Coincheck loses $534 million in NEM
Coincheck, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in Japan, was hacked. In the attack, $534 million worth of NEM coins were stolen in what is considered the biggest cryptcurrency exchange cyberattack since the Mt. Gox’s incident.
Hashgraph provides a secure and fast transaction processing system
Hashgraph is a blockchain-alternative that achieves high scalability without sacrificing security. It has been proven to handle hundreds of thousands of tx/s in a single network and is expected to do millions of tx/s with sharding. Hashgraph makes use of “Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)”. A very secure version of BFT.
How To Launch A $100M ICO [Conference Call]
Cointelligence and Cryptoracle.io are hosting a conference call with Moshe Hogeg, Founder and Co-CEO of Sirin Labs. Here, we will talk about what it takes to launch such a successful ICO, the writing of white papers, and the development of next generation technology.
Is Chinese coin blogger vouching for Tether and Bitfinex biased?
Zhao Dong, the Chinese early bitcoin adopter, has just confirmed that Bitfinex and Tether have around $3 billion in their bank accounts, based in Tokyo. While this stands to debunk all the recent rumors that has been questioning the integrity and transparency of USDT, rumors of Dong’s conflicts of interest are revealed.
CFTC charges My Big Coin Pay with fraud and misappropriation
The US CFTC has started an investigation against My Big Coin and frozen the assets of its owners. The department has pointed out in its investigation that the owners and misrepresented the facts and misused the funds raised from the investors. The owners used the funds of the investors to cover their personal expenses.
Benebit ICO evaporates with as much as $4 million
Benebit has just turned to dust, to become the most prominent exit scam in the world of cryptocurrency ICOs to date. The scam artists behind Benebit managed to walk out with at least $2.7 million.
Elering AS and WePower join forces to tokenize energy data in Estonia
Wepower, a blockchain company, and Elering, a power company, have collaborated to create a new way of using blockchain technology to catalyze the mass adoption of various green energy sources.
Competing with Tether, TrueCoin aims at creating an ideal ‘stablecoin’
Promising transparency, regular audits, and stable banking partners, TrueUSD might offer the stability the public is looking for in order to invest in a cryptocurrency they can trust.
BitFlyer has just acquired its EU license
Bitflyer, the Tokyo based bitcoin exchange, has just been licensed in EU, to become the first and only exchange to be officially recognized by authorities in Japan, the US, and Europe.
ETHBTC forecast: new bullish trend forming
Ether price began stabilizing after plummeting for a few days. Our technical analysis is in favor of an uptrend during the upcoming few days, provided that ether price
