Category: Tether
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Gemini Dollar Code Review Reveals the Stablecoin’s Accounts Can Be Frozen
This week a blockchain researcher named Alex Lebed published a code review on the new stablecoin, the gemini dollar, created by the Gemini Trust cryptocurrency firm. According to Lebed’s study, gemini dollar accounts can be frozen by the exchange, and the tokens can be turned into non-transferable assets. Also read: Markets Update: Short Term Recovery – Is…
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Markets Update: Short Term Recovery – Is a Bullish Reversal in Sight?
Cryptocurrency prices are back on the mend after a great majority of digital assets plunged last week losing 10-20 percent or more in value. Since then, the digital currency economy has regained some strength bouncing back from a low of US$186 billion to $205 billion on Saturday, September 15. Also read: Test Driving the Money Button…
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Ethereum Price Increases 15 Percent on over $2 Billion In Trade Volume
Following a multi-month downtrend, the price of Ethereum is recovering from yearly lows due to a boost in trading volume in the past 24 hours. Since Wednesday, Ether prices are up 15 percent. Ethereum Recovers Through Tether Trading Pair In the past five days, Ethereum prices began to uptrend as total trading volume across the largest cryptocurrency…
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Chinese Regulators Struggle to Halt Illicit Trading, Exchanges Switching Domain Names
The Chinese cryptocurrency ban is proving to be far more difficult for regulators to enforce than anticipated. The Central Bank of China released a July report announcing the success of the country’s cryptocurrency ban, stating that the influence of the Chinese Yuan on the cryptocurrency market—which previously accounted for 90 percent of global trading volume…
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Markets Update: While Cryptocurrency Traders See Gains, Shorts Stack Up
Cryptocurrency markets have shown some strength over the last seven days as many digital assets are up between 3 to 40 percent. At the time of publication, the entire digital currency market capitalization of all 1600+ cryptocurrencies is around $239B USD. The markets look far more optimistic than a few weeks ago but short contracts…
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August 2018 Volume Rankings Report: ETC and Dash Top Ten
During August, the monthly volume posted by the majority of leading cryptocurrency markets continued to decline. Despite such, the ETC and Dash markets again defied the trend to post an increase in trade volume, with XRP also bucking the downward trend this month. Also Read: 160 Crypto Exchanges Seek to Enter Japanese Market, Regulator Reveals Top…
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A Complete A-Z of Stablecoins
Stablecoins have proliferated this year, so much so that it’s been hard to keep track of them all. In a bid to remedy that, news.Bitcoin.com has compiled a list of all stablecoins that are currently tradable – plus several others that are on their way. This is the ultimate A-Z of stablecoins. For now, at…
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Bitcoin Rallies Above $6900, Tether Fires Up the Printers
Bitcoin has been rocked with another remarkable late-night buy rally, seeing the coin scrape the $7000-mark for the first time in weeks after a $2 billion, 5-minute feeding frenzy. Lifting Bitcoin to an apex of $6942, the rushed buy wall has pushed the coin to its highest levels of price and market capitalization since Aug.…
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Report: Tether Printing is Failing to Pump Bitcoin and the Crypto Market
Pumping the cryptocurrency market is proving to be a difficult task for “whales” and digital asset exchanges, researchers at Bloomberg believe. $500 Million USDT in August Alone As observed by the Bloomberg, over $500 million in controversial stablecoin Tether (USDT) has been “printed” throughout August, without a significant increase in Bitcoin’s (BTC) price. Last year,…