2019-12-18 13:00 |
Billions have gone into making the distribution of financial products easier. Nothing real has changed in the making of financial instruments, until now, says ConsenSys' Lex Sokolin. origin »
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A new database called the Blockchain Litigation Database is making easier for law firms to provide legal services to crypto-sector clients concerned about compliance issues with the SEC and CFTC.
2019-8-7 23:12 | |
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What Is MintMine? MintMine is a cryptocurrency mining platform secured by a state-of-the-art mining facility and run by a team of forward-thinking financial and data center experts. The platform is committed to democratizing the digital asset ecosystem and making it mainstream.
2019-8-5 23:40 | |
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Malta is one of the most crypto-friendly and blockchain-friendly regions in the world, so it should come as no surprise that the national business registry (MBR) is making changes in favor of these industries.
2019-8-2 23:29 | |
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Binance, the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, is aiming at daily and yearly earnings that equal or surpass those recorded by big traditional financial institutions. According to a recent analysis, Binance is making a cool $3.
2019-7-30 19:48 | |
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Bitcoin’s financial prowess can no longer be ignored and traditional leaders have to choose sides between the disruptor and the status quo. Capital venture investor, Tim Draper leads this drive in making the shift into the unknown, while showing constant support toward crypto’s mass adoption.
2019-7-21 19:00 | |
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After an 8-month long review, Bitt Digital Inc. has finally exited the rigorous Regulatory Sandbox of the Central Bank of Barbados and the Financial Services Commission. The process was successfully completed on July 5, 2019, making the company the first to achieve this almost insurmountable feat. Part of the tests offered by the Sandbox to […]
2019-7-16 18:50 | |
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A “discussion draft” bill set out to spell doomsday on the dreams of many financial technology projects is making rounds on Crypto Twitter. Unconfirmed yet unsettling, the “Keep Big Tech Out of Finance” bill proposes to “prohibit large platform utilities” from becoming a financial institution or getting affiliated with a person that runs a financial institution.
2019-7-14 14:00 | |
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For years, Ripple has been on a serious charm offensive, making great efforts to woo as many financial institutions as possible. Over the last year or so, the company has managed to get over 200 clients onto its RippleNet.
2019-7-12 22:03 | |
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Bitcoin and crypto-supportive legislation could be on the way now that Christine Lagarde has been selected to serve as the new European Central Bank president. Will the ECB Support Bitcoin? Recently nominated European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde has a history of making statements which cryptocurrency investors interpret as being supportive.
2019-7-8 23:02 | |
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The Ethereum Foundation has partnered with finance experts in the Gulf Coast to work to ensure the Ethereum blockchain is compatible with Islamic financial customs, including making sure executable distributed code contracts are compliant with Islamic banking rules.
2019-7-3 00:20 | |
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A new collaboration was announced between Blockfolio and Messari. The partnership will provide improved data reliability for investors. Investors can greatly benefit from getting a little extra information when making their financial decisions.
2019-6-20 17:41 | |
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By CCN Markets: One of Africa’s largest insurers, Old Mutual, has announced it will no longer cover crypto mining equipment due to lack of regulation. After researching the industry, the Pan-Africanist financial group discovered a number of reasons that prompted it to make the decision that will not sit well with crypto miners.
2019-6-14 11:31 | |
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With a ready state-of-the-art produced working live platform, Capitual is already bringing crypto-currencies to people in different sectors. With your help, we can popularize crypto-currencies' usage across the whole world! Capitual brings the evolution of crypto-currencies for the rest of us by allowing instant exchange between fiat and crypto-currencies.
2019-6-13 21:03 | |
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If you’re selling Bitcoin, the U. S. Treasury would like a word from you. New guidelines from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have labelled all Bitcoin ATMs as money transmitters, meaning that if you want to buy crypto from a machine, you’ll need to show some ID.
2019-6-13 22:37 | |
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Intergovernmental body the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has committed to making 200 countries treat cryptocurrency exchanges like banks. FATF Among ‘Biggest Threats’ To Crypto As Bloomberg reported June 11, an update to how national regulators should treat businesses dealing with cryptocurrency tokens will officially go public on the 21st of the month.
