Coinbase starts offering staking rewards on Tezos. XTZ surges over 50 percent after the announcement. Tezos could be preparing for a significant price move based on many technical indicators. Tezos skyrocketed over 50 percent in the last 24 hours. The …
The Hurricane Dorian relief effort has teamed up with an unlikely ally to help the Bahamas recover from the devastation wrought by the storm: Bitcoin. Coinbase & Bitpay facilitate Bitcoin donations for Hurricane Dorian recovery This has become poss…
Despite being a relatively new sector, the blockchain and cryptocurrency space can this year boast of having two crypto startups, Coinbase and Ripple, in the LinkedIn’s 50 hottest U.S. startups of 2019 to work for. In the professional social network’s …
Bitcoin (BTC) is back in positive territory today. Yesterday’s surge of nearly 8% on Bitstamp saw BTC shoot back past $10,000 and then briefly clip the $10,750 mark on Tuesday. Most of the cryptocurrency market followed, with only a handful of altcoins…
By CCN Markets: A Michigander is facing 20 wire fraud and money laundering charges for carrying out a crypto investment scam that raked in an average of nearly $15,000 daily. According to the prosecutors, James Matthew Thomas defrauded approximately $206,000 from his victims within a period of two weeks. The scam was carried out in […]
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By CCN Markets: Bitcoin has been trading sideways of late but it might not be long before the flagship cryptocurrency moves up thanks to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s latest reveal. Whether institutions were going to adopt crypto or not was an open question about 12 months ago. I think it’s safe to say we now […]
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By CCN Markets: Coinbase users in the UK continue to get bad news, with the latest impacting Zcash holders specifically. The rumor mill began to churn this week when the cryptocurrency exchange unexpectedly dumped ZEC. Now there’s finally confirmation for at least one of the reasons that were bandied about. UK-based banking giant Barclays severed […]
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By CCN Markets: The privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has fallen by nearly 15 percent this week as Bitcoin’s dominance approaches 70 percent. According to CoinMarketCap, Zcash was trading at slightly over $66 seven days ago but is now just under $56, a decline of approximately 15 percent that forced its market cap below $400 million. Among […]
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The Northern District Court of California has slammed Coinbase’s ‘incompetence’ over its controversial Bitcoin Cash launch in 2017. The court denied a renewed motion by the company to force arbitration against plaintiff Jeffrey Berk, but dismissed allegations of fraud against Coinbase. “Moreover, while the factual allegations paint a compelling picture of an incompetent launch by […]
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While Coinbase is still the place many Americans go for their first cryptocurrency purchase, another crypto exchange has them backpedalling. As the Malta-based exchange Binance continues its rise to the top, Coinbase is making moves to ensure they don’…
Coinbase announced the potential addition of several new cryptocurrency assets this week. One of them, Matic Network (MATIC) jumped by over 60% in the 24 hours since the announcement. Little-Known Cryptocurrency Gains Over 60% With $100 Million Volume With a volume of nearly $100 million, the Matic price rose from just over 99 satoshis or […]
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The only thing that’s certain in life is death and taxes. For buyers of Bitcoin and other cryptos, the latter has come, as the IRS is now pumping out an avalanche of notices to more than 10,000 cryptocurrency investors who probably haven’t been u…
Robinhood has raised a colossal $323 million in its latest funding efforts, making the millennial-focused stock-and-crypto trading app worth approximately $7.6 billion. Despite its mainstream appeal, the “no commission” broker is still worth less than …
U.S. regulators FINRA and the SEC have put out a joint statement explaining why they have yet to approve applications from crypto exchanges such as Coinbase and Gemini requesting to receive licenses to operate as broker-dealers alongside their custody …
Users of long-time Coinbase competitor CEX.io will have gotten an e-mail today informing them of the exchange’s decision to open a U.S. entity. It’s official!https://t.co/OPoleqNuJO has received a Money Transmitter License in 9 more states: Iowa, Kansa…
Despite the 2018 U.S. congressional elections serving as a referendum on President Trump, more people searched for “Bitcoin” than the election results. Or Kim Kardashian. That’s according to research conducted by YouGov on behalf of Coinbase, which pai…
The rumor on the street is that Coinbase succumbing to technical difficulties led to a significant $1,400 drop in the price of Bitcoin across the entire global cryptocurrency market. If this is remotely true, that would mean too much of the crypto mark…
The bitcoin price is up 234 percent since January, even despite Wednesday’s drop. But while mainstream media scramble to explain bitcoin’s rise, one cryptocurrency has quietly outperformed every digital asset in the top 25. LINK, the native token of Ch…
By CCN Markets: A vulnerability allowing for remote code execution (unauthorized use) in Firefox was exploited against Coinbase employees this past week. The vulnerability enabled an attacker to crash the browser and execute code, including installing …
By CCN Markets: What do Coinbase Global CFO Alesia Haas and Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne have in common? Both believe that security tokens are the future, according to a panel discussion hosted by Fortune. Now that blockchain startup fundraising is …