolen cryptocurrency? Just under half a billion dollars. If true, this would make it not only the biggest cryptocurrency heist...

NEO DevCon (Did I Read That Correctly?)

January 27, 2018 by JaketheCryptoKing at Altcoins, Commentary, News

DevCon this year is occurring next week in San Francisco. NEO, more commonly known, as the “Chinese Ethereum,” will be hosting this massive conference. Whether you are physically attending or plan to stay tuned for updates, there are many ways to profit if you are monitoring the NEO DevCon and...

Zero Commision Stock Trading Platform Robinhood to Debut Crypto Trading

Zero Commission Stock Trading Platform Robinhood to Debut Bitcoin and Crypto

January 27, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Finance, News

Robinhood, the popular commission-free stock trading app will soon let users also trade cryptocurrencies with zero transaction fees. On January 26, 2018, the platform first let users track the prices of top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, including bitcoin, ripple and several more. New Crypto Kid on the Block The hugely...

English Soccer Giants Arsenal FC Catches the Cryptocurrency Bug

English Soccer Giant Arsenal FC Catches the Cryptocurrency Bug

January 25, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Business, News

Arsenal football club, one of the wealthiest and most famous soccer teams in the world, have allied with CashBet Coin. Arsenal is an American-owned football club nicknamed the "Bank of England" back in the twenties and thirties for its high spending. In the 2016/2017 football season, Arsenal was ranked the...

Dutch Bank Explores Bitcoin and the Blockchain, Rejects Crypto-Bans

January 25, 2018 by Julia Travers at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News, Regulation

On January 24, 2018, the central bank of the Netherlands (DNB) released a statement addressing cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. It expressed support for blockchain technology and explained it has been studying how it might best be used since 2015. While acknowledging there are inherent investment risks in the evolving cryptocurrency...

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Bitcoin No Longer the Fraudster’s Favorite

January 25, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News

Persistent complaints from users about slow processing, excessive fees and the volatility-exhaustion that defines the currency at present are coming to a fore. It’s a sentiment that sees users looking elsewhere for other, perhaps “better” cryptocurrencies. Difficult to Rob Hodler’s A somewhat obtuse sign of this movement is that cybercriminals...

Mario Draghi Set to Discuss Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin with Young People

January 25, 2018 by Andrew O Malley at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Commentary, News, Regulation

The current president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi is set to conduct a video question and answer session on February 12, 2018, with a select group of young people. Fielding Crypto Questions The questions are currently being determined, with some of them related to whether Mr. Draghi...

Cambodia: A Country Bursting with Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts

January 25, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News, Regulation

In Mean, a Cambodian software developer who caught the bitcoin bug quite early mined "a lot of bitcoin" when the price of bitcoin was even lower than current trends. If only he had backed up his bitcoin, he wouldn't have lost it all by now. KHCoin and a Growing Ecosystem...

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Critiques ICOs at the US Securities Regulation Institute

January 25, 2018 by Gil Davis at Altcoins, Commentary, News, Regulation

On January 22, 2018, in Washington D.C. the US Securities and Exchange Commission began on their long awaited comments on cryptocurrencies. The goal here is to lay down expectations for professionals and new businesses starting up within the crypto-bubble and heir the grievances with the way things are heading currently....

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