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Robinhood is Making Millions Selling Users’ Data to Financial Companies

The low-cost Robinhood investing app popular with millennials makes up for the lost profits of commission-free trades by selling users’ data to other financial companies. What’s the Logic of Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? A Second Quarter SEC filing shows that Robinhood Financial (Robinhood) is actually making millions of dollars from selling users’ data to high-frequency trading (HFT) firms. дальше »

2018-9-14 10:00


Berkeley Professor Questions Stablecoin Viability in Unflattering Op-Ed

University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account. дальше »

2018-9-13 18:07


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Blockchain Being Used to Save Lives Amidst Opioid Epidemic

A growing number of start-ups and larger companies have begun to experiment with blockchain’s utility for solving public health crises — like the opioid epidemic in the United States. Cryptocurrencies have had a testy relationship with some law enforcement figures in the United States, who see popular forms like Bitcoin as a scapegoat for an ongoing opioid crisis. дальше »

2018-9-8 23:00


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AMA With Origin Team Reveals Plans for Decentralized Sharing Economy

Matt Liu, Josh Fraser and former PayPal head Yu Pan want to bring the blockchain to the sharing economy. The trio is devising a platform with an emphasis on inclusive, peer-to-peer service hubs designed to decentralize the same consumer cost-friendly business models that have made companies like Airbnb, Uber and Lyft so popular in recent years. дальше »

2018-8-16 23:25


Most Popular Website Hosting Companies That Accept Bitcoin Payments

The anonymity and privacy that is offered by Bitcoin transactions are appealing to a wide variety of web hosting customers. Bypassing financial institutions and government regulations, Bitcoin transactions typically require little or no processing fees and can be used by companies and customers in all countries that have access to the Internet, including countries that […] дальше »

2018-8-13 01:06


Coinbase Inc. Forms Political Action Committee (PAC)

Coinbase, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchange platforms in the world, has launched a political action committee (PAC). The formation of a PAC advocacy group by the San Francisco-based exchange platform is the latest in a series of steps by cryptocurrency companies to engage policymakers in the United States. Details of the PAC The […] дальше »

2018-7-22 08:53


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