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Ripple released its Q2 market report, saying that XRP’s decline is in line with overall trends in the crypto market, which “underscores independence” from Ripple Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Mike Novogratz’s merchant bank Galaxy Digital led a $52.5 million fundraising round for crypto-lending firm BlockFi Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Bitwise Asset Management has announced its plan to launch “the first publicly-offered cryptocurrency index exchange-traded fund (ETF).” A registration statement has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund will track the returns of the company’s Hold 10 Index which aims to capture 80% of the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency … Read more
A Coinbase internal investigation has found that no insider trading of Bitcoin Cash took place in December, 2017, while a class action lawsuit is still being pursued Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
Robert K. Hur, United States Attorney from the Maryland district, filed a motion on July 20, 2018 to dismiss a 2013 three-count indictment against Ross Ulbricht which included murder-for-hire allegations. Mr. Ulbricht, 34, was prosecuted under a separate indictment out of the New York district as Dread Pirate Roberts, principal operator of underground online marketplace … Read more
It was shocking – and offending – when I heard the news of Katlego Marite’s kidnapping and that the kidnappers had demanded ransom in Bitcoin. As Kai Stinchcombe puts it in Ten Years In, Nobody Has Come up With a Use for Blockchain, blockchain has no real use except “currency speculation and illegal transactions”. But … Read more
The Delaware Department of Justice has taken an apparent interest in the Poloniex exchange, asking a group of individuals to contact them if they experience account issues Go to Source Powered by WPeMatico
At the beginning of 2018, I wrote an article outlining a New Year’s resolution that I thought could help boost cryptocurrency adoption and awareness in 2018, as long as enough people were doing it. Last week was the twenty-fourth installment of my challenge. While we should be a bit further along in the challenge, the … Read more
Hunting crypto scammers and shillers is now a sport. Armchair sleuths have taken it upon themselves to chase down perceived bad actors, and to publicly out them for their crimes. Crypto influencers who conceal promoted tweets and conflicts of interest are liable to be outed and shamed. Also read: ICOs Have Become a Parody of Themselves … Read more
Since its conception, the internet has been championed as a place where information and data should not be censored. While in practice this has not always been the case, especially with governmental rulings and policies to prevent access to and use of the internet, internet advocates have largely become hostile to the idea of censoring or … Read more
