Cryptocurrencies’ market cap breaks $200 billion barrier
With Bitcoin’s new historic prices, the market value and demand is still lunging upward.
Nasdaq Clearing exec: Blockchain activation will take small steps
Blockchain, first employed by the digital currency Bitcoin, has found potential uses in all kinds of industries and has been accepted as a valuable technology in the stock market as well. It has several improvements to offer to the financial systems, however its integration into the framework is not an easy task.
Blockchain project, Tezos, faces class-action lawsuit
On October 25, a class-action lawsuit was filed with the Superior Court of the state of California by Andrew Baker, a Tezos ICO contributor. The lawsuit lists multiple defendants, including the Tezos co-founders, Kathleen and Andrew Breitman, as well as Johan Gevers of the Zug-based Tezos Foundation.
SEC accuses crypto day trader of market manipulation
On October 30th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a case against a day-trader based in Ambler, Pennsylvania. Joseph P. Willner, age 42, was accused of running a market manipulation scheme through the unlawful take-over of at least 110 brokerage accounts.
E-commerce giant, Amazon, buys three Cryptocurrency-related domains
Three new domains having cryptocurrency-related names were secured this Tuesday by Amazon’s legal department, as reported by the Trade Publication DomainNameWire. The domains registered to Amazon are amazonethereum.com, amazoncryptocurrencies.com and amazoncryptocurrency.com.
Russia loses 18 billion rubles due to lack of ICO regulation
New research has found that the Russian economy lost out on over 18 billion rubles due to inefficient ICO regulation.
Coinbase adds 100,000 users in less than 24 hours
The trading platform now boasts over 12 million users.
New Zealand reveals policies for Cryptocurrency regulation
The New Zealand financial regulating body has confirmed that cryptocurrency will be viewed as securities.
