September 20, 2019 @ 9:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US House Financial Services Committee is planning to ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide additional information about a litany of topics including cryptocurrencies and Facebook’s stablecoin project Libra. Other topics include the discussion on private markets vs. public markets as well… Read More

 Tagged facebook, house financial services commitee, libra, sec, securities and exchange commission

September 20, 2019 @ 9:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com announced on Friday it has officially achieved Level 3 compliance with the Cryptocurrency Security Standard (CCSS). According to Crypto.com, Level 3 is considered the highest and strictest level achievable. After rigorous security audits by a team of cybersecurity and compliance… Read More

 Tagged crypto.com, cryptocurrency, digital currency, security

September 20, 2019 @ 9:07 am By Cali Haan  |  

A 35-year-old man from Toledo, Ohio, has been sentenced to one-year-and-a-day in prison and three years of supervised release for, “manufacturing fake IDs in a large-scale scheme funded in part with Bitcoin cryptocurrency,” Toledo Blade reports.  Aaron Kuns was sentenced on Wednesday, September 18th, after… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin

September 20, 2019 @ 7:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Ownera, an emerging digital securities network for the issuance of blockchain-based securities, says it will be releasing its “Digital Securities API” utilizing the Amazon Managed Blockchain service running HyperLedger Fabric. A recent research report noted that Hyperledger Fabric appears to be the clear winner for… Read More

 Tagged amazon, ami ben david, api, cis, digital securities, event, hyperledger, ownera

September 20, 2019 @ 2:12 am By Cali Haan  |  

Dapper Labs, creator of CryptoKitties, has secured $11 million USD in funding from private partners to continue developing a new blockchain called Flow. Flow will be used mainly to circulate digital collectibles like CryptoKitties, a project that once clogged the Ethereum network due to a… Read More

 Tagged axiom zen, cryptokitties, dapper labs, flow, roham gharegozlou, yat siu

September 20, 2019 @ 1:06 am By Cali Haan  |  

Lawyer, self-proclaimed Ethereum co-creator and “architect of the ICO,” Steven Nerayoff, has been charged with extortion for allegedly, “…threaten(ing) to destroy a startup cryptocurrency company if…not paid millions of dollars in the cryptocurrency Ether (ETH).” Nerayoff’s LinkedIn profile indicates he has been, “an advisor or investor in… Read More

 Tagged extortion, lawsuit, steven nerayoff

September 19, 2019 @ 10:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Overstock’s (NASDAQ:OSTK) recently departed founder and CEO, Patrick Byrne, sold his entire 13% stake in the company for $90 million USD in the past three days, MarketWatch reports. Byrne left Overstock in August after disclosing in a company news release and in interviews that he’d… Read More

 Tagged overstock, patrick byrne

September 19, 2019 @ 9:25 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A user of the Internet forum site Reddit claims his bank’s reaction to a Bitcoin deal gone bad has, “ruin(ed)” him: “TLDR (summary) – sold small amount of BTC on local bitcoins, Barclays bank closed my account, accused me of fraud and now I can’t… Read More

 Tagged barclays, bitcoin, uk, united kingdom

September 19, 2019 @ 2:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, Crowdfund Insider covered the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement action brought against ICOBox and its founder Nikolay Evdokimov. The complaint by the SEC specifically targeted ICOBox’s own initial coin offering (ICO) and the fact that ICOBox provided services to other ICOs acting like… Read More

 Tagged enforcement, ico, icobox, philip moustakis, sec, securities and exchange commission, seward & kissel

September 19, 2019 @ 2:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced on Thursday it was named preferred interest-bearing wallet for the Litecoin Foundation. Along with the collaboration, the Litecoin Foundation board selected Celsius to manage a portion of their treasury, a first for the organization. Speaking about… Read More

 Tagged celsius network, cryptocurrency, digital currency, litecoin foundation, partnership, preferred interest-bearing wallet