May 8, 2019 @ 11:47 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The price of Ethereum (ETH), beleaguered for over a year, jumped from ~$160 USD to ~$180 USD in the hours following a May 6th Coindesk report that the CFTC may be “comfortable” with allowing trading of ETH futures. Image from Coinmarketcap. The price had settled… Read More

April 25, 2019 @ 10:49 am By JD Alois  |  

France is a country that is aggressively pursuing blockchain innovation. Crowdfund Insider’s recent coverage of Paris Blockchain Week highlighted this fact as both policymakers and innovators appear to be on the same page. Now, big banking is moving forward in the crypto space by actually… Read More

April 24, 2019 @ 7:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Gifto, a company that completed a $30 million initial coin offering (ICO) in less than a minute, has bailed on Ethereum. In a blog post, Gifto said they have “tremendous respect for the Ethereum community,” but that respect apparently does not transfer over to confidence… Read More

April 23, 2019 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) has published a report about the Ethereum blockchain. The report claims that poorly implemented private key generation is facilitating the theft of cryptocurrency. ISE said they discovered 732 private keys as well as their corresponding public keys that committed 49,060 transactions… Read More

April 22, 2019 @ 12:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

A report from last week in the Information states that ConsenSys is in the process of raising up to $200 million from outside investors. Apparently, ConsenSys is slapping a $1 billion valuation on the offering. So is it worth the money? It is too hard… Read More

March 26, 2019 @ 2:07 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A group dedicated to the liberation of North Korea, Cheollima Civil Defence, is raising funds through the sale of 200 000 symbolic “visas” that promise holders they will be among the among the first to visit “Free Joseon upon liberation.” The group’s “Post-Liberation Blockchain G-VISAs”… Read More

March 13, 2019 @ 1:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Abra, a U.S.-based all-in-one cryptocurrency wallet and exchange, announced on Wednesday it has expanded support for the Ethereum platform by adding native integration of Ethereum’s currency, ether (ETH). Abra users may now deposit, invest, and withdraw ether directly from the Abra app. Abra reported that… Read More

March 13, 2019 @ 6:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bear markets may have taken the wind out of several crypto fork’s sails, as the number of code commits lodged by developers of coins like Litecoin and Bitcoin Gold has fallen to less than half-a-dozen per month, says ‘crypto asset management firm’ Electric Capital. The… Read More

March 12, 2019 @ 3:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coincenter, a leading advocacy group for the cryptocurrency/virtual asset space, has shared a recent correspondence with SEC Chairman Jay Clayton. Chair Clayton responded last week to a letter originally sent last October by Congressman Ted Bud who was seeking additional clarity on crypto and its… Read More

March 8, 2019 @ 7:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The town council of Plattsburgh, New York, has voted 5-1 to lift a year-old moratorium prohibiting any new cryptomining operations from setting up within town limits, Midday Magazine reports. The moratorium was established in March of last year after cold temperatures and crypto-mining consumption exhausted… Read More

March 8, 2019 @ 10:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Avaloq, an international fintech providing services and digital solutions to banks and wealth managers, announced on Thursday it has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), which is an open source blockchain initiative. Avaloq reported that as a member of the EEA it will collaborate with… Read More

February 25, 2019 @ 12:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Synthetix, a decentralized synthetic asset platform, has launched a synthetic Bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain known as synthetic Bitcoin (sBTC). This news comes just a couple of months after Synthetix rebranded from Havven. According to Synthetix, sBTC provides access to the value of Bitcoin without the friction of… Read More

February 24, 2019 @ 12:22 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Emaar Properties, the company that developed the United Arab Emirati’s (UAE’s) iconic Burj Khalifa tower, the tallest in the world, has denied rumours that it plans to accept cryptocurrency payments in real estate deals. According to a company spokesperson speaking to Bloomberg: “Emaar does not… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 4:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently, it was announced that Fincross International will be the lead sponsor for the upcoming Security Token Summit taking place in LA this spring – as well as CIS. A relatively new company, Fincross is described as “a next-generation digital investment bank.” The digital investment bank… Read More

February 16, 2019 @ 4:33 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Due to “challenging conditions” in crypto markets, Argo Blockchain (LSE:ARB), a cryptomining firm that went public in the UK last year, is no longer accepting new customers for its “mining-as-a-service” program (also known as “cloud mining”), and will terminate all contracts as of April 1,… Read More

February 15, 2019 @ 3:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

An article by a reporter at Bitcoinist has revealed that 93% of “dApps” (decentralized applications) built to run on the Ethereum crypto network had no transactions on the day they were examined. User rates were slightly better, at 86%, but without transactions, it seems likely… Read More

February 13, 2019 @ 7:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nasdaq is moving up the crypto ladder with a new “data dissemination relationship” with Brave New Coin (BNC). The partnership will send real-time Bitcoin and Ethereum index level information on the Nasdaq Global Index Data ServiceSM (GIDS) starting on Monday, February 25th. The Bitcoin Liquid Index (BLX)… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 10:07 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Malware designed to intercept and replace digitally-copied cryptocurrency addresses with those belonging to hackers has been found in a fake MetaMask app available until recently at the Google Play app market. According to cybersecurity firm WeLiveSecurity, the malicious app, “Android/Clipper.C” was, “…spotted shortly after it was… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 3:10 am By Cali Haan  |  

“Decentralized apps” (dApps) built to run on newer cryptocurrency blockchains Tron and EOS have steadily taken over from Ethereum as gamblers’ financial media of choice, DIAR reports. Ethereum still processed $7.6 billion in dApp transactions in 2018, but this was mainly business coming from trades… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 11:49 am By Cali Haan  |  

Researchers at blockchain forensics firm Elementus who extensively documented the days- long, $16 million USD hack against New Zealand-based crypto exchange Cryptopia two weeks ago now claim that the same hacker has struck again at Cryptopia. According to Elementus, “Though Cryptopia remains silent…” about the… Read More