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Stonewalled by FINRA, Up to 40 Crypto Securities Wait in Limbo for Launch
17.6.2019
Wall Street watchdog FINRA has sat for as long as 12 months on roughly 40 broker-dealer applications by blockchain startups
Crypto Is an Important Defense Against Today’s Orwellian Surveillance
17.6.2019
An effort to change extradition laws in Hong Kong has sparked protests – and questions about digital privacy and the right to transact, writes Mike Casey
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Getting Started with 8base
17.6.2019
8base is a Developer Acceleration Platform offering a vast selection of features to help devel
Hype or Hope? A Meeting of the Minds for the Benefit of Crypto
16.6.2019
Justin Sun’s upcoming lunch with Warren Buffett is a genius marketing play that can only help the cryptocurrency sector, writes Noelle Acheson
Crypto Trading Getting More Difficult in the U.S., What Can Be Done?
16.6.2019
Two U.S.-based exchanges have recently announced the delisting of several cryptocurrencies for U.S. customers supposedly in response to the regulatory uncertainty pertaining to what cryptoassets will be considered as securities and which ones will not by the country’s financial regulator....
How Blockchain Could Help Rural South Africa Turn Sunshine Into Income
16.6.2019
Solar has lit up remote communities. The next step is to link these communities to an energy market.
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The way energy is produced and distributed is changing rapidly as the industry moves away from carbon-based energy production. Technological development in...
It’s FATF’s Way or the Highway for Crypto Exchanges. That’s a Big Mistake
15.6.2019
The crypto industry can fight money launderers effectively, but not the way FATF wants it to, a CEX.IO compliance officer writes
I Was Reddit’s First (And Only) Cryptocurrency Engineer
15.6.2019
Before his move to supporting Craig Wright's bitcoin SV, Ryan X Charles describes his short-lived tenure at reddit and the trolls who made his life hell
Ahead of the Facebook Coin Announcement: How it May End Up?
15.6.2019
After months of speculation and rumour, not only the cryptoworld is waiting for the next week when social media giant Facebook is estimated to announce its new payments system and digital token.
Some reports claim it might happen on June 18. However, the coin itself might be launched in a dozen...
Of Crypto and Men: 20 Crypto Jokes
15.6.2019
This was a week of opposites in the cryptoworld, maybe more so than usual. Everybody has taken a side in the crypto argument, only the Burning Sun scandal is indiscriminately all-encompassing and ever-growing.
As a Mexican exchange makes a last-minute plea to stop tough fintech regulations, FATF’s...
Kik vs SEC – The Lawyers Speak
14.6.2019
The SEC's complaint against Kik, after it raised $100 million in an ICO, seemed pretty brutal, but not so fast, we're only hearing one side of the story. Watch more here as three lawyers discuss the case, its merits and its potential impacts for the crypto industry as a whole
Kik vs SEC: The Lawyers Speak
14.6.2019
The SEC's complaint against Kik, after it raised $100 million in an ICO, seemed pretty brutal, but not so fast, we're only hearing one side of the story. Watch more here as three lawyers discuss the case, its merits and its potential impacts for the crypto industry as a whole
Bounty.Cash Pairs Projects With Developers Finding Solutions for BCH
14.6.2019
Using bounties to seek solutions to various problems has proved to be a working approach for many projects in the crypto industry. Bounty.Cash is a platform that matches businesses and entrepreneurs with developers who are ready to solve issues with apps and features and get rewarded with bitcoin...
Startups Debut First Protocol for Issuing Tokens via Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
14.6.2019
The first protocol for issuing tokens via bitcoin’s lightning network is aimed to rival ethereum's ERC-20. But that's a tall order
14 Banks, 5 Tokens: Fnality’s Expansive Vision for Interbank Blockchains
13.6.2019
Fresh off a $63 million fundraise, execs at bank blockchain consortium Fnality shed some light on the often-secretive project's plan to tokenize fiat currency
Kenetic Starts New Fund, Sees Asia as a Home for Blockchain Generation
12.6.2019
Jehan Chu. Kenetic will soon be launching a new venture capital fund that is “pure equity, obviously blockchain only”, Jehan Chu, co-founder and managing partner at Kenetic Capital, a blockchain investment and advisory firm, told Cryptonews.com in an interview about their plans, the blockchain...
Monero (XMR) Price Prediction: Software Pruning & I2P Features Are Added to The Crypto Chain
12.6.2019
In order to enhance scalability, Monero (XMR) recently added blockchain pruning to its software. This feature allows users to optionally “prune” about 2/3 of the blockchain data, while still contributing to the network. An additional feature called I2P-zero is also bundled with Monero. This allows...
Samourai, Nodl to Launch Bitcoin Lightning Node With Mixing Features
10.6.2019
A new hardware partnership is helping the team behind Samourai Wallet extend their obsession with privacy to the world of bitcoin nodes
MPC Explained: The Bold New Vision for Securing Crypto Money
10.6.2019
Cryptography advances are converging to help developers bring blockchain uses to their core decentralizing principles, writes Michael J. Casey
Why Academics Love Bitcoin – and Crypto
10.6.2019
For academics, bitcoin, and more broadly crypto, is an exciting space where the ideas they write up in papers actually get built and tested