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Malta’s ‘Blockchain Island’ Dream Deferred as 70% Entities Shun Licensing
25.4.2020
Malta’s futuristic design to be the “Blockchain Island” has suffered a setback as 70% of companies in the sector have not sought licensing. Six months after the deadline, only 26 companies have applied for licensing and none has been granted one. Malta initiated legislation...
Chinese Companies Lead Blockchain Patent Race + More News
24.4.2020
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Chinese companies have topped new global blockchain patent tables, reports media outlet East Money, quoting data...
Nischal Shetty Welcomes Brad Garlinghouse’s Move Against Social Media Companies
22.4.2020
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced on Tuesday that he and Ripple are taking legal action against YouTube as the video content platform consistently failed to tackle fake giveaway scams and impersonators. Applauding the move, WazirX CEO Nischal Shetty has come in support of Garlinghouse...
Ripple CEO Says Social Media Companies Have Failed to Police their Platforms
22.4.2020
Crypto scammers on social media have been a big problem for the industry, and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has had enough of those impersonators. Last month, he had exposed a fake YouTube channel impersonating him, which unfortunately had over 230,000 subscribers. Garlinghouse took a dig at social...
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
18.4.2020
Interesting research from Dan Luu:
… it’s pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it’s not uncommon for my blog to get an order of magnitude more traffic.
I think this is...
Did Amazon Just Kill One of the Oldest Bitcoin Companies, Purse?
17.4.2020
Bitcoin company Purse will close its doors six years after its launch, and a theory is that e-commerce giant Amazon's recent commission rates slashes are behind it.
Purse - a company that enabled a savings options with up to 5% discounts on Amazon, allowing Amazon gift card holders to complete...
Oil Companies Will Dominate BTC Mining in Five Years: Marty Bent
16.4.2020
Podcaster Marty Bent wants to use a waste byproduct from oil fields to power Bitcoin mining and redistribute mining back to North America from China
Dutch AMLD5 Implementation Leaves Crypto-Companies Footing the Bill
16.4.2020
Dutch crypto-companies will be left to foot the bill for overreaching AMLD5 implementation
Bailouts Don’t Save the Economy. They Prop Up Companies That Should Be Allowed to Fail
15.4.2020
If we keep bailing out corporations during every crisis, we'll end up with implicitly state-owned enterprises, and a lack of economic dynamism
Post COVID-19, Companies Must Be Resilient, Not Just Efficient
13.4.2020
Companies need better emergency planning. They can't always rely on government in a crisis, says our columnist
Top 3 Ways Crypto Companies Are Helping Fight Coronavirus
12.4.2020
The COVID-19 outbreak is changing the way the world operates. As people around the globe stay at home to slowContinue Reading
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Coronavirus Pandemic Is Reshaping Blockchain Companies’ Roadmaps
11.4.2020
While bringing financial losses and problems to blockchain projects, the coronavirus means new business opportunities for others
Crypto Companies See Uptick in Volume Amid Global Uncertainty
9.4.2020
Although the economic machine is largely halted, some crypto companies have seen volume rise in recent weeks
Private Companies Could Play Role in CBDC Issuance, Bank of England Says
7.4.2020
Analysts from the U.K.'s central bank said private currencies could work alongside any future CBDC initiative if they offered real utility
A Grid of Logos in Squares
6.4.2020
Let’s build a literal grid of squares, and we’ll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a logo grid before. You can probably already picture it: an area of a site that lists the donors, sponsors, or that is showing off...
ICO Crackdown: 11 Class-Action Lawsuits Filed Against Cryptocurrency Companies
5.4.2020
A number of class-action lawsuits have been filed against various digital asset firms and exchanges on Friday. The U.S.-based “litigation boutique,” Roche Cyrulnik Freedman, filed the lawsuit for three plaintiffs in the Southern District of New York. All three lawsuits claim that...
Crypto Mining Companies Promote Freedom of Speech in China
5.4.2020
Major Chinese crypto mining companies launch a transparent information sharing platform to promote free speech
Freebitco.in Gaming Site Launches Covid-19 Relief Fund – Donating 20% House Edge to Healthcare Efforts
4.4.2020
The owners of the website Freebitco.in have announced a coronavirus relief fund following the myriad of other crypto companies donating funds to help fight the covid-19 pandemic. Freebitco.in is an extremely popular gaming website that saw more than 40 million visitors last month in web traffic...
Why Are Crypto Companies Going to Abu Dhabi?
3.4.2020
The Abu Dhabi Global Market has become an attractive jurisdiction for crypto companies since it introduced digital asset regulation in June 2018
Huge Rise in Chinese ‘Blockchain’ Companies — But Are They Real?
3.4.2020
Thousands of ‘blockchain’ companies in China are believed to simply use the name for marketing purposes