April 18, 2019 @ 2:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Three New Jersey men have been indicted in what the New York District Attorney claims is the largest seizure of illicit pills ever executed in New Jersey State. The accused, Chester Anderson, 44, Jarrette Codd, 41, and Ronald McCarty, 51, allegedly ran drug “store fronts”… Read More

April 18, 2019 @ 11:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Sirin Labs, a “blockchain smartphone” company that raised $255 million in two ICOs, has confirmed it is laying off employees, Israeli news outlet Globes reports. Contrary to media reports of larger numbers let go, Sirin Labs says it is only laying off 15 of 60… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 10:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Daniel Daianu, a member of the Romanian National Bank (BNR)’s Administration Council, told attendees at a conference this week that cryptocurrencies are in fact, “financial assets” that cannot be used as central bank currencies, Business Review reports: “In my opinion, these are financial assets, not… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 10:43 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Entrepreneurs and politicians in the American state of Ohio have embarked on several initiatives they hope will establish Ohio as a haven for businesses engaging with cryptocurrencies and cryptographic tokens. In December 2018, Ohio Congressman Warren Davidson and Florida Congressman Darren Soto introduced a bill into the… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 3:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Tokensoft, “a technology platform for compliant issuance of digital securities,” is being sued in California for alleged discrimination against a mature female employee. According to the complaint filed with the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, plaintiff Monette Stevens, 55, claims she was… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 11:34 am By Cali Haan  |  

Global consulting firm EY released a suite of blockchain software products this week, including a first-generation “private transaction protocol,” a “smart contract analyzer” and a “blockchain analyzer” that firms can use to reconcile transaction data obtained from multiple cryptographic ledgers. The EY Blockchain Analyzer can… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 2:34 am By Cali Haan  |  

Cheap hydroelectric and geothermal power, cooler temperatures and a relatively stable business environment have drawn droves of cryptocurrency mining firms to Iceland over the past few years. Abandoned industrial sites, fish factories, and even barns have been commandeered for the mining of Bitcoins and other… Read More

April 17, 2019 @ 1:29 am By Cali Haan  |  

Ongoing regulatory uncertainty in India regarding the use and trading of cryptocurrencies has caused a number of related firms there to close or relocate. Most recently, reports Economic Times, Indian crypto trading platform Unocoin has made additional staff cuts, and it’s total workforce now sits… Read More

April 16, 2019 @ 10:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The recent proliferation of themed ETF offerings- up five-fold 2014 to 2018- is leading to careful scrutiny of product names by the SEC, Bloomberg reports, and at least two firms, Amplify and Reality Shares, appear to have been required to drop the term “blockchain” from… Read More

April 16, 2019 @ 2:10 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A sergeant from the Silicon Valley-based Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) says 5 hackers, aged 18-26, who collectively stole $50 million USD in cryptocurrencies by taking over victims phones were arrested in 2018, The New York Post reports. Two of the more infamous alleged… Read More

April 16, 2019 @ 12:48 pm By Cali Haan  |  

France’s Finance and Economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, has told the EU that it should use rules established by France to govern the region’s cryptocurrency and digital asset sector as inspiration for EU and regional regulations. Le Maire told attendees at a recent “blockchain tech”… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 12:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Dan Romero, Coinbase’s Vice President, International, who also runs Coinbase’s institutional trading desk, has announced in a blog post that he is leaving the cryptocurrency trading platform firm this month. Romero’s LinkedIn profile shows that he has been at Coinbase for five years. The profile… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 10:58 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have launched a 140 000-machine botnet DoS (denial of service) attack against servers hosting popular Bitcoin wallet service Electrum, Hard Fork reports, and millions of dollars of Bitcoins have already been stolen from Electrum wallet users as a result. Electrum is a bitcoin “hot… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 10:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

Two of three Romanian cybercriminals who targeted American citizens and businesses from abroad in elaborate cybercrime schemes initiated in 2007 have been convicted in Ohio. Bogdan Nicolescu, 36, and Radu Miclaus, 37, will be sentenced August 14th after being found guilty of 21 counts of… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 8:57 am By Cali Haan  |  

And cryptocurrency trading platform called Coinswitch is promoting a cryptocurrency they say is designed to “combat…future attacks by quantum computers.” According to the platform, Quantum Resistant Ledger or QRL coin is, “is the brainchild of Peter Waterland(,) who realised that Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other such… Read More

April 13, 2019 @ 8:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

Mozilla, the software company behind popular free web browser Firefox, is confronting the increasingly relevant problems of online privacy-intrusion and cryptojacking by releasing a test version of enhanced Firefox software that blocks these activities. “To combat these threats,” writes Mozilla, “we are pleased to announce new… Read More

April 12, 2019 @ 6:29 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bakkt, the Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE’s) forthcoming “digital asset” trading platform and crypto custody service, has hired former PayPal VP Engineering and former Google Engineering Director-Payments Mike Blandina to develop products and payments features at the company. Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler announced the hire in an… Read More

April 12, 2019 @ 12:27 pm By Cali Haan  |  

In the wake of increasing Chinese state reticence towards a once supported industry, the biggest Chinese crypto mining firms have been steadily expanding or relocating to Canada, the US and Iceland, Chinese crypto news outlet 8BTC reports. But small and mid-size Chinese crypto miners have… Read More

April 12, 2019 @ 7:26 am By Cali Haan  |  

Jacob Burrell Campos, 22, from Rosarito, Mexico, has been sentenced to two years in prison and will forfeit $823,357 “in illicit profits” after being convicted of running an unlicensed money transmission business, that, “…(sold) hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin to over 1,000 customers throughout… Read More

April 11, 2019 @ 10:10 pm By Cali Haan  |  

“Vetted” retail investors are lining up to buy a revamped version of ICOs (initial coin offerings) called IEOs (initial exchange offerings), digital tokens “curated” by trading platforms, Bloomberg reports. After a slew of bad press and bad results over the past few years, ICOs have… Read More