The BitMex cryptocurrency exchange restricted access to its trading platform for citizens of three countries. These include Bermuda, Seychelles, and Hong Kong. The decision will not "affect the business" and will "affect very few people", the company believes.
Today, on August 19, it became known that over 97% of all South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges are on the verge of bankruptcy. According to CoinSpot, Coinnest became the first bankrupted exchange in South Korea. Other "low liquidity" exchanges will follow.
The Ernst & Young audit company (E&Y) lost 103 BTC clients of the failed Quadriga crypto-exchange. At current prices, this is more than $1 million. Now users are thinking about how to return this money.
Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange bought the institutional business of Xapo custodian. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but Coinbase promises to develop new types of "monetization of crypto-assets".
The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange delisted 23 cryptocurrency pairs. According to the company’s official Twitter account, the pairs were removed due to low liquidity.
On August 13, Ethfinex announced on its blog that it would reboot as a separate entity called "DeversiFi" and abandon Bitfinex as a major shareholder.
Today, on August 14, Hong Kong stock exchanges started selling Bitcoins at $300 higher than the average market price. Such a jump in the exchange rate is presumably caused by unstable monetary policy in the country and the weakening of the national currency.
The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has published on its blog a new reimbursement scheme for users affected by the "unexpected system failure", in which the losses amounted to 1800 BTC ($20 million).
On April 12th, a major sale of XRP on the Beaxy cryptocurrency exchange led to the fact that tokens were traded with a 62% discount on Beaxy compared to other exchanges.
On Friday, August 9th, Coinbase announced that it is stopping support for Zcash cryptocurrency (ZEC) for its customers in the UK.
Binance cryptocurrency exchange expanded the list of assets in the margin trading section by adding USDC, Litecoin (LTC) and Ethereum Classic (ETC).
Binance cryptocurrency exchange intends to open a new office in London in the near future. Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the head of the company, expressed this idea in a conversation with CoinDesk.
Today, on August 7, the Binance cryptocurrency exchange announced an unknown hacker who demanded 300 Bitcoins for not disclosing personal information about the exchanger's clients. Exchange employees offered a reward of 25 Bitcoins for helping to identify the identity of the attacker.
On July 31, the Bitfinex exchange announced that it would suspend work on August 1 and launch an update that promises to increase the stability and scalability of the system. Bidding and user wallets will be unavailable for several hours.
On July 31, a major cryptocurrency exchange based in San Francisco, Kraken, announced it had acquired Interchange, a company that allows institutional investors to "better control their cryptocurrency assets."
On July 30th, one of the largest providers of crypto-wallet services, Blockchain, released its own crypto-exchange, which is called Pit. Bira promises clients super-fast transfers and guaranteed security.
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