May 11, 2018 @ 11:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

A bill (HB 1426) that would have made Colorado a haven for ICO’s (Initial Coin Offerings) failed to pass a third reading Wednesday in the Colorado Legislature by a narrow margin of 18-17, the Denver Post reports. ICO’s are a type of tradable “digital asset”… Read More

May 10, 2018 @ 11:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Right now, overhead, four satellites broadcasting the Bitcoin blockchain drift in the Earth’s atmosphere over North and South America, Africa and Europe. Only East Asia, Australia and Polynesia are still dark. The presence of Bitcoin satellites in the atmosphere was announced August 15th, 2017 by… Read More

May 10, 2018 @ 11:09 am By Cali Haan  |  

On May 8th, venture capitalist Tim Draper, Bitcoin software developer Jimmy Song and crypto hedge fund manager Kyle Samani engaged in a tense debate about the viability of enterprise blockchains and supposed utility of “crypto asset” ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Draper began by invoking the… Read More

May 10, 2018 @ 6:47 am By Cali Haan  |  

Milos Dunjic, a cryptographer and Associate Vice President of Payments Innovation at TD Bank, has stated that whereas blockchain “threatens everything built” by banks, AI is “very friendly technology.” * Dunjic made the comments as part of a fintech panel discussion at the Canadian Undergrad… Read More

May 9, 2018 @ 7:25 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The man who decoupled messaging from the main Facebook site, made it a discreet app customers had to download to phones (which mined even call data from customer phones), is leaving Facebook’s Messenger department to lead a blockchain working group within the company. David Marcus,… Read More

May 8, 2018 @ 11:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A proposed lawsuit by (standard) Bitcoin users against the Bitcoin Cash-controlled website Bitcoin.com and it’s CEO Roger Ver has been dropped. Ver, one of the most dedicated and high profile early adopters of Bitcoin, and several partners (including Jihan Wu, owner of the world’s largest… Read More

May 6, 2018 @ 2:42 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ripple Labs, the company behind the cryptocurrency Ripple (XRP), are facing a class action lawsuit filed by an investor, Ryan Coffey, who alleges the company sold it’s cryptocurrency tokens to the public in violation of US securities laws. The filing also claims the company has… Read More

May 6, 2018 @ 11:25 am By Cali Haan  |  

On Thursday, “Alternative financial and economic news” producer Crush the Street posted an interview on YouTube with documentarian Tim Delmastro, who has released a new documentary on Bitcoin called “Bitcoin: Beyond the Bubble.” The following is a transcript of highlights from the interview: “I made… Read More

May 5, 2018 @ 9:49 am By Cali Haan  |  

Forbes has reported that sources close to Japan’s Financial Services Agency (JFSA) have confirmed that the agency is encouraging the country’s crypto exchanges to exclude anonymous cryptocurrencies Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC), and Dash (DASH) from trading on their exchanges. The suggestion comes as a number… Read More

May 5, 2018 @ 9:34 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Iranian minister responsible for information and communications technology, Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, has announced that a cryptocurrency it developed with the ministry’s Post Bank is “ready,” Reuters reports. Iranian State news agency IRNA has reported that the state’s cryptocurrency will be exempted from a ban… Read More

May 4, 2018 @ 6:05 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joseph Lubin told The Street last week that he is “extremely comfortable” that Ethereum does not qualify as a security under US law. “We spent a tremendous amount of time with lawyers in the U.S. and in other countries…it never… Read More

May 4, 2018 @ 2:46 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bloomberg reported May 2nd that the City Council of Berkeley voted unanimously this week to task the city manager with evaluating the potential benefits of putting municipal bonds on blockchain. Vice Mayor Ben Bartlett believes that digitizing bonds on blockchain could democratize access to municipal… Read More

May 4, 2018 @ 11:48 am By Cali Haan  |  

In what is being lauded as Scotland Yard’s first successful prosecution of cybercrime, a British hacker has been convicted of multiple charges related to the theft of millions of people’s personal data. Grant West, 26, was arrested in the first class section of a passenger… Read More

May 4, 2018 @ 9:59 am By Cali Haan  |  

In 1946, delegates from 25 countries met in Geneva to create globally consistent standards for the development of technology and an organization to govern those standards: the International Standards Organization, or ISO. At last year’s ISO blockchain meeting in Tokyo, the New York Time reports, China… Read More

May 3, 2018 @ 4:45 pm By Cali Haan  |  

ICOData.io, a company that rates Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) to remedy an “intelligence deficit” in the market, has published data showing that ICO investing dropped by almost two-thirds in the first four months of 2018. The organization has just published a chart showing that funds… Read More

May 3, 2018 @ 8:55 am By Cali Haan  |  

After last week’s post was suspiciously ‘downvoted’ into obscurity on Reddit, this Tuesday saw the triumphant return to Reddit of the “Terrible Token Tuesdays” post that every week identifies particularly bad ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) investors may want to steer clear of. “Terrible Token Tuesdays”… Read More

May 3, 2018 @ 7:24 am By Cali Haan  |  

If you thought CryptoKitties were frivolous, wait until you hear about “Lovecoin.” Anyone suffering from extreme levels of both crypto and general romanticism can now waste discretionary funds on one of the latest token trinkets built on Ethereum: Lovecoin. According to the Lovecoin website, Lovecoin… Read More

May 2, 2018 @ 9:30 am By Cali Haan  |  

In what is likely a combined attempt to sidestep US sanctions and compete with Middle East oil suppliers, Venezuela has offered India a 30% discount on crude oil if the country pays for the oil in El Petro, Venezuela’s controversial new cryptocurrency, says Business Standard. Venezuala… Read More

May 2, 2018 @ 8:41 am By Cali Haan  |  

Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, outlined the current state of Litecoin in a live-streaming interview with Julian Hosp of TenX April 27th. TenX are the makers of a crypto software wallet and debit card system that aims to,”make any blockchain asset spendable instantly.” Overall, said… Read More

May 2, 2018 @ 8:32 am By Cali Haan  |  

CryptoKitty talent managers may soon be able to trot their cats into a “a social media parallel universe” for discreet marketing through cartoon avatars, thanks to Userfeeds.io. Userfeeds.io co-founder Maciej Olpinski announced in a blog post at Medium March 30th that they are now casting… Read More