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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Was Paid $35k to Discuss Bitcoin
19.8.2020
The notorious NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, was paid to discuss bitcoin and other digital assets at virtual conferences, according to a new court filing called “Edward Snowden Speaking Engagements 2015-2020.” Snowden has always been a supporter of digital currencies and during...
Defcon Speaker Discusses Liberating $300K Worth of Bitcoin From an Encrypted File
12.8.2020
This year due to the coronavirus outbreak the world-famous hackers’ convention Defcon held it’s 28th annual event with virtual presentations in “safe mode.” One of the presentations was from an executive from Pyrofex, Michael Stay, who discussed how he broke into...
Exploring Decentraland: A Review of the Virtual World Built on Ethereum
27.7.2020
During the last two weeks, I’ve been roaming around the virtual world Decentraland in order to get some perspective on the platform supported by the Ethereum Blockchain. The following is a review of my experience in Decentraland and observing all that has been built since it was invoked over...
Proof of Stake Blockchain Expo: Virtual Event Examining PoS
24.7.2020
On July 28, The PoS Blockchain Expo will take place. According to Investopedia, “Proof of Stake (PoS) concept states that a person can mine or validate block transactions according to how many coins he or she holds. This means that the more coins owned by a miner, the more mining power he or...
Chinese Supreme Court Favors Strengthening Cryptocurrency Property Rights
22.7.2020
China’s Supreme Court has called to strengthen property laws pertaining to digital currency, network virtual property and data
Popular NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace Will Sport the Bitcoin Logo While Racing
15.7.2020
NASCAR driver Darrell “Bubba” Wallace will be sporting a bitcoin logo on his car and uniform during upcoming races. Twitter and Cash App founder, Jack Dorsey, tweeted a few pictures that revealed the new sponsorship, as he displayed the bitcoin symbol and Cash App logo design layout...
Advocacy Group Claims IRS-Issued Crypto-Warning Letters Violated Taxpayer’s Rights
14.7.2020
Close to a year ago last July, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed it would be sending ‘soft letters’ to suspected American cryptocurrency owners advising them to pay their taxes. Now according to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, a subsidiary of the IRS, the soft letters...
MPC’s 10th Annual Mobile & Digital Commerce Event is Now Virtual on August 24-26, 2020
14.7.2020
World’s Leading FinTech Brands Covering MPC20 Virtual Attendee Costs as Digital Commerce Takes Center Stage in Today’s Economy. PHOENIX, July 13, 2020: MPC20, the premier MPC Mobile & Digital Commerce Event, announced today that it will host its 10th annual conference for FinTech innovators...
Unitize Roundup: Top 10 Quotes From the Virtual Blockchain Conference
12.7.2020
Vitalik Buterin, Heath Tarbert, Brock Pierce and many more — here are 10 memorable quotes to take away from five days of the Unitize virtual blockchain conference
Bitcoin Script and Onchain Contracts: Two High-Level Programming Languages for Bitcoin Cash
11.7.2020
Last May, the software developer and creator of revoke.cash, Rosco Kalis, released Cashscript version 0.4 that included a number of optimizations. Cashscript’s new website highlights the high-level language that “offers a strong abstraction layer over Bitcoin Cash’ native virtual...
Bitfinex Must Face New York’s Accusations Over the Loss of $850M in Co-Mingled Funds
10.7.2020
The popular digital currency trading platform, Bitfinex must deal with the New York Office of the Attorney General (NYAG) over the alleged hiding of over $800 million in client and corporate funds. The NY state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division overruled an appeal on Thursday, after...
IAMAI to Host World’s Largest Virtual Global Fintech Fest
8.7.2020
New Delhi, July 01, 2020: Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI], and its sister organizations, Payments Council of India, [PCI] and Fintech Convergence Council [FCC] are jointly organizing the two-day virtual Global FinTech Festival on July 22-23, 2020. The Department of Economic Affairs...
The Tokenized Metaverse: Non-Fungible Token Sales to Surpass $100 Million
6.7.2020
On July 1, 2020, the partner of Polynexus Capital, Andrew Steinwold, detailed that the sales of blockchain-powered non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are about to cross the $100 million mark. The popularity of NFTs has grown massive since 2017, as blockchain cards, collectibles, digital artwork, virtual...
4th Amendment Does Not Protect Bitcoin Data, US Fifth Circuit Court Rules
5.7.2020
A Fifth Circuit panel of judges recently ruled that Fourth Amendment rights do not apply to cryptocurrency transaction data that stems from an exchange. The U.S. court ruled against the defendant, Richard Gratkowski, who attempted to leverage the Fourth Amendment in an appeal. According to...
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5.7.2020
The Rise of Virtual Hackathons: Tackling Blockchain Challenges Online
2.7.2020
Virtual hackathons may allow developers to solve technical problems and create new solutions, yet it’s not all easy going for these online events
Are Virtual Events The New Norm? The Story of Webit Virtual
29.6.2020
Webit Virtual, the first fully transformed virtually and the world’s biggest thought leadership virtual events platform. Some of the world’s forward thinkers say, our society shall never be the same after the coronavirus pandemic and humanitarian crisis. One of the implications was...
BitFlyer Holds First Virtual Shareholders Meeting With Blockchain Voting App
27.6.2020
BitFlyer Holdings held a general shareholders meeting by using a blockchain voting app which went “without any troubles.”
Timothy C. May: Libertaria in Cyberspace
27.6.2020
Here are a few points about why “cyberspace,” or a computer-mediated network, is more hospitable than physical locations for the kind of “crypto-anarchy” libertarian system I’ve been describing. Several folks have commented recently about ocean-going libertarian...
How Bitcoin of America’s Robust Compliance Program Made Possible the Restitution of Half a Million Dollars to Fraud Victims
19.6.2020
Robust and effective compliance programs for virtual asset exchanges such as Bitcoin of America, which owns and operates a crypto exchange platform as well as a nationwide network of bitcoin ATM locations, isn’t simply a matter of operating a system for CIP, KYC, and AML procedures....