2020-5-7 13:00 |
Senator Kelly Loeffler received the hefty payout from her husband's company, Intercontinental Exchange, as she left bitcoin company Bakkt to take up her political position. origin »
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Scientists claim to have finally found a “plausible theory” for sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. She’s not an aquatic reptile left over from the Jurassic era or a circus elephant that got in the water to bathe with her trunk aloft.
2019-10-21 17:48 | |
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Recommended pre-reading: https://ethresear. ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413 Alice slowly walks down the old, dusty stairs of the building into the basement. She thinks wistfully of the old days, when quadratic-voting in the World Collective Market was a much simpler process of linking her public key to a twitter account and opening up metamask to start firing off votes.
2019-10-2 04:03 | |
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According to the Block, Angelina Kwan, the chief operating officer at crypto exchange platform BitMEX, has left the company after relinquishing her seat. According to the exchange’s spokesperson, Kwan is set to leave the company and at the moment is currently on leave.
2019-9-10 23:23 | |
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To date, public DNA databases have been used to identify more than 40 rape and murder suspects, some from cases dating back a half-century. Yesterday, for the first time, evidence from one such database was used to convict a man of a double murder from the late 1980s.
2019-7-4 23:09 | |
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In the latest on the ongoing legal dispute between the New York Attorney General (NYAG), cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, the New York Supreme Court has modified an April 24, 2019, preliminary injunction and now Bitfinex is allowed to continue using the Tether reserves that were loaned to it to maintain its ordinary course of business, such as paying employees and consultants.
2019-5-18 22:14 | |
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It’s been a long and winding road with many twists and turns for the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX and its 115,000 former users who are owed roughly $190 million.
2019-4-10 17:39 | |
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There are only 34 days left until our tech conference, TNW2019! As we approach May 9 and 10, I’d like to share a little life hack for how you can attend for free. Volunteer at TNW2019 Last year, my younger sister joined TNW2018 as a volunteer.
2019-4-5 17:29 | |
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Various communities have finally been represented in emoji form, from interracial couples to the trans community and those living with disabilities. But while there seems to be an emoji to represent everyone and everything, a significant group has been completely left out — people with Afros.
2019-4-3 11:27 | |
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Freshman United States Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is justifiably feeling the heat after comparing the government’s response to climate change to the September 11 terrorist attacks, but the gaffe has exposed a deeper truth: AOC’s obsession with the Green New Deal has left her New York constituents out in the cold.
2019-4-1 18:41 | |
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Consider yourself warned, dear reader. There’s just nine days left until UK Mother’s Day. Nine. Days. And you thought the countdown to Brexit was scary. If this news has caused your blood pressure to plummet and beads of sweat to accumulate on your forehead, don’t worry.
2019-3-22 16:25 | |
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In 2004, 19-year-old Stanford University student Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of her chemical engineering program to incorporate a company she had founded the previous year; her plan was to revolutionize blood testing to make it faster, easier on patients, and far more accessible than existing methods allowed.
2019-3-8 10:42 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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Jennifer Robertson, the widow of the late QuadrigaCX exchange CEO, appears to be liquidating and shuffling some estate assets. When QuadrigaCX founder and CEO Gerald Cotten passed away suddenly in December of 2018 in India, he was allegedly the only person with the knowledge of the exchange’s cold storage keys.
2019-2-15 22:06 | |
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On Monday, the day before President Trump’s State of the Union Address, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended a performance celebrating her life at a museum in Washington — her first public appearance since December.
2019-2-12 03:12 | |
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When I decided, maybe against my better judgement, to live on bitcoin for a week, the plan was met by a combination of cautions and jokes from friends and loved ones: “Just don’t starve,” “Well, it’s the New Year, a perfect time to start a new diet,” “Will you be able to eat?”, “Have you really thought about it?”I had “really” thought about it and it seemed not only sensible but necessary.
2019-2-5 23:06 | |
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Every passing minute brings us closer to the next school shooting. There were 24 resulting in injury or death last year — an average of two per month. Politicians didn’t address the problem in 2018, and they won’t this year either.
2019-2-2 02:19 | |
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This is the seventh instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4, on Day 5 and on Day 6.
2019-1-29 01:51 | |
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This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4 and on Day 5.
2019-1-23 01:05 | |
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This is the fourth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 and on Day 3.
2019-1-19 00:10 | |
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This is the third instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 and on Day 2.
2019-1-18 00:05 | |
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This is the second instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him on Day 1 here. I woke up on Christian’s couch stiff-necked and cotton-mouthed.
2019-1-16 22:54 | |
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“The point is to get people to think about bitcoin, not spend it. I don’t think it’s good for that. It’s not meant to be used like cash,” Jeremy Gardner, founder of Ausum Ventures, advised me.
2019-1-15 17:50 | |
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In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.
2019-1-2 03:22 | |
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CoinSpeaker Nowhere Left To Go: The Crypto Safe Haven Daria Generalova, Managing Partner at ICOBox, marketing, PR & communications specialist, shares her clues into how investors can safely store their wealth amid today's economic turmoil. Nowhere Left To Go: The Crypto Safe Haven
2018-12-14 11:58 | |
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As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.
2018-12-6 18:13 | |
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With contributing reporting from Jimmy Aki. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), suggested a new course of action for central banks around the world: turn their fiat currencies digital.
2018-11-15 22:38 | |
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Bear Market for Bitcoin Has Passed, But Altcoins Are on Their Last Limb, says China VC Kira Sun works at BlockVC as an investment manager. Representing her blockchain investment firm, she was recently a guest on CNBC Cryptotrader during a segment called “The Future of the Utility Token.” In the time on the segment, Sun […]
2018-9-26 23:55 | |
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Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.
2018-9-15 21:50 | |
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Speaking to Coindesk, a spokesperson for Ripple revealed that the general counsel for the company, Brynly Llyr, has left. Quartz first reported the news of Llyr’s departure. An Untimely Departure Llyr joined Ripple in 2016, starting as a leading legal officer and staying with the startup for two and a half years.
2018-9-10 17:40 | |
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Shopin — a universal shopper profile that delivers personal shopping experiences through retailers’ apps, websites and stores — says one of its token distributors has been hacked and roughly $10 million in a variety of cryptocurrencies has been stolen.
2018-6-11 01:22 | |
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Ex-Bakkt CEO turned Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) is the second U. S. lawmaker to have allegedly dumped all their equities after a private, all-senators meeting on Jan. 24. Many are claiming it is a clear example of insider trading.
Newly appointed senator Kelly Loeffler is to join the committee that oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, raising concerns of a possible conflict of interest.
Coinspeaker Is Bitcoin Ready to Retest $8,000 as the Whole Market Is Green Today? Although there is still a month left in 2019, the present lack of any bullish momentum likely signals that Bitcoin will end the year on a slightly bearish note.
It is unclear who will helm Bakkt after CEO Kelly Loeffler joins the U.S. Senate on Jan. 1.
Endorsed by Gov. Brian Kemp, Kelly Loeffler, CEO of the Bakkt bitcoin futures exchange, will be offered a US Senate seat next week, Bakkt Boss Takes Hot, Disputed Spot in Senate Loeffler will displace the previously offered candidate, U.
The CEO of Bitcoin futures exchange Kelly Loeffler wants to join the US Senate. President Donald Trump however has other ideas. The post Bitcoin-Hating Trump is Standing in the Way of Bakkt CEO Becoming U.S. Senator appeared first on CCN.com