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CorionX and Syscoin Join Hands to Drive Stablecoin Adoption, CorionX IEO Enters Third Round
9.10.2020
9th October 2020, Zug, Switzerland – The non-profit Corion Foundation is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Syscoin Foundation. The foundation partnership is the result of a shared vision to make global access to swift, safe low-cost Open Finance solutions a reality....
BitMEX Open Interest Drops, Withdrawals Increase
6.10.2020
The troubled major crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has seen large drops in both open interest, and bitcoin (BTC) balances held on the platform.
Following the news last week that three owners of BitMEX and five related companies charged with operating an unregistered trading platform...
Europol Names Privacy Wallets, Coins, Open Marketplaces as ‘Top Threats’ in Internet Crime Report
5.10.2020
Monero, Samurai, Wasabi, OpenBazaar cited as threats in Europol report
Open Interest in CME Bitcoin Futures Slides as Market Sapped by Surging DeFi
5.10.2020
Institutional interest in bitcoin futures has plummeted as the DeFi explosion made carry trades less attractive, said Bequant's Denis Vinokourov
Bitcoin options open interest sets new high sparked by rising liquidity
4.10.2020
Bitcoin options open interest hits an all-time high as increased liquidity points to investors still being bullish on BTC
Open sesame: Will ‘cracking’ Monero reveal treasure or fool’s gold?
3.10.2020
Three blockchain analytics firms reportedly have Monero-tracking abilities, which could affect XMR price — but can anyone actually track it?
Zimbabwe’s Stock Exchange Open to Crypto Listing Subject to ‘Regulatory Approval’
3.10.2020
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) CEO Justin Bgoni says its recently licensed subsidiary, the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange is open to listing bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. However, according to local media reports, any such listings are still dependent on the digital asset issuers getting...
Open Interest on Bitmex Drops 16%: Investors Withdraw 37,000 BTC in Less Than 24 Hours
2.10.2020
Data from Arcane Research shows that open interest on Bitmex’s bitcoin derivatives market touched a new low of 45,122 BTC on October 1. The figure represents a 16% drop since the CFTC announced charges against Bitmex and its executives for allegedly operating an unregistered trading platform....
Venezuela trials ‘decentralized stock exchange’ open to the world
2.10.2020
Venezuela has announced a 90-day trial for a decentralized stock exchange supporting “alternative digital assets” and fiat currencies
Chinese Internet-based, Blockchain-powered Hospital Set to Open in 2021
2.10.2020
Chinese health chiefs has put its plans to launch an internet hospital on ice for a few months – to allow operators the time to add a wide range of blockchain technology-powered innovation.
Per Cn-Healthcare, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, a leading hospital in Dalian...
POW
30.9.2020
As a connoisseur of web trickery, this is a must share:
POW stands for Packaged Offline/online Webpage. It turns out the png format includes ways to save metadata alongside the image file. A powfile has a metadata entry that contains a zip file that contains a full website.
So a PNG file...
Bitcoin Options Open Interest Hits Record High in Expiry Week
24.9.2020
Bitcoin's options market is more popular than ever with record open interest of more than $2.10 billion
For These Blockchain Commons Interns, Their Open Source Careers Are Just Beginning
23.9.2020
The Blockchain Commons took on 7 interns this year to build out the organization’s many open-source projects
Jamstack Conf
22.9.2020
Here’s an important detail here: It’s free!
Jamstack Conf Virtual is coming up October 6th and 7th, 2020. The sessions are on October 6th. That’s the free part (register here). Then on October 7th there are a variety of workshops (they all look great to me) that are $100 USD each....
Bitcoin Strongest In North America, Asia More Open to Stablecoins, Altcoins
17.9.2020
Bitcoin (BTC), the first and largest cryptocurrency, has the strongest positions among crypto users in North America, while stablecoins and altcoins get more attention in Asia, a new report from crypto analysis firm Chainalysis showed.
According to the report, BTC made up 72% of the crypto...
Winamp Skin Museum
15.9.2020
65,000 skins, they say. That’s extraordinary, especially considering how creative and well done many of them are. MySpace was an even bigger creative explosion of customization.
What’s the next product that will inspire this kind of user ownership through theming? Allowing...
Bitcoin Options Traders Bet the Price of BTC Can Touch $36K by December
14.9.2020
This past weekend, data shows the most active bitcoin options contracts were calls for $28k, $32k, and $36k by the year’s end. This means a number of options traders are betting the price of bitcoin will exceed the all-time high (ATH) the decentralized currency touched in December 2017....
From open arms to full bans: The latest on crypto regulation in Asia
13.9.2020
A look at the legal status of crypto in Asia, where new crypto hubs are emerging and thriving despite uneven regulation
The Raw, Savage Capitalism of Open-Source Protocols
12.9.2020
Recapping the biggest stories of the week, including Joe Biden’s China plan, a market holding pattern and, of course, the strange competitive saga of SUSHI
Defining “View Source”
10.9.2020
Last time there was a little flurry of activity around the concept of “View Source,” I did get the sense that not everyone was on the same page about what that even means. Jim Nielsen:
First, when we talk about “View Source” what precisely are we talking about? I think this is...