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Gemini bitcoin exchange owned by the Winklevoss brothers created Nakamoto Ltd. for insurance of own custodial service for $200 million. Help for Nakamoto, Ltd. launch was provided by large insurance brokers Aon and Marsh. Gemini customers will be able to purchase additional insurance of their own...

Visa payment system acquired fintech startup Plaid for $5.3 billion, working with the Coinbase crypto exchange and the Abra wallet. The deal will allow Visa to provide users with advanced payment options and related services for fintech developers. Visa's Executive Director and Chairman Al Kelly...

In parallel, several apartments of the house in Krasnoyarsk were flooded with water. The affected residents are sure that all because of the mining farm located in one of the apartments. This was reported by Channel 7. As one of the tenants, whose apartment was flooded, assures, the incident...

On Monday, January 13, the volume of trading in Bitcoin options on the CME exceeded $2 million. Bakkt failed to achieve such successes in more than a month. The volume at the CME was 55 contracts or 275 BTC. All contracts were call options. Looks like 55 contracts went through on CME's BTC...

Avelife's cofounder of social and environmental projects in Singapore, Mark Cheng, has been abducted by a business partner in Thailand. The extortionist demanded a ransom of 1.4 million Thai baht (about $46 thousand), writes The New Paper. On January 9, Cheng, along with his colleague Lee Wei Kim,...

In 2020, blockchain developers will become the most sought-after specialists - demand for them will exceed supply. This is evidenced by the study of a social network for finding and establishing business contacts LinkedIn. The analysis was carried out taking into account the professional skills and...

The head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, once again shook the crypto community with a tweet about the first cryptocurrency. "Bitcoin is not my safe word", the entrepreneur briefly wrote. Bitcoin is *not* my safe word— Buff Mage (@elonmusk) January 10,...

The director of the Wargaming.net World of Tanks videogame, Vyacheslav Makarov, plans to create a “Direct Democracy Party” with an application on the blockchain, Kommersant writes. It is going to first take part in the 2020 regional elections, and then in the parliamentary elections of 2021....

The former head of the bankrupt Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox, Mark Karpeles, intends to stop the lawsuit initiated by the former user of the platform back in 2014. This was reported by the Cointelegraph with reference to documents sent to the federal court of Chicago. Karpeles’s lawyers asked the...

South Korea's leading crypto exchange Bithumb intends to invest 10 billion won (about $8.6 million) in the “regulatory-free zone” of Busan to develop the blockchain technology. This was reported by The Block, citing a statement by the local ministry of small and medium-sized businesses and...

The head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, danced on January 7 at the Tesla factory in Shanghai in honor of the launch of the Model Y SUV assembly. The crypto community could not ignore this. Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance cryptocurrency exchange, noted that Musk once again raised the bar for...

On the night of January 7, quotes of the first cryptocurrency in less than 4 hours rose from a level of about $7,500 to almost $8,000. Big Cheds crypto trader noted the formation of an inverted head and shoulders pattern on the Bitcoin price chart. In his opinion, for further growth, the...

In 2019, users transferred $673 billion on the Bitcoin network. This is 11% less than it was last year, according to Coinmetrics analytical service. Adjusted value settled on Bitcoin reached $673 billion in 2019, which is down 11% from last year, roughly the same as in 2017 but still nearly 4 times...

Most cryptocurrencies will disappear and only quality assets will remain. This opinion was expressed by Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse in his forecast for 2020. According to him, in the near future, the futility of more than 3,000 existing digital assets will become clear to everyone and...

A resident of Kaluga (Russia) became a victim of a telephone fraudster, who, under the guise of an experienced trader, suggested to earn money on cryptocurrencies. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kaluga region. On the advice of the attacker, the victim registered two...

The user of Reddit under the nickname Ethissuperior developed a game Satoshi vs. the Shills, a survival shooter. The protagonist of the game is the creator of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, who will protect the world from opponents of the first crypto coin, the so-called shills. During the game,...

Recently, YouTube removed videos related to the topic of crypto from its platform. This was announced by the authors of the channels from which the video clips were deleted. At least 11 channels reported the removal of content, including Altcoin Daily, Chico Crypto, The Cryptoverse, Crypto Tips,...

TRON founder Justin Sun has once again been criticized by the community. He supported the launch of the decentralized Just.Game application, which is very similar to the financial pyramid. The new application is a game in which you need to send TRX tokens to a smart contract, and then publish the...