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PayPal to offer crypto services to US citizens

Payments giant PayPal is moving into the cryptocurrency market. According to a statement from the company, it will soon allow US customers to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and L

Coinmerce 21-10-2020

Bitcoin price of $20.000 incoming?

According to multiple analysts, the price of Bitcoin is set to experience a breathtaking rally. Fundamentals are looking good, and momentum seems to be on the side of the bulls. The Bitcoin has

Coinmerce 19-10-2020

10% of all Bitcoin's held by five exchanges

According to chain.info, an estimated 10,6% of Bitcoin's circulating supply, representing 1,96 million BTC is held by only five exchanges. The list includes companies Coinbase, Binance, Huobi, OK

Coinmerce 15-10-2020

Decentralized Finance - 4 indicators to remember

Decentralized Finance, hereafter shorted in DeFi, is moving at such a high pace that it's challenging to keep up with the latest developments & news. Below a summarized overview of 4 indicators

Coinmerce 14-10-2020

New Account Level Structure

Dear Users, Coinmerce is committed to preventing accounts from being used for financial crime. As a transparent, compliant and soon regulated company, we are required to identify all our users; t

Coinmerce 19-10-2020

Square invests $50 million into Bitcoin

On Thursday, US-based payment company Square announced it had acquired 4,709 bitcoins, an investment of around $50 million, which represent about 1% of the business's total assets. Square, whic

Coinmerce 09-10-2020

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

The Bitcoin white paper was the report that lighted the fire on the cryptocurrency movement, explaining the vision of a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Satoshi Nakamoto, a cryptographic pione

Coinmerce 08-10-2020

BitMEX charged by US regulator

The derivatives exchanges BitMEX has been under investigation by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission since July 2019, however, on the 1st of October the agency filed a civil enforcement acti

Coinmerce 02-10-2020

EU proposes new regulatory framework for crypto

This Thursday the European Commission proposed a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. The "Regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets", or MiCA, acknowledges cryptocurrencies as financial inst

Coinmerce 25-09-2020

Alibaba to be the largest blockchain patent holder

Blockchain patents are on the rise. During 2019 three times more blockchain patents were published than the year before. However, in the first half of 2020 already more blockchain patents were issue

Coinmerce 18-09-2020

Largest darknet market offline, exit scam suspected

While the amount of cryptocurrency transactions related to the dark web has fallen below 1%, dark web markets are still doing profitable business. Unfortunately for darknet users, the occurrenc

Coinmerce 28-08-2020

Current crypto market looks similar to 2016

One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency fund managers, Grayscale released a new report. The report, dubbed Valuing Bitcoin, analyses the current market by identifying on-chain indicators. The in

Coinmerce 21-08-2020

Bitcoin & Ethereum- Smart Contracts

Smart contracts allow users (among other things) to create and set rules, these rules should be met before the funds are unlocked. Bitcoin smart contracts are complex, but a new language is makin

Coinmerce 14-08-2020

Ethereum transaction costs rise due to DeFi

The growing popularity of decentralized finance projects operating on the Ethereum network is causing problems. Some months ago, DeFi users had to cope with slightly longer processing times, now the

Coinmerce 14-08-2020

Digital currencies could make being poor less costly

By design, blockchain is a technology which cuts out the middlemen. Instead of relying on a trusted third party, you rely on the network and its users. According to a Harvard Business Review article

Coinmerce 07-08-2020

U.S. prints more money in one month than it did in the previous two centuries

In response to the Corona crisis, the United States is currently facing, its central bank, the Federal Reserve has printed unprecedented amounts of money. According to Dan Morehead, CEO of Pante

Coinmerce 31-07-2020

US banks now allowed to provide cryptocurrency custody

On the 22nd of July, a letter was written by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The letter stated that any national bank could safeguard the cryptographic keys needed to access

Coinmerce 24-07-2020

Prominent Twitter accounts hacked simultaneously

This Wednesday, around 130 different Twitter accounts posted tweets, and all tweets had the same goal. To scam the people seeing the tweet on their timeline. The accounts belonged to people and comp

Coinmerce 17-07-2020

Dutch bank ING joins Global Digital Finance (GDF)

This Thursday, the largest bank in the Netherlands, ING, announced it had joined Global Digital Finance. ING has been active within the blockchain space since 2014. Since then, a lot of initiatives

Coinmerce 10-07-2020

Bitcoin miners revenue decreased by 23%

In June, bitcoin miners generated an estimated $280 million in revenue. While this may sound like a lot, it is a 23% drop in comparison to May. During May an estimated $360 million in revenue was ge

