Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Fix Issued For ‘Serious’ Bitcoin Wallet Security Threat Bitcoin hacks and thefts have exploded since bitcoin’s epic 2017 bull run saw the price balloon to around $20,000. The bitcoin price has fallen by more than half since its late-2017 all-time high but bitcoin users remain a popular target for hackers. Now, researchers have warned “millions” of bitcoin users might have been exposed by […] Written by July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Crypto Bull Anthony Pompliano Just Convinced Comedian Bill Burr To Buy Bitcoin Bitcoin and cryptocurrency interest has boomed over recent months—pushed on by an unprecedented global central bank stimulus response to the coronavirus crisis. Bitcoin advocates have criticized government and Federal Reserve-led central bank measures, with some high profile investors turning to bitcoin as an inflation hedge. Now, comedian Bill Burr, one of the world’s biggest comics […] Written by July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology $5.3 Billion Hedge Fund Expands Bitcoin Mining Investment Bitcoin cryptocurrency representation is seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on June 18, … [+] 2020 (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Core Scientific announced yesterday that the hedge fund and investment manager Horizon Kinetics increased its partnership with the U.S. based blockchain hosting provider. Horizon upgraded its cryptocurrency […] Written by July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Estonian Crypto Exchange Will Provide Mined Twitter Sentiment Data For Its Traders Business woman and her collegues sitting front laptop computer with financial graphs and statistics … [+] on monitor. Double exposure Getty What if crypto exchange users were able to get their hands on meaningful market sentiment data free of charge? It appears that this is now possible and would give traders a competitive edge as […] Written by July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Bitcoin As A Payment System — Crypto Cards And The Rocky Road They Travel (Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The financial space was rocked by the news that German fintech group Wirecard filed for insolvency owing €3.5bn. Not only a financial failure but also a seemingly “elaborate and sophisticated fraud,” according to EY, the company’s auditor for more than a […] Written by July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Bitcoin Demand Drives $1.4 Billion Ransomware Industry In The U.S. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Imagine going to your car, and finding that you are unable to unlock the doors or start the engine. Then you notice a message on your phone. It’s a ransom note indicating that your automobile has been locked down and taken hostage. You are required to send bitcoin to an […] Written by July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Equities Buoy Bitcoin, But Price Headwinds Are Unchanged Data analyzing in trading market. Working set for analyzing financial statistics and analyzing a … [+] market data. Data analyzing from charts and graph to find out the result. Getty Earlier today, Pfizer PFE reported that its early stage Covid-19 vaccine trials have produced optimistic results. The news sent equities and bitcoin higher, while dropping […] Written by July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Equities Buoy Bitcoin, But Price Headwinds Are Unchanged Data analyzing in trading market. Working set for analyzing financial statistics and analyzing a … [+] market data. Data analyzing from charts and graph to find out the result. Getty Earlier today, Pfizer PFE reported that its early stage Covid-19 vaccine trials have produced optimistic results. The news sent equities and bitcoin higher, while dropping […] Written by July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Has Blockchain Hit The Wall? Has Blockchain hit the Wall?For investors, fintechs and enterprises thinking about using blockchain, … [+] there are a number of issues to consider, in addition to return on investment BLOOMBERG NEWS It was 4 o’clock in the morning and I had just spent another sleepless hour with a vital business challenge going round and round […] Written by July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Crypto Custody Firm Curv Raises $23 Million In Series A Crypto custody firm closed a Series A funding round that raised $23 million. (Photo Illustration by … [+] Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Curv, a startup that provides crypto custody services to institutions, recently brought in $23 million during a Series A funding round, drawing investment from industry players such as […] Written by July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology 1,600 ICOs Give Insight Into Future Of Capital Raises Michał Dzieliński, Assistant Professor at Stockholm Business School and Program Chair of the Future … [+] of