2019-5-15 12:00 |
Blockchains offer potential solutions to deep-seated problems in society, but their own governance issues need to be solved first, writes Pindar Wong.
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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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Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
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Today, May 2, 2019, marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 18. 0, the 18th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakomoto almost 10 years ago, and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2019-5-3 16:02 | |
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In an affidavit containing the subheading "Tether Holders Are Not at Risk,” Stuart Hoegner, a lawyer representing Tether, admits that the company only has the fiat reserves to back about 74 percent of its coins.
2019-5-1 21:04 | |
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DUO Network, a growing platform that aims to build a trustless derivatives marketplace, has announced the token pre-sale for BitMax. io (BTMX. com) users from 8:00 a. m. EDT, Apr 27th, 2019 to 9:00 a.
2019-4-24 10:41 | |
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The field of digital asset trading has been heavily “dominated” by cryptocurrency exchanges, even though the over the counter (OTC) market is significantly larger. The problems of liquidity and fast settlements has brought about problems to large money investors in the field when using exchanges hence the need for OTC market brokers and traders to […]
2019-4-17 19:18 | |
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The leader of the group representing victims of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox is stepping down from his post. The founder and coordinator of Mt. Gox Legal, Andy Pag, is resigning in the midst of a “legal quagmire that could take years to resolve,” he told CoinDesk in an interview.
2019-4-9 14:35 | |
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Ethereum’s Community Issues Need Fixing Before Upgrades The Ethereum Blockchain Platform has been listed by Medium as one of the blockchain platforms to watch in 2019, noting that it has been dominating the smart-contract realm since 2015.
2019-4-8 19:54 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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Over the years, Bitcoin has gained a reputation for having a “toxic” community of users around it. This accusation is mostly thrown at Bitcoin by proponents of altcoins and those who have supported various Bitcoin hard fork attempts in the past.
2019-4-5 16:23 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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QuadrigaCX monitor Ernst & Young suspects that the beleaguered exchange’s late CEO, Gerald Cotten, may have been financing personal expenditures with company funds, and it is now recommending that the assets in Cotten’s estate be placed under a preservation order.
2019-4-3 01:19 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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What would you call an organization that is sitting atop a game-changing regulatory framework for more than a year but couldn’t submit a single proposal nevertheless? Incompetent, perhaps. It is precisely what the Interministerial Committee (IMC) has become: an incompetent group of administrators and ministers that cannot decide what it wants to do with new technologies.
2019-3-29 13:26 | |
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The cryptocurrency industry and Bitcoin arose out of the need for consumers to be saved from the financial disaster that was America in 2009. The proponents have long lauded cryptocurrency as the potential solution for eliminating the issues associated with fiat currency.
2019-3-25 17:07 | |
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Like any currency, cryptos need a place to be stored by people. As the technical equivalent of fiat personal storage, these digital and hardware storages are aptly called e-wallets. With a large number of wallets for cryptocurrencies in the market, the selection process for users relies on the level of security, ease of access and use case.
2019-3-25 09:29 | |
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Headlines over the past several days have been dominated by stories about problematic content on major platforms, and the harrowing task of policing them. The most recent bit of news comes from YouTube, which noted that it’s now disabled comments of tens of millions of videos featuring minors, in an effort to prevent predatory behavior in the comments section of these clips.
2019-3-1 12:51 | |
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Bitcoin has an interesting reputation, especially because people are constantly questioning its value as money. Of course, this is a common misconception for the following reasons. First, Bitcoin is a means of exchange that once used as a form of payment, it cannot be reversed.
2019-2-18 17:49 | |
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The odds of a recession are rapidly going up, and U. S. stock market investors need to be on notice. Vanguard CIO Issues Bleak Forecast for U. S. Stock Market Investors who’ve been rolling in the money because of the decade-long bull market may need to start making some adjustments to their strategies.