Coinmerce 03-07-2020

Bitcoin ROI outperforms traditional indices by 70x

During the period of June 2015 to June 2020, Bitcoin has outperformed major traditional indices like the Nasdaq, SP 500 and Dow Jones by 70 times. Bitcoin was being traded at a price of €230 in

Coinmerce 29-06-2020

Meet Bitcoin

During these interesting times, with governments printing more money than ever before & the COVID-19 pandemic; economic independence becomes more important. The coronavirus has caused huge financi

Luc Smits van Oyen 26-06-2020

Bloomberg: Bitcoin $20.000 by the end of 2020

Financial data and software company Bloomberg published a report about Bitcoin earlier this month. One of the most significant findings in the report is that Bloomberg expects Bitcoin to hit $20.000

Coinmerce 22-06-2020

DeFi project Compound (COMP) takes the market by storm

Last week a relatively unknown cryptocurrency surprised many by breaking the ranks of the top 20 cryptocurrencies. This newcomer, called Compound has been gaining ground for a while, but last week i

Coinmerce 22-06-2020

Why you should use Coinmerce to invest in crypto

In the last months, we have seen massive interest from customers who are eager to learn more about the crypto market and how to buy Bitcoin. Remember that uncle who thought you were crazy at the

Luc Smits van Oyen 19-06-2020

Gas usage on Ethereum hits new high as popularity continues to grow

If you are frequently conducting transactions or interacting with smart contracts on the Ethereum network, you have probably already noticed. It is busy on the network, and since May the gas prices

Coinmerce 17-06-2020

Bitcoin Options from CME grow from $35 million to $373 million in one month

During the past 30 days, the total amount of outstanding BTC derivative contracts of CME Group increased to $373 million. Coming from a total of $35 million this means an increase of 1000%, a signal

Coinmerce 16-06-2020

Ethereum poised to take off?

The long-anticipated Ethereum 2.0 is almost here. The network upgrade will transition Ethereum from a Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm to a Proof-of-Stake algorithm. In such a network, there is no

Coinmerce 28-05-2020

Telegram gives up on TON

In 2017, Telegram, a messaging app with over 400 million active monthly users, announced a new project called Telegram Open Network, or TON. TON was to be a blockchain platform providing payment via

Coinmerce 26-05-2020

Bitcoins mined in 2009 first moved in 11 years

On the 20th of May 2020, 40 and later ten more Bitcoin were sent from a wallet that has been dormant since 2009. The transfer sparked rumours that the protocol's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, had retur

Coinmerce 22-05-2020

Dutch regulator sets ultimatum

On the 21st of April, the Dutch parliament approved a law that would change its current national AML laws. The change would bring companies involved in cryptocurrency under the supervision of the Du

Coinmerce 08-05-2020

Google records more ‘Bitcoin halving’ searches than ever before

In advance to the upcoming Bitcoin halving, interest in the subject has grown to numbers never seen before. The previous record of people searching for information about the halving was set back in

Coinmerce 15-04-2020

How can I avoid scams on Telegram?

Telegram is a great communication platform for Coinmerce to engage with its users. Therefor some time ago we have decided to launch the official Coinmerce Community channel. Unfortunately, ther

Coinmerce 13-04-2020

Bitcoin miner manufacturer reports €137 million loss over 2019

Canaan, a China-based bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer, listed on the Nasdaq, filed its financial reports for 2019 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The report showed that revenue ha

Coinmerce 10-04-2020

South Korea launches CBDC pilot

On the 6th of April, the South Korean central bank announced that it has started a CBDC pilot. The goal of the pilot is to assess the logistics of issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency and the cha

Coinmerce 07-04-2020

Binance acquires CoinMarketCap for an estimated $300-400 million

Yesterday, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of volume announced that it had acquired CoinMarketCap. CoinMarketCap is one of the most, probably the most popular cryptocurrency da

Coinmerce 03-04-2020

Dutch government utilizing blockchain solution to help fight Corona

‘Tech against Corona’ as the consortium is called, is a group of around ten Dutch tech companies which will provide their government with innovative technologies and solutions to fight the sprea

Coinmerce 30-03-2020

Bitcoin hash rate drops 45%

Not long ago, we reported that Bitcoin's hash rate was on the rise and even reached a new all-time high (ATH). Now with the COVID-19 virus paralyzing companies and entire economies, it seems that th

Coinmerce 27-03-2020

A crisis worse than 2008, what lies ahead?

