Iran has developed an experimental local cryptocurrency, a government minister said on Saturday, days after the country's central bank banned
trading in digital currencies including bitcoin.
DUBAI (Reuters)- Iran has developed an experimental local cryptocurrency, a government minister said on Saturday, days after the country's central bank banned
trading in digital currencies including bitcoin.
DUBAI, April 28 - Iran has developed an experimental local cryptocurrency, a government minister said on Saturday, days after the country's central bank banned
trading in digital currencies including bitcoin.
Not exact matches
«Major bitcoin industry companies
including Digital Currency Group (DCG) subsidiary Genesis
Trading and bitcoin hedge fund Binary Financial are set to participate
in a government auction of just over 44,000 BTC (worth $ 18.3 m at press time) to be held on Thursday.»
The
digital currency broke the $ 5,000 barrier
in early September, propelling the total value of publicly
traded cryptocurrencies —
including bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum — to more than $ 176 billion.
On August 23, the SEC suspended
trading in shares of First Bitcoin Capital Corp., a company involved
in developing
digital currencies and other blockchain technology, due to «concerns regarding the accuracy and adequacy of publicly available information about the company
including, among other things, the value of [its] assets and its capital structure.»
One factor that coincided with the rise
in ether prices
included a decline
in the short interest
in the ETH / BTC pair, according to data provided by leveraged
digital currency trading platform Whaleclub.
Fifty companies are
included in Bitcoin.org's warning,
including Bitcoin.com, bitFlyer, Bitfury, Bitmain, BitPay, Blockchain, BTC.com, BTCC, BTC.TOP, Circle, Coinbase,
Digital Currency Group, Genesis Global
Trading, Genesis Mining, Jaxx, ViaBTC and Xapo, among others.
The CBE official said
in his statement that the bank has no intention of issuing legislation or passing a special law that allows the
trading of
digital currency,
including bitcoin.
The post also revealed that Circle's
trading operation has been working
in a number of
digital currency markets,
including bitcoin and ether, as well as undisclosed tokens distributed
in initial coin offerings, or ICOs.
Due to launch
in December, the LBX app offers full
trading functionality and will
include Sterling to crypto exchange across four major
digital currencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple and Ethereum)-- with more added
in the new year.
These
include market capitalization for various
digital currencies, blockchain size, update on Segwit adoption, amount of
currencies in circulation, mining revenues,
trade volumes and price graphs and charts (weekly, monthly, daily and yearly or all - time).
Lisk is also one of the cryptocurrencies
included in the Robinhood
trading app that will be launched this year, which will give the
digital currency even more exposure.