In this episode, Dave and Grahm talk with Leo Weese, president of the Hong Kong Bitcoin Association, about the anti-extradition bill protests that have been escalating there over the past week. Weese explains why Hong Kong isn’t already under mainland China’s rule and describes how serious of an infringement this bill could be on the…
Asia-based crypto lender BabelBank has announced a record-high number of crypto-collateralized loans issued amid new rebranding efforts. The crypto firm will now be called BabelFinance, a name change which, the company says, signifies its efforts to offer broader services for crypto users, especially in the Chinese market. In a statement, the crypto lender claims to…
Binance has announced that it will deny all cryptocurrency exchange services to users in the United States in the near future. On June 14, 2019, Binance’s official website posted an announcement claiming that “some users may be required to furnish evidence showing that their account registrations are consistent with Binance’s Terms of Use.” Furthermore, after…
In this episode, Dave and Grahm cover the recent news and developments happening around peer-to-peer (p2p) bitcoin exchanges. They talk with Hodl Hodl’s Max Keidun about LocalBitcoins, regulatory uncertainty, predictions and different kinds of p2p exchanges. Resources News: Paxful and AirTm Partner to Increase Bitcoin Adoption in Latin America LocalBitcoins Stops Cash Trades, Personal Offers…
This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Olsegun Ogundeji. Bakkt has set a date to start accepting users for the testing of its bitcoin futures, COO Adam White confirmed. The confirmed date is an indication that its futures market, which is set to usher in a new standard for accessing investments in…
Block space is limited: The Bitcoin blockchain can only process some 10 transactions per second, at most. To resolve this, Bitcoin’s technical community is developing second-layer protocols that process transactions “off-chain,” such as the Lightning Network and sidechains. Using clever cryptographic tricks, these transactions are batched to periodically settle on the Bitcoin blockchain as a…
Several South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have updated their terms of service in line with regulatory demands, The Korea Herald reports. The country’s financial watchdog, the Financial Trade Commission (FTC), has announced that five exchanges updated their terms of service following its corrective recommendation made last year. Notable on the list of exchanges making updates to…
Summary: The slow grind that the bitcoin market saw last week finally resulted in a breakout that caused the market to rally to $9,400. We are currently seeing a round of supply hitting the market, but the overall market structure is very bullish. There are a lot of analogues between our current market structure and…
“Major darknet markets come and go in eras,” Bitcoin Magazine wrote back in April 2019, as several of the biggest online drug bazaars were shuttering. A wave of law enforcement actions followed shortly after. Wall Street Market and Valhalla, as well as coin mixing service Bestmixer.io and even darknet-focused news site DeepDotWeb were all shut…
Noncustodial crypto wallet Breez has launched a beta version of its Lightning payments app for the iPhone, which runs on a Neutrino-based client. The iOS version is available for testing on Apple’s publishing platform for beta apps, TestFlight, per a Medium post from Breez CEO Roy Sheinfeld. Sheinfeld claims that the Breez app could be…