After banning initial coin offerings last week, China is expected to ban
trading of cryptocurrencies on domestic exchanges.
The Russian Ministry of Finance has drafted a bill to legalize
the trading of cryptocurrencies on approved exchanges, according to a report from local media.
South Korea's government announced that it may still go on to ban
the trading of cryptocurrencies on exchanges, following apparently conflicting reports on the matter days earlier.
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Not exact matches
Earlier this week Fortune had the scoop
on Circle, a Goldman Sachs - backed fintech startup, buying the
cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, where many
of these projects» digital tokens
trade.
Johnson, who is «very bullish»
on the future
of cryptocurrency, has spearheaded research efforts in crypto at both Jump
Trading and Jump Capital to help understand the nascent market.
On its website, Verge is described as a
cryptocurrency which «improves upon the Bitcoin blockchain» and uses open - source software like Tor and I2P — both
of which have been used in connection to the former
trading site for illicit goods, the Silk Road.
The crackdown
on Seoul - based operators
of some
of the world's busiest virtual currency exchanges comes as the government attempts to calm frenzied demand for
cryptocurrency trading in Asia's fourth largest economy.
South Korea's new management - minded approach is a dramatic turnaround from its energetic regulatory crackdown
on cryptocurrency exchanges this past year, alarmed at a heated market that saw local prices
of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in South Korea
trade for higher than international levels.
In the past month, the
cryptocurrency is up more than $ 8,000 to
trade at $ 14,950.06
on the Coinbase exchange shortly before the beginning
of futures
trading Sunday.
Even as China shutters Bitcoin exchanges and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission signals heavier scrutiny
of initial coin offerings, clients
of trading giant Goldman Sachs are still trying to get in
on the
cryptocurrency trade.
Dan Morehead, founder and CEO
of Pantera Capital, a hedge fund that specializes in
cryptocurrencies, says his firm
trades on all the major online exchanges, but will turn to a
trading outfit, like Circle's, when the desk posts prices «at a discount to the market.»
In a separate hearing
on ICOs in Congress last week, Mike Lempres, chief legal and risk officer for
cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, said the company does not
trade ICO tokens because it «can not take the risk
of inadvertently
trading an asset that is later found to be a security.»
Crypto crackdown China, home to the world's biggest community
of Bitcoin miners, is cracking down
on cryptocurrency activity, haling
trade of virtual currencies
on domestic exchanges and banning initial currency offerings.
LONDON — Revenue at
trading platform Plus500 jumped 284 % in the first quarter
of the year, led by a surge in
cryptocurrency trading, the company said
on Tuesday.
A report
of a Commodity Futures
Trading Commission subpoena
on major
cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and an Securities and Exchange Commission emergency asset freeze
on an initial coin offering added to negative sentiment that day.
A head
of the European Union's watchdog said a short - term strategy could be to focus
on applying anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules, warning consumers
of the risk
of trading in
cryptocurrencies and preventing banks from holding them.
The state average
of 9.87 cents per watt puts the average cost
of mining at $ 3,224 per Bitcoin — substantially less than the over $ 16,000 the
cryptocurrency is currently
trading at
on the open market.
«Discussions will focus
on anti-money laundering steps and consumer protection, rather than how
cryptocurrency trading could affect the banking system,» one
of the officials said.
Autonomous NEXT recorded a record high
of 226 global hedge funds focused
on trading cryptocurrencies, up from 110 global hedge funds as
of October 18.
The Ontario Securities Commission said
on April 6 that it is gathering information
on several
cryptocurrency trading platforms after it received a number
of complaints.
At least 3.5 million people were
trading cryptocurrency on Japan's 17 domestic exchanges as
of the end
of March this year, according to Coindesk's translation
of statistics from the country's Financial Services Agency (FSA).
LONDON — Online
trading platform Plus500 raised its profit forecasts for the year
on Wednesday, saying it has benefitted from the booming popularity
of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
The index fund, which will invest in the same
cryptocurrencies traded on Coinbase and its institutional exchange GDAX — currently including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin — will be available only to U.S. accredited investors, or those who have annual income
of at least $ 200,000 or a net worth
of at least $ 1 million.
China cracked down
on cryptocurrencies in September 2017, with authorities banning bitcoin
trading and initial coin offerings after the People's Bank
of China said such activities could pose major financial risks to the world's second - largest economy.
It's only a matter
of time before China lifts its ban
on cryptocurrency exchanges, according to the entrepreneur behind what was once China's longest - running bitcoin
trading operations.
