Why Leading Crypto Devs Don’t Work In Silicon Valley
A recent back-and-forth between Coinbase and a bitcoin developer shows there’s still a big gap between the industry and the open-source community.
View ArticleHobbyist in Hell: Tracking My Crypto Assets for the Taxman
The spreadsheet got more and more complicated, until one day it took two minutes to load.
View ArticleMeet CoinDaddy: Mink Suit Wearing “Bitcoin Rapper” and Cryptocurrency Enthusiast
San Francisco, a city with a respected hip-hop scene that has spawned rappers like Too Short and Mac Dre, has produced another star: “Bitcoin rapper” CoinDaddy. The 28-year-old behind CoinDaddy, Arya...
View Article‘Inevitable’ that Pensions and Endowments Make Crypto Play: Hedge Fund Exec
Cryptocurrencies may soon land the white whale of the investing industry: institutional funds such as pensions and endowments. That’s according to Ari Paul, chief investment officer at cryptocurrency...
View ArticleIncreased SegWit Adoption May have Finally Solved Bitcoin’s Fee Problem
A couple months after two of the largest cryptocurrency trading exchanges, Bitfinex and GDAX, finally adopted the bitcoin SegWit protocol, transaction fees for the currency are finally back to...
View ArticleBrazilian Crypto Businesses, Exchanges Create “Rival” Cryptocurrency...
Brazil’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, including Bitcointrade, Mercado Bitcoin, Foxbit, and others, recently joined forces to create a cryptocurrency association whose goal is to defend the...
View ArticleTwo Days From U.S. Tax Filing Deadline, Large Majority of Crypto Holders Have...
In just two days, the U.S. tax filing deadline, April 17th, will be here. Despite this, only a very small fraction of Americans have reported their cryptocurrency holdings. In fact, data released from...
View ArticleNewsflash: Bitcoin Price Dives Below $7,900 after New York Opens Probe into...
Bitcoin price dove below $7,900 on Tuesday after the New York Attorney General’s office announced that it had opened an inquiry into the cryptocurrency exchange industry. The flagship cryptocurrency...
View ArticleAmazon Sees Bitcoin Use Case in Data Marketplaces
The e-commerce giant describes how merchants and law enforcement could make a bitcoin transaction stream more valuable by splicing it with other data.
View ArticleEx-Google Employees Form Blockchain Alliance As Cryptocurrencies Catch Fire
Blockchain is sizzling amid escalating media hype about its vast potential applications in finance, supply-chain management, healthcare, and even the music business. Now, a trio of former Google...
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New York Attorney General Launches Inquiry Into Cryptocurrency Exchanges
As part of an effort to protect cryptocurrency investors and bring greater transparency into how cryptocurrency exchanges operate, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sent letters to 13...
View ArticleSecurity Firm Avast Demonstrates Cryptojacking Risks to Smartphones and IoT...
Global digital security firm Avast will be demonstrating the risks posed to smartphones and IoT devices by cryptojacking. The company has a stall at the RSA 2018 conference being held this week and...
View ArticleData Firm at Center of Facebook Controversy Planned $30 Million ICO: Report
Cambridge Analytica, a British data analytics firm, was planning to raise as much as $30 million by issuing a new cryptocurrency through an ICO before it got swept up in a scandal surrounding the...
View ArticleSurvey: Almost Half of Crypto Investors Who Profited in 2017 Are Not...
Today, April 17th, is tax day here in the U.S, but a significant number of investors have apparently not reported gains from digital currency trading to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). TeamBlind...
View ArticleWhat Crypto Exchanges Are Saying About NY’s New Inquiry
Some of the cryptocurrency exchanges named today in the New York Attorney General’s “inquiry” into the ecosystem say they welcome the move.
View ArticleCoinbase Has a New Chief Financial Officer
Oz Management Chief Financial Officer Alesia Haas is Coinbase’s new CFO effective Tuesday.
View ArticleReuters: Cambridge Analytica Planned to Issue Digital Currency and ICO
Last year, Cambridge Analytica was developing plans to raise money by issuing a digital currency and accompanying initial coin offering (ICO) before the firm became entangled in a scandal surrounding...
View ArticleWalmart Wants to Store Payment Data On a Blockchain
A pair of Walmart patent applications discuss encrypting payment information using a blockchain.
View ArticleIndustry Groups Join Forces to Speak Out Against Over-Regulation by SEC
Seeking exemptions from federal oversight that they believe will slow growth of the cryptocurrency space, industry groups are forming in attempts to lobby agencies like the Securities and Exchange...
View ArticleWink & a Bitcoin: Roger Ver Offers Reddit $100k to Appoint New Moderator to...
Early cryptocurrency investor and ardent Bitcoin Cash supporter Roger Ver is known for using his social media presence to stir the pot, and he lived up to that reputation this week. Ver, who owns...
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