Okcoin Closes for a Few Hours
OKCoin was founded in 2013 by receiving a US$1m Angel Investment from Ventures Lab and Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Tim Draper. In December 2013, OKCoin closed a Series A round of funding in which it received US$10m. In early March 2014, OKCoin reached a BTC transaction volume of roughly 293,000 BTC and an LTC transaction volume of roughly 12.9 million LTC. This is the highest crypto-currency transaction volume that any exchange, the world over, has ever had. kongThe OKcoin system was able to deftly handle this volume without any issue until today. It seems that today in the early....
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The bitcoin trading platform OKCoin is currently down and has been for more than 12 hours according to a reddit user. When visiting OKCoin.com you will receive a Cloudflare error as seen below: There has been reports claiming that the servers OKCoin uses are undergoing Emergency Maintenance due to abnormalities caused by server interruptions. For more than eight hours ago OKCoin sent out a tweet saying their platform would be temporarily inaccessible. The tweet is now creating outrage among some of their followers. Let's hope the maintenance is over soon so OKCoin's clients can access....
Today marks a special day: The first day that newcomer international Bitcoin exchange OKCoin.com has had a higher daily Bitcoin volume than all other exchanges. In the last 24 hours, OKCoin.com has transacted nearly 16,000 BTC, compared with Bitstamp's ~14,700 BTC and Bitfinex's ~15,100 BTC. OKCoin.com is the international arm of OKCoin. OKCoin also runs OKCoin.cn, a Chinese Bitcoin exchange that also has high volume CNY/BTC trading but does not charge fees (the Chinese norm). Whether or not OKCoin's lead in 24-hour Bitcoin volume will persist until tomorrow is anybody's guess. However, it....
OKCoin, a cryptocurrency exchange that offers trades between Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), US Dollar (USD), and Chinese Yuan (CNY), has added margin trading to its iOS and Android apps. “In our continued efforts to build the world’s best retail and institutional blockchain asset exchange, OKCoin has added margin trading to its iOS and Android Apps. OKCoin.cn CNY users can trade on up to 5x margin while OKCoin.com USD users can trade on up to 3.3x margin. Thanks for your feedback and continued support of OKCoin. We hope you like it!” added OKCoin in a statement. OKCoin released the....
OKCoin International Operations Manager Zane Tackett recently announced that he has resigned from the Bitcoin exchange due to misaligned opinions. "For the past year I've handled the majority of the community outreach for OKCoin and have interacted with this community as the OKCoin representative," he said in an informal post. "Unfortunately, due to a difference of opinions I have decided to resign from OKCoin." Tackett joined OKCoin in April 2014, a time when the Chinese exchange had just received funds around $US10 million and was planning to expand globally. He later became a prominent....
Okcoin has secured new financial connections and acquired licenses to expand its footprint in Europe. Okcoin Secures Licenses In Malta And Netherlands Okcoin announced on July 28 that it had received “In Principle” permission from the Malta Financial Services Authority and formal registration from the Netherlands Central Bank in a press release. Okcoin will become […]