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Crypto Hedge Fund Ember Seeks $1 Million in SEC-Registered Equity Sale
1.11.2019
Ember Fund, makers of an AI-managed cryptocurrency portfolio app, is seeking to raise up to $1 million through an SEC-registered securities sale
Pay Your Friends to Protect Your Keys: One Startup’s New Take on Crypto Custody
30.10.2019
Vault12 is rolling out its crypto custody solution, which lets users pay their friends in ether to protect their private keys
tZERO, Tezos Foundation to Tokenize £500 Million in UK Real Estate
30.10.2019
The blockchain startups will tokenize portions of properties financed by U.K.-based Alliance Investments
New Web App Scans GitHub For Secrets Like Crypto Keys And Passwords
30.10.2019
Shhgit web app will scan the GitHub code repository and search for sensitive secrets, such as private crypto keys and passwords
Why a VPN Is the First Layer You Should Pull On When Browsing the Web
29.10.2019
Virtual private networks (VPNs) can be useful for all kinds of things, from streaming foreign sports to protecting your identity from heightened online surveillance. For cryptocurrency users, VPNs are particularly precious, providing access to exchanges that are geo-restricted, and enabling crypto...
Paxos Launches Settlement Platform for Equity Securities After SEC Relief
28.10.2019
Paxos is launching its settlement platform for U.S.-listed equity securities, after receiving a no-action relief from the SEC
How Hard Is It to Brute Force a Bitcoin Private Key?
28.10.2019
Trying to crack a private key with a brute force attack is a bit like trying to count to infinity: the sooner you begin, the faster you’ll never get there. Despite being as next to impossible as impossible gets, using a brute force attack to crack a bitcoin private key remains an intriguing...
KoreConX Launched Blockchain-based Ecosystem to Connect the Private Capital Market
26.10.2019
KoreConX’s newly launched blockchain-based platform for digital securities will also connect to private capital markets. The platform will allow securitized token issuance, trading, clearing, and settlement. KoreConX platform hosts over 90,000 companies, who have raised more than $6.6 billion....
McKinsey: Majority of Banks May Not Be Economically Viable
25.10.2019
Management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review and found that a majority of banks worldwide may not be economically viable. More than half of them still do not generate their cost of equity 10 years after the crisis and may not survive an economic downturn....
Kraken Unveils its WebSockets Private Application Program Interface
25.10.2019
One of the prominent digital currency exchanges, Kraken, has made its WebSockets Private API (Application Program Interface) live. Kraken announced the development on October 24, 2019, through an official blog post. The Private API enables clients to have more rapid streaming access to their trade...
Crypto Exchange Kraken Announces That WebSockets Private API is Live
25.10.2019
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announces that its WebSockets private API is now live
Cryptosteel Launches Physical Device for Private Key Backup Protection
22.10.2019
Cryptosteel has launched a new, pocket-sized physical backup device for the offline storage of private keys, passwords, and wallet recovery seeds
Traditional Law and Finance Can Adapt to Bitcoin, These Examples Show
20.10.2019
Bitcoin brought about solutions to persistent problems that stood in the way of previous attempts to invent digital money, such as the risk of double spending. Some of its features, however, like the characteristic irreversibility of blockchain transactions, have created certain challenges for...
How to Trade Crypto in Person Safely
20.10.2019
With mainstream exchanges becoming progressively cumbersome due to privacy invasive policy and regulation, some crypto traders are switching to more private, face-to-face trading. While this route isn’t for everyone, and comes with unique risks, it does offer a very real solution to many...
Bitcoin’s Irreversibility Challenges Int’l Private Law: Legal Scholar
18.10.2019
Professor Matthias Lehmann has proposed an approach for applying private international law to Bitcoin and other blockchains
IRS Issues New Crypto Tax Guidance After 5 Years – Experts Weigh In
10.10.2019
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued long-awaited guidance on the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies. It is generally described by the crypto community as a mixed bag since some parts are useful while others have raised many more questions, particularly how cryptocurrencies from hard...
5 Things to Know About Grams Wallet’s Terms of Use Before GRM Launch
8.10.2019
Telegram publishes terms of service for its native cryptocurrency Grams Wallet
FOIN Allows Merchants to Accept Crypto Payments In-Store
7.10.2019
FOIN, a cryptocurrency company and a developer of the transparent payment system FoPay, announced the strategic partnership with Cyclebit, a crypto payment solutions provider. According to the official information, starting from that day, FOIN, the decentralized peer to peer cryptocurrency for...
Issuing Money Is for Governments, Not Private Firms: Apple CEO
4.10.2019
Apple CEO Tim Cook has spoken out about whether his company would launch a cryptocurrency, and the answer is a firm no
How to Create an Anonymous Digital Identity Using Cryptocurrency
3.10.2019
If you could go back in time and do the internet all over again, what would you change? Would you think twice about joining Facebook, decline to upload those fancy dress photos from ‘09 and delete that rhetoric-laden blog post instead of hitting ‘Publish’? It’s too late...