Urban, Author at 2100NEWS

UrbanSeptember 28, 2018

Former UBS executives raised $104 million to operate Seba, a strictly regulated crypto bank, with a banking license from Finma, the Swiss financial regulator. The infrastructure of the cryptocurrency exchange market is improving rapidly with Bakkt, Coinbase, and major US-based banks like Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs that have recently released their plans to operate crypto custodian solutions. […]

UrbanSeptember 28, 2018

As of Thursday, Sept. 25, the bitcoin price has climbed about 3 percent, briefly crossing the $6,700 level and extending toward $6,750 at one point in the early evening. While this movement has made plenty of cryptocurrency traders and investors happy in the short-term, a recent analysis of spending patterns relating to some of the earliest blocks […]

UrbanSeptember 28, 2018

Veem, a cross-border payments platform that uses bitcoin to move funds among businesses without the need of banks, has raised $25 million in a round led by Goldman Sachs, according to Forbes. The service, which does not require either counterparty to hold bitcoin directly, has quadrupled its revenue in the past year. Also participating in the funding round were […]

UrbanSeptember 27, 2018

Technology giant Dell has outlined plans to invest in emerging tech like blockchain to retain its top position in India’s server market. The comments surfaced in light of Dell’s ambition to retain its top position in India’s server market. The multibillion-dollar tech giant received requests from its clients for tapping modern server solutions, confirmed Manish […]

UrbanSeptember 27, 2018

Scott Nations, the president and chief investment officer of NationsShares, a division of Fortress Trading, shorted Bitcoin through the Cboe futures market live on CNBC on September 26. Since then, the price of Bitcoin has slightly increased to $6,500. “I want to be a seller of the October contract. The Cboe Bitcoin futures, that is a single […]

UrbanSeptember 27, 2018

ConsenSys founder and Ethereum co-creator Joseph Lubin recently expressed his thoughts on the “equal waves of fascination and skepticism” concerning cryptocurrency, in a Quartz op-ed publishedon Sept. 25. Lubin referenced a number of historical antidotes to assert that society has always been a bit skeptical towards those who come up with new concepts of money but argued […]

UrbanSeptember 26, 2018

German blockchain banking service Bitwala is set to launch the first-ever platform that will enable the management of both euro deposits and bitcoin funds within the same bank account. This system is planned to kick off by November with an estimated 30,000 customers who have already signed up for the service. The biggest initial investor […]

UrbanSeptember 26, 2018

Japanese banking giant SBI Holdings has unveiled plans to launch “S Coin”, a cryptocurrency token for mobile retail payments. Announcing the news in a statement on Tuesday, SBI revealed that the proposed coin, which is the product of a partnership with DLT provider Orb and Glory Corporation, will begin a trial run from October 2018 as the company seeks […]

UrbanSeptember 26, 2018

Coinbase has announced a new procedure for listing assets with the sole purpose of speeding up the process of listing digital assets that meet the exchange’s standards, per a company blog post. The San Francisco-based company, which currently supports bitcoin and popular altcoins such as bitcoin cash, ethereum classic, and litecoin, says it’s getting tougher to list […]

UrbanSeptember 25, 2018

New research has found that, despite the popular idea that cryptocurrencies operate generally outside the reach of national regulators, regulatory actions still have a huge impact on crypto markets. The research is presented in a report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an organisation owned by 60 of the world’s central banks from countries cumulatively making […]

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