April 18, 2018 @ 8:09 am By Cali Haan  |  

Cambridge Analytica, the firm that claims it used personal data to sway the last US election, planned to issue a cryptocurrency to enhance it’s powers of political persuasion, the New York Times reports. In addition to considering their own ICO (Initial Coin Offering), Cambridge Analytica… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 10:41 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A CryptoKittie trader has made $210,000 trading digital cartoon cats in collector markets, reports Kevin Pan at tokendaily.co. The trader, known as “DapperKittie,” bought his or her first Bitcoin in 2012 for $20, and by 2017, was familiar enough with crypto to make strong early… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 2:10 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts can now give the gift of crypto-backed travel thanks to a decision by HotelGift and FlightGiftCard to begin accepting cryptocurrencies this week. Though a check of each card’s website indicates that crypto payments have not yet been enabled there, customers will supposedly be… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 7:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

Torrent Freak has reported that Russian telecom regulator Rozomnadzor has begun blocking ISP addresses used to transmit private messages using the Telegram app. The actions come after the app was added to a state register of banned services last Friday after an 18-minute trial. Telegram… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 2:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

“Hashing power” dropped precipitously on the Monero network right after the system “hard forked” April 6th. The temporary decrease in competition for block rewards induced by the fork has been attributed to the fact that many minors had not upgraded their software in time for… Read More

April 16, 2018 @ 7:48 pm By Cali Haan  |  

According to 8btc, Gao Xiaosong, host of the #1 talk show in China and Chairman of Alibaba Music, defended cryptocurrencies in an episode of “Morning Call” aired last Friday. “I cannot figure out why so many people are mean to virtual currency. (After all) currencies… Read More

April 16, 2018 @ 7:57 am By Cali Haan  |  

Popular initial coin offering (ICO) investor and YouTube influencer Ian Balina has reported on Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram that he has been hacked. The hack may have been initiated during a live ICO-review broadcast Balina hosted last night on Youtube. In it, Balina responded to… Read More

April 13, 2018 @ 4:41 pm By Cali Haan  |  

In mid-March, The Government of Australia published tax guidelines for citizens and businesses using cryptocurrencies to invest, make or receive payments. The document, “Tax treatment of cryptocurrencies,” is fairly readable and the compliance procedures outlined quite reasonable. In short: “Our view is that Bitcoin…is an… Read More

April 13, 2018 @ 4:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin has bounced off the bottom at $6500 USD, Pantera Capital claims in a recent newsletter to investors. The declaration comes shortly after Pantera announced April 10th that they had lost 50% of the value of their digital asset fund in March. But Pantera CEO… Read More

April 13, 2018 @ 10:19 am By Cali Haan  |  

Press tracking events in crypto have been reporting on talent migrating from traditional tech and finance into blockchain and crypto for some time now. The latest news concerns an announcement that Richard Kim, formerly VP London at Goldman Sachs, is now CEO at Mike Novogratz’s new… Read More

April 13, 2018 @ 3:45 am By Cali Haan  |  

Redditors “Scott Lew” and “Nassim” have started a “self-funded” and crowdsourced due-diligence initiative currently red-flagging questionable ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) in regular “Terrible Token Tuesday” posts at the website ConcourseQ.io. The latest issue of Terrible Token Tuesdays, in fact, red flags the project “Abyss,” one… Read More

April 13, 2018 @ 1:27 am By Cali Haan  |  

French philosopher Roland Barthes once stated, “The world is a forest of signs.” Every object was a sign, he believed, and behind it lay a world of meaning. At at recent blockchain conference in Toronto, one entrepreneur presented her product to help, “Navigate the Token… Read More

April 12, 2018 @ 4:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

Shortly into CryptoChicks Female-Focussed Hackathon and Conference held April 6-8 in Toronto, Neufund CEO Zoe Adamovicz called out the insignificant presence of females at most blockchain conferences she attends. The North American Bitcoin Conference, for example, held January in Miami, featured just 3 out of… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 10:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Swiss firm Sirin Labs has plans to release a cell phone built especially for cryptocurrency users. “The Finney” Android phone will offer more secure storage of cryptocurrencies and the dApps (decentralized applications) they support. (dApps are computer apps built on decentralized cryptocurrency blockchains governed by… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 9:20 pm By Cali Haan  |  

On Tuesday, April 10th, 22 European countries signed an declaration vowing to cooperate as partners in the development and deployment of blockchain tech across European jurisdictions. According to the declaration, “Cooperation on a European Blockchain Partnership,” earnest efforts to “reaffirm” Europe’s “leading role” globally in blockchain… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 11:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

Members of the luxury set fond of cryptocurrencies are now able to purchase, log and transact a number of their favorite items using decentralized digital money and ledgers. Japanese luxury car reseller L’Operaio announced at the the end of March that they’ll accept Bitcoin at… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 10:30 am By Cali Haan  |  

  Speaking Saturday at the Cryptochicks Conference in Toronto, Zoe Adamovicz, CEO of Neufund, an online equity token-investing platform based in Germany, characterized the current regulatory crackdown in the US as as much about “protecting investors” as a matter of “jurisdictional competition,” where countries, negotiate… Read More

April 8, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Musicians are increasingly looking to crypto to secure and boost bottom lines. Korean paper The Chosun Ilbo reported in February that Korean girl band T-ara are working with Australian firm ENTCash to produce a cryptocurrency or token that fans will be able to trade for… Read More

April 8, 2018 @ 10:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

In addition to calling Craig Wright a fraud, Vitalik Buterin addressed serious matters in Ethereum scaling at the Deconomy Summit in Seoul, Korea April 4th.   Vitalik Buterin calls Craig Wright (fake Satoshi Nakamoto) a fraud, while standing in front of him. #Ethereum #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/lWd2cqLXfj… Read More

April 7, 2018 @ 6:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

To considerable fanfare, Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin proposed a new type of “Decentralized Autonomous” Initial Coin Offering at ethresear.ch on January 5, 2018, a model that would allow investors to vote for the incremental release or refund of investor capital. Although the proposal was received… Read More