Monthly Archives: September 2019

Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has refuted fresh allegations of manipulative practices such as wash trading on its platform. In a statement shared with Cointelegraph on Sept. 23, the exchange wrote that the wash trading allegations made in a recent report from the Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) were “not accurate and misleading.”“An apple-to-orange comparison”As reported, the BTI published…

Cryptocurrency payment processor BitPay may soon find it harder to do business as developers plan to remove support for the way it creates payment addresses.BitPay address support may disappear from BitcoinIn a GitHub discussion about the future 0.19.0 release of the Bitcoin Core client, developers continued plans to disable BIP70 by default, and possibly remove…

18 Bitcoin (BTC) in volume has been traded since the launch of Bitcoin futures on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)’s Bakkt platform yesterday, Sept. 22.The much-anticipated contracts — the first of their kind to be physically settled in Bitcoin — went live at 8 PM EST on Sept. 22 (00:00 UTC Sept. 23).The first hoursBakkt ™…

Scammers are using fake mainstream news articles to advertise a nonexistent and potentially dangerous Bitcoin investment platform. “Bitcoin Profit” features fake celebrity interviewsAccording to the dedicated website used to lure would-be clients, the so-called “Bitcoin Profit” uses celebrity endorsements as part of its marketing strategy. The site, economicsworld[dot]info, includes testimony from the likes of actress Kate Winslet…

On Sept. 17, the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s BZX Equity Exchange withdrew its VanEck/SolidX Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal a month ahead of the review deadline. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — the regulator on the matter — had until Oct. 18 to greenlight or reject the financial product.As a result, the…

The United States attorney's office for the Northern District of California has indicted two suspects — Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka — for hacking EtherDelta, a non-custodial marketplace for trading Ethereum (ETH) ERC-20 tokens, in December 2017.According to the documents originally filed on Aug. 13, Ganton and Nashatka changed the settings of EtherDelta’s domain…

Blockchain startup Modex announced the launch of its blockchain-based database platform for simplified blockchain deployment, which will be piloted by Dietsmann, a major oil and gas firm.Simplifying blockchain adoption On Sept. 19, Modex announced the release of its latest product, the Modex Blockchain Database platform (Modex BCDB) which simplifies the way companies can deploy blockchain technology…