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Augur (REP) Decentralized Prediction Markets Will Be Extremely Difficult to Stop from Existing
The Managing Director and Founder of Autonomous Partners (ASP) , Arianna Simpson, on Thursday 23rd of May 2019 via Twitter spoke on the prediction market and the cryptosphere. Arianna, one of the pioneering crypto investors, stated that the prediction market “is of the most fascinating yet poorly understood areas” of DeFi (Decentralized Finance). In a […] дальше »
2019-5-25 19:48 | |
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No, Bulgaria Did Not HODL Bitcoin Worth $1.6B, Finance Minister Claimed
The curious case of Bulgaria’s alleged hoard of 200,000 bitcoins resurfaced again this week as sources claimed the Balkan country was HODLing cryptocurrency. Report: Bulgaria Sold All Its BTC Seemingly referencing a press release from May 2017, TrustNodes led the renewed media interest in a story about how Bulgarian authorities confiscated the BTC after taking down an unknown criminal operation. дальше »
2019-5-24 14:00 | |
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Achieving Consensus, Building Trust: Spark Blockchain Successfully hosted 2019 Blockchain Social Night NYC | Post Consensus
NEW YORK CITY, USA (May 22, 2019) — For the second consecutive year, top blockchain incubator Spark Blockchain in the US has partnered with Blockchain Week NYC, and successfully hosted 2019 Blockchain Social Night NYC | Post Consensus on the night of May 13th, 2019. дальше »
2019-5-24 13:00 | |
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Telecom Giant AT&T Gains First-Mover Status by Accepting Crypto
By CCN: AT&T announced today that it is accepting crypto payments through Bitpay, which supports a number of major cryptocurrencies. A short press release notes that the integration is complete and users can make payments with Bitpay via the AT&T website or through the mobile app. дальше »
2019-5-24 03:20 | |
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This Painfully Boring CNBC Crypto Debate Is Bullish as Hell for Bitcoin
By CCN: If you’re looking for reasons behind bitcoin’s recent price surge, this video tells the whole story. Because it’s so completely dull. Has bitcoin gone too far, too fast? Here's how two traders are thinking about bitcoin futures. дальше »
2019-5-22 17:13 | |
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Tesla Stock Crumbles to 30-Month Low as Elon Musk Turns Desperate
By CCN: Tesla stock flew higher when Elon Musk had announced that the electric vehicle maker will raise more than $2 billion in capital through stock offerings to finance ambitious initiatives such as robotaxis, but he is now singing a different tune. дальше »
2019-5-21 17:10 | |
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Meet the future of finance on Malta AI & Blockchain Summit 2019
The renowned Malta Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Summit (AIBC) is held again this year on 22-25 May. This event gathers all the influential industry leaders who will share their ideas and discuss the potential of the technology trends including AI, Blockchain, IoT and Big Data. дальше »
2019-5-20 15:38 | |
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Venezuela and Russia May Switch to Ruble After Trying ‘Petro’ Cryptocurrency
Venezuela and Russia are in talks to switch over to the ruble for trade after trying the ‘El Petro’ cryptocurrency, a UN ambassador has revealed. Venezuela and Russia ‘Currently Trying’ El Petro As Bitcoinist reported last December, Russian officials were introduced to El Petro but stopped short of confirming that it was going to be used. дальше »
2019-5-18 02:00 | |
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ON: Chain19, the annual thought-leadership conference to be held on Thursday, May 23rd!
