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Basel Committee Proposes Differentiating Regulation of Crypto Assets Based on Risks to Banks
12.6.2021
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed dividing crypto assets into two groups and regulating them based on their market, liquidity, credit, and operational risks to banks. Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, will be subject to “a new conservative prudential treatment.”...
Blockcap plans to have 50K Bitcoin miners operational by 2023
3.5.2021
Executive chair and founder Darin Feinstein said the firm plans to make the U.S. a global leader in making blockchain technology mainstream
Hut 8 Purchases $30M Worth of Nvidia’s GPU Miners, Looks to Push Capacity to 1,600 Gigahash
27.3.2021
On Friday, the publicly listed firm Hut 8 announced the purchase of $30 million worth of Nvidia’s dedicated crypto mining GPUs called the Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP). Nvidia CMPs mine the crypto asset ethereum and Hut 8 expects its aggregate operational power will be 1,600 gigahash....
U.S. miner Blockcap plans to have 40,000 ASICs operational by Q4
23.3.2021
Despite launching in December, Blockcap plans to possess an operational hashrate of 3.5 EH/s by 2022
Bahrain Central Bank Issues License to Shariah-Compliant Crypto Exchange
27.1.2021
Middle Eastern crypto exchange Coinmena said this week that it had obtained a crypto assets services company license from the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) ahead of its planned launch. In receiving the license, the exchange, which has been certified by the Shariyah Review Bureau, said it had...
SV-Based Taraxa Revolutionizes Legacy Data Auditing With Mathematically Provable Audit Trails
13.1.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Santa-Clara, CA – Taraxa’s newly released testnet was just put to use for a process auditing platform that minimizes operational friction in multi-party business processes. The Silicon Valley-based blockchain startup is building auditing solutions that infuse...
Brazen Nigerian Crypto Scam Inksnation Still Operational Three Months After Regulator Warning
20.9.2020
One of Nigeria’s most brazen crypto scams, Inksnation remains operational and still invites new investors some three months after the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deemed its activities illegal. The SEC has previously warned Nigerians against investing with the scam...
Libra appoints HSBC veteran to manage crypto project's operational wing
17.9.2020
Top financial services experts continue to join the Libra project
A Virtual Experience of Digital Transformation in Insurance: Customer Engagement & Operational Agility Conference 2020
27.4.2020
London – Join us on May 5–6, for a virtual experience of Digital Transformation in Insurance conference. Over 30 speakers from industry leaders Direct Line, Allianz, Lloyds, and Aviva join innovative insurtechs, including Flock and FloodFlash to collaborate with us LIVE to share their experience...
Italian Bitcoin-funded Coronavirus Medical Center Now Operational
9.4.2020
A successful bitcoin (BTC)-funded campaign to build and equip a coronavirus-fighting medical facility near Rome, run jointly by the Italian Red Cross, has wrapped up – with the center now up and running.
The campaign saw what the Italian Red Cross has called a “second-level Advanced Medical Post...
IOTA Network Down for 11 Days – Devs Claim Mainnet Will Be Operational Next Month
24.2.2020
The IOTA network has been down for approximately 11 days and the IOTA Foundation doesn’t expect the mainnet to be reactivated until March 2. On February 14, our newsdesk reported on the beginnings of the IOTA outage, when the network status page indicated that it was down. The page still...
IOTA Network Still Down: How the Next Bitcoin Killer Screeched to a Halt
14.2.2020
On February 13, the IOTA network came to a screeching halt and the IOTA Foundation reports that $1.6 million worth of the native currency was stolen. The following day, the IOTA network status page still shows the mainnet is “not operational” and the development team has found...
Swiss Licensed Crypto Bank Expanding Into 9 Markets
1.12.2019
A fully operational crypto-focused bank based in Switzerland is expanding into nine other markets. With a banking and securities dealer license from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, its services include crypto custody, trading, and asset management. The bank has launched...
Swiss Crypto Bank SEBA Launches With Range of Services
13.11.2019
SEBA Bank is now fully operational with a range of services to bridge the gap between the crypto world and traditional banking. Licensed in Switzerland, the bank’s crypto services include asset management, trading, custody, and financing. Its wallet app, e-banking, and card enable customers...
NIXT – Nexinter Launches Exchange Offering Using SLP
8.10.2019
Today, NextHash and Bitcoin.com have entered a technical partnership to design and structure the NIXT utility token.
NIXT token is being listed in its fully operational exchange Nexinter on top of Bitcoin Cash, using the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework.
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Steemit is Now Fully Operational Again After Chain Halted Due to Bug
4.9.2019
Social media platform Steemit announces to fellow-Steemians that they are back up and running
JP Morgan Chase Ship Busted: Cocaine, Banks and the Failed Drug War
11.7.2019
A ship seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency in June carrying over 15,000 kilos of cocaine has now been tied to JP Morgan Chase’s asset management unit. Officially the company does not exercise any operational control of the vessel, but some serious questions are raised when...
Research: Only 30% of Known Stablecoins Are Live and Operational
28.6.2019
New research from Blockdata shows that 30% of known stablecoin projects are live
Why Bitpay Is Really Charging More for BTC Transactions
6.6.2019
Bitpay has recently been attacked on social media for charging an extra fee for BTC transactions that it doesn’t ask of BCH users. The reality is that the company simply has to cover its operational costs related to the BTC network, whose fees are currently very high again. Also Read: How...