2019-9-7 01:24 |
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell argued that central banks will not likely release their own digital currency in the near term
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If you think that virtual reality is something that relates exclusively to the field of games and entertainment, then you are deeply mistaken. Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2025, the VR industry will grow up to $ 80 billion.
2019-9-5 13:23 | |
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Coinspeaker Amazon Will Likely Announce Cryptocurrency to Threaten Facebook’s Libra: ReportEven though Amazon is yet to announce any plans for its own digital assets, a new report which surveyed opinions from several analysts, has claimed that Amazon is very likely to announce a Libra competitor.
2019-9-3 18:05 | |
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When a government decides to restrict what people can do with their own money, there is usually some backlash. Argentina is doing exactly that to prevent capital flight as the local currency crashes.
2019-9-2 13:00 | |
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One of the largest crypto exchanges of the world, Binance, has recently commented on China’s alleged plans to create its own digital currency. According to the exchange, the new token will most likely be a two-tiered system that will be used to replace all fiat currency currently in circulation in the largest nation of the […]
2019-8-30 01:22 | |
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After Facebook’s Libra, it seems likely that other major brands like Amazon, Delta, and T-Mobile will create their own stablecoins. Stablecoins of the future The coming years will see the advent of a second generation of stablecoins.
2019-7-30 22:18 | |
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The writing is on the wall that Mark Zuckerberg has completely botched the planned Libra rollout. Even if the digital currency ever sees the light of day, it’s not likely to be within Facebook’s own timetable of 2020.
2019-7-19 00:25 | |
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A recent bill, “Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act,” recommends prohibiting giant tech firms from serving as financial institutions or launching their own cryptocurrency. Likely geared toward Facebook, the bill was reviewed by Democrats that oversee the House Financial Services Committee.
2019-7-16 18:38 | |
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Goldman Sachs is likely to launch its own cryptocurrency in the near future. This is according to CEO David Solomon. Speaking to French news outlet Les Echos on June 28,… The post Stablecoins Grow in Popularity, Goldman Sachs Likely to Launch Own Cryptocurrency appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-7-3 19:21 | |
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The chief of the Bank for International Settlements has acknowledged that central banks will likely soon need to issue their own digital currencies.
2019-7-2 11:00 | |
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American banking giant Goldman Sachs might be following in the footsteps of its competitor JP Morgan. The bank is considering launching its own cryptocurrency. In an interview with French financial newspaper Les Echos today, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that they are doing extensive research on the concept of “tokenization.
2019-6-29 16:09 | |
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The cryptocurrency universe has been closely observing Facebook’s decision to launch its own crypto, Libra. After the news first broke out, many have been speculating what the social media giant could do with its crypto.
2019-6-10 16:00 | |
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Тут новости криптовалют сегодня от авторов блога «Новости криптовалют». Статья обновляется в течение дня. CoinDesk Binance, ведущая крипто-биржа по объему торгов, сообщила Bloomberg, что выпустит свои собственные стабильные монеты, вероятно, в течение нескольких недель.
2019-6-7 09:05 | |
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Binance, the top crypto exchange by adjusted trading volume, has told Bloomberg it will issue its own stablecoins, likely within weeks.
2019-6-7 22:00 | |
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Binance Chain is planning to launch its own stablecoin, which is likely to compete with USDT
2019-6-6 17:54 | |
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By CCN: The appetite among billionaires for bitcoin is huge as ever, according to Eleesa Dadian, an art dealer and head of a secretive network for billionaire investors called the Dadiani Syndicate, in Forbes.
2019-6-1 04:15 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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Dubbed the Zether protocol, the new feature will allow the transaction sender to hide themselves and the recipient. The feature will likely first be rolled out on Quorum, the bank's own private version of the Ethereum blockchain.
2019-5-29 00:13 | |
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Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.
2019-5-29 23:15 | |
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ByteDance is likely on your phone through its colony of popular apps like TikTok or Helo. Now it wants to make a phone of its own. Yes, you read that right. According to a new report by The Financial Times, the Beijing-based social media company is developing a “phone preloaded with its own apps — which include newsfeeds, short video platforms and games — in a bid to further spread its reach.
2019-5-27 15:15 | |
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For the last five years, Ikea has teamed with notable designers and artists to create high-dollar goods. Its “Art Collection” offered customers the opportunity to buy limited edition furnishings and art at prices customers could stomach.
