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New Brunswick’s regulator warns Bitcoin-bank.io is illegal

By Henry Hughes

March 6, 2018

The Financial and Consumer Services Commission of the Canadian province New Brunswick (FCNB) has issued a warning against the company Bitcoin-bank.io that claims to be a “cryptobank”, payment ...

Belgium’s FSMA warns “cryptocurrency trading platforms” may be fraud

By Henry Hughes

March 6, 2018

Belgium’s financial services and markets regulator FSMA, has published a document warning the public of the risks of trading in cryptocurrencies. “In recent weeks, a large number of ...

Coinsquare teams up with Processing.com to provide instant buy of cryptos with cards

By Henry Hughes

February 23, 2018

The Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare has teamed up with the payments processing platform Processing.com, announced the latter. The new partnership will enable Coinsquare to enable its customers to buy ...

Turkish politician proposes “Turkcoin”, regulation, state-controlled exchange

By Henry Hughes

February 23, 2018

Turkey should develop a blockchain infrastructure, launch its own “national bitcoin” – Turkcoin, regulate and set up a state-controlled cryptocurrency exchange, said former industry minister Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu ...

Robinhood Crypto trading launches in 5 US states, more to come

By Henry Hughes

February 23, 2018

Robinhood Crypto, the commission-free cryptocurrency trading service of Robinhood, the popular zero-fee stock trading app, has launched in five US states – California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, and New ...

Hodl Hodl P2P crypto exchange launches in public Beta mode

By Henry Hughes

February 22, 2018

Hodl Hodl a new P2P global cryptocurrency exchange announced it has launched its services, in Beta mode. The exchange, similarly to Local Bitcoins, Remitano, Bisq and several others, ...

Venezuela to launch another crypto token – Petro Gold

By Henry Hughes

February 22, 2018

It appears that Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro has become quite the crypto-enthusiast and is planning to launch another cryptocurrency – Petro Gold. According to Reuters, Maduro said in ...

Canada’s BCSC warns of Cryp Trade crypto scheme

By Henry Hughes

February 22, 2018

Canada’s regional financial markets and services regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a warning against the Cryp Trade cryptocurrency platform. According to the BCSC, Cryp ...

France’s AMF extends advertising ban to crypto derivatives

By Henry Hughes

February 22, 2018

France’s financial markets regulator, the AMF, has announced that the ban on electronic advertising of forex and binary options products, also extends to the recently appeared derivatives with ...

Coinbase, Bitfinex to integrate Bitcoin SegWit protocol

By Henry Hughes

February 21, 2018

Two of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges – Coinbase and Bitfinex – have announced they are integrating Bitcoin’s Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol. In a blog post on Medium, ...

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