Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley to launch bitcoin swaps
The investment bank Morgan Stanley is studying the possibility of launching complex derivatives that will provide investors with indirect access to the cryptocurrency market.
Report: nine out of ten altcoins are plagiarism
Chinese specialists conducted a research, conluding that 80% of altcoins are plagiarized, and codes of some of them look like a Xerox copy of each other.
Analysis: $5000 is fair price for bitcoin
The cryptocurrency market is unlikely to return to rapid growth in the near term, the chief advisor of Allianz believes. Investors should expect that bitcoin falls even lower.
Opinion: stablecoins are no answer to bitcoin's instability
The fashion for so called stable coins, whose price is pegged to real assets and fiat currencies, is unlikely to correct the instability of the cryptocurrency market and bitcoin, Professor of Economics at the University of Berkeley believes.
US court equates ICO tokens with securities
A district court in the United States rules that tokens issued within tokensales and ICO should be subject to US securities laws.
Report: cybercriminals find new ways to steal cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency exchanges, wallets and other crypto services remain the most vulnerable infrastructure to cyberattacks. The number of attacks on crypto exchanges doubled in the second quarter, a report says.
Statistics: Less than a half of South Korean traders verified their identity
Although all South Korean crypto exchanges have to use the real-name accounts, in reality, only half of their customers verified their identity and converted virtual accounts to real-name ones.
Analysis: ICO projects hold up to 40% of ETH raised
Although many analysts accuse ICO projects of pushing the Ethereum price down by selling of their reserves of ETH raised during crowdsales, a new study proves that this reason may be exaggerated.
IMF recommends Marshall Islands not to issue national cryptocurrency
The Republic of the Marshall Islands, which planned to issue a digital currency as a legal tender, received a negative recommendation from the International Monetary Fund. The IMF advised to abandon these plans.
Opinion: Bitcoin ETFs receive refusals due to inappropriate dress code
Head of the trading platform Abra Bill Barhydt decided to share his "musing" on why "bitcoin ETFs haven't been approved yet and when they will be."
Vitalik Buterin: there will be no more thousand-fold growth on cryptocurrency market
Ethereum сo-founder Vitalik Buterin predicted the stabilization of cryptocurrency prices amids the sharp fall of ETH to $200.
US regulator suspends bitcoin and Ethereum ETN trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a temporary ban on trading in XBT Provider exchange-traded notes, which were tied to bitcoin and Ethereum.
Head of Russian Central Bank: Cryptocurrencies pose more risks than opportunities
The Russian Central Bank sees in cryptocurrencies extremely high risks of money laundering, obtained by criminal means, and fraud.
Major mining pool unveils production cost of main cryptocurrencies
F2Pool, the sixth largest mining pool in the world, released data on the cost of mining bitcoin, Ethereum and other altcoins on various mining devices.
Russian Ministry of Finance calls on crypto companies "not to launder money and not to deceive"
The main demand of the Russian financial authorities for cryptocurrency companies is compliance with money antilaundering rules and fundamental absence of fraud, said the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Finance.
Iran wintesses sharp bitcoin, price surpasses $24,000 amid economic instability
Iranians desperately buy cryptocurrencies fearing US sanctions and economic instability. Demand for bitcoin rises manyfold as the first cryptocurrency shows less volatility than the national currency of the Islamic Republic.
