P2P

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has launched an upgraded version of its website and new options for cryptocurrency investment.

The peer-to-peer exchange has addressed an issue with Google’s CAPTCHA service that was blocking Chinese bitcoin traders from accessing its website.

In this episode, Dave and Grahm cover the recent news and developments happening around peer-to-peer (p2p) bitcoin exchanges with Hodl Hodl's Max Keidun.

In an ongoing trend, someone has been sentenced for conducting unlicensed money exchanges through peer-to-peer exchange service LocalBitcoins.

The peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network LocalBitcoins has shut down all trading operations for Iranian users, likely in response to sanctions against the country's government.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.

The peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful announced that it’s introducing AI-powered identity verification to help improve know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) procedures.

Slated for launch in the spring of 2019, it would be the first Bitcoin-based prediction market to go live on Bitcoin’s mainnet.

“The price doesn’t matter so long as there are people who use bitcoin to translate money. Bitcoin will always be the best financial alternative.”

Last month, the peer-to-peer (P2P) blockchain startup Level01 announced its partnership with TR in order to create a “derivatives” exchange that would change how parties interact with one another, without the fear of losing funds to unknown third parties.