2019-11-24 22:23 |
The world's largest digital asset manager is moving to make its popular Bitcoin trust more attractive to institutional investors
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2019-11-24 22:23 |
The world's largest digital asset manager is moving to make its popular Bitcoin trust more attractive to institutional investors
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Grayscale Investments has voluntarily filed to have its Bitcoin Trust, the first digital currency investment product, regulated by the SEC. The post Grayscale Files to Make Bitcoin Trust First to Be Regulated by SEC appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-11-20 22:55 | |
A former American professional basketball player has allegedly swindled over $800,000 worth of Bitcoin from a company based in Ghana. Isaac Edward Austin, who retired in 2004, reportedly posed as a trustee for his own Bitcoin trading company and managed to get the Ghanaian firm to hand over $11,000 per BTC, GhanaWeb reports.
2019-10-21 17:32 | |
Facebook has been on the bad side of regulators across the globe ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out. To make matters worse, the social media giant announced the launch of Libra with the promise of financial inclusion by tapping into the cryptoverse.
2019-10-16 18:30 | |
Hakan Samuelsson, the CEO of Volvo recently said it was “irresponsible” to put autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road if they were not sufficiently safe, because that would erode trust among the public and regulators.
2019-10-12 20:00 | |
Trust Wallet, a secured multi-cryptocurrency wallet, announced that it will enable a feature that lets its clients simplify their blockchain public addresses. The firm will integrate FIO Addresses into its platform available for purchase to all users.
2019-9-13 05:19 | |
Crypto and blockchain continue to make major strides across global industries but much like other breakthrough tech or innovations, they are still in a relative stage of infancy and remain marked by layers of confusion, misunderstanding, or even apprehension.
2019-9-6 16:38 | |
YouTube just revealed it’s added new age categories to its YouTube Kids app, offering different videos depending on whether the child is preschool or preteen. In theory, anyway — I’m not sure I trust YouTube Kids, of all apps, to be able to make that kind of subtle differentiation.
2019-8-29 20:52 | |
Crypto companies make bad predictions sometimes. This is exactly what has happened recently with the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), which recently told investors that they should stop investing in gold and turn to Bitcoin instead.
2019-8-27 21:34 | |
As per an all new report released by The Block late yesterday afternoon, BItGo — one of the world’s largest digital asset trust and security firms — is looking to make its way into the Japanese market in a big way.
2019-8-10 18:34 | |
By CCN Markets: Blockchain. com Head of Growth Haider Rafique believes that Facebook’s Libra project will be a boon to cryptocurrency as a whole, for numerous reasons. As Head of Growth at Blockchain, adoption is the executive’s primary drive, and he believes Facebook’s crypto entry will have a positive impact.
2019-6-24 00:45 | |
Brevity is baked into the way we tweet, but now Twitter is implementing this philosophy on its own rules. The social microblogging platform has updated, reorganized, and shortened its regulations in an attempt to make it clear for users to understand what is and isn’t acceptable on the service.
2019-6-7 10:59 | |
Microsoft is very proud of its Azure Blockchain-powered smart contract auditing tools for Ethereum – so much so it decided to flaunt some of the benefits of the software in a new blog post. “One of the key drivers making blockchain-based applications programmable, accessible to enterprise customers, and able to meet the diverse needs of a variety of sectors [are smart contracts],” the post reads.
2019-6-4 12:53 | |
According to the published data, the Grayscale’s bitcoin trust is responsible for nearly 94% of the firm’s total assets under management
2019-5-29 18:28 | |
‘Trust but verify’: All exchanges are required to provide mandatory API data to CoinMarketCap by June 2019 — or get delisted from the service. Will this new scheme cleanse the market from untrustworthy data?
2019-5-23 15:19 | |
To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
You’ll have to dig quite deep in various financial markets to witness a group of project/companies consistently fluctuating in price/value and in many, reach as low as 90-95% of its initial value.
2019-5-19 22:50 | |
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has announced that the company is working on introducing its debit card to customers in the U. S. Armstrong’s announcement came in a live AMA session on YouTube on May 16, 2019, during which he fielded questions and touched on various topics such as community trust ratings for altcoins and fraud prevention.
2019-5-18 19:15 | |
Blockchain security company BitGo is launching a new service for institutional clients: a clearing and settlements system that operates off-chain. BitGo announced this new service in a press release on May 14, 2019, describing some of the features that this new system will have.
2019-5-15 23:44 | |
Decentralized Architectural Design & Construction Management Network Darch Network is a decentralized project management network where an unlimited number of architects have the freedom of working on any project they want.
2019-5-14 03:22 | |
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 | |
Shrimp is the latest foodstuff to make its way to the blockchain, courtesy of IBM. The Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP) yesterday announced that its joined IBM‘s Food Trust ecosystem which claims to use blockchain to provide greater transparency over where your food comes from.
