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Survey Says US Investors Lost $1.7 Billion in Bitcoin Trading Last Year, Most Won’t Declare
- January 16, 2019
- Posted by: giancarlo
- Category: Posts
No CommentsAmericans who sold Bitcoin last year saw $1.7 billion in realized losses and $5.7 billion in unrealized losses according to survey performed by American personal finance company, Credit Karma. The $1.7 billion figure comes out to $718 in losses per Bitcoin investor. Despite these sizeable losses, the survey found that only 53% of American Bitcoin
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NYSE Owner, Microsoft, Starbucks, and Others Announce Bakkt Platform
- August 3, 2018
- Posted by: Bitcoin Center NYC
- Category: Posts
Intercontinental Exchange, Microsoft, Starbucks and other large companies are partnering to launch a new platform called Bakkt which will allow consumers and institutions to buy, sell, store and spend cryptocurrencies, by November. Notably, the Intercontinental Exchange Inc., who owns many large futures markets as well as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), aims to “create
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SEC & FINRA Provide Approval for Coinbase to List Security Tokens
- July 20, 2018
- Posted by: Bitcoin Center NYC
- Category: Featured Articles, Posts, The Latest Bitcoin News
According to Bloomberg, the cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase confirmed that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) approved a number of acquisitions for the company, enabling them to offer “security-tokens” on the platform and subjects the business to federal oversight. In early June, President and COO
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More Korea FUD? UPbit Conducts Internal Audit to Dispel Fraud Allegations
- May 16, 2018
- Posted by: Bitcoin Center NYC
- Category: Posts
Upbit, South Korea’s largest crypto exchange said that they have completed an internal audit that disproves suspicions of fraud. The exchange, who was visited suddenly by financial regulators on fraud allegations has yet to publish their audit data, though they claim it demonstrates their coin holdings are real. The Korean government’s raid on the exchange
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Inaugural NYC Blockchain Week Kicks off with Consensus
- May 14, 2018
- Posted by: Bitcoin Center NYC
- Category: Posts
Today marks the first day of the inaugural NYC Blockchain Week. CoinDesk’s Consensus, which is touted as the largest blockchain event of the year, began today; following it are many blockchain events all around New York. Some of the events include Token Summit, Women in Blockchain, the Coin Center’s annual fundraising dinner, as well as
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German Bitcoin Exchange Voluntarily Hands Over Users’ Information
- August 6, 2017
- Posted by: Bitcoin Center NYC
- Category: Posts, The Latest Bitcoin News
Bitcoin.de, the largest German Bitcoin exchange has been voluntarily giving their users’ private information to German police in an effort to crack down on darknet markets. This means that the users of this exchange have been being tracked by law enforcement, simply because they have been using this exchange. Law enforcement around the