2018-9-29 14:29 |
Ripple is leading a group of organizations launching an advocacy body in Washington D.C. that will pay for lobbying in both U.S. dollars and XRP. origin »
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Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
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A group of major players in the crypto and blockchain industry have joined forces to pay D. C. lobbyists to ensure that US lawmakers pass legislation that is friendly to the crypto and blockchain industry.
2018-9-28 08:00 | |
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Another cryptocurrency heist has shaken Japan. This time, 6. 7 billion yen ($60 million USD) worth of company and user funds have vanished from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platform Zaif.
2018-9-21 19:30 | |
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Chen Min, the former chief chip maker at Bitcoin mining chip developer Canaan Creative, is turning her attention to Ethereum. Announcing her venture at the Ethereum Classic Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Chen’s new company, Linzhi, will focus on building cryptocurrency mining devices, and its first official products are a series of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners designed specifically for Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.
2018-9-15 01:22 | |
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CoinGate, a bitcoin payment processor, has launched bitcoin Lightning Network payments on its platform, bringing the option to accept Lightning payments to its 4,000 clients.
2018-9-7 18:47 | |
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The Italian football club Rimini, which plays in the Italian Serie C division, has sold a portion of the team’s shares in exchange for cryptocurrency. The first-of-its-kind acquisition was made by Heritage Sports Holdings (HSH), a sports investment company based in the United Arab Emirates.
2018-8-30 21:01 | |
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A much-ballyhooed study published yesterday indicates children are more easily influenced by robots than adults. Perhaps next we’ll discover that robots find it easier to take candy from babies than grown-ups.
2018-8-16 21:09 | |
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Independent DJ Justin Blau (known on stage as 3LAU) didn’t exactly stumble into the cryptocurrency industry — to say so would misrepresent how much thought he’s put into his blockchain-based event network, Our Music Festival (OMF).
2018-8-8 19:23 | |
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For more than a decade, file-sharers around the world have been pressured to pay significant settlement fees, or face worse in court. The practice is particularly common in the United States. While there is only a small group of independent companies involved, thousands of people are taken to court each year. These efforts, often characterized […]
2018-8-8 06:36 | |
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The authorities in South Korea are working round the clock to unravel a possible crypto investment scam, involving Shinil Group, a Seoul-based firm, which allegedly offered to pay investors in gold, from a Russian ship that sank 113 years ago.
2018-8-1 18:20 | |
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South Korean authorities are investigating a possible crypto investment scam involving the Seoul-based Shinil Group as the key figure, Korea JoongAng Daily reported July 31. Shinil Group (Shinil) allegedly promised to pay investors in gold from a sunken Russian shipwreck.
2018-8-1 08:22 | |
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Recently, Thailand’s Major Cineplex Group, the largest operator of movie theaters, announced its integration with cryptocurrency payments using Rapidzpay mobile apps. This will enable its customers to pay via cryptocurrency for the services and products.
2018-8-1 04:36 | |
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As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.
2018-7-31 15:58 | |
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One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Major adult entertain website Pornhub has announced it will accept TRON and ZenCash, adding to its cryptocurrency acceptance after beginning payments with Verge in April. Pornhub: Crypto ‘More Anonymous’ Than Fiat In a statement posted on ZenCash’s official blog on June 27, MindGeek, the group which owns Pornhub and thirteen other adult resources, confirmed the decision to accept ZenCash across its products.
2018-6-28 00:00 | |
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury is pressing lawmakers for a new set of powers that would give the government unprecedented enforcement and sanctions authority over the crypto sector, including the ability to roam well beyond American borders and get involved with transactions that don't involve its citizenry.
The advocacy group will refocus its efforts on petitioning regulators and officials in Washington.
Crypto companies’ lobbying spending increases as the industry gains momentum. Read how the adoption surge is attracting lawmaker attention. The post Crypto Companies Spent More than $50M on Lobbying Activities in Last 6 Years appeared first on BeInCrypto.
A group of 26 technologists, including some of cryptos most fervent critics, has sent a lobbying letter to U.S. lawmakers urging them resist pressure from crypto financiers and lobbyists to...
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A number of major cryptocurrency firms are forming the Blockchain Association to lobby Washington, D.C. lawmakers on regulations in the space.