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Stellar
5.6.2020
Stellar is a blockchain-based payment protocol launched in 2014 by Jed McCaleb – founder of Mt. Gox and co-founder of Ripple – and lawyer Joyce Kim. Originally, stellar aimed to create a network of microfinance institutions in developing nations and to serve the unbanked. It later shifted toward...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Flat as Stocks Swell on Positive Jobs Report
5.6.2020
Bitcoin was dull in trading Friday as stock markets were having a big day. However, cryptocurrency stakeholders see it as a temporary market condition
Money Reimagined: The Ongoing Crisis Is Stirring a Crypto Awakening in Developing Nations
5.6.2020
Peer-to-peer bitcoin transactions are up in the developing world. This has everything to do with "QE Infinity" and could be an opening for stablecoins
SEC Moves to Freeze Assets of Alleged $12M Crypto Investment Scam
5.6.2020
The SEC is trying to freeze the assets of a cryptocurrency mining and multilevel marketing scheme that it claimed bilked investors of $12 million
Mt.Gox
5.6.2020
Launched in 2010 Mt. Gox was the world’s largest bitcoin exchange until its demise in 2014. By 2013, the Japan-based exchange was handling 70 percent of all bitcoin trades worldwide, but collapsed in 2014 after it was revealed that it had lost 744,408 of its customers’ bitcoins and 100,000 of...
Pantera Capital
5.6.2020
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency companies. Based in Menlo Park, CA, Pantera was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead and originally focused on global macro hedge fund investments. The firm shifted its focus to the blockchain industry...
Dan Larimer
5.6.2020
Dan Larimer is a software programmer and entrepreneur who played a role in the creation of multiple blockchain projects including Steem, Bitshares, and EOS. Larimer is the creator of the delegated-proof-of-stake (DPoS) consensus model, in which elected delegates validate transactions and create...
Bitstamp
5.6.2020
Founded in 2011, Bitstamp is a Europe-based cryptocurrency exchange that offers crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto exchange services. It supports euros, U.S. dollars, bitcoin, ether, litecoin, bitcoin cash, and XRP. It is one of the oldest exchanges in the crypto industry. Bitstamp claims to take...
The Biggest Realignment in the US-China Relationship Since Nixon, Feat. Graham Webster
5.6.2020
How one of the world’s most important geopolitical relationships came to be what it is in 2020
Blockchain Capital
5.6.2020
Founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens, Bradford Stephens and Brock Pierce, Blockchain Capital is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the blockchain industry. General Partner Spencer Bogart joined the firm in 2017. Formerly known as Crypto Currency Partners, Blockchain Capital has invested in over...
Bitcoin News Roundup for June 5, 2020
5.6.2020
It's bulls on parade as analysts see upward momentum for bitcoin. Here's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast
Crypto Derivatives Exchange OKEx Launches Options on Ether
5.6.2020
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx rolled out option contracts on Ethereum’s ether (ETH) token on Thursday, ending the Panama-based Deribit’s virtual monopoly in the space
How Bitcoin Fits Into Lebanon’s Banking Crisis
5.6.2020
Lebanon's crisis has been raging for years, but the devaluation of the Lebanese pound and a global downturn has made stable financial services even more urgent
Blockchain Bites: Why UN and Federal Reserve Experts Think CBDCs Could Kill Commercial Banking
5.6.2020
U.N. and Federal Reserve experts think CBDCs can compete with commercial banks, New York and France enter a regulatory agreement while Europol has Wasabi Wallet concerns
Digital Currencies Could Replace Low-Interest Bank Accounts, Says UN Expert
5.6.2020
Low-interest rates have removed one of the few remaining incentives for holding a bank account, meaning digital currency could be a better alternative, argues a UN expert
New York, French Finance Watchdogs Open Doors for Each Other’s Fintech Startups
5.6.2020
The New York State Department of Financial Services and its French regulatory counterpart will work to "ease the entry" for fintech innovators into their respective markets
First Mover: Bloomberg’s Pie-in-the-Sky Bitcoin Call Looks Directionally Defensible
5.6.2020
The $20,000 in 2020 prediction may be overly optimistic, but analysts agree bitcoin is likely heading north
Bullishness Building in Bitcoin Options Market, Data Suggests
5.6.2020
Option traders look to be placing bets for a continued upward move in bitcoin
Bitfinex Spin-Out Says Funds Are Lining Up for Its New Decentralized Exchange
5.6.2020
DeversiFi says it has received interest in its DEX's privacy features from more 70 funds
The Free Market Will Determine Cardano’s Fate: IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson
5.6.2020
A high token price gives a project crucial staying power, Hoskinson tells CoinDesk