Bitcoin Flat; Japan tightens the registration process for Investing.com cryptographic exchanges

Investing.com – The cryptocurrencies have been thwarted on Monday, with a flat market remained weak due to the holidays in the United States.

Bitcoin rose 0.02% to $ 7.2327.40 on the Bitfinex exchange, at 7:31 ET ET (11: 31 GMT). Trade was expected to be light, as traders in the United States celebrated Labor Day holidays.

Overall, the cryptocurrencies were slightly lower, with a market capitalization of $ 235 billion at the time of writing at $ 239 billion Sunday

the second largest alternative currency by market capitalization, it fell 1.03% to $ 287.87 while the third virtual currency declined by 1.17% at $ 0.33441 and stood at $ 64.762, up 0.14%.

The introduction of stricter registration rules for cryptocurrency trading, The Japan Times, reported on Sunday. The rules are introduced "to see if [crypto exchanges] are correctly conducting risk management". The changes include more questions on the questions, minutes of board meetings and reviews of company shareholders.

Japan was the first country in the world to legalize trade in digital currencies with its licensing regime introduced last year. After a series of exchange hacks, the regulator closely monitored the current virtual coin companies and gave orders to improve the business to several

In other news, the Mozilla Firefox web browser will soon block cryptocurrency malware. While digital currencies have grown in popularity, security remains one of the biggest obstacles to the industry.

"Sites have distributed cryptographic scripts that silently undercut cryptocurrencies on the user's device – practices like these make the web a more hostile place – future versions of Firefox will block these practices by default," he said the vice president of the product Moz Nguyen in a blog post last week.