2019-5-25 03:55 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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Research has shown that the number of on-chain Bitcoin transactions has risen dramatically throughout 2019, nearing the volume of Bitcoin’s peak in December 2017. Even so, transaction fees are a fraction of what they were around bitcoin’s all-time high, likely due to the continued uptick of SegWit transactions on the network.
2019-5-8 00:53 | |
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Delphi Digital has returned with another installment of its unspent transaction output (UTXO) reports. Recalling its report from January of this year, the research firm says bitcoin’s market cycle is right on track.
2019-5-3 18:44 | |
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Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2019-5-3 16:02 | |
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A Medium post published by Spencer Bogart, a general partner at Blockchain Capital, compares data collected from a set of surveys from October 2017 and April 2019 containing identical questions (plus a few new ones).
2019-5-1 18:55 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against BitcoinBitcoin’s core value proposition is that it is an uncontrolled, apolitical money.
2019-4-30 20:16 | |
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
2019-4-27 22:07 | |
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Samsung is reportedly looking to develop its own proprietary blockchain network as well as its own token some time in the future. According to an exclusive CoinDesk Korea report, which cited a person “familiar with Samsung’s internal situation,” the South Korean electronics giant’s blockchain task force is building an Ethereum-based blockchain mainnet.
2019-4-25 12:34 | |
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Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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It was just last October that Microsoft released the Surface Headphones, its first real foray into headphones. It turns out the company might not be stopping there. Microsoft is reportedly planning on building its own “true wireless” headphones in the vein of Apple’s AirPods.
2019-4-16 20:56 | |
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To many crypto enthusiasts, Bitcoin (BTC) is their entire world. To the world, however, the cryptocurrency is nothing but a blip on the global radar of finance, hence why so few have purchased BTC and other digital assets.
2019-4-15 15:04 | |
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Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server).
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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Craig S. Wright has officially taken the first steps in a legal action against a member of the Bitcoin community, according to a letter shared with Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-4-12 21:55 | |
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Electrum servers are still under a sustained Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. The wallet developers announced the issue on April 7, 2018. In correspondence with Bitcoin Magazine, Electrum developer Thomas Voegtlin speculated that the attack may be a form of retaliation from a phishing attacker who has been targeting Electrum in recent weeks.
2019-4-11 21:47 | |
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Trading cryptocurrency is a practice many will be intimidated by. Newbies to the space will likely be put off by the complexities of the whole fundamental/technical analysis ordeal and will instead prefer to clutch to their digital pearls-in-the-making and hodl.
2019-4-7 18:16 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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Binance has partnered with Medici Ventures’ portfolio company IdentityMind, a risk management and regulatory-technology compliance platform, in a bid to enhance its fraud protection and compliance protocols.
2019-3-28 18:08 | |
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Bitmain’s long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is officially a bust. The mining titan’s IPO expired on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.
2019-3-26 00:22 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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ASIC chip manufacturer Canaan Creative is closing the gap between itself and industry leader Bitmain after a massive infusion of capital. In its latest funding round, the Chinese mining company has raised several hundred millions of dollars, Chinese publication Securities Times reports.
2019-3-14 00:05 | |
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A new report from the United Kingdom’s primary financial regulator suggests we’re still a long way from a cryptocurrency revolution. According to the report, only 3 percent of people in the UK have bought cryptocurrency.
2019-3-8 17:10 | |
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Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.
2019-3-1 19:43 | |
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The crypto token race is on between the world’s internet and messaging monopolies. Telegram already has a head start with a successful multi-million dollar ICO but Facebook will not be left behind and is highly likely to roll out its own cryptocurrency this year.
2019-3-1 11:00 | |
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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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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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The first banks will be connected this year, with a phased roll out for selected retail customers.
The Basel Committee's framework, based on responses to a December 2022 discussion paper, must be implemented by 2026.
Recent 13F filings show Europe's second largest bank, BNP Paribas, has purchased Bitcoin exposure via a US spot Bitcoin ETF.
The proposed new industry guidelines are intended to address issues around AML and CFT rules.
Oliver Tonkin has replaced Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie at the crypto banking firm.
With $158 million of total capital raised since 2019, Fnality plans to launch the Sterling Fnality Payment System in 2023, subject to approval by the Bank of England.
The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) has left the banks it oversees unequipped to navigate the regulator's crypto expectations, according to the agency's inspector general, so the FDIC agreed to field a new strategy by January.