2019-6-12 20:00 | |
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In just nine days, new rules by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) will force cryptocurrency businesses in roughly 200 countries to verify the identities of anyone sending or receiving more than $1,000 worth of digital assets, effectively nullifying their pseudonymity.
2019-6-12 15:42 | |
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Visa’s blockchain-powered B2B payments product has finally gone live after almost three years in the making. First made public in October 2016, the Visa B2B Connect network is being made available in 30 markets, with plans to expand to as many as 90 territories by the end of the year.
2019-6-12 13:09 | |
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Most crypto enthusiasts believe Ripple would be able to hit $10 in the next 12 months. The Fintech company has been making some groundbreaking efforts to push cryptocurrency to the mainstream. Besides, it has also integrated its native token XRP with its major decentralized financial tools.
2019-6-12 10:55 | |
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2019-6-11 21:03 | |
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It is not rare to see people making U-turns on their positions on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Many prominent personalities in both the financial and the sphere have gone through this route. Now it has been revealed that Marley Gray seems to be the latest victim of this trend. At Azure Blockchain Engineering, Gray serves as […]
2019-6-4 19:21 | |
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When it comes to any and all kinds of assets available to investors across the world, Bitcoin has managed to surpass in performance, any other kind of asset. according to the financial performance of BTC over the course of May, its value rose more than 60 percent – making for the highest monthly return in […]
2019-6-4 00:02 | |
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Ripple’s XRP is still recording prices below $1 despite being the third largest altcoin in the crypto market. We can see a whole variety of Altcoins surprising investors thanks to the amazing runs they are making, while XRP’s price just seems to keep its stability, not even reaching the $0.
2019-6-1 20:40 | |
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Since early 2018, a number of established financial institutions have been trying to implement blockchain-based governance platforms (into native operational frameworks) in order to streamline their internal tx’s.
2019-5-31 18:50 | |
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Crypto lender BlockFi is rolling out support for the gemini dollar (GUSD) stablecoin, claiming an expected initial annual percentage yield (APY) of 6. 2 percent for non-U.
2019-5-30 19:44 | |
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Cryptocurrency companies in the United States aren’t happy. Token issuers, exchanges, and VCs are up in arms about vague and contradictory guidance on crypto asset regulation. Should the U.
2019-5-29 00:48 | |
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Ripple-backed InstaReM, the cross-border payments company, has been making headlines consistently. Just a couple of months back, its CEO Prajit Nanu had announced plans of advancing financial inclusion by improving remittance methods.
2019-5-23 17:30 | |
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The nascent field of cryptocurrencies has been seeking major mainstream adoption, especially from financial institutions. Ripple, the native company of the third largest cryptocurrency, managed to promote its services and would provide payment services to the oldest Thai bank, Siam Commercial Bank [SCB].
2019-5-23 16:30 | |
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Grayscale Investments, a digital asset management firm, made an announcement with regard to the second largest cryptocurrency in the market, Ethereum. The platform stated that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority [FINRA] approved its Ethereum Trust, ETHE, making it the third publicly quoted investment product.
2019-5-23 16:18 | |
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Today marks the nine-year anniversary of the first ever reported transaction using Bitcoin to make a purchase. A Florida-based, early crypto supporter spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas, making history through a mundane meal purchase.
2019-5-23 23:00 | |
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Blockchain has been making a buzz for quite some time now and the ‘distributed ledger blockchain’ has been widely talked about by banks. Many of the banks and financial institutions have set up innovation labs to conduct proof of concepts to be able to harness the modern day technology around blockchain. Remittance is a fund […]
2019-5-16 20:55 | |
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Nestled in the exhibition room at this year’s Consensus conference, the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had a message for conference goers as they weaved in and out of booths representing various projects and startups in the space: “Be on the lookout for virtual currency fraud” and if you see it, let us know.
2019-5-17 19:00 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Hut 8 Mining (named after Hut 8 in Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing broke the enigma code and accelerated the end of World War II) has just filed its audited financial statements for 2018, detailing a tight but still profitable bitcoin mining business.
2019-5-10 20:04 | |
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The SALT 2019 Conference in Las Vegas was the stage at which Professor Nouriel Roubini, an economist known as Dr. Doom for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, took on crypto’s darling Mike Novogratz in a debate which ended with the two making a T-shirt bet, reported by CNBC on May 8.
