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Crypto vs RBI: 3 Days of Intense Supreme Court Hearings
18.1.2020
India’s supreme court heard the crypto case in detail over three consecutive days this week. In addition to intense arguments against the central bank having the power to ban crypto, the judges learned how other countries regulate this new sector, the amended EU directive, the FATF guidance...
Direct Democracy Party to Solve Issues With Crypto Rights in Russia
16.1.2020
A new political force is being born in Russia out of the country’s tech business circles. The idea has been conceived by representatives of the country’s growing digital economy sector who want to embark on finding solutions to numerous issues that concern the crypto space. Also read:...
Tokyo-Based Zigmabit Offers Mining Rigs for Homes and Offices
14.1.2020
Cryptocurrency mining develops rapidly like any high tech sector. Improvements in the hardware and auxiliary systems make it possible to design mining rigs that are more compact and silent than they used to be, while also profitable to run. Zigmabit is a manufacturer that assembles units suitable...
Mining Report Highlights China’s ASIC Manufacturing Improvements and Dominance
11.1.2020
During the first month of the new year, the research firm Tokeninsight published its “Mining Industry Annual Research Report,” which covers the competitive bitcoin mining sector. Tokeninsight’s study highlights the fact that BTC’s hashrate increased by 80% in 2019, even...
Low Interest Rates Provide Precarious Protection Against Crisis, World Bank Warns
10.1.2020
The latest global debt wave is the largest in the past five decades, the World Bank has acknowledged in a new report. The international institution notes that previous waves of broad-based debt accumulation lead to widespread financial crises. Historically low interest rates this time might not...
Turkey Prepares to Increase Oversight in the Crypto Space
6.1.2020
Turkish authorities, alarmed by the spread of cryptocurrencies in the country, are reportedly ramping up efforts to introduce greater oversight into the sector. Local media revealed that regulators are under pressure to increase supervision in 2020 because of the growing popularity of decentralized...
Luno to Become a Game Changer in African Cryptocurrency Sector?
1.1.2020
Headquartered in London, UK, Luno, today stands tall as one of the world’s most powerful and trusted cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service providers. The elite team of dedicated professionals and their striving efforts to develop the emerging markets in under-developed or developing economies...
CoinCasso Launches Worldwide Crypto Christmas Challenge
20.12.2019
There are not many contests in the cryptocurrency sector on such a scale! CoinCasso worldwide exchange platform is organizing an international competition, lasting until the end of the year. In the prize pool there are the newest mobile devices, including iPhone 11, Apple Watch, iPhone 8 and...
BlockchainArmy Founder Erol User Addressed UN With Multi-Sector Application of Blockchain
18.12.2019
Talking among several global dignitaries at the meeting in UN Geneva, blockchain consulting company BlockchainArmy founder president Erol User stated that the essentiality of blockchain application should be put forward in the 2020 agenda of the UN. While highlighting the application of blockchains...
Blockchain Pilot Makes Waves in Russia's Energy Sector
14.12.2019
Waves is partnering up with Rosseti, Russia’s national energy grid operator, to put the sector on blockchain rails. First results are successful. Will the pilot go nationwide?
‘In Small Steps’ China Cuts Benchmark Interest Rates
1.12.2019
Careful not to rush too much with stimulus, the Chinese government nevertheless realizes that its behemoth economy is invariably slowing down. New loan interest rate cuts have been announced recently to encourage bank lending and borrowing in the private sector. With a brewing liquidity crisis...
Crypto Employees in China Work From Home to Avoid Government Pressure
29.11.2019
Not too long after embracing blockchain, Beijing has made it clear, one way or the other, that it didn’t mean Bitcoin. Increased scrutiny over the cryptocurrency sector and harsh measures against some companies have been implemented to supposedly protect citizens from scams. Sources say...
US Government Worried Crypto Can Shift Power to Private Sector
28.11.2019
Cryptocurrency is one of the top issues for the U.S. Treasury. Particularly, the Treasury is worried decentralized cryptocurrencies can shift some functions away from the government to the private sector and raise the issue of self-government, according to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Justin...
Afghan Government to Apply Blockchain in Country’s Healthcare Sector
27.11.2019
The Afghan government is looking to use blockchain to track counterfeit medicines and create medical registries in hospitals
How Cryptocurrencies Will Change the Propensity of the Online Gambling Sector?
19.11.2019
One Sector that has truly exploited the cryptocurrency is the online gambling sector. As it keeps on growing as a threat to traditional bookmakers and casinos betting, it is drawing its adoption from the latest technology. Nowadays, a few innovations are reforming the betting business...
PlayDapp Set to Unlock the True Potential of Blockchain in the Gaming Sector
8.11.2019
In the main conference ‘D. FINE’ of Asia’s biggest blockchain festival Korea Blockchain Week (KBW 2019), the application of blockchain in the gaming industry was discussed. Many blockchain and gaming proponents stressed on the fact that “killer applications” could be created using blockchain...
Coinbase Legal Chief Wants Private Sector to Create US Digital Dollar
5.11.2019
Coinbase’s legal chief believes the private sector should develop the United States digital dollar
Coinbase Legal Chief Says Private Sector Should Build US Digital Dollar
5.11.2019
Coinbase chief legal officer Brian Brooks thinks the private sector is best positioned to build America's digital dollar
US Edging Ahead of China and Europe in this Crypto Sector
31.10.2019
While the United States might be losing ground to China in the blockchain technology race, and has slightly fewer players in the security token ecosystem than Europe, the world's largest economy still dominates in a several security token-related areas, per the findings of a...
McKinsey: Majority of Banks May Not Be Economically Viable
25.10.2019
Management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review and found that a majority of banks worldwide may not be economically viable. More than half of them still do not generate their cost of equity 10 years after the crisis and may not survive an economic downturn....