Clinton-era Treasury Secretary Summers doesn’t buy some of the crypto community’s anarchic sentiments but agrees that they are solving a major problem. In a June 25 interview with Circle’s Jeremy Allaire, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers talked about crypto’s ability to patch up the modern financial system, particularly calling out the great difficulty in […]
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A new service from Uphold allows crypto holders in Latin America to invest in Amazon, Google, or Tesla for as little as 10,000 Satoshis. On June 25, Uphold announced that they will allow users in Latin America to use cryptocurrency to acquire fractional ownership of the world’s leading companies. Uphold supports dozens of cryptocurrencies, including […]
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Dragonchain will demonstrate its new blockchain-based contest system in a televised contest with a $50,000 prize. Blockchain firm Dragonchain has announced a new contest system, which they claim is “provably fair.” Dragonchain founder and CEO Joe Roets told Cointelegraph on June 25 that the firm has developed a blockchain-based contest system that allows participants to […]
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Ethereum 2.0 developers agreed in a call to move up the launch of a milestone 0.12 testnet to Monday, to ensure all engineers are on deck for the genesis block. The latest Ethereum 2.0 testnet iteration, Altona, is scheduled to release on Monday, June 29. As discussed in the Eth 2.0 developers call on June […]
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A recent message from one of Bitcoin.org’s overseers hints at foul play. Will Binns, one of Bitcoin.org’s overseers, said he has lost access to the site, claiming a breach may have occurred. “Bitcoin.org, where many people also download the latest version of Bitcoin Core software, is now in danger of becoming compromised, if it hasn’t […]
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Regions of the world with fast-growing economic potential and young populations, such as India and Africa, will become leaders in crypto adoption. Beyond rapidly changing how we create, store and transfer value, cryptocurrencies are accelerating financial inclusion in a way that traditional financial institutions have either been unwilling or unable to. Yet crypto’s possibilities go […]
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Despite the original TON project being officially terminated, the U.S. SEC asks Telegram to return $1.2 billion. The United States’s Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, has filed a proposal for final court judgement in regard of the terminated Telegram Open Network project. In a document filed on June 25, the SEC has asked the […]
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The S&P 500 is in danger of a major crash in the event of a daily close below 3,000 points, warns Tone Vays as data shows Bitcoin is 95% correlated. Bitcoin (BTC) being 95% correlated with the S&P 500 may haunt traders this week as one analyst warned a 400-point crash could soon hit. In […]
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Russia’s blockchain vote, powered by Bitfury, is off to a shaky start. Russia’s blockchain-based voting system for the Constitutional amendments is off to a rocky start after going live earlier today, according to local media reports. E-voting, scheduled to take place from June 25 to June 30 for residents of Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod, is […]
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A news website for the jihadist movement associated with ISIS has adopted Monero donations after having taken donations in Bitcoin for three years. The terrorist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is beginning to switch to Monero (XMR) to accept donations from the public. As reported by blockchain intelligence […]
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