Gemini Exchange is one of the fastest growing bitcoin and
ether exchange which allows to buy / sell crypto with fiat currency.
Not exact matches
None of the price data on the Chinese
exchanges is being used to calculate the global prices of bitcoin and
Ether,
which now sit at $ 6088 and $ 306 respectively.
Fidelity Charitable collected roughly $ 22 million in Bitcoin donations through early December; it works with Coinbase, the
exchange, to immediately turn the Bitcoin or
Ether into cash,
which is then invested as its donor wishes.
On May 7, 2017, San Francisco - based virtual currency
exchange Kraken executed a large sell order for the popular cryptocurrency,
Ether,
which depressed the price of that currency.
Venture - backer The DAO,
which was formed to invest in start - ups and projects linked to cypto platform Etherium's
ether, was shuttered following scrutiny by the Securities and
Exchange Commission over its coin offerings earlier this year.
Last week, the New York Times reported that a group of venture capitalists has lobbied the US Securities and
Exchange Commission to create a «safe harbor» for some currencies,
which would presumably include
ether.
As used herein, «Digital Currency» means a digital asset (also called a «cryptocurrency,» «virtual currency»), such as, but not limited, bitcoin or
ether,
which is based on a cryptographic protocol (s) of an electronic system that may be (i) centralized or decentralized, (ii) proprietary or open - source, and (iii) used as a medium of
exchange and / or store of value.
The service outage does not appear to have affected either the
exchange's other assets or its Coinbase brokerage service,
which allows users to buy and sell bitcoin,
ether and litecoin.
The company
which recently enabled
Ether and Bitcoin Gold trading on its digital currency
exchange intends to raise money to fund its entry into other African markets.
The plan is to integrate
exchange support for more types of cryptocurrency, beyond bitcoin and
ether, then someday enable financial services through prospective partners like Salt Lending,
which offers cryptocurrency loans.
At a high level, that's how the developer team at Altcoin
Exchange executed the trade (the ethereum code for the transfer can be viewed on the ethereum block explorer Etherscan),
which shows how 0.12345
ether was traded for 0.12345 bitcoin.
This week, it was revealed that there was a bug in Coinbase's Ethereum smart contract system
which could give the users of the
exchange access to unlimited amounts of
Ether.
An Initial Coin Offering, also commonly referred to as an ICO, is a fundraising mechanism in
which new projects sell their underlying crypto tokens in
exchange for bitcoin and
ether.
Slock.it is a German company that presented its whitepaper in 2016 and their main idea was to make a decentralized investment fund on the Ethereum network that could be accessed by anyone owning
Ether which would then be
exchanged for the DAO token.
However, Ethereum,
which was also termed as «Cryptocurrency 2.0» by its creators, later held its pre-sale, pulling a total of 31,591 bitcoins, worth $ 18,439,086 in
exchange of 60,102,216
ether in 42 days and then its initial coin offering in September 2014, meaning it would now start officially in the public eye.
Over the past year the Japanese FSA has recognised Bitcoin as legal tender, and authorised 11 companies to operate cryptocurrency
exchanges, some of
which will be handling a variety of coins including Bitcoin,
Ether and Litecoin.
Cointelegraph.com writes: «Bithumb,
which is the largest
exchange globally at $ 2.85 [billion] daily trading volume as of press time, was hacked in February 2017, losing about $ 7 [million] in mostly Bitcoin and
Ether.
For example, fears persist that solutions in
which developers need to rewrite the blockchain's history, reversing transactions that were valid according to the platform's rules in a bid to bail out customers, will cause a loss of confidence in the market and result in
ether being delisted by major
exchanges.
Representatives from the San Francisco - based company indicate that the decision extends to both its consumer wallet, as well as GDAX, the digital asset
exchange on
which it offers trading in both bitcoin and
ether.
Thus, by adding
ether to the range of its cryptocurrencies, CEX.IO has followed the trend exemplified by other
exchanges which have recognized the growing popularity of Ethereum's «crypto - fuel,» such as Coincheck, Korbit, Bitfinex, Bitso, BitBay and CHBTC.
Kraken,
which was the first crypto
exchange having its market data displayed on Bloomberg terminals, is the second by the trading volume of
ether and is responsible for about 21 % of deals with the cryptocurrency.
Ethereum adds another layer to this, allowing users to create applications
which make use of the platform's collective processing power, in
exchange for an
Ether fee.
According to Gatecoin, about 1.85 million
ether tokens and 250 bitcoins were stolen,
which equals to $ 2.14 million at the current
exchange rate and about 15 % of all cryptocurrency funds stored on Gatecoin accounts.
The Hong Kong - based cryptocurrency
exchange,
which recently suffered a cyberattack, will try to reimburse users their lost assets in
ether and bitcoin.