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Tether, the company behind the controversial stablecoin of the same name, published a letter purporting to be from Deltec Bank and Trust Limited today, confirming that it has about $1.8 billion in its account as of October 31. However, the letter - dated November 1 - does not have a name attached to it, and the signature is essentially a curve. Coinbase’s head of trading, Hunter Merghart, has resi...

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has frozen accounts that received more than 93,000 ether from two wallets indirectly linked to the troubled Russian exchange WEX. Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has been gifted a small amount of bitcoin. The Indian government is considering imposing a ban on what it calls "private cryptocurrencies" in the country. The Hong Kong Stock E...

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has just announced $300 million in new funding The developer that formalized the code underlying most initial coin offerings (ICOs) – ethereum's ERC-20 token standard – has proposed a new approach in a bid to make the funding schemes more safe for would-be investors A 21-year-old bitcoin trader from California has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicense...

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp has been acquired by NXMH, an investment firm based in Belgium and owned by South Korean conglomerate NXC The Korean government made waves last year when it moved to ban initial coin offerings from taking place in the country. Blockchain payments startup Ripple Labs has hired former Google executive Amir Sarhangi as its vice president of products. After nearly two...

In January, a new token is being launched on the ethereum blockchain that will be backed one-for-one by bitcoin. An advisory committee to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes the agency should provide clearer guidelines on how cryptocurrency transactions may be taxed. An arbitration body in China has ruled that despite the country's central bank ban on cryptocurrency trading, bitcoin s...

Parties solicited to invest in the pre-initial public offering (IPO) funding round for Bitmain Technologies, Ltd., the leading maker of cryptocurrency mining software and hardware, received pitch decks falsely suggesting the company had secured financial backing from Digital Sky Technologies Global and GIC Private Limited. One of the oldest software wallet providers in the cryptocurrency industry...

Police in the Indian city of Bangalore have seized an ATM just weeks after it was set up by local cryptocurrency exchange Unocoin. A college freshman is coming after your cryptocurrency – but not to steal your coins, just to prove that someone could do so pretty easily. The Financial Services Agency, also known as the FSA, Japan's finance regulator, has formally approved a cryptocurrency exchange...

Crypto exchange Coinbase announced support for the Circle-issued stablecoin Tuesday. The newest commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission met with representatives from money manager VanEck and blockchain startup SolidX earlier this month to discuss a bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). A decade after launching its first Android device, global consumer tech giant HTC is of...

Transaction fees on monero have fallen sharply after last Thursday's system-wide software update. An Australian securities regulator shuts down an ICO project planning to raise as much as $50 million. Not to be outdone, the U.S. SEC has suspended the trading of shares for a company which claimed to be offering an ICO that was registered with the regulator. Accenture says it has created an "interop...

A new report indicates that an infamous North Korean hacking group has managed to steal over half a billion dollars in cryptocurrencies. Ethereum's next hard fork will be postponed until early 2019, developers said Friday. Binance looks to add more stablecoins. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) might make it easier for fintech startups to navigate legal waters. A global money-laund...

A clampdown on cryptocurrency by Indian regulators is forcing one exchange in that country to go to great lengths to do business. The U.S. Marshals have announced a plan to auction off nearly $4.3 million worth of bitcoin next month. Clients of the defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox must submit claims for trapped funds by October 22. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with blockchain...

Trading bots appear to have gamed a big token announcement from Coinbase. Binance teams up with Chainalysis to monitor cryptocurrency transactions in real-time. A senior U.S. official made a big statement on blockchain-based smart contracts this week. Amazon Web Services' China division is partnering with public blockchain project Qtum. The ICO for Civil’s blockchain-for-journalism has officially...

The Gemini dollar (GUSD) soared above $1 to a high of $1.19 Tuesday, just a day after competing stablecoin Tether (USDT) dropped to an 18-month low. Crypto exchange Bitfinex announced a new process for depositing fiat currency, a move that came after the platform halted the service in recent days. Singapore-based crypto exchange Huobi will list 4 US dollar-pegged coins some time this week. A new s...

