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Licensed crypto exchange Huobi Japan has raised 5 million yen ($4.6 million) from Financial Products Group (FPG), a financial instruments business operator.The development was revealed in a press release shared with CryptoX on Oct. 25.Future cooperation on digitized securitiesHuobi Japan is a wholly-owned subsidiary of major Singapore-based crypto exchange
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A recent large-scale malvertising attack identified by the TrendMicro security intelligence team has seen thousands of individuals around the world targeted by a sophisticated cryptojacking network. TrendMicro’s latest blog details the recently discovered but undocumented version, noting that the new version is “capable of taking over systems in order to
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Bitcoin (BTC) proponents are encouraging Lebanese citizens to swap fiat for crypto after it emerged the country’s banks would stay closed.Banks to open “once normalcy restored”In an ongoing Twitter debate which began on Oct. 24, commentators vented anger on behalf of Lebanon’s population, which has been without banking services
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Ivan Manuel Molina Lee, the president of controversial Panama-based payments processor Crypto Capital tied to Bitfinex and other major cryptocurrency exchanges, was arrested by Polish authorities.According to local news outlet wPolityce’s report published on Oct. 24, he is suspected of money laundering and being involved in an international drug
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Nexo, a crypto lending institution, announced that it has lowered the interest rates on its instant crypto credit lines.Lowest rates in the blockchain ecosystemIn a press release published Oct. 22, Nexo announced that it was lowering interest rates on its credit line service after securing long-term cost-efficient financing. The
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Michael Novogratz, Galaxy Digital CEO and chairman, spoke to CNBC’s Squawk Box where he said that a new Bitcoin (BTC) fund was in the works.Novogratz alludes to new funds in interviewOn Oct. 24, Novogratz hinted that Galaxy Digital Asset Management has plans to launch a new Bitcoin fund to
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it opened deposits for fiat currency Nigerian Naira (NGN) on Oct. 24.Binance adds three new NGN trading pairsPer the announcement, NGN deposits will be processed by online payments processor Flutterwave and the exchange is also adding three new trading pairs: USD/NGN, Binance Coin/NGN
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken made its WebSockets private Application Program Interface (API) available for all Kraken clients.On Oct. 24, Kraken reported on its blog that the first two messages of the private API have gone live to all of its clients after being in beta mode since the beginning of
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Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, made it crystal clear that Twitter will never join Facebook’s Libra project."Nothing within Libra had to be a cryptocurrency”On Oct. 24, per a Twitter thread by Hollywood Reporter editor Alex Weprin, who was covering an event at Twitter's New York office, Jack
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Telegram investors have turned down the offer of a refund on their investment in the TON ICO despite an injunction by the SEC delaying the launch of the network. Telegram, which is an important part of the crypto ecosystem due to its encrypted communication abilities, has been embroiled in a dispute
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