Blockchain thought leadership conference, ON: Chain19, has added speakers from the CFTC, the US Attorney’s Office, Sustany Capital, FinVC, Hadera Hashgraph, White Shark, Tellus Title, and XEEDA to their current top-tier roster to speak to the intersection of blockchain and finance. дальше »
2019-5-14 12:30 | |
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Crypto Collectibles Game ‘MLB Champions’ Launches By Major League Baseball With Lucid Sight
Crypto Collectibles Game Launched By Major League Baseball Lucid Sight, a game developer, partnered last year with MLB to develop a crypto game called “MLB Champions. ” The game runs on blockchain technology. дальше »
2019-5-10 19:27 | |
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Currency.com Launches Tokenized Government Bonds
Currency. com, a blockchain-based platform that claims to be the world’s first regulated tokenized securities exchange, announced the launch of the crypto version of the Belarusian government bonds and interested investors can now purchase the financial instrument with bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and the fiat standard, according to Fintech Finance report on May 7, 2019. дальше »
2019-5-10 11:00 | |
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Austrian Bank Raiffeisen Announces R3 Corda Marco Polo For Trade Finance Partnership
The Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has recently announced that it will be working with R3’s Marco Polo blockchain network. They will be using this blockchain platform for trade finance. дальше »
2019-5-9 00:59 | |
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Alprockz Partners with Fusion Foundation to Boost Stablecoin Adoption
Alprockz, a Switzerland based consortium of technology investors and developers, have chosen Fusion Foundation’s decentralized financial protocol to boost adoption of Alprockz’s Swiss Franc (CHF) backed stablecoin, ROCKZ (RKZ), as reported by Global News Wires on May 6, 2019. дальше »
2019-5-8 23:00 | |
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Venezuela Pro-Bitcoin Opposition May Use Maduro’s Sanctioned Funds To Oust Him
Bitcoin adoption crucible Venezuela could end up using its own sanctioned funds to topple the government if plans go ahead for an “army” of foreign mercenaries. Sources: Plans For ‘5000 Mercenaries’ As Reuters reported on April 30, Erik Prince, founder of the notorious private security contractor Blackwater, allegedly wants to use fiat currency locked up by foreign governments to finance an ongoing backlash against Nicolas Maduro’s regime. дальше »
2019-5-1 22:00 | |
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Russia is Realizing It Has No Clue How to Regulate Cryptocurrency
The proposed ‘digital assets’ law aims to “legalize ICOs” in Russia and is expected to be reviewed in May. But lawmakers are slowly realizing the futility of regulating Bitcoin and cryptocurrency that are un-regulatable by design. дальше »
2019-4-19 14:00 | |
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With Latest Partnership, Ledger Vault Offers a Fix to Crypto’s Custody Problem
Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server). дальше »
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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Huobi Considers Foothold In Argentina
Popular Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi may have found a new landing point in South America. After meetings between Huobi Group executives and senior Argentinian finance officials, potential business arrangements are likely in the works. дальше »
2019-3-29 21:25 | |
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What Is DeFi and Where Does It Leave Bitcoin?
The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology. дальше »
2019-3-29 16:26 | |
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Lightning Nodes: How Risk-Averse Investors Will Finally Enter Crypto
Lightning nodes may be able to create a safe return similar to holding bonds in traditional finance, creating an opportunity for risk-averse investors to enter the cryptocurrency market. At least that’s the view taken by BitMEX who suggest that able node operators, who provide liquidity and ensure transactions run smoothly through the network, may be […] The post Lightning Nodes: How Risk-Averse Investors Will Finally Enter Crypto appeared first on Crypto Briefing. дальше »
2019-3-29 23:18 | |
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LocalBitcoins, Once a Go-To for Anonymous Bitcoin Transactions, Adds KYC
The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities. дальше »
2019-3-28 18:00 | |
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BOA Tech Chief Says Blockchain Technology May Amount to Nothing
Cathy P. Bessant, chief operations and technology officer at the Bank of America (BOA), a multinational investment bank and financial services firm, has opined that blockchain technology has no significant use case in finance and could amount to nothing in the near future, reports CNBC on March 25, 2019. Bessant Not Confident in DLT DespiteRead More дальше »
2019-3-28 02:00 | |
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After QuadrigaCX: New Regulations for Canadian Exchanges Are in the Works
