People visiting and residents of the Seoul region in South Korea can now use bitcoin cash to pay for tasty cuisine delivered straight to their door. The firm, Shuttle Delivery, is a South Korean food delivery platform that people can use to order meals with their mobile devices. The application is available in Korean and English and for both Android mobile …
Major U.S.-based content delivery network (CDN) CloudFlare has introduced a new decentralized content gateway via its InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the firm announced in a blog post September 17. The announcement was made during Cloudflare Crypto Week, a week devoted to the adoption of new cryptography-powered technologies. Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway is the first product to be released as a part …
The Global Blockchain Forum is taking place in San Francisco on October 4-5. Over 100 investors & crypto funds will be present as well as over 3000 attendees. 120 speakers will be discussing Enterprise Blockchain, Social Architecture, KYC and Digital Identity, AI, Cryptofund Management, Sharding and Industrial Data at Scale, Exchanges & OTC, Capital Markets Blockchain Disruption and much more. Tickets …
Once again in the world of cryptocurrency, we have a mystery on our hands. A $720 million sleeping giant has woken up after four years, with $100 million moved to Bitfinex and Binance over the course of ten days at the end of August. The bitcoin wallet contains 111,114 BTC or 0.52% of the total supply. The sudden movement of these dormant funds …
Binance, the largest global crypto exchange, will soon start private beta testing a crypto-fiat exchange in Singapore, as Binance co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) tweeted on September 15. As Changpeng Zhao revealed, the testing will be launched on September 18: “I just slipped that we will begin #Binance Singapore fiat exchange live money closed beta testing on Sept 18th, …
Backed with continuing adoption, crypto holidays have become a reality. At this point, flights and hotels all around the world can be booked with Bitcoin (BTC). Still, some cities are more ready to accept your BTC — and major altcoins — than others, depending on the local infrastructure and crypto-related policies. According to data from Coinmap, currently there are around …
Netherlands’ Largest Bank Admits: “ING Clients Used Their Bank Accounts for Money Laundering Practices for Years” Over the last few weeks, many large financial institutions have been investigated and charged with helping facilitate money laundering. Financial crime prosecutors from the Netherlands have charged the Dutch bank ING with violations, and a $900 million dollar fine because the financial institution unwittingly …
Josh Garza, the CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency mining company GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge. As part of the sentence, Garza was given 6 months home confinement and three years of supervised release overall. The court proceedings, which took place on a cloudy day in Hartford, Connecticut, …
Spotware Launches Out-of-the-Box Crypto Exchange Software Earlier this month, Spotware, a Cyprus-based company that offers “out-of-the-box” trading platforms for brokers, announced the launch of “Cxchange” – an out-of-the-box cryptocurrency exchange platform that “allows anyone to start a crypto exchange.” Alexander Shuman, the chief executive officer of Spotware, stated: “We used our expertise and proven technologies to create Cxchange. There are …
Bitcoin (BTC) could witness a minor corrective rally if the bulls’ persistent defense of key support leads to a break above the resistance at $6,400, technical charts indicate. The leading cryptocurrency suffered a downside break of the symmetrical triangle in the early U.S. session yesterday, signaling a revival of the sell-off from the recent highs above $7,400. Further, the bearish …