Financial Information Conference, where the paper was recently presented. PlutaGRAPHY by Marcin Pluta While reviewing more than 1600 English speaking Whitepapers on Initial Coin Offering (ICO) campaigns that took place between January 2017 and December 2018, researchers from […] Written by July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Ethereum Is Going To The Moon Getty You have to use phrases like “Ethereum Is Going To The Moon” because we are after all talking about cryptocurrency, the bad boy of the financial world. I’ve never been a fan of Ethereum because it is a “bag ‘o nails as far as I can see. Ethereum is a wonderful mess and when […] Written by July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology U.S. Moves Closer To Digital Dollar On June 30th, 2020, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on the future of the digital dollar. The pressures to create a digital USD are mounting as China recently began testing its own digital currency – the DCEP, which will be included in popular applications like WeChat and AliPay. Of particular concern is widespread […] Written by July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology $190 Million Bitcoin Fund Tied To Former ‘Sheriff Of Wall Street’ Solidifies Role As Institutional Leader Benjamin Lawsky, then-superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, speaks … [+] during a Senate hearing in April 2015. Lawsky now works at a company with ties to what appears to be a new leader in institutional cryptocurrency investing. AP Photo/Mike Groll New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) today disclosed, in an […] Written by June 30, 2020June 30, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Open Apps Must Embrace, Extend, And Innovate On Platform Monopolies In recent years, blockchain technology has grown and developed well beyond cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether: distributed ledger technology has already seen viable use cases in finance, not just in the peer-to-peer crypto transactions, but also in data management and identity verification, and industries from mining to retail to shipping have embraced blockchain for […] Written by June 30, 2020June 30, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Crypto In Crisis? Lewis Cohen And Greg Strong Share Their Views On Recent Lawsuits DLx Law DLx Law The tide has turned in the crypto industry. The stories in the press concerning announcements of new protocols have increasingly been replaced with announcements around enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission as they have clamped down on historical Initial Coin Offerings which have now mostly been deemed to have […] Written by June 29, 2020June 29, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Digital Dollar Project In Light Of Recent Congressional Hearings The Digital Dollar Project released a whitepaper last month. The Digital Dollar Project (DPP) is a partnership of the Digital Dollar Foundation, a not-for-profit, and Accenture. The DPP team consists of the former chairman of the CFTC, Chris Giancarlo, his brother, entrepreneur Charles Giancarlo, David Treat, who is a senior managing director at Accenture, and […] Written by June 29, 2020June 29, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Cryptocurrency Is Strengthened By Space Exploration In this image taken from NASA TV video, the SpaceX Dragon crew capsule, with NASA astronauts Doug … [+] Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken aboard docks with the International Space Station Sunday, May 31, 2020. It was the first time a privately built and owned spacecraft carried astronauts to the orbiting lab in its nearly […] Written by June 29, 2020June 29, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Ctrl + Alt + Delete … The Unwritten Rules (And Risks) Of Crypto Journalism Ctrl + Alt + Delete … The Unwritten Rules (And Risks) Of Crypto Journalism Getty As a contributor on the crypto space, I found this story troubling as it highlights the somewhat volatile journalism practices in the digital era that put crypto journalists at risk. Last week an influential blogger known as Scott Alexander deleted […] Written by June 29, 2020June 29, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Top Banks Say Gold May See A Record Rally By 2021—Why Bitcoin Can Too Top banks expect a gold rally in 2021, buoyed by three major factors. BLOOMBERG NEWS Morgan Stanley MS , JPMorgan JPM , and Goldman Sachs GSBD all foresee the gold price rallying by 2021. According to a research paper from Bloomberg, the precious metal’s uptrend can fuel a Bitcoin upsurge. In a paper entitled “June […] Written by June 28, 2020June 28, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Tesla Needs The Bitcoin Lightning Network For Its Autonomous ‘Robotaxi’ Fleet Illustration of generating artificial lightning in Nikola Tesla’s laboratory. Tesla, the technology … [+] company, should implement the Bitcoin Lightning Network