As anxiety grows around every new twist and turn in the ongoing QuadrigaCX drama, along with extensive QuadrigaCX media coverage, Canada’s mainstream media has been calling on the government to bring in better oversight and regulation of cryptocurrency businesses, especially cryptocurrency exchanges. дальше »
2019-3-20 18:42 | |
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Blockchain Advocacy Coalition Sponsors Bill to Allow Crypto for Legal Cannabis Tax
Activist group Blockchain Advocacy Coalition (BAC) has sponsored a bill in California’s 19th State Assembly District, set to allow legal cannabis businesses in the district to pay their state taxes using cryptocurrency. дальше »
2019-3-1 20:16 | |
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Mastercard Teams Up With Stellar Fintech Startup
It may have taken some time, but legacy finance is starting to join the crypto crowd. In addition to Visa and JPMorgan, Mastercard is starting to #buidl on the blockchain, after joining hands with a Stellar-based technology company. дальше »
2019-2-15 18:56 | |
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JP Morgan’s Newly-Created JPM Coin Sparks Ambivalent Feelings Within Crypto Community
CoinSpeaker JP Morgan’s Newly-Created JPM Coin Sparks Ambivalent Feelings Within Crypto Community As the payment flow of JPM Coin demonstrates several of Ethereum’s core benefits for the finance and banking industry, some are afraid of the impact JPM Coin may have on other coins, including Bitcoin, XRP, and the crypto market in general. дальше »
2019-2-15 15:20 | |
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MasterCard, Ripple, Barclays Fund US XRP Remittance Firm in $1.7 Million Seed
Global remittance startup SendFriend has raised $1. 7 million in pre-seed funding by 13 participants. The US company announced Monday that it had received support from MIT Media Lab, Barclays, the Mastercard Foundation, Ripple, TechStars, Mahindra Finance, 2020 Ventures, and 8 Decimal Capital. дальше »
2019-2-13 12:06 | |
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Blockchain investment still lags behind fintech despite record-breaking 2018
European blockchain technology companies had a record year in terms of VC investment in 2018, although overshadowed by funding going into financial technology (fintech) companies. According to Innovate Finance’s ‘2018 FinTech VC Investment Landscape‘ report , the European blockchain and cryptocurrency industry witnessed a series of significant deals, but notably just four deals amounted to over $300 million. дальше »
2019-2-12 18:30 | |
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How Much Decentralization Is “Enough”? Vitalik Say High TPS Projects Are Centralized Pile of Trash.
We are in the tenth year of blockchain. It is apparent that this emerging technology has a lot of use cases— (subject to decentralization levels). It may not be in finance where it is already causing disruption but in other core areas of traditional industry say in manufacturing or service industry for example. дальше »
2019-2-7 13:48 | |
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India Fears Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Could Destabilize Rupee
The effect Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies may have on the Indian rupee is reportedly a top concern for Indian lawmakers — specifically, if said digital currencies are to be legalized as a form of payment in the country. дальше »
2019-2-6 12:00 | |
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Bitcoin’s ‘Five-Year Bet’ Now Has an Official Winner Between Ben Horowitz and Felix Salmon
As some of our regular readers may remember, around five years back in 2014 — a time when Bitcoin was trading between $250 and $700— Ben Horowitz and Felix Salmon appeared on NPR’s Planet Money podcast to discuss the future of digital finance. дальше »
2019-2-4 20:18 | |
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JPMorgan: Blockchain Technology Will Improve the Trade and Finance Sector
While the revolutionary distributed ledger technology (DLT) is slowly but steadily gaining traction in various sectors of the world economy including supply chain, healthcare, and others, American multinational investment bank, JPMorgan says it may take another “three to five years” before blockchain technology starts making meaningful impact on trade-finance, reported Bloomberg on January 29, 2019. дальше »
2019-2-1 19:00 | |
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Finance Experts Disagree on Whether or Not Bitcoin Will Be as Stable as Gold
There is currently an ongoing conversation as to the status of Bitcoin (BTC). Since it may no longer be on track to its value proposition as a form of digital cash, investors seem to be in a bit of an unsure state as to the future. Even though some still maintain that it is an […] дальше »
2019-1-31 04:12 | |
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Saiterm ICO
Our goal is to finance the development of the production and marketing of a physical, totally innovative product for high efficiency heating of environments, remaining independent and autonomous, financing via the blockchain, the creation of production and commercial facilities necessary for the production and distribution of the most efficient heating system in the world, a system already designed, patented, implemented and tested. дальше »
