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Bitcoin.com Joins the Coinex Chain Pre-Election Node Process
26.10.2019
Trading platform Coinex recently announced the creation of a public decentralized exchange (dex) blockchain that leverages the consensus protocols Tendermint and the Cosmos SDK. This month, up until the mainnet launch, Coinex is in the midst of its pre-election process with new node participants...
CoinEx Chain Elects New Node Partners
16.10.2019
Hosted by CoinEx Chain Foundation, “CoinEx Chain Global Nodes Election Launch Conference” was successfully held in Shenzhen on Oct 16. The conference marked the official launch of CoinEx Chain’s nodes election. More than 500 blockchain practitioners, including investors, KOLs, technical...
CoinEx Chain Set to Launch Global Nodes Election
9.10.2019
The CoinEx Foundation is all set to unveil the “CoinEx Chain Global Nodes Election” for promoting the mass adoption and strengthening the technical development of the CoinEx Chain. The Foundation has decided to hold the launch conference on October 16, 2019, in Shenzhen, wherein the global...
Politicians Can Use Cryptocurrency Donations to Fund Election Campaigns in Japan
7.10.2019
Cryptocurrencies have to keep outside of the purview of Japan’s stringent election funding law, which states that donations to individual candidates in yen or through stocks, bonds, etc. have to be reported either by the donor or the candidate receiving it. Japan’s Ministry of Internal...
Hyperledger Blockchain Group Weighs Changes to Fix Election Issues
7.10.2019
The blockchain consortium’s powerful technical steering committee is discussing changes to its elections process to boost voter turnout and more
Shots Fired as Nancy Pelosi Challenger Bacelar Funds Campaign With Crypto
2.10.2019
27-year-old Agatha Bacelar is a Brazilian-American immigrant from a STEM background, and she’s targeting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s seat in the California Congress (CA-12) in the next election cycle. Her campaign is seeking to raise $1 million in crypto (BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC...
Bitcoin Cash-Accepting Mayoral Candidate ‘Nobody’ Hosts Keene’s 420 Rally
25.9.2019
There’s an individual called ‘Nobody’ competing to be the next mayor of Keene, the libertarian enclave and crypto mecca located in New Hampshire. On September 21, the bitcoin cash-accepting mayoral candidate announced the 10th anniversary of the annual 420 Rally will be held this...
The HPB’s 5th Node Election has Declared Huobi Pool as a Successful Node!
20.9.2019
Another feather in Huobi Pool’s Hat! The world-known Huobi Pool has recently become a Node. The results came out after HPB’s fifth node election. Huobi Pool is already known for its standard-setting excellence in the field such as staking pool, mining pools that umbrellas domains such as Proof...
As Snap Election Hopes Fade, Boris Johnson Shifts Focus to EU Deal
7.9.2019
Around three years ago, the United Kingdom used to be one of the world’s leading economies and was all set to grow for the foreseeable future. However, the Brexit referendum changed all that, as the people of the country voted to leave the European Union. The referendum plunged the country into...
Argentina’s Peso Collapse Shows Governments Shouldn’t Control Money
15.8.2019
Whenever bitcoin experiences a sharp drop or volatility, mainstream media analysts jump to declare that cryptocurrency isn’t stable enough to be considered money. The double-digit crash of the Argentine peso in one day, simply due to an election in the country, can be said to prove the same...
Andrew Yang Super PAC Will Accept Lightning-Powered Bitcoin Donations
25.7.2019
Supporters of presidential candidate Andrew Yang can now send bitcoin donations to a new super PAC via the Lightning Network
US Election Authority Set to Approve Congressional Candidate’s Plan to Issue Ethereum Token
10.7.2019
A candidate for Congress wants to reward campaign volunteers and participants with an ethereum-based token. FEC officials are set to give their approval
A History of Violent Intervention: John McAfee to Help Cuba Resist US Sanctions With Crypto
10.7.2019
Former antivirus software guru and 2020 Libertarian presidential “hopeful” John McAfee is a controversial figure, polarizing opinion in politics and culture, and taking a bold stand against the U.S. federal government. Most recently this has involved offering to help the Cuban state...
Facebook and Microsoft Pledge to Help Canada Conduct a Clean Election
28.5.2019
Fake news, automated accounts, and targeted advertising of spurious content to Facebook users have been some of the biggest problems that have affected elections in many democracies across the world, over the past few years. The internet was weaponized in a devastating fashion as the flow of wrong...
Bitcoin Hits All-Time High Versus Argentine Peso Amid Presidential Election Risks
27.5.2019
Bitcoin prices versus the Argentine peso have hit an all-time high, as major investors are concerned about the pesos future should a populist candidate carry the elections
Indian Rupee Rises by 47 Paise Against the Dollar Following Election Results
24.5.2019
When it comes to the markets, stability is something that investors crave, and that is exactly what happened with the elections in India this year. Back in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party had come power on the back of a thumping majority but in 2019, it came back to power with an even greater...
Rep. Eric Swalwell Is Accepting Crypto Donations in Bid for US Presidency
23.5.2019
Rep. Eric Swalwell is accepting donations in six cryptocurrencies to support his bid for the U.S. presidency in 2020
Crypto Markets Turn Red, Indian Stock Markets Post Record Highs Amid Election Results
23.5.2019
Following a mild correction which began yesterday, crypto markets have today tipped into deeper red with bitcoin (BTC) today dropping below the $7,600 mark
Startup Veil Forks Augur to Create Prediction Markets for 2020 Election
17.5.2019
Veil says no one has been able to support long-running markets on Augur, so they're creating AugurLite for early bets on the presidential election
ConsenSys CEO Predicts Trump Re-Election, Facebook Breakup and Crypto Revival
12.5.2019
To close out the Ethereal Summit, ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin delivered a keynote address from the year 2047 that foretold social crisis and the rise of Web 3