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Bitfinex Faces Legal Action From NY Attorney General: Here’s What This Means

The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million. дальше »

2019-4-27 01:30


French Far-Right Leader Marine Le Pen Faces Imprisonment for Anti-ISIS Tweets

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces three years imprisonment and a possibly €75,000 ($90,000) fine over tweets she shared four years ago showing ISIS atrocities. The 50-year-old former presidential candidate, President of the National Rally political party (previously named National Front), is being prosecuted for distributing violent images, few weeks after the Paris terror attacks in November 2015, where 130 people were killed, according to reports. дальше »

2019-3-8 10:52


Asteroid-powered volcanoes killed the dinosaurs, scientists say

It’s almost 40 years since scientists discovered what wiped out the dinosaurs: an asteroid hitting Earthnear modern-dayMexico. That was it, or so we thought. A paper published today in Science further supports an alternative hypothesis: that catastrophic events following the impact could have helped cause the end of the dinosaurs and many other forms of life. дальше »

2019-2-27 17:57


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This YC-backed college alternative doesn’t want your tuition checks (unless you land a high-paying job)

Before the cap even lands after graduation, American students are met with a stark realization: they owe someone, somewhere, a lot of money. Worse, their degree offers few assurances. While colleges have proven great at cashing tuition checks, many fall well short of serviceable in terms of job placement. дальше »

2019-2-7 01:34


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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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What Is Cryptocurrency? “Jeopardy!” Features Entire Category on Crypto

Is cryptocurrency becoming more mainstream? It could be if one of America’s most prominent game shows features an entire category devoted to it. The November 29, 2018, episode of “Jeopardy!” — which has been on the air since 1964 — offered five unique questions centered around cryptocurrencies and their technology to test out its contestants’ knowledge on the subject: The results reveal that they did indeed know their fair share. дальше »

2018-12-1 22:18


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US man faces 5 years in prison for unlicensed trading of over $3.2M in Bitcoin

An American man has fessed up in front of federal court judges, pleading guilty for operating an “unlicensed money transmitting business. ” A Department of Justics (DoJ) published a press release yesterday that details how Jacob Burrell Campos has been selling “hundres of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin to over 1,000 customers” across the United States. дальше »

2018-10-30 16:22


Peru Shows Signs of “Accelerated Growth” in Crypto Trading

Latin America has turned out to be one of the most promising markets for cryptocurrencies around the world, with a dizzying growth in recent years. According to data from various sources, although other countries have a higher user base, the growth rate of some South American countries far exceeds that of other nations in the […] The post Peru Shows Signs of “Accelerated Growth” in Crypto Trading appeared first on Ethereum World News. дальше »

2018-8-5 09:04


Famed Economist Paul Krugman Criticizes Bitcoin [Again], Predicting ‘Total Collapse’

Paul Krugman Criticizes Bitcoin, Projecting It Will “Set the Monetary System Back 300 Years” American Economist, Paul Krugman, who’s known for actively criticizing Bitcoin, went at it again noting that its like will negatively disrupt the monetary system, with higher chances of its presence stimulating a downgrade to the growth it has achieved thus far. […] дальше »

2018-7-31 19:51


US Nobel Prize Winner Says Bitcoin Is An ‘Epidemic of Enthusiasm’

Nine years after the start of the Bitcoin ledger, the digital asset has finally gathered widespread attention, including from Nobel economics prize winners. Robert Shiller, an American Nobel Laureate and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, who has commented on cryptocurrencies on previous occasions, said Bitcoin is an ‘epidemic of enthusiasm. дальше »

2018-6-27 22:00


Ripple to invest $2 million for blockchain research in University of Texas

Ripple Labs, the American technology company whose payment protocol is Ripple [XRP], has decided to invest $2 million, over a period of five years, in blockchain technology research by funding the McCombs School of Business, one of the schools at The University of Texas, Austin. It is the oldest public schools of business in all […] дальше »

2018-6-16 07:17


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