Brazilian Crypto Businesses, Exchanges Create “Rival” Cryptocurrency Associations

Brazil’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, including Bitcointrade, Mercado Bitcoin, Foxbit, and others, recently joined forces to create a cryptocurrency association whose goal is to defend the interests of cryptocurrency users. The organization, dubbed Associação Brasileira de Criptoeconomia (ABCripto) recently found out other companies created a “rival” association. Headed by fintech firm Atlas Project, other crypto-related companies […]

Increased SegWit Adoption May have Finally Solved Bitcoin’s Fee Problem

A couple months after two of the largest cryptocurrency trading exchanges, Bitfinex and GDAX, finally adopted the bitcoin SegWit protocol, transaction fees for the currency are finally back to reasonable levels. Bitfinex, on February 20 2018, announced support for bitcoin deposit and withdrawals using P2SH Segregated Witness (SegWit) addresses while GDAX, on February 23, introduced […]

‘Inevitable’ that Pensions and Endowments Make Crypto Play: Hedge Fund Exec

Cryptocurrencies may soon land the white whale of the investing industry: institutional funds such as pensions and endowments. That’s according to Ari Paul, chief investment officer at cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital, who told CNBC that he believes it’s “inevitable” that these institutional investment funds will add cryptoassets to their portfolios — sooner rather than […]

Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Startups Are Making Progress

Golem has lumbered in from the wilderness now with its first beta release, the Brass Golem, bringing the notion of Airbnb for computers to life on Ethereum. Also in Ethereum news, Ether Capital seeks to be a steadying and calming force in the Ethereum technology and ICO space. Samsung has now confirmed that it is […]

Massive German Stock Exchange to Launch Crypto Trading App

One of Germany’s largest stock exchanges has announced today that they will launch a cryptocurrency trading application later this year. Sowa Labs, a subsidiary of Börse Stuttgart, revealed that their application will offer commission-free trading for several of the largest digital currencies by market capitalisation. Prototype of New Crypto Trading App Demoed in Stuttgart The new […]