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Wendy McElroy: Crypto is Banking for Anarchists and Average People
10.2.2020
“What I love about Bitcoin is that instead of some rich old guy on Wall Street, young poor people are the ones getting rich” —Eric Finman No Longer Is Economic Sovereignty Just for Politicians and Bankers “Cryptocurrency is for the rich”; this pernicious myth causes...
Not Just Ebay, NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Pushes Bakkt to Retail With Latest Acquisition
6.2.2020
The owner of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, stunned many on Wall Street recently with a reported takeover bid for e-commerce marketplace Ebay. Now the group is aggressively trying to push its regulated bitcoin derivatives exchange Bakkt into the retail space with its latest...
From Meatspace to Cyberspace: Top Execs Moving From Traditional to Crypto Jobs in 2019
13.1.2020
Top execs from traditional industries made the move to join the blockchain action in 2019
Tesla’s Price Touched the Ace Point on Wall Street at $556
8.1.2020
Analyst Bill Selesky from Argus Research has raised his price target on Tesla from 396 USD to 556 USD recently. This has come after Tesla’s better than expected Q4 performance. As per Bill, the decent increment of deliveries by Tesla in the Q4 is the reason for the recent hike of target price. This...
Fidelity-Backed Startup Fireblocks Is Now Certified Secure by Ernst & Young
20.12.2019
Digital asset security firm Fireblocks has successfully completed a major examination carried out by Big Four auditing firm Ernst & Young
Fidelity-backed Fireblocks In Talks With Potential Wall Street Clients Following EY Accreditation
19.12.2019
Enterprise-focused crypto transaction platform Fireblocks has passed an EY data security audit. Now it can seek clients in traditional finance
The Fed’s Money Creation System Is Fueling One of the Biggest Heists in History
4.12.2019
Since mid-September, the Federal Reserve has injected three trillion U.S. dollars into the hands of private banks and Wall Street. Despite the fact that massive amounts of money was created out of thin air, the central bank still believes repurchase agreements (repos) are needed to tame...
Wall Street Trader: Bitcoin’s Lightning Network ‘Pulled Me in’
19.11.2019
Bond market veteran Nik Bhatia says that with Lightning, Bitcoin has become an unprecedented asset, combining a store of value with medium-of-exchange scale and speed
Making an Audio Waveform Visualizer with Vanilla JavaScript
12.11.2019
As a UI designer, I’m constantly reminded of the value of knowing how to code. I pride myself on thinking of the developers on my team while designing user interfaces. But sometimes, I step on a technical landmine.
A few years ago, as the design director of wsj.com, I was helping to re-design...
Fed Must Launch FedNow Ahead of Facebook’s Libra, Says Gov’t Official
8.11.2019
The Federal Reserve should urgently launch its own real-time payments system ahead of Facebook and Wall Street, says FTC Commissioner
“UAE Can Become the Next Wall Street,” Says Nick Spanos at World Blockchain Summit in Dubai
7.11.2019
Dubai’s third edition of WBS saw more than 50 solution providers from the blockchain and crypto space, gather under one roof to stimulate business opportunities through collaborations in the UAE. The summit hosted top speakers such as Suresh Prabhu, Nick Spanos, Mru Patel, Dr. Marwan Alzarouni,...
Critics Savage Research Paper Alleging Lone Whale Caused Bitcoin’s 2017 Rally
5.11.2019
Crypto commenters have torn into a new research paper alleging a single whale caused bitcoin’s 2017 price rally. The paper, reported prominently in Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, has been criticized for failing to understand that mass inflows of tether (USDT) to the cryptoconomy...
The North American Bitcoin Conference Returns
4.11.2019
Pioneers of the global Bitcoin and blockchain community will converge in Miami for a historical conference, continuing to propel cryptocurrency from niche to mainstream. Now in its seventh year, The North American Bitcoin Conference is the longest-running and most attended finance conference...
The Demand for Permissionless Freedom Is Just Getting Started
25.10.2019
Every year the world seems to be getting crazier and more people are starting to realize that it stems from oppressive government transgressions against a peaceful society. The world has noticed millions of people from France, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Indonesia and more are rising up because citizens...
Tiny $217 Options Trade on Bitcoin Blockchain Could Be Wall Street’s Death Knell
8.10.2019
Skew., a startup led by an ex-JPMorgan trader, did an S&P 500 options trade on bitcoin’s blockchain to prove the tech works better than Wall Street
It’s Too Soon to Write Off Bakkt, Wall Street Analyst Tells ICE Investors
2.10.2019
It’s way too soon to write off Bakkt, despite the bitcoin futures market’s disappointingly slow start, equity analysts at Oppenheimer & Co. said
BlackRock, Goldman Sachs Veteran Joins Blockchain as General Counsel
1.10.2019
BlackRock and Goldman Sachs veteran Howard Surloff joins major crypto wallet Blockchain.com as general counsel
How Prime Brokerage Will Affect Crypto Markets
14.9.2019
Prime brokerage firms are coming for crypto in what’s likely to be a race of winner-takes-almost-all. Goldman Sachs is synonymous with institutional wealth and power, even to those who’ve never purchased a financial product in their life. Like the eponymous tower it occupies in Jersey...
CasperLabs Raises $14.5 Million in Series A Funding Led by “Zelig of Wall Street,” Terren Peizer
11.9.2019
CasperLabs, the recently launched startup that aims at scaling the Ethereum blockchain without has compromised on decentralization, announced on Tuesday that the project had raised over $14.5 million in Series A funding. The round was primarily led by Terren Scott Peizer, the chairperson of...
Despite Setbacks, Darknet Markets Show Continuous Growth in 2019
9.9.2019
Since the birth of the Silk Road, there’s been a cat and mouse game between global law enforcement and darknet market (DNM) operators. Over the last two years, law enforcement agencies have knocked out a slew of markets like Hansa and the massive Alphabay. Months later, Dream and Wall Street...