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The Crypto Companies Reinventing the Wallet

15.11.2019
You wouldn’t think there was much to improve about cryptocurrency wallets. Save for a few UX improvements here and there, what’s to reinvent? A surprising amount, it turns out. This year has seen a resurgence in wallet investment and innovation, with VCs throwing funds at startups...

Germany Barely Avoids Recession, Economy Remains Stagnated

15.11.2019
The German economy, the largest and most influential in Europe, narrowly missed falling into recession last quarter. But with quarterly GDP growth averaging a little over 0% since the third quarter of last year, the Old Continent’s economic powerhouse is facing stagnation. Also read:...

OneCoin Founder’s Brother Faces 90-Year Jail Term After Plea Deal

14.11.2019
The brother of OneCoin's infamous "Cryptoqueen," Konstantin Ignatov has reached a plea deal with U.S. authorities

‘Zimdollars’ Issued for First Time in Ten Years Amidst Continued Hyperinflation

14.11.2019
The new Zimbabwe dollar has hit the streets, with banks beginning to issue the paper currency Tuesday. The ‘Zimdollar,’ existing earlier this year as coins, e-balances, the RTGS dollar, and bond notes, was returned to in June as a replacement for the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)...

South Korean Exchange CEO Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison

13.11.2019
A South Korean district court has sentenced executives of a local crypto exchange to prison. The CEO of the exchange got a 16-year jail sentence while other executives and their accomplices got between six and 11 years. They duped thousands of investors, promising them up to 200% return within...

Generation QE: How Central Banks Create Money From Thin Air

11.11.2019
This year the public has seen a lot of the expansive monetary policy taking place with 37 central banks participating in monetary easing. Unfortunately, most people don’t understand the methods central banks like the Federal Reserve use to increase the money supply and never take the time...

Bittrex Returning Crypto Funds to Iranian Users After 2-Year Freeze

11.11.2019
Bittrex’s Iran-based users will receive their frozen funds under special conditions

Danske Bank Caught Using Gold Bullion to Launder Illicit Funds

10.11.2019
The Danish financial institution Danske Bank has been embroiled in a massive money-laundering scandal associated with an Estonian branch that allegedly laundered $223 billion in an eight-year period. According to documents uncovered this week stemming from 2012, Danske Bank’s Estonian branch...

Crypto 2020: How Adoption Will Look Next Year and Beyond

9.11.2019
According to Kaspersky's Cryptocurrency Report 2019, 19% of surveyed people (in 22 developed economies) have bought at least one kind of cryptoc urrency or another, and while this is an encouraging percentage for such an immature sector, it's clear that crypto still has a long way to go if it wants...

QE Infinity: 37 Central Banks Participate in Stimulus and Easing Practices

9.11.2019
Since the last week of October, a great number of central banks have been slashing interest rates, joining the massive synchronization of monetary easing worldwide. This year more than two dozen banks have used easing tactics and in the last two weeks alone central banks from Costa Rica, Hong Kong...

Crypto-Based Commerce Spikes 65% in 7 Months

9.11.2019
Commerce fueled by cryptocurrencies has once again started to grow. Data collected by blockchain forensics company Chainalysis shows a significant increase of volume in the first half of the year. The positive change coincided with the remarkable market recovery that followed last year’s...

Diana Smith’s Pure CSS Artwork “Lace”

8.11.2019
Diana is at it again with her absolutely unbelievable CSS paintings. This latest one is called Lace. Past paintings are Francine, Vignes, and Zigario. She wrote for us last year if you'd like a little insight into her thinking. Andy Baio looked at the painting in a variety of older...

Crypto Tax Guidelines Leave More Questions Than Answers

8.11.2019
Cryptocurrency holders have long wrestled with their tax obligations. These fiduciary duties have been complicated by tax agencies, which are several steps behind technology and now playing crypto catch-up. Updated guidelines from the U.S. and U.K.’s tax agencies were finally released this...

Meet Flowee the Hub: A Feature-Rich Bitcoin Cash Validator

7.11.2019
Bitcoin Cash development has been growing wildly over the last year between third party services and infrastructure. Since the inception of BCH, there’s been a number of full node clients that not only distribute important binary data but offer a variety of different features as well....

Turkey to Launch Digital Lira in the year 2020

6.11.2019
The Presidential Program circulated on November 3rd, stipulates that the initial trials of lira must be performed and completed by 2020 end, says the document published by the official national publication of Turkey, Resmi Gazet. History: 2018 marked a time of real bad currencies and worst debt...

190 Indian Bank Locations Raided in Massive Fraud Crackdown

6.11.2019
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has reportedly raided over 190 bank locations nationwide in an effort to crack down on fraud involving at least 15 banks. As many as 1,000 officers were involved in what is now one of the largest coordinated searches in India this year. Also read: State...