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Bakkt Starts Testing its Bitcoin Futures Today
22.7.2019
Highly-anticipated and oft-delayed crypto trading platform Bakkt should start testing its bitcoin futures today.
As previously reported, today the user acceptance testing should begin for the bitcoin futures listed and traded at ICE Futures US and cleared at ICE Clear US.
As a reminder, the...
FINRA Extends Deadline for Firms to Report Crypto Activity
22.7.2019
The self-regulatory body for brokers and exchanges has quietly extended its deadline for member firms to report their crypto activity
PR: Folgory Launches Mobile App and Regulated Crypto Exchange
22.7.2019
Folgory, the fully integrated app and trading exchange launches to bring a range of services to crypto users.
The intellectual and logistical demands of trading crypto currency have hitherto been tricky at best, complex at worst. Folgory has created an easy to integrate and manage solution designed...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Likely Bracing for Next Key Break
22.7.2019
This past week, bitcoin and altcoins started a solid recovery after a downside extension. BTC/USD traded above the USD 10,000 and USD 10,600 resistance levels. It even broke the USD 11,000 resistance and recently started a downside correction. Similarly, there was a convincing rebound in major...
eToro and Binance Get Their Seats at the Table With Warren Buffet
22.7.2019
Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron blockchain project, invited two more guests to join him for the Warren Buffett charity lunch, both of which accepted the invitation.
The third guest to attend this highly-anticipated event is founder and CEO of trading platform eToro, Yoni Assia. Assia replied...
South Korea Estimates 2-Year Losses from Crypto Crimes at $2.3 Billion
22.7.2019
Nearly 2.7 trillion won (US$2.3 billion) have been lost to cryptocurrency crimes in the last two years, not including exchange hacks
China: Blockchain Tourism Initiative Launched, Bitcoin Miners Busted
22.7.2019
Yunnan Province, China. China’s crypto-crackdown remains firmly in place, but interest in all things blockchain and cryptocurrency-related remains high in the Middle Kingdom.
Per Xinhua, tourists and tour operators visiting attractions in the Yunnan Province will soon be able to obtain...
Libra’s Biggest Problem
22.7.2019
Facebook's Libra is trying to simultaneously be pro-privacy and pro-KYC; this forms an inherent contradiction
Money and Democracy: How the Elite Manipulated Ledgers and Created a Social Ranking System
22.7.2019
Money is one of the most important but least understood manmade tools in existence. For more than 5,000 years humans have used a tool of exchange called money to facilitate trade. During this timespan, the evolution of money has evolved into a system of information, a social contract, and a ranking...
Deutsche Bank Collapse Could Crash Global Financial Markets
21.7.2019
German financial services giant Deutsche Bank AG is one of the largest and most important economic institutions in the world. Mainly due to self-imposed scandals, the bank is now having to taking drastic measures to stay afloat. Investors everywhere should note that if such a critical piece of...
Tron’s Justin Sun Invites eToro Founder To Lunch With Buffett
21.7.2019
There are only four days left until Tron founder Justin Sun’s lunch with Warren Buffett and Sun has handed out another golden ticket. The lucky winner? Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of eToro. Sun wrote: I'd like to invite my good friend @yoniassia, Founder & CEO of @eToro, to join...
How the Blockchain Stops Cheaters: Cryptocurrency and Provably Fair Gaming
21.7.2019
Online casinos and betting sites have proliferated since the first of their kind came on the scene in 1994. Thanks to the convenience of playing from home, the allure of winning real money, and a degree of privacy, these popular sites continue to evolve. There have been major problems, though...
Crypto Bullishness Spreads on Capitol Hill
21.7.2019
U.S. Congress has shown that it is starting to care about cryptocurrency as a number of lawmakers spoke up in favor of it this week. “The world Satoshi Nakamoto had envisioned is an unstoppable force” and “there’s no capacity to kill bitcoin” are some of the comments...
Why You Can’t Bet With Bitcoin at Online Casinos in the US
20.7.2019
Since the dawn of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency landscape has seen a lot of digital currency gaming websites where users can wager their coins in games like poker, dice, blackjack and slots. Because public blockchains are transparent, the protocols have made online gaming provably fair. However...
Diana, a Blockchain ‘Lunar Registry,’ Attempts to Tokenize the Moon
20.7.2019
The cadastral map will offer a chance for everyone to claim a stake in the moon before Jeff Bezos claims it
Anchorage Chose South Dakota for Its Crypto Custody – Here’s Why
20.7.2019
After a $40 million Series B, buzzy crypto startup Anchorage is setting up a new subsidiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
G7 Agrees on Crypto Action Plan Spurred by Facebook’s Libra
20.7.2019
G7 finance chiefs met this week and Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency was high on their agenda. They agreed on several crypto initiatives and fast regulatory responses to projects such as Libra, calling for them to meet the highest standards of financial regulation. Also read: G20 Leaders Issue...
Bitcoin Cash Milestones: Delivered Code, Upgrades and Platform Development
20.7.2019
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) platform and protocol development have seen a lot of delivered code and projects over the last two years. The upgrades will help Bitcoin Cash scale to the masses, and many of the added features are protocol developments that are unique to BCH. Also read: Indian Government Breaks...
7 Unorthodox Ways to Mine Bitcoin
20.7.2019
Bitcoin isn’t crazy – in fact it might just be the soundest monetary system this generation has ever known. Some of the techniques miners have devised to extract it, however, are extremely unorthodox, ranging from the ingenious to the downright crazy. Here are seven of the strangest...
Hayek’s 1984: Rediscovered Footage Shows Austrian Economist Predicting Bitcoin
20.7.2019
Born in 1899 in Vienna, Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek is a legend of sorts in voluntaryist, libertarian, and crypto-economic circles. Freshly rediscovered video footage of the Austrian School philosopher and social theorist from 1984 is now making the rounds on crypto Twitter. In...