Twelve years after the previous financial crisis, the global economy is now facing the same, or even worse, challenges. According to Adam Tooze, it might hit a lot harder compared to 2008. Adam T

Coinmerce 23-03-2020

QE Program Will Strengthen Bitcoin

Bitcoin is supposed to benefit from another massive program of Quantitive Easing (QE), as a hedge against the centralized financial system. What is Quantitive Easing? Quantitative easing is a mo

Coinmerce 18-03-2020

Energy Experts observe Crypto as Oil War Rise

Energy markets could impact the future of Bitcoin, but not only in terms of demand & supply. The current chaos appears to be a power conflict between Saudia Arabia and Russia, both with differen

Coinmerce 12-03-2020

Global sell-offs

Bitcoin has fallen to a monthly low of below €7.000. At the time of writing, the world's largest cryptocurrency declined 10% in the past 24 hours. The price decline comes together with a broader

Coinmerce 09-03-2020

Ethereum-based platform launched by EY, Microsoft and ConsenSys

Big Four firm Ernst & Young, in collaboration with Microsoft and ConsenSys, has launched an open-source protocol based on Ethereum called Baseline. While the companies mentioned above are the ma

Coinmerce 05-03-2020

CBDC's not focused on cross-border payments

While there has been a hype around central bank digital currencies (CBDC's) recently, according to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), few have cross border payments functions built in.

Coinmerce 03-03-2020

Dusk Network and Firm24 will tokenize shares of SME's

The Netherlands based blockchain project Dusk Network intends to tokenize shares of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg). This Thursday the

Coinmerce 27-02-2020

How Ethereum managed to get UNICEF to endorse blockchain

Back in October of 2019, UNICEF announced that it had launched the UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund. Through this fund, UNICEF can receive, hold and allocate donations made in Ether and Bitcoin. The Ether

Coinmerce 18-02-2020

Bitmain's dominance is being challenged

The outbreak of the Coronavirus is having a significant effect on the Chinese economy. The Bitcoin mining market has not gone untouched either. Since the majority of Bitcoin's hash rate originates

Coinmerce 18-02-2020

FC Barcelona launches crypto token

The host of Europe's largest football stadium Camp Nou is getting into crypto. FC Barcelona is partnering with fintech company Chiliz to build a blockchain-based token called the Barca Fan Token (BA

Coinmerce 13-02-2020

Minecraft server using Bitcoin for entry fees and reward payout

The popular video game Minecraft now has a server where people can compete for a reward provided to them in Bitcoin. With more than 180 million copies sold worldwide, this metric makes it the most s

Coinmerce 04-02-2020

JPMorgan Chase considering merge with blockchain firm

One of the world's largest banks, and in fact the largest bank in the United States is considering to merge its blockchain unit with one of the most well-known blockchain firms, ConsenSys. The block

Coinmerce 11-02-2020

Ethereum co-founder says Bitcoin Cash is not Bitcoin

After being called a Bitcoin Cash promoter, Vitalik Buterin expressed his opinions regarding the Bitcoin (BTC) versus Bitcoin Cash (BCH) question. In a tweet, the Ethereum co-founder said that "Bitc

Coinmerce 04-02-2020

Cambodia to launch digital currency in Q3

Cambodia is among the first countries to have tested a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The country's central bank started testing the digital currency in July of last year. Now, Chea Serey, th

Coinmerce 31-01-2020

Vodafone leaves the Libra Association

Next on the now quite a long list of companies leaving the association is Vodafone. The telecom giant confirms to Cointelegraph that it leaves Libra in order to focus entirely on the development of

Coinmerce 15-01-2020

Blockchain most sought after skill in 2020

In a report published by LinkedIn, blockchain is to be the most demanded hard skill by companies in 2020. The speed with which blockchain has caught up to other skills becomes apparent in the report

Coinmerce 15-01-2020

ECB's ambitions to develop digital currencies

According to European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, the institution is eager to expand its role in developing Central Bank Digital Currencies. Luckily for private companies, this does no

Coinmerce 09-01-2020

Weekly update 6 - 12 January

2020 has been an excellent year for Bitcoin (BTC) so far: a combination of technical and fundamental factors has led to the price of Bitcoin rising to $8,400 over the past ten days. This 'bullish

Tim Broekmans 14-01-2020

‘’Best Deal’’ broker of 2019

Coinmerce received the best deal broker of 2019 award from CoinCompare on January 8th, 2020. Coincompare: ''Coinmerce! Bring in the champagne and light up the fireworks ! The inevitable happened

Luc Smits van Oyen 08-01-2020

Bitcoin price is boosted further as Iran attacks US military bases in Iraq.

