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The Block, a no-BS crypto news outlet that has exposed the banking details for Bitfinex and Tether last week, has been attacked by someone, with their email spammed and Twitter profiles suspended. There have been reports of email spam campaigns:…

Tether (USDT) has been in the center of attention lately - with the price of this coin supposedly pegged to USD sliding there have been fears that now is actually the time Tether crashes and all Tether-based exchanges will become insolvent. This has not happened yet though news of various degree…

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the famous Bitcoin millionaires and co-founders of the regulated exchange Gemini.com have announced the release of Gemini Dollar: a crypto token that is strictly pegged to the US dollar. The new ticker will be GUSD. The new "coin" will be fully regulated and audited,…

Mark Karpeles, the ex-CEO of MtGox (the infamously hacked pioneer cryptocurrency exchange) did an AMA on Reddit recently. While the whole thread is interesting for those that either follow the story or want to recover their lost coin (hopefully everyone will at some point!), we're particularly…

New research suggests that cryptocurrency startup Tether — creator of dollar-pegged stablecoin USDT — has a banking relationship with Puerto Rican financial institution Noble Bank. On Monday, BitMEX Research published a report examining newly-released data related to Puerto Rico’s financial!-->…

The entire cryptocurrency market needs to keep an eye on Tether’s USDT token, which has become a pivotal source of liquidity. Posted by Tanzeel Akhtar on March 5, 2018 @ https://www.coindesk.com/big-fail-tether-might-still-cryptos-ticking-time-bomb/

Bitwala just emailed out an inspiring vision update, - they are good at inspiring updates - they are almost ready with a "blockchain-driven bank" in Germany, that will offer simple fiat-crypto-fiat transfers, German IBAN accounts for all users, new cryptocurrency ATM card (MasterCard), and a ton of…

The post Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings Issues Fresh Alert on Tether appeared first on CCN Controversial “stablecoin” Tether is under the gun again, as Weiss Ratings recently released a report detailing the red flags associated with the project. According to the alert, the largest issue facing!-->…

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and all the other cryptocurrencies are great for online payments simply because of their sophisticated use of the Blockchain to facilitate easy transactions. Their transparency is currently unmatched by any fiat equivalent. But can we really bank on them for day to day…

The post Twitter Temporarily Suspends Vocal Tether Critic Bitfinex’ed appeared first on CCN A Twitter account operated by vocal Tether critic Bitfinex’ed was temporarily suspended by the social media giant, only to be restored hours later. On Wednesday, the @Bitfinexed Twitter account went!-->…

BITCOIN has fallen below the symbolic $10,000 mark following the controversy over cryptocurrency tether - a unique digital coin, bought and valued like-for-like with the US Dollar - being artificially propped up by a widely used exchange called Bitfinex. Posted by on February 1, 2018 @!-->…

This is a megathread for all news related to US regulators subpoenaing Bitfinex and Tether. All related posts on the frontpage will be removed in favor of this megathread to focus conversation. As always, please keep the comments civil. The dates were updated since the news first went out, but the!-->…