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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Several other crypto exchanges, including Coinbase , OKCoin and Digital Asset Platform OSL , have all also recently delisted XRP following the news of the lawsuit, the crux of which depends on whether XRP is a security — and thus regulated by the SEC — or a currency. In other news, bitcoin hit a new high on Wednesday (Dec.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

regulators cracked down on the firm Oct. regulators not coming as a surprise. The money will be used to help Aave expand into the Asian market, and help it achieve more institutional adoption. Mishra said he’d already been seeing the “Wild West”-like nature of the crypto derivatives space, with the new activity from U.S.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The age of digital currencies might be fully upon us, but key questions swirl about how to issue and regulate cryptos – especially stablecoins. Bitcoin and other offerings have not yet evolved into real alternatives to sovereign monetary activities, but stablecoins present challenges. In a paper that debuted Tuesday (Nov.

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MARCH 30, 2018

With fresh concerns about government regulation of cryptocurrency surfacing, Bitcoin and other digital tokens continued the recent declines in value, erasing $550 billion in value for the global cryptocurrency market since the start of 2018. That exchange provides pricing for CME’s bitcoin futures.

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APRIL 9, 2019

China could move to ban mining for bitcoins if a draft list of activities the country’s state planner wants to ban becomes law. As it stands, China is the biggest market for people to purchase computer hardware for cryptocurrency mining. The price of bitcoin was able to surpass $5,000 for the first time since November.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

BitOoda founder and CEO Tim Kelly said in the announcement, “I am thrilled by the explosion of interest in BitOoda’s unique business model, and the recognition of our pioneering success in bringing new, sophisticated products to the digital asset market.”. After making a selection, a user can see multiple exchange rates.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Blockchain industry stocks are on the rise as bitcoin reaches new heights, Seeking Alpha reported. Bitcoin reached higher than the $13,600 level intraday. The price of bitcoin was $13,750.90 The Monetary Authority of Singapore will reportedly regulate the platform. 27) afternoon Eastern Time. as of 7:19 p.m.

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MAY 26, 2017

I’m being asked this a lot as the value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have increased ten-fold in the past few weeks. There’s also underperforming Chinese markets and increased demand for the cryptocurrency in a number of Asian countries, particularly Japan where bitcoin is semi-legitimised. It’s funny.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Malaysia’s initial coin offering (ICO) regulations are said to take effect on Tuesday (January 15) per a notice from the Securities Commission (SC) in the country, Coindesk reported. At the same time, it was said that those who engage in digital asset dealing will have to follow rules for anti-money laundering (AML), among other regulations.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Bitcoin gets all the headlines. But step beyond bitcoin and enter the world of cryptocurrencies approaching mainstream acceptance. At present, he said, a number of factors have inhibited the adoption of bitcoin as a transactional currency, including the fact that it’s expensive and can be very slow.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Spending at darknet markets declined during the past two months even with a drop in the price of the digital currency, per Chainalysis data, as the coronavirus pandemic has impacted every part of the global economy, CoinDesk reported. In the middle of February, bitcoin reached $10,500 and dropped to as low as $3,867 in mid-March.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not yet the holidays, but it’s almost Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, a fitting theme for today’s bitcoin news. And bitcoin purveyors and exchangers are eyeing an emerging eCommerce market in India that might offer the right components for traction. So, what’s going on with bitcoin in light of Diwali?

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APRIL 2, 2019

And its reportedly the end of one of the first regulated exchanges for digital currencies, Gatecoin, The Next Web reported. The exchange, which was rolled out in 2013, had its main focus on ethereum, bitcoin and token markets based on ethereum. In other notes, bitcoin price reached the highest intraday level since Dec.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Fizzle of the Week: Cryptocurrency Regulation. The saga over bitcoin and its relationship to various regulators has become something of the payments answer to a romantic comedy. So, time to panic in bitcoin land? All in, bitcoin and its crypto cousins lost (then regained, then lost again) a lot of value this week.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Bitcoin marked the beginning of December with another drop in value – this time by 8 percent, according to a report by CNBC. Following a 37 percent drop in November, which took about $70 billion off bitcoin’s market value, the cryptocurrency found a new bottom at $3,790.96.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, BTC Markets , revealed in a series of tweets that it had mistakenly revealed its client names and email addresses in an announcement from the company. In other news, Bitcoin hit a new record of active entities — or wallet clusters run by one user — on Tuesday (Dec.

