Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency

Purchase agreements for messenger service Telegram’s Gram tokens will be terminated if the Telegram Open Network (TON) does not launch by October 31, 2019. An apparent purchase agreement with the said terms was obtained by Cointelegraph on Feb. 21. The agreement details the legal niceties of Gram token purchases, outlining …

Canada’s largest crypto exchange Coinsquare has acquired the StellarX DEX according to a press release published yesterday. Under the terms of the agreement, StellarX will become a fully-owned subsidiary of Coinsquare and will now need regulatory approval to operate its service under the Coinsquare umbrella. Coinsquare Acquires StellarX Based in Bermuda, StellarX describes itself as …

Stock exchange operator Nasdaq is adding indices for bitcoin and ethereum to its global data service later this month. The company announced Monday that it has partnered with New Zealand-based blockchain data and research firm Brave New Coin to offer information on the two new indices starting Feb. 25. The Bitcoin Liquid …

The New Zealand Police have reported that recently hacked crypto exchange Cryptopia is ready to be relaunched and resume operations, Auckland-based news agency The New Zealand Herald reports on Feb. 13. Detective inspector Greg Murton reportedly said that the main part of the work required by the High Tech Crime …

Two public pension funds are dipping their toes into the world of crypto venture capital. “As far as we know, nobody has raised money from a public pension,” Anthony Pompliano, partner at Morgan Creek Capital, told CoinDesk in an interview. Morgan Creek, an asset manager focused on institutional clients and …

Wednesday, Feb. 13: Cryptocurrencies are seeing tempered price action overall. With a few notable exceptions, most of the top 20 coins by market cap are fluctuating 2 percent in either direction on the day, as data from Coin360 shows. Market visualization by Coin360 Top cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) has seen virtually …

View Bitcoin has backed off 4 percent from three-week highs seen on Friday, but looks to have formed a bull flag – a bullish continuation pattern – on the 4-hour chart. A move above $3,630 would confirm a flag breakout and open the doors to $4,000 (target as per the …

The Bitcoin network is scaling as the network just reached a new all-time high of 1.3 MB average block size amid record low transaction fees.  Biggest Average Bitcoin Block Size to Date The latest data from Blockchain.com shows that February 12, 2019 saw an average block size of 1.305 megabytes, …

Former JPMorgan Chase executive Etienne Amic has been appointed as new CEO at Vakt, a blockchain-based commodity post-trade platform, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Feb. 13. Having served as a managing director at both JPMorgan Chase and Mercuria Energy Trading S.A., Amic is expected to bring …

Crypto investors are pushing each other to actively participate in the networks they fund. A segment of the blockchain world has been buzzing since at least last fall about “generalized mining,” an idea that the decentralized web invites users to contribute resources to running different services – all while earning …