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Yearn Finance Founder Blames Social Actors for Role in the EMN Token Hack
18.10.2020
Yearn Finance founder Andre Cronje suggests he did not mishandle the Eminence (EMN) project’s economic exploit, which he insists functions well. He accuses certain social actors of creating a story around EMN that caused rational actors to jump onto the token. Cronje’s comments follow...
Coinbase Received 1,900 Requests for Client Info From Law Enforcement During First Half of 2020
17.10.2020
Coinbase has revealed that it received a total of 1,914 requests for customer data from global law enforcement agencies during the first six months of 2020. It is, however, not clear how many of the requests were fulfilled. In its first so-called“transparency report” published Friday...
Okex Halts Withdrawals Due to ‘Out of Touch’ Private Key Holder, Founder Star Xu Talks With Police
16.10.2020
The digital currency exchange Okex disabled cryptocurrency withdrawals on Friday morning and explained that funds were “safe and not affected.” Following the withdrawal announcement, regional reports claim that Okex’s founder Mingxing “Star” Xu was taken away by...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Set For New Record High + More News
16.10.2020
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Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, or the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, is expected to rise more than...
How to Conditionally Add Attributes to Objects
16.10.2020
JavaScript is full of tricks that you don’t know you want until you … want … them. Or maybe just until you see them. One trick I recently realized was conditionally adding attributes to React elements. Of course this trick essentially boils down to conditionally adding properties...
Crypto Capital's NFL defendant open to guilty plea, but not for $371M
16.10.2020
A former NFL team owner has been asked to pay $371M as part of a plea deal over bank fraud, illegal money transfers, and wire fraud. He's not interested
Isle of Man Regulator Says Bitcoin, Ether Not Considered Securities in New Guidance
15.10.2020
The island's Financial Services Authority has set out how it will treat cryptocurrencies and crypto assets and which might be regulated as securities
‘I would not short’ — Bitcoin buy the dip zone now $11K, says Tone Vays
15.10.2020
The veteran trader says bullish trends make shorting the current correction a dangerous move, and the dip “may already be over.”
Fidelity Digital Assets Touts Bitcoin Credentials, As Publicly Traded Companies Now Hold Over 600,000 BTC
15.10.2020
Fidelity Digital Assets (FDA) says diversifying an investment portfolio with bitcoin is especially essential now when benchmark interest rates globally are near or below zero. The opportunity cost of not allocating to bitcoin is simply higher explains FDA in its latest bitcoin investment thesis....
Binance’s CZ Views ‘CeDeFi’ as a Complement, Not a Competitor, to DeFi
14.10.2020
Binance’s latest experiment to integrate decentralized finance with its centralized platform, Binance Smart Chain, is not here to beat DeFi, said the company’s CEO during CoinDesk’s invest: ethereum economy program
Starbucks and McDonald’s reportedly not testing China’s digital yuan
14.10.2020
Starbucks and McDonald’s are reportedly not part of the 3,000 merchants piloting China’s CBDC
Ethereum-Enhancers Not Ethereum-Killers
14.10.2020
The new competitive arena in the so-called scaling wars is between Ethereum-enhancers, not Ethereum-killers
Bitcoin price dump ‘not going to happen’ as whales stay off exchanges
13.10.2020
The post-BitMEX trading arena is not skewed to selling despite BTC/USD nearing $11,500, CryptoQuant data shows
Sports Data for Developers: SportdataAPI (Sponsored)
12.10.2020
Most of the side projects I consider starting revolve around sports, since I’m a huge sports fan. I spend my Saturdays watching soccer, Sundays spent watching soccer and NFL, and of course the mid-week Champions League and Europa League matches. One problem I’ve always had is not being...
Crypto Long & Short: A U.K. Ban on Crypto Derivatives Will Hurt, Not Protect Investors
11.10.2020
The FCA’s retail investor crypto derivatives ban is a misuse of regulatory authority, argues Noelle Acheson. What’s more, its main justification is one of crypto assets’ strongest features
Pantera Capital’s First Venture Fund Did Pretty Well. Its Second Fund? Not So Much
8.10.2020
Pantera Capital’s venture capital returns, which have fallen by almost threefold, are beating startup investors but lagging the stock market
Decentralized Exchange on Ethereum Is Not Sustainable - FTX CEO
8.10.2020
Despite this summer’s success for Ethereum (ETH)-based decentralized exchanges (DEXes) like Uniswap and its fork SushiSwap, the SushiSwap saviour and CEO of centralized crypto derivatives exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, argued that Ethereum – as it is now – is not the best place to host...
Google Cloud Does Not Intend to Take EOS Rewards as a Block Producer
7.10.2020
Following news of yesterday's partnership with Block.one, Google Cloud says it is not getting into EOS for the tokens
Fed Chairman Claims ‘Now Is Not the Time’ to Worry About the Federal Budget
7.10.2020
According to the Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, the road to economic recovery is far from over and the Covid-19 pandemic has fueled the tragedy. During his speech at the National Association for Business Economics annual meeting, Powell highlighted that the federal budget was essentially...
Markets will decide on regulations, not the government: Currency Comptroller
7.10.2020
The government is great at setting up regulatory frameworks, not building products, says Currency Comptroller Brian Brooks