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2019 has been a year of focus and growth for Coinfloor. At the beginning of the year, we spun out our physically delivered futures exchange with a conglomerate of Asia and US based financial institutions, to form CoinFLEX, which is delivering exceptional growth for the group.

At the same time, we have focused even more on our core mission of providing a trusted, reliable and secure service to our clients in the UK and beyond. This focus has already seen our market share increase by over 50% in the UK since the beginning of 2019. As we approach 2020, we are continuing to pursue this mission and will deliver more services to meet the growing needs of our clients.

Below is more information on some of the key upcoming updates:

Additional Information Request

To better understand the trading experience and needs of our customers and to prepare for the upcoming UK regulations required of all UK cryptocurrency exchanges, we will be collecting additional information from our clients. The additional questions are mostly multiple choice and are designed to take only a few minutes to complete. They will be asked immediately after logging in and can be skipped up until December 1st 2019.

Privacy Policy

We’ve recently updated the Coinfloor Privacy Policy structure to make the policy clearer and easier to navigate. This includes more user-friendly language, headings and useful links to relevant information.

Updates to the website user experience and new product offerings

We will be making a number of enhancements to our website to make it easier to navigate and simpler to use. Today we have rolled out an updated “My Account” section and a number of other website navigation improvements. We are also excited about the new product offerings we will be rolling out over the coming months. Keep an eye out for many more changes to the site and our services as we head into 2020.

New collaborations on university research projects

Finally, there is a distinct lack of empirical finance literature and limited understanding of cryptocurrencies by the finance related academic community. We believe that addressing this research gap will ultimately accelerate the growth of the cryptocurrency industry as a whole through the insights gained. In order to help address this, we are collaborating with a group of researchers from the Centre for Digital Finance, University of Southampton and Henley Business School, University of Reading, to conduct valuable research aimed at better understanding the characteristics of investors who trade in cryptocurrencies. If you are interested in participating in the research by taking part in a short anonymous survey (which should take less than 10 minutes to complete), please proceed to click on the link below: https://henley.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6FCKz0pEr5Nf14x


Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

The Coinfloor Team

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Coinfloor is a custodian of client bitcoins and we believe that we must set the industry standard for transparency and regular audits. Without proper public accountability, the industry will not be able to grow and mature. This is why we are committed to releasing a Provable Solvency Report every month. Coinfloor is proud to have the longest standing track record among bitcoin exchanges in regards to auditing.

Today we are publishing our 67th monthly Provable Solvency Report with step-by-step validation instructions for your convenience.

As of today, Coinfloor holds a total of 3,908.6071 XBT on behalf of our clients. You are invited to verify that your held bitcoins are included in this balance by following the instructions below.

What does the Provable Solvency Report include?

We started out by creating an obfuscated report of all current client balances (the Solvency Report) and then generated a SHA-256 hash of this report.

We then created a bitcoin transaction to ourselves, that includes all currently held client bitcoins, for a value of 3,976.5549. XBT. The output of the script also includes the OP_RETURN of the SHA-256 hash of the report, proving that at the time of making the solvency report, Coinfloor held all of our clients’ XBT funds. You can verify the amount and details of the transaction on the blockchain.

Key Pieces of information:

Provable Solvency Report #67 (October 24th, 2019):
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/provablesolvency/solvency_20191024.txt

SHA-256 Hash of the Provable Solvency Report: D416EBDE74A254F4E6DA2828C2DAFDDB5DC036C69AD7114ABF54F57DD1B1686D

Transaction ID: c354df2e5d6a7c8fc77b28dfbbcaf70dc6beae755bbdeb877d2785b2343208d6

View the transaction here:
https://explorer.bitcoin.com/btc/tx/c354df2e5d6a7c8fc77b28dfbbcaf70dc6beae755bbdeb877d2785b2343208d6

Your API authentication cookie:
You will find it in My Account > Dashboard in the Coinfloor signed in view, in the API section (visible only for fully verified accounts).

Instructions for Validating Solvency Report:

1. Open the Provable Solvency Report file:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/provablesolvency/solvency_20191024.txt

2. Go to

https://passwordsgenerator.net/sha256-hash-generator/ or to your SHA256sum calculating application.

Copy the entire contents of the solvency report (including any leading or trailing spaces or blank lines) into the SHA-256 generator and calculate the SHA-256 hash of the report.

3. Go to

https://explorer.bitcoin.com/btc/tx/c354df2e5d6a7c8fc77b28dfbbcaf70dc6beae755bbdeb877d2785b2343208d6

Click on the `SHOW ADVANCED` switch to view the OP_RETURN, where you will find the hash generated in the previous step matches the hash in the OP_RETURN output script of the transaction that includes all customer bitcoins.

Instructions for finding your account balance within the Solvency Report:

1. Go to

your local SHA1sum application

to calculate the SHA-1 digest of a message consisting of the timestamp shown at the top of the Solvency Report (1571910092) and your API authentication cookie.

Example (Linux):

    timestamp: 1571910092

    API authentication cookie (API Key): 9BTa7M0Z/Mrk6tFMJwEkTV3BQek=

    command: echo -n ‘15719100929BTa7M0Z/Mrk6tFMJwEkTV3BQek=’ | sha1sum

(the command may differ depending on the SHA1sum application used)

2. Find the resulting hash in the solvency report. Your balance is shown on that line in satoshi units. 1 bitcoin = 100 000 000 satoshis. For your convenience, here is a link to a bitcoin unit converter:

https://www.satoshi.24ex.com

We believe that this approach is the best way to achieve maximum accountability whilst retaining privacy for our clients. We welcome your feedback and hope that in time, other exchanges will also help safeguard client funds by providing proof of solvency reports to their users on a regular basis.

Thank you for your trust,

Coinfloor Team