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17,000 Quadrigacx Users Seek $307M from the Failed Canadian Crypto Exchange
13.5.2020
About 17,000 people have filed claims for refunds from the collapsed Canadian digital asset exchange Quadrigacx. Altogether, the claims, denominated in both cryptocurrency and fiat, amount to nearly $307 million. According to a document released Tuesday by Ernst & Young, the court-appointed...
Fireblocks Boosts Transaction Speed 800% With Free-to-Use Algorithm
13.5.2020
Fireblocks has developed an 800% faster algorithm for secure MPC transactions and made it free-to-use for custodians and vendors
Halving Sell-Off Temporary, BTC to Hit $20,000 by Year End, Says Billionaire Investor Novogratz
13.5.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) may not have pumped at the scale expected by many halving optimists, but Wall Street billionaire Michael Novogratz insists that the price will hit $20,000 by year-end. The Galaxy Digital founder and chief executive officer on Monday told CNBC that bitcoin’s surge was inevitable...
CipherTrace Wants to Guide Central Banks on Their Digital Currency Projects
12.5.2020
The blockchain analytics firm is launching an initiative to pitch itself to central banks as both a tech partner and a guiding influence on future digital currency projects
Mauritius Central Banker Confirms Island’s Digital Currency Plans
12.5.2020
The Bank of Mauritius is inching closer to issuing a retail-focused central bank digital currency (CBDC), its governor confirmed Tuesday
The Launch of ICE-SIGMA Asia Digital Will Provide a Unique Opportunity to Rethink How We Live and Work
12.5.2020
SiGMA Group has announced that, due to the C-19 global crisis, both the SiGMA Manila and AIBC Manila expos, planned for June 8-9 2020, will now be rescheduled to May 27-28, 2021. In line with SiGMA Group’s commitment to facilitating new business opportunities for key players in the global iGaming...
Main Barrier to CBDC Is Philosophy, Not Tech, Says European Central Bank Rep
11.5.2020
ECB executive board, Yves Mersch, believes that the main impediment for CBDC is philosophical rather than technological
Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Protect Individual Privacy?
11.5.2020
Top crypto industry and policy experts debated the privacy ramifications of state-issued virtual currencies during the first day of Consensus
Leaders of the Digital Dollar Project Talk Privacy and the Next Century of Money
11.5.2020
Former CFTC royalty and current leaders of a U.S.-based think tank to promote a digital dollar talk privacy in new AMA
‘Game-Changer’ Retail Digital Currency Now European Central Bank’s Focus, Board Member Says
11.5.2020
The European Central Bank is looking into what a retail central bank digital currency form of the euro might look like, executive member Yves Mersch said
Cointext CTO Reveals a New Protocol That Aims to Bolster a Censorship-Resistant Economy for Bitcoin Cash
9.5.2020
On May 7, the Cointext CTO and cofounder of Countermarkets, Vin Armani revealed a new project he’s been working on called “Signal, Watch, and Pay Protocol” (SWaP). Armani’s published specification and reference code of SWaP indicates that the platform allows “onchain...
How the COVID-19 Crisis Revived the Digital Dollar Debate
8.5.2020
Some Americans are still waiting for stimulus support. Would a digital dollar have helped disburse funds? Here's a breakdown of the debate
Coinshares Acquires Gabi Trading: New Unit Traded $3 Billion Worth of Crypto in 2019
8.5.2020
Coinshares on Thursday launched its trading business, Coinshares Capital Markets (CSCM), reporting that the unit traded over $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency in 2019 and $1.5 billion during the first quarter of 2020. The UK digital asset manager is basically rebranding Gabi Trading, a business...
California Assembly Considers Exempting Some Digital Assets From State Securities Law
8.5.2020
A key lawmaker in the California Assembly has proposed exempting some digital assets from the state’s definition of corporate securities
Securitize Builds Digital ID Service in Hopes of Creating Industry Standard
7.5.2020
Securitize is rolling out a digital ID service so issuers, investors and other players in the security token market don't have to keep sending the same documents to every company they deal with
OKEx Executive: Digital Currency as a Basis of Post-Crisis World Order
7.5.2020
The world will not be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic with the necessity for the brand new global monetary system based on crypto
Top Facts on China’s Crypto Yuan and Related Blockchain Projects
7.5.2020
As China stops the spread of COVID-19 inside the country, the government announced two of the largest crypto and blockchain-related developments
UFC Partners With Chiliz to Release Digital Fan Tokens of Fighters
7.5.2020
Ethereum-based sports tokenization venture Chiliz is partnering with the UFC to release digital fan tokens through the Socios.com platform
Crypto Exchange OSL to Establish ‘Digital Asset Powerhouse’ in Asia, US Region
7.5.2020
The partnership between OSL and Monsoon is seeking to cement a leadership position in the Asia and U.S. regions
3 Reports Look at North Korea’s Lazarus Group, Iran’s Farhad Exchange, and the Crypto Ponzi Futurenet
7.5.2020
On May 4, 2020, the blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis published a three-part series covering a crypto Ponzi scheme, North Korea, and Iran’s use of digital currencies like bitcoin. The company’s research papers discuss the Poland-based crypto Ponzi called Futurenet, a hosting...