May 1, 2018 @ 8:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Autorite Des Marches Financiers, regulator of financial markets in Quebec, has sanctioned the operators of two ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). According to an April 19 press release from the AMF, after an ‘ex parte’ hearing on April 13th, the Administrative Financial Markets Tribunal (TMF):… Read More

April 30, 2018 @ 1:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Asia Times has reported that Taiwan will introduce new rules for the regulation of crypto industries by November 2018. Taiwanese Justice Minister Chiu Tai-san announced the plans at an anti-money laundering conference hosted last week by the Taiwan Financial Services Coalition after the Coalition… Read More

April 29, 2018 @ 4:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Morgan Rockcoons, a once active LocalBitcoins seller and committed Bitcoin lifestyler, has tweeted that he is in crisis after being offered a deal from prosecutors to plead guilty to money laundering and unlicensed money transmission in exchange for a lighter sentence. Rockcoons perceives the charges… Read More

April 29, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

#MeToo activists at Peking University have attempted to permanently log accusations of on-campus harassment on the Ethereum public blockchain, Quartz  reports. This story begins this year on April 5th, China’s national day for honouring the dead. Inspired by recent #MeToo activism in China, including numerous reports… Read More

April 28, 2018 @ 2:33 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Devoted “classic” Bitcoin network advocates claim they will soon be testing their brand confusion grievance against Roger Ver and Bitcoin Cash in court. Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) have been engaged in a highly contentious rivalry ever since Roger Ver and associates “forked” (or… Read More

April 27, 2018 @ 1:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Malta’s cabinet has approved three bills to regulate cryptocurrency and blockchain industries within the country, including ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). The legislation will next be addressed in the Malta Parliament. ICOs are regarded by some as an innovative, efficient, disruptive and democratic means of funding… Read More

April 27, 2018 @ 6:48 am By Cali Haan  |  

Lovers of all things cute, crypto and competitive can now race their CryptoKitties on a simple, arcade-style racetrack at Kittyrace.com. Players and spectators pay a small amount of ether from their Metamask wallets to race cats or watch. Race results are calculated using a combination… Read More

April 26, 2018 @ 12:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bloomberg is reporting today that a Chilean anti-monopoly court has ordered Chilean banks Estado de Chile and Itau Corpbanco to restore account services to the Buda cryptocurrency exchange, at least until a lawsuit brought against the banks by Buda is resolved in court. Crypto-trading services… Read More

April 26, 2018 @ 8:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

The cofounders of Parity.io, a company that lost or lost access to nearly half a billion dollars of client funds last year, have stated in a blog post today that they are “deeply sorry” and have no intention of forking the Ethereum blockchain to recover… Read More

April 25, 2018 @ 9:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ethereum users voted Tuesday not to patch a smart contract accidentally destroyed by a junior developer at Parity last November. The mistake has frozen access to $360 million dollars worth of client ether held in digital wallets managed by the company. The contract was reportedly… Read More

April 25, 2018 @ 8:50 am By Cali Haan  |  

Reporter Jang Hyeong-tae at Chosen Ilbo shared yesterday that a number of politicians running in Korean regional elections are promising to incorporate blockchain into governance if elected. At least twelve have proposed new cryptocurrencies, said Jang. Korean regional elections are set for June 13th. The Mayor… Read More

April 24, 2018 @ 11:03 am By Cali Haan  |  

A user of the MyEtherWallet reported on Reddit about one hour ago that their wallet has been hacked for .09 ETH. The user logged into their wallet this AM and noticed that the wallet interface had an “invalid connection certificate” in the corner. The user… Read More

April 23, 2018 @ 2:14 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Attempts by Iranian citizens to trade their rapidly deflating rials for US dollars or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are being vigorously scuttled by Iranian authorities. The latest ban on cryptocurrencies, reported by the state news agency IRNA, follows the imposition of standardized exchange rates across the… Read More

April 23, 2018 @ 10:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

In a form letter correspondence consistent with the low service levels crypto clients have come expect, Coinbase, operators of the planet’s 11th largest crypto exchange, pulled the plug on payments to the Wikileaks store April 20th. In a screenshot of the letter posted by Wikileaks,… Read More

April 22, 2018 @ 2:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Soft spoken computer scientist Adam Back, one of the most important figures in the technical history of Bitcoin, had a hard act to follow after Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert burned down the stage presenting their gleeful and anarchic brand of Bitcoin-boosting. “The era of… Read More

April 21, 2018 @ 4:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

  Before Alena Vranova became one of Bitcoin’s early entrepreneurs in 2013, this cofounder of Satoshi Labs and Trezor Hardware Wallets spent ten years innovating in the insurance industry in her native Czech Republic. There, she learned her first lesson in industry disruption: “Don’t listen to people… Read More

April 20, 2018 @ 3:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Well-known “Bitcoin Maximalist” and despiser of ICO’s (Initial Coin Offerings) Tone Vays has lately been so deluged with idiotic requests to advise on ICO’s that he has updated his LinkedIn profile to the following: “I am NOT interested in your ICO/Token Sale. Please send all requests… Read More

April 19, 2018 @ 9:07 am By Cali Haan  |  

The CEO of San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Jesse Powell, has fired back at a letter from the New York Attorney General’s office asking cryptocurrency exchanges to provide detailed information on their business practices within two weeks. The 34-point request for info was sent to… Read More

April 18, 2018 @ 1:56 pm By Cali Haan  |  

TorrentFreak.com are reporting today that Telegram co-founder and exiled Russian businessperson Pavel Durov has vowed to donate millions of dollars in Bitcoin to providers of virtual private network (VPN) services. Consistently routing messages through VPNs, which obscure message origins, may allow Russian citizens to continue… Read More

April 18, 2018 @ 9:34 am By Cali Haan  |  

After blogging last month about the risks of cryptographic currencies and assets, including their use in “darknet” marketplaces like AlphaBay, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde blogged this month about “the promise” of cryptocurrencies and urged an even-handed international approach to their regulation. Judicious consideration, wrote Lagarde,… Read More