During the night of January 7th to January 8th the Iranian Revolutionary Guard carried out an attack involving approximately 15 ballistic missiles. The missiles targeted two military bases in Iraq

Coinmerce 08-01-2020

Bitcoin starts off 2020 more secure than ever

The Bitcoin hash rate reached a new all-time high. The hash rate refers to the number of mathematical calculations being done on the blockchain network; in other terms, it represents the combined co

Coinmerce 06-01-2020

Burger King Venezuela introduces crypto payments

A partnership between Burger King Venezuela and CryptoBuyer has resulted in consumers being able to pay for their burgers at the fast-food chain with Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC),

Coinmerce 04-01-2020

Assassination of Iranian top general boosts price of Bitcoin

After a drone strike, conducted by the U.S. military killed a top Iranian general, Bitcoin experienced its price most significant increase since two weeks. The price boost fueled speculation that ge

Coinmerce 06-01-2020

Chinese internet giant exploring cryptocurrencies

Chinese internet giant Tencent has reportedly issued an internal notice. The notice informed employees that the company is searching for a head of a new unit focussing on researching cryptocurrenci

Coinmerce 30-12-2019

Apple might remove Coinbase's DApp browser from App Store

First, Google decided to remove Ethereum-based decentralized application (DApp) browser MetaMask from its application store. Now Apple may force Coinbase to remove the DApp browser feature from its

Coinmerce 30-12-2019

In its current form, Libra has failed, says Swiss president

According to the President of Switzerland, the basket of assets used to back stablecoin Libra needs to change for the project to be accepted by regulators. On the 27th of December, Reuters report

Coinmerce 30-12-2019

Central bank of Russia is now testing with stablecoins

The Bank of Russia, the country's central bank, has reportedly started a pilot for stablecoins pegged to real assets in a regulatory test environment. The head of Russia's central bank, Elvira Nabiu

Coinmerce 27-12-2019

7.000 miners confiscated by Chinese authorities

The authorities in China are reported to have seized nearly 7.000 crypto mining machines, which were illegally consuming electric power. The confiscation was part of an inspection of more than 70

Coinmerce 24-12-2019

France grants first approval for ICO

While the hype around initial coin offerings may have quieted down in the United States, France seems to be taking an interest. On December 17, France’s financial regulator, the Autorité des Ma

Coinmerce 20-12-2019

What is a Bitcoin halving?

A halving is an event that halves the rate at which new Bitcoins are generated. This event occurs once every four years. One of the most important characteristics of Bitcoin is that its supply if

Coinmerce 02-01-2020

Coinmerce | Platform 2.0

Getting involved in cryptocurrency is something that many people are considering. However, for some, it still feels a little bit too complicated. That’s where we come in Coinmerce is all about hel

Luc Smits van Oyen 27-01-2020

Nike patents system for tokenizing shoes

Sports brand Nike patented a system dubbed CryptoKicks that tokenizes shoes on the Ethereum blockchain. The patent, published on the 10th of December describes a digital asset for footwear

Coinmerce 10-12-2019

Dutch bank ING working on digital assets custody solution

The custody project, which is being run out of Amsterdam, is still in its early days. The project is one of several initiatives around blockchain within the Dutch bank. ING “sees increasing op

Coinmerce 12-12-2019

Deutsche Bank “Crypto to replace fiat currencies by 2030”

According to research performed by Deutsche Bank, demand for alternative currencies will rise. The report expects that by 2030, this eventually will result in the replacement of cash by digital cu

Coinmerce 06-12-2019

Fidelity Digital Asset Services expands to Europe

Fidelity, one of the world’s largest assets manager, has announced the expansion to Europe for their digital assets operations. The firm said in a statement that the new business will be provide

Luc Smits van Oyen 18-12-2019

Warning

Unfortunately, there is a group of fraudsters/scammers active who advise people in various ways to invest money with them through Bitcoin / Cryptocurrencies. People often end up on broker websit

Luc Smits van Oyen 22-08-2019

Trust in the crypto-space

It’s no surprise that the crypto-space can be scary to new users. Most platforms aren’t easy to use, and it is hard to distinguish the good from the bad ones. These uncertainties represent a hug

Luc Smits van Oyen 10-11-2019

Survey Results

Recently we asked our users to participate in a survey about our service & platform. Users could put all their experiences into this and share their feedback. Thanks for the amazing input &

Luc Smits van Oyen 06-06-2019

What is Libra?

