2020-4-20 19:46 |
Cryptocurrency markets seem to like news of clear government regulations, say researchers from the Bank for International Settlements
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2020-4-20 19:46 |
Cryptocurrency markets seem to like news of clear government regulations, say researchers from the Bank for International Settlements
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They say the opposite of love is indifference; and if one thing has been made clear over the last few years, it is that governments and regulators are no longer indifferent toward cryptocurrencies.
2020-2-11 18:30 | |
The difference between utility and security tokens is not all as clear as some regulators make out, argue researchers for the Oxford University Law blog
2020-2-4 13:54 | |
The past two years have been brutal for the majority of altcoins to say the least. One statistic has been positive however, and that is fewer crypto projects ‘died’ in 2019 than in 2018. 2019 Not as Bad For Altcoins Bitcoin was the clear king of the crop in terms of performance during 2019.
2020-1-9 17:00 | |
Not too long after embracing blockchain, Beijing has made it clear, one way or the other, that it didn’t mean Bitcoin. Increased scrutiny over the cryptocurrency sector and harsh measures against some companies have been implemented to supposedly protect citizens from scams.
2019-11-29 13:43 | |
Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
A bug could have lost the users of Coinbase a lot of money, confesses the exchange itself in its latest blog post. Coinbase Holds Its Hands Up The Friday “post mortem” revealed that an error on Coinbase sign-up page saved customers’ information on Coinbase internal web server logs – in a clear text.
2019-8-20 19:11 | |
Facebook doesn’t need any more bad press, but here we go again. According to a report by Bloomberg, the company paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe audio snippets from your conversations within its services – without making it sufficiently clear these clips were being recorded.
2019-8-14 00:28 | |
Lake City, the Florida city that paid a $500,000 Bitcoin ransom last week, has fired an employee following the debacle. In an interview with local television, the city manager of Lake City, Joe Helfenberg, said the city’s director of information technology has been fired.
2019-7-2 11:52 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
By CCN: Don’t say we didn’t see it coming. John McAfee is not unveiling the true identity of bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, at least not today. The mercurial tech maverick has put a stop to proceedings, alleging that due to an “imminent” extradition request to the United States, McAfee’s attorney believes outing Nakamoto to the world could be too dangerous for his client.
2019-4-24 05:05 | |
Binance has continued the week as it started, steaming well above $20 and up 35% this week. BNB’s price breached at $19 against the US Dollar to kick the week off and on the weekly timeframe, Binance is looking extremely bullish and expecting to test clear resistance & ATH.
2019-4-20 00:40 | |
“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 | |
Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
The aftermath of the 2018 bear bloodbath saw an increasing correlation between Initial Coin Offering (ICO) tokens and Bitcoin (BTC), despite the clear differences between them. According to an article published March 26, 2019, by VoxEU, some commentators at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) say this absence of an uncoupled price regime couldRead More
2019-3-27 18:00 | |
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 | |
Last week, we saw a violent move to the upside as bitcoin rallied 11% over the course of one day. Since peaking in the upper $3,600s, bitcoin has seen close to zero bullish follow-through, and the price has begun to drift downward over the course of the last week:Figure 1: BTC-USD, Hourly Candles, Downward DriftDownward-drifting markets like this can often be a sign that distribution is taking place.
2019-2-15 00:21 | |
Sources in Iran say the country's financial sector is taking clear steps toward a state-backed token economy.
2019-2-15 20:00 | |
Sources in Iran say the country's financial sector is taking clear steps toward a state-backed token economy.
2019-2-16 20:00 | |
The economy is doing just fine, they say. No, maybe not. A growing number of economists (and notable ones at that) have begun to tout theses accentuating that the world’s economy isn’t in clear waters, in spite of the seemingly ever-rallying stock market.
2019-2-13 12:00 | |
According to the latest court documents in the ongoing QuadrigaCX case, the exchange sent roughly $470,000 CAD (approximately $355, 000 USD) worth of bitcoin from a hot wallet to a cold-storage wallet on February 6, 2019.
