The previous month has been remarkably successful and extremely important for the CER team and the CER project as a whole. We are pleased to inform you of what has been achieved in terms of the platform and business development, as well as our recent investigations on exchanges. We have conducted several interesting investigations that
It isn’t surprising that today, apart from the widely applied trade volume manipulations and an absence of transparency in crypto exchange operations, the cybersecurity is also the issue of the paramount importance (Learn more here). In March 2014, Poloniex lost $64,000; in August 2016, $77 million was stolen from Bitfinex; in half a year, Bithumb
Table of Contents The merger of crypto and crypto hacks: A Short History Crypto exchange hacks Statistics Advantages of BB Can a researcher blackmail me? Afterword The merger of crypto and crypto hacks: A Short History 2009 — the bitcoin network was born when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain, known as
So you wake up one winter morning and notice a friend request with a message «hi! I’m starting a new project, and your friend Sam has recommended you, check the details here : *weird file*». Bet you click it, and bet you won’t notice anything suspicious happening, but meanwhile, your laptop is getting slower and
For every trading pair mentioned in Table 1, we calculated two time-series: price volatility hourly logarithmic returns (ln∆P), and trade volume hourly logarithmic returns (ln∆V). Price Volatility Return Formula:Volume Return Formula:You can find the time series descriptive statistics for Price Volatility Returns and Volume Returns in the Annex (Table A1). Based on the obtained results
Coinbit and GDAC are two newly created exchanges that were launched this summer in South Korea. Following the latest trends, both platforms have their own tokens and employ a trans-fee mining model for incentivizing its users to spend more time trading on their platforms. Since GDAC’s trade fees are 0% the exchange redistributes its tokens
BitLicense and its requirements A BitLicense regulates businesses operating with digital currencies, such as virtual currency control, administration, maintenance, storing, holding, issuing, exchange operations, related-software development, etc. Following the collapse of Mt.Gox in 2013, New York State created the BitLicense to protect consumers and the integrity of the financial industry in general (don’t forget that
Why? The need for cold & hot storage as a metric for ranking exchanges Today crypto exchanges are ranked according to their trading volume almost everywhere. The metric could be credible. BUT! You all know that exchanges manipulate their trading volume. Moreover, most exchanges operate as a closed structure not providing information necessary for traders
Even though ICOs are a comparatively recent phenomenon, they are one of the top-priority topics when it comes to the blockchain. Initial Coin Offering is a great fundraising mechanism for new projects; however, today it comes to decay as it has always brought up a hot discussion on whether it is simply a scam, a