2019-2-13 23:32 | |
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Leading Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare has reportedly laid off almost a third of its staff. The news comes after at least five other trading platforms found themselves in trouble during the past month.
2019-2-5 00:25 | |
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Tokenized securities have been one of the biggest trends in the last few years, and while a lot of progress has been made in this regard, there is still a lot of issues that need to be addressed. What Are Tokenized Securities? “Tokenized securities” is a term that is used for crypto assets that represent […]
2019-1-15 22:16 | |
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Lawmakers from Colorado are looking to introduce legislation that would exempt cryptocurrencies from current securities laws. Last week, Stephen Fenberg (Democrat) and Jack Tate (Republican) together filed the “Colorado Digital Token Act” – spotted by CoinDesk.
2019-1-7 16:13 | |
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Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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It can be hard explaining bitcoin to people who don’t understand it. And it’s not just bitcoin alone. It’s the cryptocurrency, blockchain and distributed ledger thing. For most newbies, it can be both convoluted and confusing.
2018-12-17 04:29 | |
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You need wise counsel when dealing with crypto tax issues. Learn the skills needed to steer clear of crypto tax troubles. The post Eight Things You Need to Know About Crypto Taxes appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-12-12 16:54 | |
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As chairman and co-founder of the Social Alpha Foundation (SAF), Nydia Zhang has left a solid mark on the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, though, as a young art student at the University of Washington in 2011, blockchain was far from the direction she saw her life taking.
2018-12-6 18:13 | |
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For nearly a decade, participants in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space have operated in a regulatory compliance gray zone. Recent developments — at both the federal and international levels — signal that the time for plausible deniability or unregulated freedom is coming to an end and more traditional regulations are moving to the forefront.
2018-12-3 19:20 | |
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WhatsApp has faced a lot of criticism for the way it’s handled fake news in India. In its latest move to battle misinformation, the company has launched three TV commercials in India to spread awareness about the issue amongst its users in the country.
2018-12-3 15:14 | |
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On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
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Speaking at the ongoing CoinDesk's Consensus Invest conference in New York, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton spoke on why his agency hasn’t yet approved a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2018-11-29 21:56 | |
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News outlet, AMB Crypto, recently reported an in depth look at U. S SEC Commissioner, Hester Peirce’s opposition regarding the Winklevoss Twins’ proposed exchange-traded fund (ETF), which was supposedly shared via a podcast episode dubbed, “What Bitcoin Did.
2018-11-26 17:05 | |
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Honeysuckle White is giving family and friends gathering for Thanksgiving dinner this year the opportunity to talk turkey with a traceable blockchain code on more than 200,000 turkeys sold through 3,500 retailers around the U.
2018-11-23 00:52 | |
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Smart Contracts Are Not Smart Contracts? Queen Mary, London, and Cambridge Universities have published a collaborative paper that suggests lawmakers will need to face a number of legal issues that impact blockchain technology if it is to become a part of the private sector in the future.
2018-11-22 19:28 | |
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I love SCUF controllers. Or, more accurately, I love all of them but this one. As the proud owner of two of the Infinity4PS Pro models, it was always an easy recommendation to make for anyone looking to drop their hard-earned cash on a premium product.
2018-11-16 04:22 | |
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The blockchain is diversifying and thriving, yet it’s no longer possible to ignore the elephant in the room: scalability. Scalability in the blockchain industry is an issue that needs to be addressed when talking about the technology’s future.
2018-11-15 19:17 | |
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Agents of the Indian government have met to formally discuss a possible ban on private cryptocurrency holdings in the nation. On October 30, 2018, the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) issued a press release detailing their recent meeting where they “reviewed the current global and domestic economic situation and financial sector performance.
2018-11-1 22:37 | |
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Esprezzo is a platform that is building a mobile and web-development platform. With this service, users can build faster and smarter blockchain applications to enhance their business. Better yet, those who use the platform need not have extensive knowledge on how blockchains work or building blockchains from scratch. The y also need not have knowledge […]
2018-10-26 20:13 | |
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First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete.
