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Staying Alive: Why the World of Enterprise Blockchain Has Turned to Collaborations

14.5.2020
Enterprise blockchain isn’t dead, but survival has meant more collaboration and some smart pivots. A dispatch from this week’s Consensus: Distributed

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14.5.2020
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Fund Manager Got NY BitLicense 11 Months After Hiring Its Architect

13.5.2020
Benjamin Lawsky, the former regulator who created New York’s BitLicense in 2015, joined a bitcoin fund manager nearly a year before it applied for, and received, the license

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

Bitcoin Advocates Cry Foul as US Fed Buying ETFs for the First Time

12.5.2020
Yet another unprecedented move from the U.S. central bank to shore up the fiat economy means that it is violating its own charter, critics warn

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...