Search Results for: Bitfinex
Bitfinex’s ‘Hack Credit’ Token Reaches All-Time Price High
February 2nd, 2017
Investors who lost bitcoin in Bitfinex’s high-profile August hack may be feeling more optimistic about the likelihood of recovering their funds. The price of BFX tokens – the digital assets the exchange issued as a way to provide a ‘notional credit’ to users who ...
Bitfinex looks for fresh funding; spreads losses across all user acounts
August 8th, 2016
Hacked Hong Kong bitcoin exchange Bitfinex is looking to raise fresh funding to compensate user who lost out as a result of a $71 million currency theft last week. In the interim, the exchange is sharing the losses across ...
CFTC Orders Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex to Pay $75,000
June 3rd, 2016
CFTC Orders Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex to Pay $75,000 for Offering Illegal Off-Exchange Financed Retail Commodity Transactions and Failing to Register as a Futures Commission Merchant The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously ...
Bitfinex and BitGo Partner to Create World’s First Real-Time Proof of Reserve Bitcoin Exchange
June 4th, 2015
Fully Segregated Trading Accounts Creates Complete Customer Transparency for Enhanced Security Bitfinex, the world’s leading Bitcoin exchange, today unveiled a new Bitcoin settlement and security architecture that for the first time ever offers complete segregation of all customer bitcoins. ...
Global crypto user base surpassed half a billion in 2023 — Crypto.com report
January 26th, 2024
A research report from Crypto.com estimates the number of worldwide cryptocurrency users surged to 580 million people in 2023. More than half a billion people had become cryptocurrency users or owners by the end of 2023, according to a ...
Over $150M drained in KuCoin crypto exchange hack
September 29th, 2020
The Singapore-headquartered digital asset exchange KuCoin said in a statement that it detected large withdrawals of bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) tokens to an unknown wallet beginning at 19:05 UTC time on Friday. In a live stream on 4:30 ...
Singapore to become Asia’s benchmark for bitcoin pricing
September 14th, 2020
Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) is creating two new cryptocurrency indexes with the goal of setting the pricing standard for bitcoin and ethereum in Asia. SGX’s iEdge Bitcoin Index and iEdge Ethereum Index will use inputs from exchanges determined by ...
Another Cryptocurrency Exchange gets hacked for millions
September 9th, 2020
Hackers have compromised yet another cryptocurrency exchange. This time, it’s the small-time Slovakian exchange Eterbase—though the amount hackers made off with is nothing to sneeze at nearly $2 million. Hackers raided Eterbase’s wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Tezos, Algorand ...
The world’s most-used cryptocurrency isn’t Bitcoin
October 4th, 2019
What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong. While concrete figures on trading volumes are hard to come by in ...
Bitcoin climbs above $7,000 as cryptocurrency rally extends
May 13th, 2019
Bitcoin climbed to the highest since September, briefly surpassing $7,000, as a rally in cryptocurrencies gathered pace in trading over the weekend. Bitcoin advanced 11% from Friday to $6,957.73 as of 9:01 a.m. Tokyo time, having earlier hit $7,585, ...
