#Exchanges

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange has announced it acquired another American exchange, Coinsetter. This includes Canadian Cavirtex in the deal as well, as it had been acquired by Coinsetter in April 2015. Kraken has also announced it enters into partnership with US-based financial startup SynapsePay, which claims it facilitates interbank money remittances. The acquisition finally gives […]

Bitcoin became applicable as collateral margin for trades with shares and exchange traded funds at London Stock Exchange. This functionality is available for clientelle of First Global Credit as it announced listing of respective assets as available shares. The company employs a derivative named TRS (total return swap) to sell or buy shares on behalf […]

Bitstamp’s administration announced it had temporarily blocked access to all users from Russia.

Apparently, the activity of altcoin exchange Cryptsy has come to its logical and mostly anticipated end. In particular, the exchange’s site shows a message stating: “Until we are able to determine extent of attack, all withdawals and markets are paused.” Technical and reputational issues have haunted Cryptsy for a long time. Their website experienced several […]

Shortly after DDoS attack on the major Chinese cryptocurrency exchange, BTCC, two other Bitcoin exchanges reported DDoS attacks on their sites within the last 24 hours. BTC-e Bitcoin exchange BTC-e has been offline for as long as four hours. According to the company’s tweets and official statements at the website, the exchange was subject to […]

One of the world’s biggest digital currency exchanges has reported to suffer a severe DDoS attack on New Year’s eve. The extortionists behind the attack demanded a ransom of 1 BTC to cease the DDoS attack. During the attack, the exchange tweeted: Our website is under DDoS attack, which is hampering access to our APIs […]

Digital currency exchange Cryptsy, which has been known for continuing problems with withdrawal of funds, has stated it suspended the exchange’s trade engine on January 5, 2016. Lots of the company’s customers have complained the exchange fails to provide proper withdrawal of their assets, if it provides any. Technical issues seem to be inherent in […]

A dedicated working group at Japan’s Financial System Council is said to have prepared a draft proposal as to providing regulation framework for digital currency.