Tagged: ethereum

December 13, 2018 @ 1:06 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers have tripled their efforts this month to rip off “exposed” Ethereum wallets and mining equipment- probably in an attempt to profit while the profiting’s still good, ZDNet reports. In fact, attack frequency has been furious for the past week, said Troy Mursch, co-founder of… Read More

December 9, 2018 @ 9:31 am By Cali Haan  |  

Laura Shin, an independent journalist known for breaking an important story about deception by “blockchain” scions in Toronto, recently spoke to her former colleague at Forbes, Jeff Kauflin, on a podcast convened to discuss layoffs and business structure problems at ConsenSys, one of Ethereum’s biggest spin-off companies…. Read More

December 5, 2018 @ 3:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bitwise Asset Management announced on Wednesday the launch of its two new low-cost, liquid beta funds, holding bitcoin and ether exclusively. According to Bitwise, the Bitwise Bitcoin Fund and the Bitwise Ethereum Fund are the second and third strategies in the Bitwise fund family, joining the… Read More

December 4, 2018 @ 11:55 am By Cali Haan  |  

ConsenSys founder Joe Lubin announced in a company-wide letter last week that his company, Ethereum’s largest private offshoot, will be regrouping for greater efficiency under the moniker “ConsenSys 2.0,” Breakermag reports. In the letter sent to employees at the end of the workday Friday, Lubin wrote:… Read More

November 23, 2018 @ 10:30 am By Aubrey Hansen   |  

Three years into the smart contract revolution that should have brought us international, completely free and trust-independent markets, the time has come to see how far we’ve gotten and what remains from the grand idea. During its early beginnings, the Ethereum project was often introduced… Read More

November 16, 2018 @ 3:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The first person to be prosecuted in the US for ICO (initial coin offering) fraud has pleaded guilty to misleading 1000 investors, Bloomberg reports. On Thursday, Maksim Zaslavskiy, 39, admitted in a Brooklyn federal courtroom that he collected money for two ICOs: RECoin and Diamond… Read More

October 25, 2018 @ 2:54 pm By Ștefan Neagu  |  

Background checks are broken. They’re necessary, especially when verifying personnel for sensitive positions, but right now, the system is broken. It’s a really lucrative business if you’re a background check company, because the system is great at exploiting companies checking applicants and creating more work… Read More

October 12, 2018 @ 3:07 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been following up on “scores” of subpoenas it sent in January to companies issuing ICOs (initial coin offerings) and is now focussing on those and “many more” that sold ICOs to unaccredited investors, Yahoo Finance reports. Based… Read More

September 30, 2018 @ 6:27 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Two young men accused of stealing one billion “Crowd Machine Compute Tokens” (worth $14 million) directly from the Crowd Machine crypto project last weekend were arrested Monday at an Oklahoma hotel, Oklahoma News 4 reports. Fletcher Robert Childers, 23, and Joseph Harris, 21, both of Missouri,… Read More

September 23, 2018 @ 10:10 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin entrepreneurs Alena Vranova and Giacomo Zucco announced today that they are creating a foundation to help Bitcoin, an automated, autonomous payment network invented in 2009, compete with centralized cryptocurrency ventures. Vranova, an early adopter of Bitcoin and co-creator of the Bitcoin projects Slush Pool,… Read More

September 20, 2018 @ 2:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

TokenSoft, a security token issuance platform that can provide compliant offerings in 50+ countries, has proposed a new security token standard: ERC-1404. The engineering team at TokenSoft have developed this new standard with banking and securities law in mind. The “Simple Restricted Token Standard” is… Read More

September 12, 2018 @ 2:59 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The cryptocurrency market has lost 80% of its value since December 2018, with some altcoins, led by Ethereum, down over 90%. The crash that followed the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2000,  on the other hand, involved a correction of only 78% percent, says… Read More

September 6, 2018 @ 10:09 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Financial Services and Markets Authority of Belgium (FSMA) says it has been continuing to receive complaints from investors swindled by fake cryptocurrency platforms and is therefore reiterating its warnings to consumers: “Cryptocurrencies are the hype of the year. Fraudsters are well aware of that,… Read More

September 4, 2018 @ 12:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) expects to follow in the footsteps of their Bitcoin Futures contracts and offer the same for Ethereum. This is according to a report this past weekend from Business Insider. According to the write up, ETH Futures will launch… Read More

August 30, 2018 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Here is an interesting thread I was following recently on Twitter. As we all know, Ethereum is planning to change from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS). There is no need to dive into the pros/cons .. shoulda coulda debate now, but… Read More

August 30, 2018 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform StartEngine has filed an updated Form 1-A with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that indicates its intent to accept both Bitcoin and Ethereum during a Reg A + security token offering (STO). The document, filed this week with the SEC, is… Read More

August 26, 2018 @ 6:00 pm By Steven McClurg  |  

The SEC Rejects Bitcoin ETF Proposals. The SEC has rejected nine more Bitcoin ETF proposals, one of them from a fairly well-established ETF distributor, ProShares.  The ProShares filing was due for comments on Thursday, but the SEC promptly responded a day early, as well as… Read More

August 19, 2018 @ 5:46 pm By Steven McClurg  |  

2017 was a landmark year for crowdfunding. The JOBS Act passage coincided with blockchain, opened the door for a record in capital raised through ICOs (initial coin offerings) for early stage companies as well as Wantrepreneurs with an idea and a whitepaper.  ICOs were launched… Read More

August 15, 2018 @ 12:05 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Cryptocurrency markets have corrected to the upside slightly today, with Bitcoin up about 5% at the time of writing, and Ethereum up about 8%, but memories of yesterday’s steep price declines are still fresh and traders and holders dizzy. According to CCN, in the first… Read More

August 4, 2018 @ 6:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

High Times, the inimitable marijuana magazine, is in the midst of a Regulation A+ crowdfunding round. CI first covered the offering when the media firm first issued its first Form 1-A with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The offering documents have since been qualified… Read More