as the primary payment rail for its Robotaxi autonomous fleet. Bettmann Archive Ever since Tesla TSLA announced its plan for an autonomous “Robotaxi” ride-sharing network in April 2019, the company propelled itself beyond just […] Written by June 28, 2020June 28, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Crypto Industry Now In Post-Dotcom Bubble Territory, Trading Expert Says Crypto’s atmosphere currently looks like the period following the dotcom bubble’s bursting, Paul … [+] Eisma, Head of Trading at XBTO Group, explained. Getty Hosting a booming period of online creation and technological advancement, the late 90s saw the tech bubble expand to staggering heights, only to pop shortly after the new millennium began. Speculative […] Written by June 27, 2020June 27, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Nasdaq’s New Platform Backed By R3, Symbiont And Microsoft May Not Be What You Think It Is NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 07: A view of Nasdaq in Times Square (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) Getty Images Yesterday the exchange giant Nasdaq announced the launch of its SaaS based digital asset suite named the Marketplace Services platform. As the exchange giant is best known for its technology oriented public stock market […] Written by June 27, 2020June 27, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology How Bitcoin May See An Unexpected Boost From A DeFi Token Bubble Burst Night Takeoff Of The American Space Shuttle. 3D Illustration. Getty Decentralized finance—better known as “DeFi”—has become a buzzword in the cryptocurrency industry over recent weeks. Migrating financial services to a decentralized platform has been viewed by many as a killer use case for cryptocurrency, specifically Ethereum. Jon Jordan, communications director at DappRadar, said in an […] Written by June 27, 2020June 27, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Acting Comptroller Of The ‘Cryptocurrency’ Brian Brooks To Unveil New Payments Charter June 26, 2020 10:30pm ET This article is updated with the correct spelling of Amy Luo, a leading crypto and blockchain attorney at Coinbase, who shared her opinions on the new Charter in her personal capacity. Yesterday, the new Acting Comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) revealed to the American […] Written by June 27, 2020June 27, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Kraken Granted $150k To Open Source Bitcoin Project BTCPay Kraken’s $150k grant is the largest ever received by the open source project BTCPay Server. BTCPay One of the Bitcoin ecosystem’s most highly-regarded open source projects just bagged another substantial grant to build out its technology stack. BTCPay Server, a self-hosted Bitcoin payment processor and technology solution, is the recipient of a $150,000 grant (paid […] Written by June 26, 2020June 26, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Pandemic Privacy Concerns Give Blockchain Its Day In The Sun cyber-camera-enews stock photo The persistence of the Covid-19 pandemic has led governments and companies to resort to the unthinkable: increased surveillance. In Beijing, which on June 11 marked its first new case after two months, authorities utilized geo-spatial information collected through mobile tracking devices in people’s smartphones to identify and isolate potential virus carriers. To […] Written by June 26, 2020June 26, 2020
CoronaVirus Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology How The World’s Largest Crypto Exchange Is Using Blockchain For Covid Relief “The pandemic has changed the world as we know it; it will never be the same again. And in this new world, we believe crypto will play an ever increasing role.” – CZ, Founder and CEO of Binance It is no secret that Binance is the largest and most used crypto exchange in the world, […] Written by imesocial June 25, 2020June 25, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology Legendary Investor Jim Rogers Warns Governments Will Have To ‘Eliminate’ Bitcoin Bitcoin has made its fair share of enemies since it was created a little over ten years ago. The bitcoin price, soaring to around $20,000 per bitcoin in late 2017, thrust cryptocurrencies into the global limelight, prompting governments to clamp down on their use and companies such as Facebook to create their own. Now, legendary […] Written by imesocial June 25, 2020June 25, 2020
Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology New Bitcoin Mining Machines Hit US As Major Firm Inks Deal With Bitmain An Antminer ASIC mining machine produced by Bitmain. © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP A principal player in North America’s Bitcoin mining sector just inked a deal for a mammoth import of next generation mining equipment from Malaysia, a move in step with other North American mining companies which are scaling operations to compete with their […] Written by imesocial June 25, 2020June 25, 2020