CAVIRTEX, Canada's most prominent CAD-BTC exchange and staunch advocate for government regulation, announced earlier today that it will cease operations effective March 25th, 2015. Continue reading
Category Archives: Exchanges
Netagio To Close Bitcoin Exchange In Favour Of Fiat
The UK Bitcoin exchange Netagio today announced intentions to close the exchange as of the 18th of March, opting instead to launch a wealth storage business which will safe guard cash in money vaults across the globe.
Speaking on the closure, Simon Hamblin, CEO of Netagio, said: Continue reading
Bter.com Alleges Theft Of 7170 BTC
The altcoin exchange Bter.com today announced the alleged theft of 7170BTC from what the exchange claims was a cold wallet. The first signs of problems appeared earlier today when a now removed messaged greeted Bter.com visitors: Continue reading
Excoin Exchange To Shut Down Amid Claims Of Theft
The altcoin exchange Excoin has announced that it will soon shut down after alleging that an attacker was able to withdraw all the bitcoins from the exchange.
With a trading engine written in Go, Excoin launched what was predominantly a Blackcoin exchange back in November of 2014. Excoin also featured a proof of reserve page which reassured members that their funds were securely stored and accounted for. Continue reading
Coinbase To Shut Down Tipping Button
In a move reminiscent of Reddit Note's much acclaimed launch yet quick demise, Coinbase today announced that they will shut down their tipping button as of the apt date April 1st 2015. The Coinbase announcement reads: Continue reading
btcXchange.ro To Shutdown
An ongoing dispute between btcXchange.ro's management and a developer appears to have taken a new twist as the exchange today gave its clients notification that the service will go offline for an unknown period of time beginning February 11th 2015. The notice reads: Continue reading
Phishing With Coinbase
Coinbase has announced their intention to reimburse a small number of users who were the victim of a phishing attack. The attacker, who emailed users a purported new service agreement from Coinbase, used the Coinbase API to fool users into approving full permissions for his 3rd party app so as to withdraw bitcoins from the Coinbase wallet. As a result of the successful attack, Coinbase now claim they will review the approval process for applications using their API. Continue reading
MtGox Parent Company Tibanne Enters Bankruptcy
The Tokyo District Court has issued an order of commencement of the bankruptcy proceeding for MtGox parent company Tibanne. The request for bankruptcy proceedings were made by MtGox creditor Nobuaki Kobayashi late last month. Notification of the proceedings were published on the MtGox website earlier today and a text version is provided below. Continue reading
Coin-Swap Exchange Users Unable To Withdraw Their Coins
An increasing number of users of the altcoin exchange Coin-Swap are complaining about the inability to withdraw their coins from the exchange and claim that their support tickets and emails are yet to be acknowledged. The Coin-Swap exchange features over 50 altcoins which trade against bitcoin, dogecoin and more recently, paycoin. Continue reading
LocalBitcoins.com Compromised, Bitcoins Stolen
It appears that LocalBitcoins LiveChat feature was compromised earlier today and that the attacker fooled some users with a trojan and proceeded to withdraw coins from their accounts. An administrator for LB posted the following message on the LB forums: Continue reading