2019-1-30 17:36 | |
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How Blockchain Can Set Fintech Back Three Thousand Years… And Still Improve Payments
As finance has evolved, the ecosystem around it has become far more complicated. The addition of card payments, along with their accompanying networks and infrastructure, has introduced many new processes and intermediaries, all for a single transaction. дальше »
2019-1-29 01:02 | |
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Economist’s Quip That Bitcoin (BTC) Fails Financial “Tests” Is Wrong: Hot Take
Davos may be an event centered around the realm of traditional finance, but crypto & blockchain technologies have been mentioned. In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV, Huw Van Steenis, senior advisor to Bank of England’s governor, Mark Carney, bashed this nascent asset class. дальше »
2019-1-23 05:00 | |
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HSBC Settles $250 Billion Worth of Forex Trades on Blockchain in 2018
Global banking giant HSBC announced on Monday that it has settled over $250 billion in forex trades using blockchain tech in 2018. The bank showed its interest in blockchain technology last year when it made the world’s first trade finance transaction on blockchain in May 2018. дальше »
2019-1-15 16:29 | |
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According to Latest Data, 0x has Only Procured Around $3K in ZRX tx Fees Since its Inception
As many of our regular readers may be well aware of by now, 0x has carved a niche’ for itself within Ethereum decentralized finance ecosystem. However, despite all this, it is worth noting that the utility of 0Xs native token offering ‘ZRX’ remains largely muted at this point. To be even more specific, we can see […] дальше »
2019-1-6 21:34 | |
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India May Legalize Bitcoin Under “Strong” Rules
India could be making a U-turn on its directives for cryptocurrencies. Per reports from the New India Express, a second interdisciplinary committee set up by the Indian government is considering making cryptocurrencies legal in the country again but with more stringent rules. дальше »
2018-12-28 02:16 | |
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Executive Blockchain Advisor
It’s been one year now since bitcoin achieved an outstanding all-time high of $20,155 per coin and today it seems we’re testing new lows of $3,122, a total drop of 84. 5%. This massive slide in value may seem unprecedented but in fact, retracements of this magnitude have happened no less than four times in Bitcoin’s short history. дальше »
2018-12-18 07:00 | |
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GP Bullhound, Saxo Bank Predictions Show Institutional Investors Could Be Crypto Industry’s Saving Grace For 2019 Bounce Back
The cryptocurrency scene has been troubled for a while, and the downward trend of the market has left many investors worried about what’s to come. However, there are some predictions from GP Bullhound and Saxo Bank that may change their minds. дальше »
2018-12-17 08:19 | |
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HTC Blockchain Phone Exodus Sets Brave as its Default Internet Browser
According to a report by Finance Magnets, published on December 10, 2018, Taiwan-based mobile company HTC has that Brave (BAT) will be their blockchain-based smartphone Exodus’ default internet browser. дальше »
2018-12-11 14:00 | |
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‘Unusually Large Miner Selling’ May Have Crashed BTC Price, Not Fundamentals
BTC price crash may have been sparked by an ‘unusual’ uptick in miners selling to finance the BCH hash war, according to BitMEX Research. Meanwhile, other metrics reveal that the recent price decline is disproportional with BTC market fundamentals. дальше »
2018-12-11 01:00 | |
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Indian Finance Minister Receives Government Recommendations For Crypto Regulations
With the submission of a government report to India’s finance minister, the country may be closer to regulating cryptocurrency.
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VanEck, Cboe and SolidX Meet With SEC to Discuss a Bitcoin ETF
Having met the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2018, officials of VanEck, SolidX and Cboe BZX Exchange have met with the Commission again, in the latest attempt to convince the regulator to approve the nation's first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an official presentation submitted to the SEC. дальше »
2018-12-1 01:17 | |
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Spain: Financial Watchdog Intensifies Efforts to Make Cryptocurrency Holders Pay Tax
It may soon no longer be business as usual for bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins investors in Spain as the nation’s tax authority, the Agencia Estatal de Administracion Tributaria (AEAT), has reportedly identified at least 15,000 distributed ledger technology (DLT) based virtual currency holders and is now set to make them pay taxes, reported Finance Magnates on November 20, 2018. дальше »
2018-11-22 01:00 | |
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