February 2019 | Page 5 of 104 | Last Cryptocurrency News Feed

New VIP Improvements Make BitStarz The New Mecca For Highrollers

BitStarz is attracting more big players than ever, and here’s why. Having a bunch of big winners in the casino is cool and all, and BitStarz has never had so many of them from separate players as in the past few weeks. But let’s face facts. Any casino can be lucky enough to have a big…

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Singapore State-Owned Fund Backed Coinbase’s $300 Million Raise: Report

news GIC Private Limited, a Singapore government-owned wealth fund, reportedly backed Coinbase’s $300 million funding round last year. The news comes via a Bloomberg report on Thursday citing “people familiar with the matter.” This was possibly GIC’s first investment in the crypto space, the sources added. The fund has more than $100 billion in assets…

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Bitcoin Price May Rise in March Despite Month’s Bearish Track Record

markets View Bitcoin could end the five-year March losing streak with solid gains if resistance at $4,190 (high of last week’s inverted bullish hammer) is convincingly scaled in the next week or two. The cryptocurrency reinforced a bullish triangle breakout witnessed last week with a quick recovery from sub-$3,700 levels yesterday. This “buy the dip”…

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Global Demand for Blockchain Engineers Up 517 Percent in a Year, Says Hired

The global demand for blockchain engineers is up by 517 percent year-over-year, according to a report released by recruitment company Hired on Feb. 28.The document also notes that the second-fastest growing software engineering role is security engineer, with 132 percent growth, and third is embedded engineer, up 76 percent. The blockchain engineer role also consistently…

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Morgan Creek Joins $65 Million Series B for Blockchain Home Equity Loan Firm

news Blockchain-based home equity loan startup Figure Technologies has raised $65 million in a Series B round backed by Morgan Creek. Announcing the news on Wednesday, Figure said the round was led by venture capital firms RPM Ventures and DST Global, with Ribbit Capital, DCM Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Nimble Ventures and others also participating.…

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Coming-Up Constantinople: Ethereum Is Getting Ready To Today’s 2 Expected Hard-Forks

Ethereum’s long-anticipated upgrades are about to take place later today, February 28th. The code change will include two near-simultaneous upgrades — named Constantinople and St. Petersburg, both of which will be implemented as hard forks to the Ethereum blockchain. The upgrades are scheduled to occur as soon as Ethereum reaches block 7,280,000. Constantinople and St.…

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Square Brought in Over $166 Million Through Bitcoin Sales Last Year

news Mobile payments firm Square has reported over $166 million in revenue from bitcoin sales last year. The company filed its financial results for Q4 2018 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday, disclosing that it made overall net revenue of $3.3 billion last year, 5 percent of which came from the cryptocurrency buying…

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Report: Singapore’s Wealth Fund GIC Among Those to Raise $300 Mln for Coinbase in 2018

Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation (GIC) was reportedly one of the investors to have helped raise $300 million for major United States crypto wallet provider and exchange service Coinbase in 2018. Bloomberg reported the news on Feb. 28, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.According to its official website, GIC — which was founded to manage…

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Japan: Reported Cases of Crypto-Related Money Laundering Increase 10-Fold in 2018

More than 7,000 cases of suspected money laundering tied to crypto were reported to Japanese police in 2018, a more than tenfold increase from the 669 cases over a nine month period during the previous year. The news was reported on Feb. 28 by local English-language daily The Japan Times.In 2017, just 669 cases were…

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Bitcoin Price Analysis Feb.28: BTC Proves Strength Coming Back From a $150 Deep

Over the past two days, besides an intra-candle quick glitch and rebound, BTC had been consolidating between the tight range around the $3800 mark. The mentioned glitch can be seen on the 4-hour chart whereas Bitcoin sled down to $3650 and quickly bought back up to the $3800 area. This could have happened following a…