August 2, 2018 @ 4:16 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An initial coin offering has been hit by an action by the state of Colorado that was deemed to be a security. A July 30th release from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies states that “Linda Healthcare” purveyor Arturo Devesa has received a cease and… Read More

August 2, 2018 @ 4:08 am By Cali Haan  |  

  House Representative Bill Huizenga of Michigan told Bloomberg July 27th that American regulations may need to be modernized to support crypto industries and ensure that retail investors get a piece of the action. “We’ve seen so much more of the capital getting locked up into… Read More

August 2, 2018 @ 2:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

A Conservative UK member of parliament appears to have abruptly resigned from two crypto-related advisory positions after the Financial Times revealed he was by being secretly paid in crypto for his services. Up until yesterday, Grant Shapps, MP, was not only an advisor to an ICO… Read More

August 1, 2018 @ 12:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A “serious pruning of (blockchain) projects” can be expected in 2018, according to Forester Research, a Massachusetts-based market research firm. According to Forrester’s latest report on blockchain, “Predictions 2018: A Year of Reckoning,” the consolidation will come as more and more people tune out the… Read More

July 31, 2018 @ 11:28 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Another high profile crypto rip off in Vietnam may have further imperiled the nascent sector there. According to VN Express, 20 investors have filed a complaint with the Vietnamese police claiming that the CEO of a cryptocurrency “cloud mining” scheme called Sky Mining has defrauded them… Read More

July 31, 2018 @ 9:59 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The rial traded at historic lows this weekend in Iranian black markets as financial problems made worse by US sanctions continue to take a toll on the country. According to the Arab Times, Iran’s national currency traded at 116 000-to one US dollar Saturday before… Read More

July 26, 2018 @ 1:40 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Hydro Quebec is more interested in supporting blockchain activities by blue chip companies in the province than it is in rolling out a red carpet for crypto miners, La Presse reports. Internal documents obtained in a freedom of information request show that Hydro Quebec is waiting… Read More

July 25, 2018 @ 10:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An internal investigation into insider trading at Coinbase has determined that none took place, Fortune reports. Coinbase, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, came under scrutiny last December when the price of Bitcoin Cash jumped only hours before the coin debuted on the exchange…. Read More

July 25, 2018 @ 8:18 am By Cali Haan  |  

Researchers at the Bank of Canada have published a working paper stating that the proof-of-work reward system and large network size of Bitcoin protect it against attacks. The study, “Incentive Compatibility on the Blockchain,” is something of a vindication of Bitcoin’s high energy consumption. It… Read More

July 24, 2018 @ 7:30 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Bitcoin Standard author Saifedean Ammous brought his book tour to Toronto yesterday, where he spoke in a light-filled penthouse workspace on key ideas from the book to a sold out crowd. Ammous is an assistant professor of economics at Adnan Kassar School of Business in… Read More

July 23, 2018 @ 9:42 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Province of Quebec’s energy regulator, Régie de l’énergie will continue to allow Hydro Quebec to charge cryptocurrency mining companies double the standard electricity rate until the province finalizes how to regulate the new industry, The Montreal Gazette reports. Hearings to regulate the new sector are scheduled… Read More

July 23, 2018 @ 3:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Former Wall Street risk analyst, avid Bitcoiner and ICO-detractor Tone Vays telecast his compelling “Inevitable ICO Bubble” talk to a crowd at the Seattle Bitcoin Meet Up last Thursday, during which he extended an olive branch to the creators of the contentious Bitcoin ‘fork,’ Bitcoin… Read More

July 23, 2018 @ 9:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

A man accused of using a digital token offering to defraud investors had his computers brought before him in a Quebec courtroom earlier this month and was forced by the presiding judge to hand over 420 bitcoins, Radio Canada reports. Dominic Lacroix planned his “Plexcoin”… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 10:20 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Online publication Vietnam News is reporting that the Government of Vietnam has moved one step closer towards banning crypto mining machine imports in the country. The move comes after the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) agreed to support a proposal from the Vietnamese Ministry of… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 8:19 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Torrential rains in the mountainous Chinese province of Sichuan during late June caused loss of life, landslides, crop damage, the forced relocation of 9000 people, and at least 193 million yuan ($30 million) in economic losses. Global technicians also noticed a 30% concurrent drop in… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 1:32 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A German designer and coder has revealed that payment app (and PayPal subsidiary) Venmo has been publishing the intimate purchase details, profile pics and personal messages of users online- everything from lovers’ quarrel texts to drug deal texts to junk food purchases and purchase locations-… Read More

July 18, 2018 @ 10:25 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The crypto hype-machine has taken another body blow this month, this time in the form of a scathing report by London-based research firm GlobalData, who have called the revolutionary claims made by crypto and blockchain proponents, “fantasy,” ITP reports. Such talk is sacrilege among enthusiasts… Read More

July 18, 2018 @ 3:47 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Though questions are increasingly being asked about the cost-effectiveness and necessity of blockchain to resolve data problems, database specialty-firm Oracle has announced the general deployment of a cloud-based distributed ledger service for enterprise clients. “Blockchain promises to be one of the most transformative technologies of… Read More

July 18, 2018 @ 11:20 am By Cali Haan  |  

Cryptocurrency consortium Bitmain, the world’s most valuable crypto firm, has embarked on yet another expansion, this time in Isreal, where it plans to triple the size of the workforce at its Ra’anana development centre. Bitmain told Israel business news site Globes that it is adding… Read More

July 18, 2018 @ 10:09 am By Cali Haan  |  

Following recent reports that it has established capacious bitcoin mining farms in Washington State and Quebec, the Beijing-based Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain is now renting offices in a Silicon Valley office tower called Riverpark Towers, CCN reports. Bitmain will occupy the last available vacancy in… Read More