Urban, Author at 2100NEWS

UrbanFebruary 22, 2019

Japanese companies are making bold overseas moves on the international cryptocurrency scene, with one company expanding into the Southeast Asian market, and another investing in an Israeli startup. BitPoint, a Financial Services Agency-licensed cryptocurrency exchange, says it has struck a partnership with a Bangkok-based blockchain company named BiTherb. Per a press release, the companies say they will […]

UrbanFebruary 21, 2019

South Korean tech giant Samsung just made major announcement that might give a strong boost to the cryptocurrency mass adoption. The company confirmed that its new flagship smartphone Galaxy S10 features “a secure storage backed by hardware, which houses your private keys for blockchain-enabled mobile services.” The company did not provide any further details about the storage yet. Meanwhile, […]

UrbanFebruary 20, 2019

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has revealed key details about his cryptocurrency holdings. As part of an ask-me-anything session on Reddit, Buterin revealed that some 10% of his non Ethereum-based crypto holdings are in the Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin and ZCash cryptocurrencies. He also revealed that he possesses some 10% less than the value of his […]

UrbanFebruary 19, 2019

The bitcoin market may be about to see another wave of buying, one measure of sentiment among traders suggests. According to data from crypto exchange Bitfinex, the ratio of short-to-long trades in the bitcoin market has hit 0.68 – the lowest level since early August last year. A short-to-long ratio below 1 indicates that there are more traders […]

UrbanFebruary 18, 2019

Japan’s stablecoin race has begun to hot up – with one of the biggest banks in the country and the world announcing it has struck a deal with Alipay, the financial arm of Chinese business giant Alibaba. The Mizuho Financial Group, operator of Japan’s second largest (and one of the top 20 largest banks in […]

UrbanFebruary 17, 2019

Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia that has recently suffered a hack has regained access to its building, and the New Zealand police say that the exchange could reopen – but the exchange’s founders remain silent on this issue. On Wednesday, the New Zealand police that is investigating the hack said that their investigation no longer prevents cryptocurrency […]

UrbanFebruary 16, 2019

Google is opening up crypto. Just as the Californian search giant transformed the early internet in the late ’90s from something strange and sprawling into something you could navigate at the click of a few buttons, it has turned to the no less sprawling world of cryptocurrencies. On February 5, it launched a range of new search tools […]

UrbanFebruary 15, 2019

Some of Japan’s biggest internet companies are making big moves in the country’s cryptocurrency industry – with Yahoo Japan making a large-scale investment, and a Rakuten-fronted group pushing for the regulator to reform and clarify proposed crypto tax and initial coin offering policies. Yahoo Japan made a bold debut on the scene last year, snapping […]

UrbanFebruary 10, 2019

The price differential of cryptocurrencies can be quite substantial across different exchanges. This, of course, provides an excellent opportunity for arbitrage traders. What is arbitrage trading? In the financial markets, arbitrage trading refers to simultaneously buying and selling an asset or a security on two different exchanges to generate a profit from the price differential […]

UrbanFebruary 8, 2019

After almost two weeks of trading sideways, the crypto market suddenly exploded on Friday. At the time or writing (UTC 05:08 PM) all top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization are in green. Bitcoin jumped by more than 8% in the past 24 hours and is trading close to USD 3,700, while Litecoin (LTC) registered strongest […]

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