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Bitcoin Options Growth Outpaces Futures, Swaps
8.6.2020
Bitcoin options trading is growing faster than the futures and swaps market in 2020
What Fintech Can Learn From Elon Musk and SpaceX
8.6.2020
A decade ago, few people believed Elon Musk could pull off a manned space launch, just as skepticism surrounds fintech and crypto today. What can the financial industry learn from SpaceX, asks ConsenSys' Lex Sokolin
Why War Reporting Is the Right Mental Model for Today’s Media, Feat. Jake Hanrahan
8.6.2020
The founder of Popular Front joins NLW for a discussion about protests, media and how the people being covered tend to not reflect divisive politics
Bitcoin’s Forks Have Trounced Bitcoin This Year
8.6.2020
Bitcoin has underperformed its three major fork currencies by as much as triple-digit percentage points so far this year
Why Miner Maker Ebang’s US IPO Raises More Questions Than Answers
8.6.2020
Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Ebang wants to raise $100 million through a U.S. IPO. But that could be a risky investment, CoinDesk Research's Matt Yamamoto reports
Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Surveillance, Bitcoin Wargames, CoinMarketCap Drama
8.6.2020
The U.S. military conducted a war game involving bitcoin while Chinese police may have potentially frozen accounts linked to illicit transactions
Lithuania Is Trialing a CBDC No One Can Use – And That’s by Design
8.6.2020
The Bank of Lithuania's LBCoin digital collectible may be a gimmick, but its ambitions for blockchain tech are very, very real
Coinbase Outlines Tech Plan to Help Avert Future Outages
8.6.2020
After another traffic spike caused a temporary shut down of its exchange service and angered users, Coinbase said it's working on improvements
Pentagon War Game Envisioned a Generation-Z Rebellion Funded by Bitcoin
8.6.2020
The war game was designed in 2018 to prepare troops for future conflicts fought on computers rather than out on the field
Bitcoin Remains on Hunt for $10K as Holding Sentiment Gains Strength
8.6.2020
There are signs investors are increasingly holding bitcoin, confident that a long-term bull market lies ahead
First Mover: As Bitcoiners Eye Inflation Boost, Wall Street Sees Barely Any for Five Years
8.6.2020
Wall Street doesn't think rising inflation is likely right now – does that remove one of the reasons to invest in bitcoin?
CoinMarketCap Metric Overhaul Keeps Owner Binance at the Top
8.6.2020
CoinMarketCap's new ranking system gives Binance a perfect score, even after it was criticized for favoring its new owner last month
Illegal Miners in Russia Stole $6.6M-Worth of Electricity, Power Grid Firm Says
8.6.2020
Electricity thieves built their own illicit power stations to connect hidden mining farms with the local energy grid, a state-owned provider says
Chinese Police Freezing OTC Traders’ Bank Accounts Over ‘Tainted’ Crypto Transactions
8.6.2020
Thousands of cryptocurrency over-the-counter merchants and their clients may have been affected as police in China freeze bank accounts over tainted crypto and fiat assets
Securitize Debuts On-Chain Dividend Payouts for Lottery.com Security Token
8.6.2020
Securitize, a registered transfer agent, has facilitated the payout of dividends from blockchain-based securities for the first time
Satoshi Nakamoto
8.6.2020
Satoshi Nakamoto is inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, publishing a paper outlining it via the Cryptography Mailing List on November, 1 2008. He then released the first version of the Bitcoin software client in 2009 and participated with others on the project via mailing lists until he finally began...
Crypto Long & Short: Bitcoin’s Quiet Progress Is Pointing Toward a Better Future
7.6.2020
Noelle Acheson compares the soaring rhetoric of JP Barlow’s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace with the quiet innovation of Satoshi’s bitcoin
Mastercoin
7.6.2020
Mastercoin, rebranded as Omni in 2015, is an open source protocol layer built on top of bitcoin that enables the creation of new cryptocurrencies and assets. The project was intended to remedy what it called the two biggest barriers to bitcoin adoption: Insecurity and instability. It also claimed...
Bitrefill
7.6.2020
Bitrefill, founded in 2014 by Sergej Kotliar, allows users to purchase mobile phone credit and gift cards, and send payments through layer-two scaling solution the Lightning Network. To top up their mobile phone credit, users enter their phone number on Bitrefill’s site and select the amount...
Patrick Byrne
7.6.2020
Patrick Byrne was the CEO of Overstock.com, one of the earliest online retailers to accept bitcoin as payment. Overstock.com is the parent company of blockchain investment firm Medici Ventures and capital markets platform tZERO. Byrne bought Deals.com in 1999 and rebranded the international...