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CoinText brings bitcoin cash transactions to people with no internet, smartphone

By Henry Hughes

February 12, 2018

CoinText, a fintech startup is beta testing an SMS Bitcoin Cash Wallet that will let people who have no internet access and a smartphone to send and receive ...

BitGrail robbed of Nano worth $170 mln, Nano devs smell something fishy

By Henry Hughes

February 12, 2018

BitGrail, an Italian cryptocurrency exchange that offers trading in crypto-to-Nano coins (XRB) (formerly known as RaiBlocks), announced it has been robbed of Nano tokens worth $170 million. According ...

Gibraltar to regulate ICOs

By Henry Hughes

February 12, 2018

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) is drafting regulatory requirements for the initial coin offerings (ICOs) with dedicated rules for the cryptocurrency sector, to become the first watchdog ...

Coinbase promises user verification in seconds, improves experience

By Henry Hughes

February 9, 2018

Coinbase, one of world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced it is launching machine learning for ID verification. This way the client verification procedure will reportedly ...

Qatar’s c-bank warns cryptocurrency trading is forbidden

By Henry Hughes

February 9, 2018

Qatar’s central bank has warned financial institutions in the country not to trade in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, according to financial sources and a circular seen by Reuters, ...

Cryptocurrencies to continue being prime targets of DDoS attacks – Kaspersky Lab

By Henry Hughes

February 9, 2018

Unless the prices of cryptocurrencies collapse, crypto exchanges and sites will remain among the prime targets of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, said a report of the ...

Prolonged blackout fuels Binance hack fears

By Henry Hughes

February 9, 2018

Binance, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, had to vehemently refute speculations that it has been hacked, after a prolonged system upgrade that was further hindered by ...

Coinsquare gets $30 mln in new funding

By Henry Hughes

February 9, 2018

The Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare announced it got new funding of $30 million from equity financing round led by Canaccord Genuity Corp. The most recent round will be ...

Winklevoss twin likens Bitcoin to gold, says it will cost 40 times current value

By Henry Hughes

February 8, 2018

Bitcoin is better than gold and one day it could be worth 40 times its current value, Cameron Winklevoss of the Winklevoss twins, hailed as the first cryptocurrency ...

Fake Elon Musk steals Bitcoin, Ether on Twitter

By Henry Hughes

February 8, 2018

A rehashed online scam is circulating on Twitter, stealing Bitcoins and Ethers from (very) naive people, reports Wired. The scam, operates on the principle “send a little, get ...

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