2018-10-24 22:00 | |
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If blockchain-based identity platform Civic is to go mainstream, then making it simple for as many businesses and consumers as possible to start using its app will be key.
2018-10-23 20:50 | |
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Trading structures such as exchanges have been part of financial structures for centuries and support traditional financial products. With the arrival of cryptocurrencies traditional fiat-exchanges are under tremendous pressure.
2018-10-18 10:21 | |
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Most Ethereum enthusiasts will have noticed the activation of the Constantinople hard fork on the testnet hasn’t gone off without a hitch. Major issues occurred when the Ropsten testnet stalled.
2018-10-15 05:02 | |
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Earlier this week, the teams behind the TRON Foundation and BitGuild announced their first game to be added onto the TRON blockchain called Magic Academy. The fiction game will allow users to barter and haggle gaming items as well as buying upgrades for their items and so much more.
2018-10-11 08:00 | |
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You don’t need to be an agriculture expert to see the writing on the wall. Current farming methods just aren’t working anymore for most farmers of the world. There are 2 billion smallholder farms managing fewer than five acres (PDF).
2018-10-9 20:10 | |
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The world of cryptocurrencies has had one big problem in adoption arising from the connectivity issues on the internet. The off chain transaction system has taken up a rise in overall development as more blockchain platforms adopt the idea of sending cryptocurrencies without the need for an internet connection over data or Wi-Fi. One of […]
2018-10-9 19:58 | |
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Financial savings have long been the foundation of wealth and asset building. However, we are now in a time when the growing obsolescence of financial institutions has forced certain technologies out of date, created high fees, revealed structural inefficiencies and, ultimately, meant that some standard investment solutions now fail to place consumer needs first.
2018-10-6 16:37 | |
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Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.
2018-10-4 20:51 | |
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Avoiding ads in today’s world is difficult. But as the number of ads shown to us daily increases, so does the amount of ad fraud. The digital marketing industry is in dire need of a fraud protection mechanism that can help save consumers, as well as legitimate advertisers, from issues.
2018-9-29 15:59 | |
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After months of pressure on Facebook over issues of data privacy, it seems that Mark Zuckerberg’s empire still isn’t protecting personal data or giving full clarity on how data is used. One report indicates Facebook is allowing advertisers to use “shadow” contact information. Where is blockchain tech when we need it?
2018-9-29 00:46 | |
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In a talk with Coinspeaker, B2Broker’s CEO explained the main issues of the cryptocurrency market and covered the key challenges of launching a new fintech project. The post Founder of B2Broker, Arthur Azizov: Finteсh Startups Do Not Need to Reinvent the Wheel appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-9-27 02:27 | |
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Ethereum Foundation (EF) is considering implementing a formal conflict of interest policy following backlash over two prominent developers joining EigenLayer as advisors. Executive director Aya Miyaguchi addressed the issue in a social media post, emphasizing the importance of maintaining credible neutrality within the organization.
The island-country’s digital minister has radical ideas for using open-source technology to provide public goods. Her approach is called Plurality and it’s gaining attention across the world. Daniel Kuhn meets her.
Scott Sunshine discusses how advisors can leverage blockchain-based governance to enhance trust, improve accountability, streamline operations and unlock new investment opportunities for their clients.
The upgrade would reward UNI token holders who staked and delegated their tokens, according to the proposal.
The low-latency oracle network's new "strategic partners" include Castle Island Ventures, Multicoin Capital and Wintermute Ventures. They could play a major role in shaping how the platform evolves.
Llama aims to make governance of blockchain protocols more effective by enabling protocols to encode roles and permissions to take on-chain actions.
The U.S. crypto exchange’s ‘Base Neutrality Principles’ are a series of guidelines aimed at maintaining a decentralized and neutral blockchain, according to a blog post.