The entrepreneur explain that he «got out»
of the Chinese bitcoin exchange business, and now instead focuses ambitions
on an international
trading platform, a mining and minting operation and a
cryptocurrency wallet called Mobi.
The entrepreneur explain that he «got out»
of the Chinese bitcoin exchange business, and now instead focuses ambitions
on an international
trading platform, a mining and minting operation and a
cryptocurrency wallet
Chinese bitcoin exchange BTCChina said
on Thursday that it would stop all
trading from Sept. 30, setting off a further slide in the value
of the
cryptocurrency that left it over 30 percent away from the record highs it hit earlier in the month.
Based
on Nikkei's report, the regulator said the
cryptocurrency exchange has made it possible for users to start
trading immediately after submitting a photocopy
of their ID cards, while the platform has yet to fully confirm and verify users» information.
The safest way to
trade bitcoins is
on cryptocurrency exchanges, which are sort
of like the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq, where stocks are bought and sold, but for digital currency.
Anatoly Aksakov, the head
of the Financial Market Committee in the State Duma, the lower house
of Russia's parliament, has reportedly said that the Russian Federation's Central Bank may allow the launch
of cryptocurrency trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
It relates that in light
of cryptocurrency price fluctuations, the attack
on the South Korean exchange Youbit, and that platform's consequent decision to declare bankruptcy, «It is necessary... to be vigilant about virtual currency
trading.»
The banks decided to drop the services in anticipation
of forthcoming government action
on cryptocurrency trading, according to the Korea Times.
The rapid growth and extreme volatility
of cryptocurrency trading has sparked interest in developing futures and options that can be
traded on regulated exchanges.
Personnel with the
trading platforms are apparently suspected
of having embezzled customer funds, then using them to buy
cryptocurrency on other exchanges.
According to a press release issued jointly by several South Korean government agencies
on December 20, the country's Fair
Trade Commission (FTC) has sent representatives
on a three - day «field survey»
of the country's 13 «major»
cryptocurrency exchanges.
Research by Morgan Stanley bank published in a Business Insider report
on Sunday, April 29, 2018, concludes that Malta now accounts for the largest proportion
of cryptocurrency trading in the world by volume, followed by Belize.
In China, over the last several months, regulators shut down vast swathes
of the
cryptocurrency world, banning token offerings (ICOs) and demanding that
trading on cryptocurrency exchanges cease.
He also pledged that Chinese authorities would continue to apply pressure to the
trade of digital assets, which was significantly ratcheted up last year with bans
on token offerings, colloquially known as ICOs, and
on cryptocurrency exchanges, which had to either cease or dramatically reconfigure their operations, or move abroad.
The finance ministry had published an earlier draft
of the latter bill
on its website in January 2018, and noted that the central bank took exception to a provision that would allow decentralized
cryptocurrencies to be
traded on exchanges for other digital assets as well as for fiat money.
The
cryptocurrency exchange Kraken sent an email
on April 17 to its Japan - based clients informing them that, starting
on a yet - to - be-announced date in June, residents
of the country will no longer be allowed to
trade digital assets
on the platform.
«I see the memo as the CFTC cautioning its employees
on the ethical issues that could be raised by their
trading in
cryptocurrencies, encouraging them to consider and seek advice from the CFTC ethics team before
trading in
cryptocurrencies, noting that employees may not transact in
cryptocurrencies if they have nonpublic information about them from their work at the CFTC, and advising that those who participate in CFTC dealings related to
cryptocurrencies may not
trade in them for conflict
of interest reasons.»
Although OTC
trading relies
on bank wires and mainstream communication channels (e.g., Skype), there are apparently no reporting requirements or independent audits for this slice
of the
cryptocurrency industry.
Over the last several months, Chinese regulators have essentially crushed mainstream
trading of private
cryptocurrency and clamped down
on token offerings (ICOs).
Interest in the surging bitcoin and opening
of futures
trading continued to fuel bets
on cryptocurrency - related stocks, many
of which have risen exponentially in value in the past three months.
All
cryptocurrencies that were previously supported
on the exchange were available for
trade with the notable exception
of Nano XRB.
The
cryptocurrency market shed $ 13 billion in market cap to
trade at $ 417.8 billion, according to data provider CoinMarketCap,
on trade volumes
of $ 27.6 billion.
The
cryptocurrency was
trading at $ 7,892.97 as
of 6:54 p.m.
on Tuesday (April 17), according to CoinDesk.
In November, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) won a court case against popular
cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase that required the exchange to hand over information
on 14,355 users who'd
traded in excess
of $ 20,000 worth
of bitcoin between 2013 and 2015.