On September 7, Kintetsu Group Holdings Co., Ltd., a company listed in Japan that primarily operates a railway connecting major cities in the Kinki and Tokai regions with tourist destinations, announced the launch of a social experiment using the virtual community currency Kintetsu Harukas Coin as part of a new smartphone-based shopping system employing blockchain…
SEC suspends bitcoin and ether ETN over “confusion” (med impact) On Monday, the SEC suspended until September 20 the trading of two exchange-traded notes (ETN) from trading in the US, the Ether Tracker One and Bitcoin Tracker One issued by crypto fund provider XBT Provider AB, a subsidiary of the UK company CoinShares, due to confusion…
SBI, the Japan-based Fintech giant, has just announced its plans of launching an SBI Ripple-powered application for mobile called MoneyTap. ひっそりと、Moneytapのティザーサイトを公開しました。ロゴや画面のイメージ如何でしょうか！？https://t.co/Pw4JDg9nEy — 沖田 貴史 T.OKITA (@OKITATakashi) September 12, 2018 SBI Ripple-Powered Application The CEO of SBI Ripple Asia, Takashi Okita, took to Twitter on Wednesday to announce MoneyTap. The translated tweet reads: “Quietly, the teaser site…
Mainstream media has recently been sparking the question, “is Ethereum (ETH) dead?” Most journalists running these stories were referring to Ether or ETH, the digital token that runs on the Ethereum network. Ethereum (ETH) Dead? The reason the questions were prompted most likely had to do with ETH hitting 2018 lows recently. Most of the…
Investors trade over $11 billion worth of crypto assets on exchanges on a daily basis. What that figure does not include, however, are over-the-counter trades that are said to dwarf on-exchange trading volumes as large investors prefer to conduct their bitcoin trades away from the prying eyes of exchange order books. What is the OTC…
Dogecoin (DOGE) was based on the Shiba Inu meme, and released on December 6th, 2013, making it one of the oldest coins in existence at 4.8 years old (or 33.6 in DOGE years). DOGE has an available coin supply of 116.12 billion, one of the highest among all coins, and a market cap of US$756…
In the first few years after bitcoin was launched, it was not an easy feat to buy and sell the digital currency. Peer-to-peer transactions with strangers or insecure exchanges were the only options. Fast forward to today and the crypto asset trading ecosystem has matured to the point where it offers many of the same…
There are so many ongoing Ripple lawsuits that you have to count them with both hands. Sure, it’s unfortunate, but it keeps Ripple in the public eye, providing the masses with constant XRP news; this isn’t the case for many altcoins as Bitcoin (BTC) often hogs all the attention and altcoins get left behind. Recently, however,…
The cryptocurrency market is rebounding today, after a brutal couple of weeks on the market. Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Monero (XMR) are among the coins making the biggest surge this morning. Recently, the market hit its year-low, and many of the coins reached their yearly lows as well. Let’s take a closer look at…
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) plans to offer its customers complex derivatives that will be tied to Bitcoin (BTC), Bloomberg reported this morning. The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin derivatives will push the investment bank in the running with its competition currently dabbing in the cryptocurrency space. Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Derivatives According to a person familiar with the venture,…
