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Crypto News From the Spanish-Speaking World: Week in Review
24.8.2019
This week on Cointelegraph en Español: a review of the top news stories from the Spanish-speaking world
The Push to Kill Cash – Australia’s Proposed Ban Shows It’s Not Conspiracy Theory
23.8.2019
The supposed coordination of governments and tech companies to create a one-world, cashless society is often viewed as little more than fodder for silly Youtube conspiracy videos. After all, cash is still king in daily life, even in extremely high-tech, innovative societies like Japan. Upon closer...
Smokescreens and Mirrors: How Does a Country Do an ICO? They Call It QE
22.8.2019
Financial regulators all around the world have been cracking down hard on ICOs for promising more than they can deliver. At the same time governments and central banks are pulling off far worse scams, such as QE, wiping out the savings of everyone that depends on them. To hide this fact they...
Report Says That World at Risk Due to Amazon and Microsoft’s Killer AI
22.8.2019
Over the past decades, it has been seen that the biggest tech companies in the world coming up with revolutionary technologies that eventually find use in a wide range of industries. Artificial intelligence or AI is the latest frontier as far as technology and naturally, some of the tech giants...
The World Bank’s Blockchain Bond Is Just a Fancy Way of Selling Debt
21.8.2019
Last year the World Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced a permissioned Ethereum-based blockchain to facilitate the end-to-end issuance of bonds between financial partners. The Bretton Woods-created financial institution hopes to make debt capital markets far more efficient with...
PR: Kinesis Partners With Hardware Wallet Provider CoolbitX
21.8.2019
Kinesis is proud to announce a partnership with CoolBitX Technology, the developers of the world’s first credit card-sized hardware wallet, the CoolWallet S. This partnership will enable Kinesis digital currencies, KAU (1-gram gold) and KAG (1-ounce silver), along with the Kinesis Velocity Token...
The World Bank Sells Additional 33.8 Million USD of Its Private ETH Blockchain Bonds
20.8.2019
According to the latest buzz, the World Bank has successfully issued the 2nd bout of its iconic blockchain bonds. Additional 50 million Australian dollars (worth about 33.8 million United States Dollars) have been raised by the Bank. It was accomplished through sales of the bond-i (debt instrument...
Additional $34 Million Raises By World Bank’s Blockchain Bond
20.8.2019
World Bank Blockchain bond has been making a mark in the industry for a long time. Moreover, it has managed to gain the confidence of the investors since the beginning. To no surprise, it has further raised $34 million in the industry. This money has been raised for the Kangaroo bond that is due...
How to Bequeath Your Digital Assets to Your Descendants
20.8.2019
Depending on your belief system, death is either the endgame or the next level. Whatever lies on the other side, your bitcoins are no good there. Just as we entered this world with nothing, we are destined to leave it with nothing. All those years spent stacking sats needn’t be in vain...
World Bank Sells $33.8 Million More of Its Private Ethereum Blockchain Bonds
19.8.2019
The World Bank raised another $33.8 million by issuing bonds on a blockchain, bringing the total to $108 million
Mercurial Tips
19.8.2019
While most of the world seems to be using git for version control, Mozilla continues to use Mercurial (hg) to manage the Firefox source code. As a git and GitHub lover, it took me a while to get used to Mercurial. I don’t consider myself a hg expert but I know enough to complete...
How Coinbase Quietly Became the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Bank
17.8.2019
On August 15, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that it had acquired the cryptocurrency custody service Xapo’s institutional branch. The business move puts Coinbase in the limelight, making it the largest custodial service for digital assets worldwide, with...
Hong Kong Protest Leader Hopes to Incite Run on Chinese Banks
16.8.2019
The 11th week of protesting in Hong Kong has passed as the world has witnessed massive sit-ins at the national airport and demonstrations across several locations citywide. The 2019 anti-extradition bill protests have affected Hong Kong’s local economy, investors have dumped on the benchmark...
Coinbase to ‘Store 5% of all the BTC in the World’ Following Xapo Deal
16.8.2019
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase. Major American cryptocurrency exchange and wallet Coinbase has bought the custody interests of Xapo, a company famous for stashing its rich clients’ crypto holdings in a secret Swiss former military bunker, located underneath a mountain.
Coinbase paid USD...
Chainlink Price Analysis: Chainlink Takes Giant Leaps to Establish Its Strong Ground in Crypto World
16.8.2019
Chainlink to be deployed by Morpheus Labs on its BPaaS platform Chainlink may record bullish trends in the next few days This is a good time to target Chainlink (LINK) token for long term investments. The firm is taking huge steps to invest in the development of this coin and the platform and...
119X Growth in 30 Days by BSHA3 Has Flipped The Viewpoint About FPGA Investments
15.8.2019
One of the crypto coins called- BSHA3 has immersed as a rock star in the crypto world. The Blackminer platform supports it. Its rates spiked 119 times in just 30 days. As a result, it has attained the title of the first-ever crypto coin to be the 100X coin on the Blackminer platform. Now, there...
PR: Australian Bitcoin Cash Conference Brings Cryptocurrency Leaders to Townsville
15.8.2019
Global leaders from the Bitcoin Cash community will gather at the first Bitcoin Cash City Conference in Australia, being held in Townsville on September 4 & 5.
Townsville has really embraced Bitcoin Cash, so hosting this conference in the cozy, coastal suburb was a natural next step....
Three of the World’s Biggest Tech Companies to Testify Against French Digital Tax in US
14.8.2019
Over the past two decades, some of the biggest tech companies in the world originated in the United States, but it was not long before those companies expanded into the rest of the world. As long as those companies operating in the United States, they were governed by tax laws in their native...
How Bridging Blockchains Unlocks Value and Unites Crypto Tribes
12.8.2019
Interoperability is a multisyllabic word for a multi-faceted problem. How do you get blockchains to communicate with one another? Until recently, there’s been no easy way to achieve this, leaving assets isolated and smart contract-powered dapps siloed on their respective protocols. Before...
Elliptic Releases World’s Biggest Set of Bitcoin Transaction Data with MIT and IBM
12.8.2019
Elliptic, the blockchain analysis provider based in London, has released the largest dataset of labeled Bitcoin (BTC) transactions in the world, termed as Elliptic Data Set, in collaboration with researchers from the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and technology giant IBM. This...