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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 […]
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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 […]
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(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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]