Following an outage
of global digital currency exchange Bitfinex, everybody's favorite coin has undergone quite a plunge, and is hovering around $ 671 USD at press time, a drop of nearly $ 100 in the last 48 hours.
Not exact matches
Nearly 120,000 units
of digital currency bitcoin worth about US$ 72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, rattling the
global bitcoin community in the second - biggest security breach ever
of such an exchange.
The
digital currency movement achieved liftoff at a moment when the
global financial system appeared to be on the verge
of collapse.
Once the largest
global market for trading, China now accounts for 1.5 percent
of bitcoin transactions, while Japan — where regulators have been more open to
digital currencies — accounts for more than 60 percent, according to CryptoCompare.com.
It's a safe and
global digital currency, which has been increasing all through 2017, and I don't have to tell you how good it is to move in favor
of the market.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- Alphabit, a
global fund that invests in
digital currencies, has been launched with a target
of $ 300 million, co-founder Liam Robertson said in an interview, as managers seek to tap growing demand for virtual assets that allow for instant, borderless transactions.
Jalak Jobanputra, founding partner
of Future \ Perfect Ventures, an early - stage venture - capital fund, visited
Global Finance to discuss the state
of fintech, the future
of blockchain and
digital currencies, and how corporations can extract more value from such technology.
John McDonnell, Co-Founder & CEO, Bitnet, said: «Rakuten's
global marketplaces are great examples
of how
digital currencies can impact
global commerce.
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The RTI — calculated by Crypto Facilities — is sourced in the same manner as the BRR, however, data is sampled from major exchanges (Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Coinbase, Genesis
Global Trading, itBit, Kraken) every second and aggregated into one giant order book that will serve as an indicator of global supply / demand for the digital cur
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digital currency.
Perhaps the most interesting moment
of the prestigious event transpired late in the afternoon when one attendee asked, «How core is solving identity to expanding
digital currency or solving some
of the frictions in our existing system, and how do you foresee an identity world that's based on a national or — in the US's case — subnational system working or integrating in a
global financial system?»
However, it is mandatory for law enforcement agencies to continue their pursuit towards finding
digital criminals, and cleaning the bitcoin market, as an effort
of making the
digital currency be used for its true purpose: decentralized
global payments.
«Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology pose a dramatic change to the existing regulatory landscape; they have the potential to reform the
global financial system around peer - to - peer transactions, without traditional financial intermediation,» Neha Narula, Director
of the
Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, said.
For many months
global payments company Visa has expressed hesitation and skepticism regarding the new wave
of digital currencies.
In 2017, the Chinese government shut down the country's bitcoin trading exchanges, which until then accounted for nine - tenth
of the
digital currency's
global volumes.
Global technology company Samsung has confirmed it is now manufacturing ASIC chips, a key component in the mining
of digital currency.
This partnership marks another major milestone in the acceptance
of bitcoin worldwide, as larger and more
global companies embrace the
digital currency.
«I am convinced that it is this attitude that will attract some
of the brightest minds in the Bitcoin world to study at the University
of Nicosia especially with their Master's program in
Digital Currency, another
global first,» continued Rossouw.
McCaleb has a rich experience in
digital currency and had worked in Mt. Gox — the same company handling a large share
of the
global Bitcoin trades.
However, Genesis
Global Capital, an affiliate
of Genesis
Global Trading, offers institutions the ability to borrow and lend bitcoin and other
digital currencies in large sizes over fixed - terms.
It believes that a
global fan base
of four billion - plus fans is a huge market for the
digital currency.
Of course, companies like Microsoft may argue that points are a way to bring
global consistency to their
digital marketplace so as to avoid having to come up with new prices for each county and their own unique
currency, but that's poppycock.
Recent highlights include handling Lenlyn's # 196m disposal
of its international
currency exchange business, ICE, to
Global Fortune 500 company, China's HNA Group; advising NorthEdge Capital and the management
of Sumo
Digital on the # 50m sale
of Sumo
Digital to Perwyn, which included handling cross-border issues involving India; and assisting the management
of Shearings Group with the sale
of its business to funds managed by Lone Star Funds.
