Cryptocurrency exchange Binance jumped into bitcoin mining business today, announcing the launch of Binance Pool. The move comes only weeks before the third “halving” will reduce the reward for mining a Bitcoin block from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC—an event that has preceded big price increases in the past.
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Huobi hopes its new Star Atlas tool will ferret out fraudsters and money launderers (Photo: Piqsels)Huobi targets money laundering, fraud
New Star Atlas analytics tool will allow the cryptocurrency exchange to automatically detect and trace fraudulent or illegal transactions
Huobi Group announced today that it has launched Star Atlas, a new analytics tool designed to monitor on-chain transactions and activities “in real time to identify and flag suspicious or problematic transactions" such as money laundering, fraud, illegal dark web sales, and even price manipulation.
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If you think Justin Sun was sick after the "kidney stone" attack that delayed his $4.6 million lunch with Warren Buffet, imagine how he'll look if his Steemit purchase becomes worthless (Photo: Twitter).Huobi, Binance Steemed at Sun
The two cryptocurrency exchanges that Tron CEO Justin Sun suckered into supporting his abortive ‘hostile takeover’ of Steem are helping boot him off the blogging platform
Actually, it’s more like Binance and Huobi are helping the Steem community abandon Sun. On March 17, leading Steem developers and community members announced Hive, a hard fork of the social blogging platform’s blockchain designed with one goal: to recreate Steem without the 65 million STEEM tokens (and their 20% governance vote) Sun received when he acquired blockchain developer Steemit.
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Steamed Steem supporters strike Sun
Justin Sun’s ‘hostile takeover’ of the Steem blogging site backfired, with many Steemers and developers planning to migrate to Hive, a hard fork that could cost Tron its investment
On March 17, a group of Steem community members and developers announced that Hive, a hard fork of the Steem blockchain, will take place on March 20. All STEEM token holders will receive an identical amount of Hive tokens—excluding the roughly 20% of outstanding STEEM Tron CEO Justin Sun acquired when he bought Steemit, the developer of the Steem project.
