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Telegram has yet to publicly or formally acknowledge the project, but investors in last year’s $1.7 billion token offering, widely publicized in the press, are selling their gram allocations via OTC desks, exchanges and special-purpose vehicles.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) in the half year ended June 30 was 125.8 million euros ($139.39 million), from 70.3 million euros in the same period of 2018. The company grew strongly in all key metrics, with net revenue up 41% to 222.1 million euros and net profit up 92%.
Recently one of the few crypto institutional custodians Anchorage, announced that they are adding support for Stellar (XLM) and Tezos (XTZ). By doing this, Anchorage hopes to bring greater returns to institutional investors and meed fiduciary obligations.
While it’s still widely regarded as being safer to hold one’s own funds than entrust them to an exchange, Gemini’s standards suggest it may be angled as more of an actual cryptocurrency custodian than other exchanges.
At the wake of an increased patronage for stablecoins, Tether adds yet another stablecoin to its repository, unveiling that this new ‘CNHT’ stablecoin would be tied to the offshore Chinese Yuan.
Recently Peter Wuille introduced a new smart contract language for the Bitcoin code called Miniscript. Peter, who is known for creating the SegWit code, says he has been working on this for about a year.
A1 will be accepting seven different digital currencies as payments against its mobile services. During the pilot test, A1 will accept crypto payments to a few selected stores in Austria.
Facebook Inc further extends its reach towards establishing its dominance in the Asian market. Having that it’s instant-messaging app – WhatsApp partners with multiple Indonesian digital payment firms to offer their mobile transaction services.
Alibaba has delayed plans to list its stock in Hong Kong. The Chinese tech company already trades publicly in New York, but was reported to have been considering a second listing that could raise as much as $15 billion. The plan was to list in August.
Apple officially launched its Apple Card payments service to the US customers along with introducing its Daily Cash rewards program and other benefits.
As Bitcoin price dropped below $10,600 level failing to climb over heavy resistance, it demonstrated a steep fall to $10,068 within a span of minutes. Analysts claim the drop could signal a short term trend line breakdown if BTC fails to close above $10,200.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it has fined and settled charges against ICO Ratings for failure to disclose payments it received to publicize digital asset offerings of issuers it had rated.
AOFEX Exchange is known for its non-standardized option trading service that helps investors hedge the risks of their digital investments. NSO trading awards are said to be launched this month.
Deloitte has announced its new solution dubbed “Blockchain in a box”, which is a plug-and-play product designed for enterprises to showcase their blockchain solutions.
Blockchain technology behaves like an online ledger with the ability to collect data, build upon that data in real-time, and then independently and securely report information to any number of parties based on permission. IBM and ET Travelport entered in a partnership.