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MARCH 22, 2019

After sharp drops in bitcoin prices, a new study posits that almost 95 percent of all reported bitcoin trading is made artificially via exchanges that are unregulated. Bitwise Asset Management, a company located in San Francisco, provided the research along with an application for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for bitcoin to the U.S.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Intercontinental Exchange ( ICE )’s plans to launch bitcoin futures in November of last year have been delayed because of regulators. According to the paper, what’s holding up approval is a disagreement about how Bakkt (the name for the bitcoin futures) should be regulated. Back then it was trading near $20,000.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As a licensed exchange, BitBay has to follow the market standards. Compliance with market standards and regulations allows us to provide our clients with legal security and convenience of using the exchange, with the participation of a friendly banking system and the availability of payment operators,” BitBay said.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The partnership aims to create a secondary credit market that is transparent and efficient and makes it easy to manage credit and digitally store documents, loan history and due diligence activities, preventing “information asymmetry risks,” the release stated. “The Diokno, Philippines’ Central Bank (BSP) governor in the release.

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MARCH 5, 2020

The idea of tapping into the blockchain to support a digital property market isn’t entirely novel. The South Korean National Assembly passed new legislation that would lay the groundwork for the legalization and regulation of digital currency as well as digital currency exchanges. And, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the U.K.

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JULY 11, 2019

House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Thursday (July 11), and his comments caused a slide in bitcoin value, which fell 7.7 Bitcoin was last down 4.5 Other analysts say the big jumps in value for cryptocurrencies simply follow the pattern of how they react in the market, and double-digit daily moves are common.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer wants to bridge the trading gap between two of the world’s largest bitcoin markets. Japan is the largest bitcoin trading market in the world, about 50% of it happens in there; the U.S. is the second biggest market,” Bartek Ringwelski, chief operating officer […].

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

26) that it’s willing to step in and regulate cryptocurrencies if the risks associated with digital tokens aren’t addressed. According to a report in Reuters , citing officials from the European Union , the wild price movements of bitcoin last year and into 2018 has resulted in huge losses for some and big gains for others.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Is there an alternative, profound French phrase or two that can describe what investors have seen this week with bitcoin? Bitcoin is quickly headed toward fresh three-year highs after jumping up over $100 in value since last week’s tracker. 23) morning, bitcoin had broken $1,150 in value, reaching a high of $1,153.04.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The price of bitcoin continues to teeter today, with the cryptocurrency having lost a third of its value in the last week. Bitcoin’s sharp drop comes after rising uncertainty in the Chinese market, with two major Chinese currency exchanges, China BTC and ViaBTC, having announced that they will halt trading by the end of this […].

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AUGUST 22, 2019

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believes that bitcoin needs to be as highly regulated as SWIFT. Securitize has consistently led the market through our execution and commitment to delivering on the promise of compliant digital securities on the blockchain. Look, the risk with anonymous transactions is one that we all know well.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believes that bitcoin needs to be as highly regulated as SWIFT. Securitize has consistently led the market through our execution and commitment to delivering on the promise of compliant digital securities on the blockchain. Look, the risk with anonymous transactions is one that we all know well.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. 11), as reported by Coindesk. Yao was the head of China’s central bank digital currency initiative. .

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The days of bitcoin at $20,000 seem long ago and far away. News comes that two academics have stated that the huge swing upward in the marquee cryptocurrency’s price has in fact been tied to market manipulation. Hook, line and sinker, amid bulls and whales. That was nearly two years ago. Those two researchers, John M.

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

financial regulators have warned firms with registered digital assets that they must follow securities laws to prevent money laundering, as well as report any suspicious activity. Both the SEC and CFTC have issued guidance on their positions on certain digital assets, including bitcoin and ether. Earlier this year, U.S.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

“As the financial services industry rapidly evolves, DFS will be at the forefront of fostering a sound, regulatory environment that continues to uphold New York as the premier place to do business, while protecting consumers and markets,” Lacewell said Friday (Aug. 16) in a press release. Both entities are affiliates of Bakkt.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Given the past few days, it seems like 2017 could be a banner year for bitcoin. Bitcoin broke past $1,000 in value on its first day of trading in 2017. At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin sat at $1,027.05. These figures are the highest bitcoin has been since its $1,216.70 Gox collapsed.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

Then the regulator clears the payment to be deposited to the nonexistent fund. The PFSA said it “would like to remind you that the cryptocurrency market in Poland is not a regulated or supervised market. They still have to inform NYDFS before using the coin, though.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission’s former Chairman Arthur Levitt doesn’t think the regulator is equipped to handle bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has been surging in value all year. I think the tendency of the Commission has been to stay away from bitcoin,” the former SEC chairman was quoted as saying.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The card will offer consumers an easy way to invest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, Gemini’s CEO Tyler Winklevoss said in the release. He and his brother and Gemini Co-Founder Cameron Winkelvoss told the news organization that they’re debating a public listing for the exchange amid bitcoin’s surge in price and popularity. “We

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Bitcoin took a tumble on Wednesday, dropping as much as 20 percent and dipping below the $10,000 mark, Reuters reported. Bitcoin wasn’t alone in its fall, as other cryptocurrencies lost value over investor concerns that regulators would take measures to curb speculation. There is a lot of panic in the market. at 5:25 P.M.

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