Category: N-News

  • Crypto Tax and Accounting Software Libra Raises $15M in Series B Funding

    Crypto Tax and Accounting Software Libra Raises $15M in Series B Funding

    Traditional venture capital investors seem to think that the field of crypto reporting apps is appealing. Cryptocurrency tax and accounting software development startup Libra has raised an extra $15 million in its Series B funding round. Also Read: Opera Browser Opens Its Built-in Cryptocurrency Wallet to Desktop Users $24.8 Million in Funding for Crypto Tax…

  • The Daily: New Education Centers, Vietnamese Ask for Fraudster’s Extradition

    The Daily: New Education Centers, Vietnamese Ask for Fraudster’s Extradition

    In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover a number of new academic education centers around the world devoted to the research of the technology behind cryptocurrency, and demands by Vietnamese victims for an alleged fraudster’s extradition plus an update about Kickico. Also Read: Okex Socializes Loss From Over $400 Million Bet Among BTC…

  • Japanese Firms Jointly Launch Corporate Crypto Accounting Tool

    Japanese Firms Jointly Launch Corporate Crypto Accounting Tool

    Cryptolinc Co. Ltd, which develops and provides cryptocurrency management and calculation systems, and Miroku Information Service Co. Ltd, a financial and accounting system management and information service, have jointly created a crypto corporate accounting tool for corporate cryptocurrency accounting. Also Read: Japan Tax Agency Says Individuals Earning $1,800+ in Crypto a Year Will Declare Tax Cryptolinc…

  • Coinmarketcap Launches Professional API and Adds Derivatives Markets

    Coinmarketcap Launches Professional API and Adds Derivatives Markets

    Coinmarketcap (CMC), the popular cryptocurrency markets tracker portal, has launched a professional-grade API for aggregated market data and added support for derivatives markets as part of a major quarterly overhaul of its operations. Also Read: 90% of Corporate “Blockchain” Pilots Will Never Materialize, Researchers Say CMC Professional API The professional API is meant to offer…

  • Thomson Reuters Eikon to Display Data on 50 Cryptocurrencies From Cryptocompare

    Thomson Reuters Eikon to Display Data on 50 Cryptocurrencies From Cryptocompare

    Institutional financial traders are about to receive access to new data feeds on fifty cryptocurrencies supplied by Cryptocompare. These will be added to Eikon, Thomson Reuters’ flagship financial information platform which was launched back in 2010. Also Read: Banks Don’t Really Want to Use ‘Blockchain’ for FX Settlement After All Increasing Demand for Crypto Coverage…

  • Football Team in Gibraltar to Pay Its Players in Cryptocurrency

    Football Team in Gibraltar to Pay Its Players in Cryptocurrency

    Gibraltar just scored a major unexpected goal in the great tournament to be known as the most Bitcoin-friendly jurisdiction in Europe. A local football team made international sports headlines for deciding to pay its players with cryptocurrency. Also Read: Banks Don’t Really Want to Use ‘Blockchain’ for FX Settlement After All Gibraltar United to Pay…

  • Largest Cannabis Community Market in Israel to Accept Bitcoin Payments

    Largest Cannabis Community Market in Israel to Accept Bitcoin Payments

    Before it was turned into an investment asset, the invention of Bitcoin promised to usher in a world where anyone can pay for anything they like without a need for getting prior approval from the powers that be. The demand for uncensorable transactions still exists, and the latest example of this comes from Israel where…

  • ETH Round-Up: Parity Unfreeze Shot Down, Casper Code Made Public, Vitalik Slams Greedy Market Sentiment

    ETH Round-Up: Parity Unfreeze Shot Down, Casper Code Made Public, Vitalik Slams Greedy Market Sentiment

    A number of significant events have occurred pertaining to the Ethereum ecosystem in recent days. Last week, the code for the proposed first step of Ethereum’s technical transition toward the adoption of proof-of-stake mining, Vitalik Buterin made disparaging comments regarding 2017’s explosion in the initial coin offering (ICO) industry in an interview with Financial Times,…

  • Revolut Raises $250 Million, Adds Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and XRP

    Revolut Raises $250 Million, Adds Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and XRP

    The European alternative banking app designed for the globally mobile generation, Revolut, has just secured a major infusion of capital. With the new funding at hand the startup will be expanding to new markets around the world and add new features such as support for BCH and XRP to its crypto service. Also Read: Binance…

  • Germany Gets Its First Crypto Exchange for Whales

    Germany Gets Its First Crypto Exchange for Whales

    Germany’s VPE Wertpapierhandelsbank AG (VPE) has announced its institutional investor cryptocurrency trading services and claims them to be the first of their kind for the country. Armed with a Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (Bafin) license, in expanding its brokerage offerings VPE purports to offer “best-in-class technology” to customers, “secure and regulated.” Also read: Facebook to Be…