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6.7% of the entire circulating supply of Bitcoin (BTC) is held on the wallets of eight major cryptocurrency exchanges, according to Twitter account The Token Analyst.“Exchanges are the biggest HODLers”On Oct. 8, the Token Analyst, a Twitter account that provides real-time and historical blockchain data, wrote that throughout Bitcoin’s
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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), a global trade association of publicly-regulated exchanges, has appealed to the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to not restrict cryptocurrency derivatives for retail investors.The WFE made a statement on Oct. 7 in response to the British financial regulator’s consultation paper on a
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The battle cry of the cryptocurrency industry has been one of decentralization, or one without any centralized authority. It is this distinguishing feature that sets the blockchain space apart from other sectors and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin from other assets. No central bank, bankers, or government controls it, and
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Although it has taken some time to come to fruition, demand for traditional derivative markets in the cryptocurrency trading arena is growing at an exponential pace. While the presence of Bitcoin futures trading has been around for some time now, it wasn’t until this year that a select number of
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The Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) has released its latest market surveillance report which states that Kraken and Coinbase are among the cleanest cryptocurrency exchanges in the industry.BTI cleans wash trading from exchanges’ volumesOn Sept. 19, the Blockchain Transparency Institute published its 5th market surveillance report that verifies reporting of
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SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said that it will take a while before there is proper regulation for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and that has to happen before major exchanges can begin to list them.Generally, the fact that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not very supportive of
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The United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong and Singapore have the largest number of registered digital currency exchanges, according to data from Bitfury’s blockchain analytics platform Crystal.Crystal published its “Report on International Bitcoin Flows 2013–2019” on Sept. 9, in which it provides insight into cryptocurrency operations and Bitcoin
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Fake news, fake companies, and fake liquidity – navigating the cryptocurrency market is often as clear as mud, especially considering up to 86 percent of total reported cryptocurrency trading volumes are likely to be false, according to research compiled by The Block.The traditional finance sector is no stranger to wash
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Bitcoin Co. Ltd. (BX.in.th), one of the largest crypto exchange and trading services provider in Thailand recently announced that it will discontinue its trading, exchange and wallet services from September 30th, 2019. The crypto exchange informed the users to withdraw their funds before November 1st, 2019.The latest notification of one
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Problems with Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, are disrupting services at some cryptocurrency exchanges on Friday. The Binance exchange is seeing problems internationally, according to its CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who tweeted: It’s causing some 500 error messages on APIs and affecting
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