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Circle announces acquisition of broker-dealer and leading equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest

Circle has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SeedInvest, an equity crowdfunding industry leader and an SEC and FINRA registered Broker-Dealer. This acquisition will accelerate our strategy of delivering a token marketplace that enables businesses and individuals to raise capital and interact with investors using open crypto rails and infrastructure. дальше »

2018-10-6 18:00


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Federal Election Committee Asked to Consider Crypto Mining for Political Contributions

OsiaNetwork LLC has reached out to the Federal Election Committee (FEC) in the hopes that it will allow computer sharing for crypto mining for campaign donations. Osia says it would like to be the platform in which volunteers share their computer power to mine cryptocurrencies, which are then donated to political campaigns of their choice. дальше »

2018-10-5 23:57


WSJ Investigation: ShapeShift Is Being Used by Criminals, Illogical Comparison

An investigative report has been published regarding the popular crypto exchange ShapeShift AG, a firm that is registered in Switzerland. Money laundering is the problem at hand, and the report highlights a potentially worrying theme: that ShapeShift enables anonymous users to convert Bitcoin–which authorities can’t track–into other digital currencies that allow for much more anonymity. дальше »

2018-9-29 09:02


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Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Begins Trading

Boston-based cryptocurrency finance firm Circle has just joined the multitudes of other crypto exchange platforms now issuing and trading their own stablecoins. As of September 26, 2018, dollar-pegged USDC is now trading on Poloniex, the crypto-to-crypto exchange Circle acquired in February 2018, and on Circle Trade, the company’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform. дальше »

2018-9-27 20:50


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Accredited Investors now Able to Hold Bitcoin in Registered Accounts in Canada

Canada’s first and only regulated bitcoin fund has now achieved mutual fund trust status enabling high-net-worth investors to hold bitcoin investments in their registered accounts. The fund includes registered retirement savings plans and tax-free savings accounts, First Block Capital announced in a September 10, 2018, press release. дальше »

2018-9-11 22:00


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Russia’s Interior Ministry Looking to Criminalize Unregistered Crypto Activity

Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is considering establishing criminal liability for unregistered crypto operations. According to a report dated August 23, 2018, the head of Russia’s Main Directorate for Drug Trafficking, Andrey Khrapov, has asked the country’s legislators to require that all cryptocurrency transactions exceeding 600,000 rubles (around USD 9000) be registered with or monitored by Russian authorities. дальше »

2018-8-30 17:00


Coinbase: The first crypto currency exchange to create political action committee

Coinbase, the San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange announced on July 20th the launch of its Political Action Committee that will focus exclusively on handling the political. As a substantial step to secure its future, Coinbase made some documents public that registered its PAC with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). With it, Coinbase becomes the first […] дальше »

2018-7-24 21:15


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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

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. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Japan’s Largest Crypto Exchanges to Face the Wrath of the FSA

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) will be taking administrative action against several registered cryptocurrency exchange operators in the country. These exchanges include Quoine, Bitbank, BITPoint Japan, BtcBox, and industry leader BitFlyer, who authorities claim don’t have proper internal management systems in place, including measures to prevent money laundering. дальше »

2018-6-20 23:10