Tagged: bitcoin

July 19, 2018 @ 2:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

While John McAfee was first known as a trailblazer in the anti-virus / anti-malware software industry, he has had a bit of a renaissance of sorts in the cryptocurrency realm. Never one to mince his words, via his twitter account McAfee stated he sees a… 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

July 14, 2018 @ 1:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The grand jury indictment filed in Washington Friday by the Mueller team claims multiple units of Russian spies used bitcoins in, “large-scale cyber operations to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” Although cybersecurity experts recently warned the US Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism… Read More

July 10, 2018 @ 12:50 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The general unwillingness of banks to provide services to cryptocurrency firms is a well-known dirty secret in the Toronto start up scene. Any use of the word ‘bit’ in a business plan will have you politely shown the door by an account manager, even at… Read More

July 7, 2018 @ 1:38 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Recent floods in China’s central Sichuan province have destroyed thousands of cryptocurrency “mining” machines (dedicated computers) and may have slowed processing power on the Bitcoin network, Golden Finance reports. Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong and Jilin provinces were also badly affected by prodigious rains, says ECNS News,… Read More

July 6, 2018 @ 8:45 am By Cali Haan  |  

Money, “brings the best out of every individual..(and) makes the machinery work…” says famed Mexican economist and General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Agustín Carstens, but “the system is fragile” to interest rate and trade gyrations, and young people must stop printing from nothing in… Read More

July 2, 2018 @ 8:16 am By Anthony Zeoli  |  

Through a triad of recent releases/interviews, the SEC has further clarified how it views the offering and sale of crypto assets. These guidance materials provide some really good insight on the SEC’s thinking with respect to its treatment of crypto assets; including some bright line… Read More

July 1, 2018 @ 2:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has published a report on a comprehensive survey of 2500 Ontarians regarding their interest in and knowledge of digital currencies like Bitcoin. The report, commissioned by the OSC’s Investor Office and conducted by Innovative Research Group, found that 5%, or… Read More

July 1, 2018 @ 8:46 am By Cali Haan  |  

Steve Wozniak, who co-founded the Apple Computer Company with Steve Jobs in 1976, has made more public comments on blockchain and virtual currency systems, this time at the NEX tech conference in New York, CNBC reports. Although the sometimes complex tech is promising (“decentralized and… Read More

June 30, 2018 @ 12:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ross Ulbricht has been denied his last chance to appeal the sentence of double life plus forty years (with no chance of parole) he received after being convicted of running the “Silk Road” illicit online marketplace in 2015. The decision to deny the request was… Read More

June 30, 2018 @ 10:59 am By Cali Haan  |  

The American Department of Justice (DOJ) announced June 26th that its “First Nationwide Undercover Operation Targeting Darknet Vendors” has resulted in the arrest and charge of 35 individuals accused of selling illicit goods in the Internet underworld. The comprehensive, inter-agency dragnet also seized guns, drugs,… Read More

June 29, 2018 @ 2:52 am By Cali Haan  |  

The FBI, that agency with the Ken Doll guys in the suits in all the movies, you should know, is keeping an eye on 130 illegal situations involving cryptocurrencies, Bloomberg reports. “But how big is the problem!?” you ask. Well…OK… it’s basically sliver-sized, says Supervisory… Read More

June 26, 2018 @ 10:57 am By Cali Haan  |  

The streets of Tehran filled with protestors yesterday as citizens vented frustration about declining economic conditions and the steady devaluation of the country’s currency, the rial. A composite of videos from social media posted by Radio Free Europe shows mainly male protesters standing behind burning… Read More

June 25, 2018 @ 7:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Blackmoon says it has “solved” the crypto challenge by creating investment solutions that combine a simple strategy, returns superior to Bitcion and low fees. Today, Blackmoon has announced the launch of three different crypto indices accessible via asset tokens on the Blackmoon platform. Blackmoon… Read More

June 22, 2018 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

This week, the Federal Reserve of St. Louis has added multiple cryptocurrencies to their data tracking service FRED. FRED has added four series on the prices of different cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin (but no Ripple), with the data is coming from Coinbase. All of the information is being updated… Read More

June 22, 2018 @ 3:28 am By Cali Haan  |  

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Chief, Mick Mulvaney, called for balanced regulation of ‘financial technology’ markets Wednesday at the Future of Fintech conference in New York, Coindesk reports: “We knew at an early point in Bitcoin that as with any developing financial technology we needed… Read More

June 21, 2018 @ 11:06 am By Cali Haan  |  

The CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfield, told an audience at the Economic Club of New York recently that he does not side with other powerful bankers who have dismissed Bitcoin; “I’m not in this school of saying… because it’s uncomfortable with me, because it’s… Read More

June 19, 2018 @ 10:26 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin and crypto’s unofficial chief philosopher has released a video of a talk he gave on ‘globalized decentralization’ at the PanamaChain conference in Panama City May 6th. Andreas Antonopoulos is the author of two important books on Bitcoin: The Internet of Money (for lay audiences)… Read More

June 18, 2018 @ 3:17 pm By Cali Haan  |  

In an atmospheric piece filed 2700km from Shanghai and 3000 miles above sea level, Nikkei Asian Review reporter Yusho Cho describes a 7000 computer-strong mining operation quietly thrumming out Bitcoins in the remote western plateau region of Qinghai. Local authorities, says Cho, are fine with… Read More

June 18, 2018 @ 2:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, payments platform Square announced it has secured a virtual currency license from the New York State Department of Financial Services office. The company reported it is fully launched with the ability to buy and sell bitcoin through its mobile Cash app earlier this year… Read More