Libra is a project of Facebook. The social media giant calls libra a cryptocurrency and the solution to give people without a bank account access to modern payments. The value of the coin is equal t

Luc Smits van Oyen 25-10-2019

Welcome to the first Coinmerce blog

On this page, our team will occasionally publish a blog about developments in the cryptocurrency space, things that have happened at or are planned for Coinmerce. This week, Luc, who is responsible

Luc Smits van Oyen 24-05-2019

3 barriers that Coinmerce tackles

The main barriers starting with current cryptocurrency platforms can be described as usability, security, and education. The user-interface of existing exchanges indicate that they are mainly bui

Luc Smits van Oyen 25-02-2019

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Square invests $50 million into Bitcoin 15942 M

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? 15937 M

10% of all Bitcoin 14609 M

Bitcoin to $20.000? 9738 M

PayPal moves into crypto 5952 M

Listing: Injective Protocol (INJ) 5618 M

News & Blog

PayPal to offer crypto services to US citizens

Bitcoin price of $20.000 incoming?

10% of all Bitcoin's held by five exchanges

Decentralized Finance - 4 indicators to remember

New Account Level Structure

Square invests $50 million into Bitcoin

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

BitMEX charged by US regulator

EU proposes new regulatory framework for crypto

Alibaba to be the largest blockchain patent holder

Largest darknet market offline, exit scam suspected

Current crypto market looks similar to 2016

Bitcoin & Ethereum- Smart Contracts

Ethereum transaction costs rise due to DeFi

Digital currencies could make being poor less costly

U.S. prints more money in one month than it did in the previous two centuries

US banks now allowed to provide cryptocurrency custody

Prominent Twitter accounts hacked simultaneously

Dutch bank ING joins Global Digital Finance (GDF)

Bitcoin miners revenue decreased by 23%

Bitcoin ROI outperforms traditional indices by 70x

Meet Bitcoin

Bloomberg: Bitcoin $20.000 by the end of 2020

DeFi project Compound (COMP) takes the market by storm

Why you should use Coinmerce to invest in crypto

Gas usage on Ethereum hits new high as popularity continues to grow

Bitcoin Options from CME grow from $35 million to $373 million in one month

Ethereum poised to take off?

Telegram gives up on TON

Bitcoins mined in 2009 first moved in 11 years

Dutch regulator sets ultimatum

Google records more ‘Bitcoin halving’ searches than ever before

How can I avoid scams on Telegram?

Bitcoin miner manufacturer reports €137 million loss over 2019

South Korea launches CBDC pilot

Binance acquires CoinMarketCap for an estimated $300-400 million

Dutch government utilizing blockchain solution to help fight Corona

Bitcoin hash rate drops 45%

A crisis worse than 2008, what lies ahead?

QE Program Will Strengthen Bitcoin

Energy Experts observe Crypto as Oil War Rise

Global sell-offs

Ethereum-based platform launched by EY, Microsoft and ConsenSys

CBDC's not focused on cross-border payments

Dusk Network and Firm24 will tokenize shares of SME's

How Ethereum managed to get UNICEF to endorse blockchain

Bitmain's dominance is being challenged

FC Barcelona launches crypto token

Minecraft server using Bitcoin for entry fees and reward payout

JPMorgan Chase considering merge with blockchain firm

Ethereum co-founder says Bitcoin Cash is not Bitcoin

Cambodia to launch digital currency in Q3

Vodafone leaves the Libra Association

Blockchain most sought after skill in 2020

ECB's ambitions to develop digital currencies

Weekly update 6 - 12 January

‘’Best Deal’’ broker of 2019

Bitcoin price is boosted further as Iran attacks US military bases in Iraq.

Bitcoin starts off 2020 more secure than ever

Burger King Venezuela introduces crypto payments

Assassination of Iranian top general boosts price of Bitcoin

Chinese internet giant exploring cryptocurrencies

Apple might remove Coinbase's DApp browser from App Store

In its current form, Libra has failed, says Swiss president

Central bank of Russia is now testing with stablecoins

7.000 miners confiscated by Chinese authorities

France grants first approval for ICO

What is a Bitcoin halving?

Coinmerce | Platform 2.0

Nike patents system for tokenizing shoes

Dutch bank ING working on digital assets custody solution

Deutsche Bank “Crypto to replace fiat currencies by 2030”

Fidelity Digital Asset Services expands to Europe

Warning

Trust in the crypto-space

Survey Results

What is Libra?

Welcome to the first Coinmerce blog

3 barriers that Coinmerce tackles