Coinbase has announced support for USDC, which is short form of US Dollar Coin. It is supported by Coinbase and Circle, which owns Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange.
Elon Musk twitter account blocked after tweeting about Bitcoin
CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk got his twitter account locked after tweeting about bitcoin and Japanese anime cartoon. Elon has more than 23 million followers on Twitter. After getting back, he tweeted that Twitter thought that he got hacked and locked his account.
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KuCoin adds USDC (USD Coin) markets
KuCoin has just made an announcement that the exchange will be adding USDC trading pairs on its website today. USDC pairs include BTC/USDC, ETH/USDC and USDT/USDC trading pairs and these will go online at 22:00 (UTC+8).
Who found the Bitcoin bug and saved us from devastating exploit
Who found the latest Bitcoin bug? Awemany, a BCH developer who contributes to Bitcoin Unlimited project. He is behind a new method to handle 0-conf transactions that is based on the OP_CHECKDATASIG op code.
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Remitano urges users to generate new deposit address
Remitano is sending emails to its users to generate new address for deposits. If you send your crypto currency to the old address after July 2019, it wouldn’t be credited and support staff won’t help you with it. So Yes, your funds will be lost forever. Here is the email that is being sent.
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Saudi Arabia makes bitcoin trading illegal
Saudi Arabian monetary agency has issued a formal statement stating that cryptocurrency trading is illegal in the country. They have released a list of websites and social media accounts that are actively promoting cryptocurrencies and trading. They say that no company or individual has been licensed for such practices.
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OKEx Maintains Order in the Futures Market by Injecting 2500 BTC
This is regarding the forced liquidation incident on July 31st 2018 when an large long position in BTC0928 futures contract was liquidated by force at 20:17:14 July 31, 2018 (Hong Kong Time, UTC+8). It was a huge order and this triggered their risk management system and alerted insurance fund team.
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Coinbase adds support for British Pound for UK customers, now easily buy BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH in UK
Starting today, Coinbase customers in the UK will be able to seamlessly move GBP in and out of their accounts using the Faster Payments service. In most cases, this will mean almost instant access to funds. Until now, the process was quite tedious – you had to send GBP via international bank to Coinbase US that took several days and was more expensive. Now, you will be able buy cryptocurrencies using British pound using your local bank.
Google bans Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency mining apps from PlayStore
Google has made its stance against bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining applications in the play store. This includes non cloud based cryptocurrency mining applications only as there are certain apps in play store that let you monitor cloud based mining or your own mining setups.
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