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Preston Pysh on Why We’ve Entered a Fundamentally New Era of Bitcoin Accumulation
13.8.2020
The prominent podcaster and bitcoin advocate joins The Breakdown to explain why we’re seeing a phase shift in the corporate and institutional relationship with BTC
New Jersey Man Accused of Paying $20K in Bitcoin to Have Sex Crimes Victim Killed
13.8.2020
A New Jersey sex offender is now accused of paying a hitman in bitcoin to murder his 14-year old victim
Taxes in Petro, Goldman Sachs Sells MoneyGram Shares + More News
13.8.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto adoption news
The mayors of hundreds of Venezuelan cities and regions have voted to allow citizens to pay taxes and fines in...
New Bill in Germany Proposes to Digitize Securities With Blockchain
13.8.2020
The arrival of digitized securities is one of the core aspects of the federal government's blockchain strategy, German authorities say
New Blockchain Platform Aims to Help Countries Issue CBDCs More Easily
13.8.2020
Blockchain company Apollo Fintech touts its new system as tonic for national digital currency headaches
Defi Project Yam Finance Sees Over $500M Locked in 24 Hours, Devs Reveal Contract Bug
13.8.2020
A new yield farming project is all the rage this week, as the Yam Finance project saw over $460 million dollars locked into the platform in 17 hours on Tuesday. On social media and crypto-focused forums, people have been very skeptical of the Yam Finance project as the code has not been audited....
Chapter 2: Browsers
12.8.2020
Previously in web history…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates the technologies behind the web — HTML, HTTP, and the URL which blend hypertext with the Internet — with a small team at CERN. He convinces the higher-ups in the organizations to put the web in the public domain so anyone can...
Blockchain Bites: Avanti’s New Money, DeFi Deepens and ‘How Much Ether?’
12.8.2020
Caitlin Long has a new take on money. Russia wants to de-anonymize crypto. And Coinbase wins in court
Crypto Porn Startup Says Its New Governance System Is Better than DAOs
12.8.2020
PornVisory is moving to a decentralized governance structure based on the DFO standard, which allegedly allows greater user influence than DAOs
Unpacking the Avit, Avanti Bank’s New Digital Asset Being Built With Blockstream
12.8.2020
Avanti says the Avit will not encounter the legal, accounting or tax hurdles of stablecoins, but it’s not yet clear where the asset will fit under U.S. law
Ternio’s ERC-20 TERN Token Listed On Global Crypto Exchange Bibox
12.8.2020
ATLANTA, GA – August 10, 2020 – Ternio’s ERC-20 payment token TERN, has been listed by global cryptocurrency exchange, Bibox. This news comes two months after Ternio’s announcement that they would be burning ten percent of the TERN supply, previously hosted on the Stellar...
Kazakhstan Proposes 15% Tax on Bitcoin Mining to Help Combat Coronavirus
12.8.2020
Kazakhstan has proposed legislation that would see a 15% tax imposed on bitcoin mining firms. This is part of efforts to raise money to help with the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Proposed by the country’s Ministry of Economy, the new tax plan requires bitcoin (BTC) miners to first...
‘This Ad Is S***’: Bitcoiners on Grayscale’s New TV Spot
12.8.2020
Grayscale Investments released a 30-second TV spot on its nine crypto trusts on major news networks this Monday
How Much Ether Is Out There? Ethereum Developers Create New Scripts for Self-Verification
11.8.2020
Ethereum and Bitcoin advocates have engaged in spirited exchange since Friday to answer an ostensibly simple question: What’s the total supply of ether?
A New DeFi Exchange Says It Has Solved An Industry-Wide Problem
11.8.2020
This exchange aggregator thinks it can do better than the exchanges it aggregates
Tezos XTZ Follows Chainlink to Hit New High — But Is $6 Now Realistic?
11.8.2020
The price of Tezos is breaking new highs as targets of $6 are beginning to appear on the XTZ charts
Chia Network Raises $5M to Rival New Crop of DeFi-Friendly Base Layers
11.8.2020
Chia Network, led by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, just raised another $5 million in an equity round led by Slow Ventures
Russia’s New Crypto Analytics System to Track Dash and Monero
11.8.2020
Dubbed “Transparent Blockchain,” Russia’s new crypto analytics system is designed to fight illicit activity related to crypto
Chainlink Competitor Band Token Grows 300% in 7 Days Setting New ATH
11.8.2020
BAND, the native token of the Band Protocol, has grown by more 300% in just seven days. At the at time of writing, the token traded at $14.50 against the August 3 trading price of $3.86. On August 10, the token also touched a new high of $17.78 while the 24 hours traded volumes were […]
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Facebook Goes All-In On FinTech With Launch of New Subsidiary
10.8.2020
Facebook is determined not to take “no” for an answer when it comes to FinTech