According to Nicholas Gregory, CEO
of London - based CommerceBlock, this comes as good news for the bitcoin sector, as government attention is like a stamp
of approval: «What some will bill as censure, the cryptocurrency community will deem a stamp
of approval that finally recognises the pivotal role that
digital currencies will ultimately hold for the
global economy.
For years, Thomson Reuters has been a thought leader on the state
of global crime, particularly as it relates to
digital currency and money laundering and the intersection
of technology and human trafficking and exploitation
of children.
Shorting
of bitcoin and whales selling the
digital currency to cash out short contracts could have realistically contributed to the decline in the market cap
of bitcoin, and because bitcoin is considered the reserve
currency of the market, the rest
of the
global cryptocurrency market fell with it.
After this round
of virtual money markets supervision, we expect under the auspices
of the Chinese central bank to launch our own sovereign
digital currency as soon as possible to help maintain China's leadership in the development
of global digital finance.»
«Bitcoin and
digital currency represent a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to shape the future
of the Internet and
global commerce,» said Alliare in a statement.
Bitfinex, a
digital asset trading platform that offers state -
of - the - art services for
digital currency traders and
global liquidity providers, announced on Saturday the introduction
of twelve new token listings to its trading platform.
Bitcoin is a
global, decentralized,
digital currency that allows you to send any amount
of money to anyone in the world, instantly, with low or no transaction fees.
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of the «real money» world, among them the difficulty
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Smith identified bitcoin as the first truly
digital asset that has already triggered a
global push beyond paper
currency, with mention
of its extraordinary growth in 2016 and declining volatility.
It broke last night that Mr. Adam White will be the new Chief
of Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX), U.S. based digital currency exchange Coinbase's professional cryptocurrency trading pl
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Digital currency technologies generated widespread public and investor interest in 2017, with new cryptocurrency products capable
of streamlining and decentralizing
global commerce.
UATP, a payment network privately owned by 30 airline companies and operating for the benefit
of the
global airline industry, announces today it now offers its network
of 260 + airline companies, the ability to accept payments in the
digital currency.
When Stripe announced last month that it would process payments in 130
global currencies, co-founder John Collison hinted that Stripe was investigating another type
of currency — this one entirely
digital.
«What some will bill as censure, the cryptocurrency community will deem as a stamp
of approval that finally recognizes the pivotal role that
digital currencies will ultimately hold for the
global economy.»
PBOC, China's central bank, is persuaded that a state - backed
digital currency could reduce capital outflow, money laundering and tax evasion, make economic activity more transparent and improve the efficiency
of global transactions.
Writing on CIO Journal, a Wall Street Journal blog for corporate technology executives, Owen Jelf and Sigrid Seibold, respectively
global managing director
of Accenture's capital markets practice and managing director
of Accenture's
digital capital markets efforts, weigh in on the fashionable debate about the blockchain as a system vs. bitcoin as a
currency.
Wild swings in the price
of bitcoin, the best known
of a myriad
of digital currencies issued by private companies, cyber heists involving such assets, and fears they may be used for crime have raised calls for concerted actions by
global regulators.
The combination
of the two platforms may create a powerful payments / money transfer /
digital currency exchange with a
global presence.
In an email to investors this week,
Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund (GABI), a Jersey - based investment vehicle that buys and sells bitcoin on behalf
of investors, touched on ongoing developments in the
digital currency markets, putting a special emphasis on developments in litecoin and how they relate to the larger bitcoin market.
Processing.com, a
global payment solutions provider, announced on Wednesday a partnership with Coinsquare, one
of Canada's leading
digital currency trading platforms.
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Nearly 120,000 units
of digital currency bitcoin worth about US$ 72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, rattling the
global bitcoin community in the second - biggest security breach ever
of such an exchange.
But now, it's starting to seep into the
global economy as more big brands are stepping out in support
of the
digital currency.
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