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Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has officially confirmed it signed an agreement with the government of Luxembourg, which would enable it to launch regulated and licensed services throughout all 28 nations of the European Union. The permission is effective as of July 1, when Bitstamp officially starts operating in Luxembourg. The exchange’s statement on their website reads: […]

Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bitsquare has announced launch of its beta platform on April 27. The project features absence of any intermediaries and transactions in a peer-to-peer network. The exchange will be presented in Barcelona at Fab Lab. Cryptocurrency exchanging operations directly between users is a trader’s daydream, as it significantly reduces risks of an exchange […]

Traders now have yet another “red flag” in the context of continuing Ethereum’s slump of exchange. Vitalik Buterin, the project’s founder, developer and leader, has sold a quarter of his ETH tokens in order to diversify his portfolio. According to Reddit, the news first popped up in Buterin’s interview on podcast Crypto After Dark. Shortly […]

On 2 June 2016, Russian Parliament, the State Duma, will hold an international conference titled “Electronic Currency in Light of Contemporary Legal and Economic Challenges”. The letter describing the forthcoming event was signed by deputy chairman of Duma’s committee for security and anti-corruption Andrei Lugovoy. This March, Lugovoy stroke a blow for cryptocurrency saying that […]

Developers of Coinessa and BTCZoo from EMK have announced launch of all-Ukraine platform for access to Auction 3.0, a blockchain-based platform for public property auctions. The platform has been developed in cooperation with IDF Reform Labs,  and the project leaders were David Kiziria and Lasha Antandze, while the platform’s API has been supplied by PrivatBank. […]

Bitnation, decentralized platform for virtual nations and provision of traditional public services to its citizens regardless of their place of residence, has announced its partnership with self-proclaimed micronation Liberland.

Blockchain platform Waves has presented a testnet so that investors and other supporters could access the system’s prototype. Moreover, the release would enable investors to participate in development, for instance, by providing their feedback which is of utmost importance at early stages of any project. “Functionality is currently limited, but what we have seems to […]

A group of developers has announced they will launch a new blockchain-based system CRYPTonFly, which would distribute cryptocurrency dubbed CRON$ for various real-life activities. The system’s creators believe it will be popular with commercial organizations, which may use it to incentivize their customers to use their services.