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A Story of 1 Picture: How Blockchain Startup Accidentally Met Jack Ma
25.7.2019
Jack Ma. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Viva Technology
A rather unusual and amusing story happened to a Lithuania-based blockchain startup, Lympo, on Wednesday.
Apparently, the founder and chairman of a China's giant Alibaba Group, one of the China's richest men, Jack Ma, was visiting...
Crypto Loans Firms Left Thousands of Users’ Financial Data Exposed Online
25.7.2019
Crypto loans platform YouHodler left a database with millions of logs containing users' private financial data unprotected, researchers found
20 y/o Crypto Millionaire Briefed Congressional Representatives on BTC
25.7.2019
Source: Twitter, @erikfinman
Erik Finman, the twenty-year-old crypto millionaire and one of the earliest and youngest investors in Bitcoin, talked to Congressional Representatives about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
Finman said in a tweet: “Today I briefed Congressional Representatives...
Bitcoin Price Retakes $10K But Remains Short of Bull Revival
25.7.2019
Bitcoin is back above $10,000, but the technical charts indicate a bull revival is still $1,000 away
Major Airline, Norwegian, Lifts Bitcoin Adoption to the Sky
25.7.2019
Source: iStock/Björn Forenius
The low-cost carrier and one of the biggest airlines in Europe, Norwegian, will allow its passengers to pay for tickets in cryptocurrency, including the most popular one, bitcoin, but also to trade on the airline’s very own crypto exchange.
Only customers living...
Norwegian Air to Accept Bitcoin Through Exchange Set up By Founder
25.7.2019
Business magnate Bjørn Kjos and his family have reportedly set up a crypto exchange and plan to offer bitcoin payments at Norwegian Air Shuttle
PR: CoinLoan Welcomes Bitcoin Cash to Their List of Collateral Currencies
25.7.2019
CoinLoan is among the first to offer loans secured by Bitcoin Cash
As we mentioned in our previous updates, new assets are about to join CoinLoan’s list of cryptocurrencies soon. CoinLoan keeps its promises, and today, we pride ourselves on adding a new collateral currency to the CoinLoan platform...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Rebound But Facing Uphill Task
25.7.2019
This week, we saw a downside extension in bitcoin and altcoins. BTC/USD broke the USD 10,000 and USD 9,800 support levels. However, the USD 9,500 level acted as a decent support, resulting in the start of an upside correction. The price gained nearly 5% in the past three sessions and even settled...
US Investors Used Loophole to Buy Bitfinex Exchange’s LEO Tokens
25.7.2019
Bitfinex says it won't sell its LEO tokens to U.S. investors. But two such entities bought the asset via third parties
Is Bitcoin Money? Revisiting Mises’ Regression Theorem
25.7.2019
Over 100 years after the publication of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises’ “The Theory of Money and Credit,” the ideas outlined therein are still sparking hot debate. Namely, what is known as Mises’ Regression Theorem, which claims that in order for something to be money...
New Jersey Man Indicted Over Unlicensed Bitcoin Exchange
25.7.2019
A resident of New Jersey has been charged for running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange service called Destination Bitcoin
John McAfee Released from Detention
25.7.2019
Source: Twitter, @officialmcafee
Prominent crypto advocate and IT security entrepreneur, John McAfee is back after being detained by the authorities in the Dominican Republic.
According to the Associated Press, the officials said that the millionaire, his wife, and four other companions were...
Confusion Reigns as Tron’s Justin Sun Posts and Deletes Apology
25.7.2019
Justin Sun. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, BlockTempo TV
The plot is continuing to thicken in the curious case of Tron’s Justin Sun and the lunch that never happened with Warren Buffett.
As previously reported, the Tron chief and Buffett, a crypto-skeptic billionaire, had been set to meet...
Seoul Gives Go-ahead to Blockchain Free Zone – But There’s a Twist
25.7.2019
Busan. The South Korean government has given the green light to a special free economic blockchain zone in Busan, the country’s second-largest city – but early indications appear to suggest that Seoul will block any attempts to allow initial coin offerings (ICOs), which will remain banned in...
Justin Sun Apologizes to Regulators for Over-Marketing on Buffett Lunch
25.7.2019
Justin Sun, founder of the Tron cryptocurrency, just issued a public apology in Chinese for his over-marketing conducts over the Buffett lunch
Bitcoin Above USD 10K Again, Outperformed by Ether, EOS and Others
25.7.2019
The crypto market is in green today - bitcoin is back above the USD 10,000 level, while other major coins outperform the most popular cryptocurrency and only nine tokens from the top 100 are in red now.
At pixel time (04:36 UTC), bitcoin trades at c. USD 10,105 and is up by almost 5% in the past...
TD Ameritrade CEO: We’re Taking ‘Crawl, Walk, Run’ Approach to Crypto
25.7.2019
The firm's early investment in derivative platform ErisX may enable the firm to expand their crypto investment opportunities
Le Roux Biographer: Cartel Boss Is the Most Credible Satoshi Yet
25.7.2019
Paul Le Roux is a criminal kingpin turned criminal informant whose misdeeds have filled a book. The author of that tome is investigative journalist Evan Ratliff, whose rip-roaring tale has recently received a postscript: Le Roux may also be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. This week on the Humans...
Ripple Sold $251 Million Worth of XRP in Q2, Increasing Total Nearly 50 Percent
25.7.2019
XRP's global trading volume dropped 28 percent after CryptoCompare filtered out inflated statistics
$500K Round Led by FBG Capital Will Help Dapp.com Build ‘Dapp Store’
24.7.2019
Prominent Asian investment firm FBG Capital is backing Dapp.com's attempt to build an easy-to-use "Dapp Store."