2019-5-9 15:34 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] has now been around for more than a decade and its impact on the larger financial universe is significant, but by no means, has it reached its potential. Initially pedaled as a “dark web-currency,” then as an “investment vehicle” for making a quick buck, Bitcoin ushered a new way by which the world […] The post Bitcoin [BTC] in the era of the free market; should welcome crypto-competition and not chide it appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-5-6 16:30 | |
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While details have remained scarce, Facebook’s plans to create its own cryptocurrency have not exactly been secret. But with its latest announcement, Facebook looks to be developing its own stablecoin-backed payment system, The Wall Street Journal reports.
2019-5-3 11:00 | |
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Crypto security and intelligence firm CipherTrace has published its Q1 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report, revealing that exchange platforms all over the world have lost nearly $400 million as a result of hacks and thefts.
2019-5-3 17:40 | |
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Atlanta, April 30, 2019 – BitPay, the largest global blockchain payments provider, today announced Refundo, a leading provider of tax related financial products, is making federal and state tax refunds available in Bitcoin directly to taxpayers through BitPay’s Payouts.
2019-5-1 22:46 | |
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CryptoNinjas BitPay, a leading blockchain payments provider, today announced Refundo, a provider of tax-related financial products, is making U. S. federal and state tax refunds available in bitcoin (BTC) directly to taxpayers through BitPay’s Payouts.
2019-4-30 18:56 | |
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Digital currencies have been making waves for more than a decade now and the chronological evolution of this currencies is an indication that man is a dynamic being and is constantly in a bid to pave way for better living.
2019-4-29 23:45 | |
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Sensing a rise in crypto-related scams and fraudulent investment schemes, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have issued a joint warning to investors, encouraging them to take a more thorough approach to verifying potential investments in the space.
2019-4-26 18:43 | |
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More than 20 top crypto traders reportedly gathered in January for talks on making digital assets and tokens part of the global financial architecture
2019-4-26 18:02 | |
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Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.
2019-4-23 17:42 | |
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When the whole concept of Bitcoin came into the industry ten years ago, the world believed that Satoshi held a victory that Cypherpunks could not claim, making an opportunity for decentralization. The goal was to reduce the interactions with centralization and censorship, focusing on the financial freedom afforded by decentralization. Bitcoin made it possible to […]
2019-4-22 20:10 | |
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Bitcoin fund Adamant Capital is convinced that the bottom of the bear market is in, and true to its name, the firm has laid out an unwavering case for this position with some persuasive hard data and fundamental analysis.
2019-4-20 22:59 | |
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By CCN: Max Keiser is one of the earliest mainstream media proponents of bitcoin. He has consistently preached the values of bitcoin as a path to individual financial sovereignty. Bitcoin is on its Own Journey In a recent episode of the Keiser Report, his show on RT.
2019-4-17 09:06 | |
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The TradeFinex website has recently undergone some significant changes. The redesigned site highlights; achieving liquidity and interoperability of financial instruments as the main objective. With the updated TradeFinex site, the entities can mitigate counter-party risks by making their digital bonds and invoices; liquid and interoperable.
2019-4-15 18:00 | |
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"The bandit needs to be wiped out before the regular army gets in," says Flex Yang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, speaking of China's uncertain crypto regulations.
"The bandit needs to be wiped out before the regular army gets in," says Flex Yang, co-founder and CEO of Babel Finance, speaking of China's uncertain crypto regulations.
Store of value was the most viable and desirable use case across crypto in 2019 and offers a basis to increase adoption in the second decade of crypto, says Ryan Zurrer of Dialectic.
The arc of crypto bends toward regulation, so we might as well be prepared, says Gemini's risk chief and the president of the Virtual Commodities Association, Yusuf Hussain.
Libra was the seminal crypto event of 2019, says management consultant Richie Hecker. But, in its current form, it is doomed to fail.
Benjamin Noys found a link between fringe, online philosophies and digital-native currencies. Here he explains "accelerationism."
Congress isn't likely to pass crypto-favorable legislation in 2020. In the meantime, we have to hope for action from the SEC.