2019-2-13 03:56 | |
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 | |
It happened: Bitcoin is now an Ethereum token. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an ERC-20 token with a 1-1 peg to bitcoin, went live on the Ethereum network on the final day of January, “the first token that makes Bitcoin compatible with the Ethereum chain,” its architects say.
2019-2-2 00:04 | |
Avoid Crypto Exchanges De-sync Your Gmail Account Refuse the Password Autofill Opt for a Hardware Key Clear Password Autofill Go for hardware wallets Despite the vibrancy of the crypto market, with its immeasurable opportunities, it comes at a small price.
2019-1-16 11:11 | |
October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.
2019-1-3 07:14 | |
Global leaders walked away from the latest G20 Summit with a rough game plan for crypto regulation. This year’s G20 Summit took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 30 to December 1.
2018-12-4 23:44 | |
After four years of silence, an account know to have belonged to Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin’s inventor, stated just one word: nour. What that means exactly is not very clear. Some... The post Did Satoshi Nakamoto Just Say “Nour” and Who is Wagner Tamanaha, Nakamoto’s New “Friend”? appeared first on Trustnodes.
2018-11-30 16:05 | |
Charles Hoskinson is best known today as a co-founder of both Ethereum and IOHK, where he leads the research, design and development of Cardano. But before these projects, there was Bitcoin.
2018-11-20 23:08 | |
Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.
2018-11-17 01:42 | |
In the latter half of 2018, few developments have occupied crypto investors’ headspaces like the industry’s indefatigable pursuit of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2018-11-9 20:03 | |
With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts. Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain.
2018-10-30 21:45 | |
The consensus for blockchain technology and artificial intelligence is clear — the two emerging technologies are not ready for primetime yet. Speakers at SIFMA and Commodity Futures Trading Commission conferences agreed on one thing — that fintech’s tall promises will take years to materialize.
2018-10-10 18:19 | |
Well today has been a flat day on the cryptocurrency market yet again, in fact it’s starting to feel more like the old-school stock exchange this past week. Much of the volatility has died down and most coins are moving in increments, which the optimists say is a clear sign that the next bull market […] The post Joe Crypto: Noah Welcomes A Flood Of Investors appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2018-10-10 02:14 | |
It wasn't about what Clinton had to say. It was about putting Clinton on the stage.
2018-10-3 07:00 | |
When it comes to purchasing a projector for your home theater there’s usually only one important question for consumers: How much do you have to spend? Because, typically, inexpensive projectors don’t perform well.
2018-9-19 00:51 | |
Big Four auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) just released its 2018 Global Blockchain Survey, subtitled “Blockchain is here. What’s your next move?” The sweeping survey pools data from 600 technology executives from 15 territories, with 31 percent of represented companies accruing $1 billion or more in annual revenue.
2018-8-28 01:51 | |
For the past few years, through boom and bust, hype cycles and FUD (and just about anything in between), we’ve heard that Bitcoin is what’s next. Evangelists say it’s the logical successor to fiat currency, a long-overdue replacement to paper cash that’s overstayed its welcome.
2018-8-7 22:27 | |
ConsenSys, the Ethereum production studio based in the U. S. , launched ConsenSys Ventures last year selecting Kavita Gupta to run two funds of $50 million and $100 million.
2018-8-6 17:40 | |
When the SEC announced its rejection of the Winklevosses’ latest bitcoin ETF filing, the industry found itself reckoning with a problem on repeat: striving toward the goal of approval, another Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) proposal faced the SEC’s death knell.
2018-8-4 22:49 | |
Capital gains on crypto transactions are easy to track, one at a time. What about when there are thousands?Cryptocurrency capital gains taxes are becoming a point of interest for governments.
2018-7-31 20:04 | |
Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
On 14th July, The United States House of Representatives has gone so far as to say that digital currencies are the ‘future of money’. This latest development comes in the wake of countries such as South Korea, Malta, and Switzerland adopting and implementing clear regulation for the $250 million cryptocurrency market. The United States will begin […]
2018-7-15 12:15 | |
MinerBit claims to be the leading mining company in Bitcoins, why we say ‘they claim' is because the company still has a long way to acquire such a title. Read on to find out why you should stay clear of the platform just yet.
2018-7-5 13:17 | |