Financial services provider Fidelity Investments is launching a cryptocurrency trading and storage platform. The price of the tether stablecoin (USDT) fell to an 18-month low Monday, and rumors are swirling. But it's not all bad news for stablecoins: Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has announced that it is adding four U.S. dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies to its platform for trading. Bl...

Bithumb, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, has been sold. Ethereum's next system-wide upgrade is on track for November release, according to coders. Gary Cohn, once the chief economic advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, has just joined a blockchain startup called Spring Labs. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher Giancarlo says that...

Coinbase will add the 0x protocol token to its professional trading platform, Coinbase Pro. It's the first ERC-20 token to get a place on the platform. A region in Northern Syria is looking to cryptocurrency as a way to overcome economic sanctions. Crypto giveaway scams featuring Elon Musk impostors are common on Twitter, but on Thursday they went to new heights, with a promoted tweet from a verif...

Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain, called "Liquid", is now live. The Financial Stability Board says that cryptocurrencies and digital assets are not currently a threat to global financial stability. The Securities and Exchange Commission goes after an alleged pump-and-dump scheme involving a $100 million ICO. Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini hires another Wall street executive Blo...

The Persian Gulf may get its first cryptocurrency exchange licensed by a central bank. A cryptocurrency investment fund in Switzerland receives a license from the nation's financial markets regulator. Blockchain startup Bitwala is aiming to launch Germany's first "blockchain bank account." SpankChain, a cryptocurrency project focused on the adult industry, has suffered a breach that saw almost $40...

French supermarket giant Carrefour joins an IBM Blockchain program. An ICO on bitcoin? If start-up RSK has its way, it could happen. Controversial exchange Bitfinex attempts to disprove rumors of insolvency. Stealth startup Good Money plans to launch of crypto wallet with the help of "mega-bloggers." Hope Floyd's available! Venezuelan citizens must now purchase passports using the Petro, the natio...

Yale University reportedly invested $400 million in crypto fund. SEC is looking for more comments on rejected bitcoin ETFs. Miner making multi-million bet on Ethereum staying Proof-of-Work. Celsius has over 10,000 users earning interest on crypto. Fortnite Cheat has bitcoin-targeting malware. Late Confirmation is a CoinDesk production made in collaboration with The Podglomerate. See Privacy Policy...

The EOS community is having its first voting fraud scandal. The U.S. Department of Justice charged seven alleged Russian intelligence agents with using cryptocurrencies to fund undercover operations across the world. An ICE official says that his agency tracks cryptocurrency conversions in its investigations. The co-organizer of the first-ever Crypto Springs conference says, “nothing is decentrali...

A critical exploit originally found in bitcoin’s code was patched last month before criminals could act on it. But it now appears there were some victims. IBM claims to have found a way to reduce the energy consumption needed on proof-of-work blockchains. This week RIpple was out in full force at its Swell conference. Crypto exchange Gemini announced that from now on the digital assets it holds in...

CoinDesk has released a list of the top universities that offer courses on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Former president Bill Clinton spoke at Ripple’s Swell conference in San Francisco on Monday. Clinton expressed concern about "disparity of access" to new technologies like blockchain. A new marketplace for crypto collectibles offers to sell them in bundles. Venture capitalist invested almost...

Hyperledger and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance join forces. -- Three companies are now using Ripple’s xRapid in real life. -- Researchers say that Ether’s price plunge didn’t hit ICOs. -- Blockchain is praised at the U.N. General Assembly. -- Montana nearly banned crypto mining in a single county.  Host Marc Hochstein has the latest. Late Confirmation is a CoinDesk production made in collaboration w...

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe looks ahead to the the problem of securing a trillion dollar cryptocurrency wallet. — Decentralized exchange Everbloom is looking to become a certified broker-dealer in the U.S. — U.S. regulators brought charges against securities swap platform 1broker and its CEO Patrick Brunner for violating federal law. — Shares in the publicly listed blockchain tech and consultancy firm D...