2019-5-7 12:07 | |
While the Crypto Winter may be lingering with us into the spring, crypto exchanges are doing just fine. According to CoinMarketCap, there are now 255 major crypto exchanges.
2019-5-4 22:14 | |
The Bitfinex/Tether episode has eroded a lot of the trust of the community in stablecoins. Tether, which used to have its assets backed 1:1 with USD in order to make prices stable, used some of its funds to loan money to Bitfinex, which shares the same owners. The episode was a scandal in the industry. […]
2019-5-3 00:12 | |
Some of our regular readers may be aware of the fact that GBTC (The Bitcoin Investment Trust) is a novel investment vehicle that allows people to make regulated BTC purchases using a secure framework that is designed to provide investors with certain monetary guarantees. In that sense, one can even think of GBTC as being […]
2019-4-30 18:13 | |
Albertsons Companies, one of the biggest food and drug retail companies in the US, has announced that it will be joining the IBM Food Trust Network. The company will use the Food Trust’s blockchain solution to improve transparency and make it easier for consumers to track foods at every step from the farms all the […] Albertsons Companies Joins Blockchain-based IBM Food Trust Network to Increase Transparency for Romaine Lettuce was originally found on Cryptocurrency News | Tech, Privacy, Bitcoin & Blockchain | Blokt.
2019-4-15 16:29 | |
There is little doubt that digital payments tools – including bitcoin and other cryptocurrency projects – are transforming the way consumers make transactions. However, even the best digital technologies will fail if users don’t trust them.
2019-4-11 01:06 | |
New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.
2019-3-28 19:04 | |
The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
If you have been waiting for a convenient method of purchasing cryptocurrency, then you will be pleased to know that Trust Wallet has announced a new partnership with Simplex whose objective is to make it easy-peasy for one to purchase digital tokens with their credit card.
2019-3-14 05:47 | |
The crypto industry is currently going through trust issues, according to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The Gemini crypto exchange founders, otherwise known as the Winklevoss Twins, said that investors were less confident about investing in cryptocurrencies following the shutdown of QuadrigaCX.
2019-3-13 15:25 | |
CoinSpeaker Binance’s Trust Wallet Adds XRP Support, Offers Users New Way to Buy CryptosNow users can send, receive, store and exchange XRP via Binance's Trust Wallet and make credit and debit card purchases of XRP, BTC, BCH, LTC, and ETH.
2019-3-13 10:37 | |
Hodl Hodl, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it is launching a prediction market on Bitcoin. Slated for launch in the spring of 2019, it would be the first Bitcoin-based prediction market to go live on Bitcoin’s mainnet.
2019-3-9 00:16 | |
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 | |
When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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 | |
PANTHEON X aims to build a blockchain-based financial platform and a reliable network that allow anyone to trade in a safe and transparent manner. PANTHEON X will maximize the participants’ profit by providing a decentralized smart financial infrastructure.
2019-2-19 17:33 | |
Yet another journey to launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has begun. According to a published notice, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun reviewing a proposed rule change for a bitcoin ETF filed by NYSE Arca and Bitwise.
2019-2-18 18:46 | |
Last month, Iran lifted its ban on Bitcoin to make way for its ‘crypto rial’. Now Iranian authorities have launched PayMon cryptocurrency supposedly backed by national gold reserves. Except, it’s not really cryptocurrency after all since there’s nothing peer-to-peer about it and you still need to trust an intermediary (i.
2019-2-15 01:00 | |
Lead: Yet another firm has filed for an ETF with the U. S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), this time Reality Shares ETF Trust who, on February 11, 2019, filed for an ETF that would include bitcoin futures and sovereign debt instruments.
2019-2-13 13:29 | |
Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves.
2019-2-7 01:01 | |
The Lightning Torch is a new concept with the Bitcoin community that is meant to show off the value of the Lightning Network. The technology is still experimental, which had made it difficult to understand how to use.
2019-2-6 00:43 | |
B2C2, a cryptocurrency “liquidity provider” and electronic OTC trading magnate, has recently announced that British regulators have given their U. K. -based subsidiary approval to offer the crypto space a new investment derivative.
2019-2-1 20:57 | |
Cryptocurrency exchange Zebpay is opening new offices in five European countries, increasing its presence on the continent to 43 countries. Launched in 2015 in India, Zebpay grew into one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges before shuttering its operation in September 2018, due to the crypto ban in the country.
2019-2-1 00:24 | |
Public blockchains, in particular, don’t make sense for many businesses where privacy is required. Pseudonymous isn’t good enough, and generally speaking, modern databases are pretty good at what they do.
2019-1-24 09:00 | |
Tranium Token is a decentralized online payment solution on the ethereum blockchain, carefully created to eradicate the problems faced by both sellers and buyers in the industry. To make this possible, the Tranium System provides a Tranium Marketplace, an online store and a decentralized trust worthy marketplace on the blockchain for tomorrow’s global e-commerce.
2019-1-13 14:03 | |
Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |