#Exchanges

Good news for Ethereum community and especially Indian traders: the bitcoin exchange BTCXIndia confirmed its plans to offer ETH/INR trading pair starting March 9. The official press release to be issued on March 5. The information went public with the Reddit rumor when user ethexindia stated in the post published this Monday: “S Capital Solutions […]

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp stated it is back online in Russia. According to the company’s tweet, the site is available for Russia-based users again. Effective immediately, @Bitstamp is again accessible from Russia. — Bitstamp (@Bitstamp) February 12, 2016 Nearly a month ago, in January 2016, Bitstamp’s administration announced it had temporarily blocked access to all users […]

Cryptocurrency market is just a few years old, and still there are hunderds of altcoins of different fates and perspectives. There is excess of one hundred coins nowadays, which is comparable to securities market of a small country. Not all of them are developing projects; it’s only about 40% of altcoins that have market cap […]

Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group joined the ranks of Chilean bitcoin exchange SurBTC’s investors. The move expands the group’s presence in the world’s key markets. Apart from DCG, investing in SurBTC were Sauzalito Ventures and founder of local law firm Barros & Errazuriz, Fernando Barros. Earlier reports stated that government-backed innovation incubator CorporaciĂłn de Fomento […]

The European Commission, the executive body of the EU, announced its plans to tighten accountability requirements for cryptocurrency exchanges and bitcoin wallet providers. The measure is a part of the EU’s extended efforts to combat financing of terrorist groups. In particular, the European officials intend to oblige EU-based wallets and exchanges to have all of […]

The year 2015 was quite eventful for Bitcoin and the community, while the cryptocurrency exchanges were right in the centre. Along with rising popularity of the “blockchain” buzzword in various newspapers, many people have lost interest in Bitcoin as an investment instrument and switched to the blockchain investments.

While the community is waiting for release of long-expected decentralized trading platform OpenBazaar, Bitalo has already launched its own decentralized marketplace Bitalo Market.

Following the self-inflicted ban of Bitstamp, Russia-based users cannot access one of the biggest bitcoin exchanges, BTC-e. Notably, the block did not cover all regions of the country as yet. The screenshots provided hereunder show what Moscow-based users may see when attempting to access the website. However, we managed to access both sites from other […]