Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast. Bitcoin has spent the last week bashing away at that $10,000 ceiling without quite managing to break through—even as it gained more than 1.5 percent over the last seven days. Analysts have put the failure to rise into five figures down to three factors: a meeting of the […]
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Japan’s minister of finance questioned crypto terminology, a company joined the Japan Security Token Association and more headlined news from Japan this past week. This week’s headlines from Japan included Japan’s minister of finance spurring conversation on crypto terminology, Merkle Science joining the Japan Security Token Association, Fobi Japan listing its own token, and Coincheck […]
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To become truly decentralized, blockchain projects should remove dependency on the centralized cloud providers used as their data storage. Across Europe, a privacy row has been brewing over various efforts to use coronavirus contact tracing technology. Contact tracing is the cornerstone of the efforts to track the spread of COVID-19 in an attempt to prevent […]
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Researchers have concluded that the recent Ether transfers that spent over $5 million in gas fees are the result of hackers trying to extort a compromised exchange. Over the past week, the crypto community has been left befuddled by three small Ether (ETH) transfers that incurred millions of dollars in fees. However, new reports have […]
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A Bangeldeshi government agency is collaborating with IBM to harness blockchain for modernizing the country’s digital pension system. IBM has announced an initiative to build a distributed ledger technology, or DLT, based architecture to underpin the digital pension system for Bangladeshi primary school teachers. The proof-of-concept comprises a permissioned network of teachers and other stakeholders […]
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Blockchain’s evolution path is similar to the invention of the internet, and we are already in its second phase. The internet started its life over 30 years ago, and since then, it has penetrated almost every aspect of our lives. Today, it underpins virtually everything we do. In fact, it’s difficult to imagine our lives […]
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KuCoin has launched credit card support for 17 new fiat currencies, with the exchange expanding its services to Latin American and Eastern European customers. Seychelles-based crypto asset exchange KuCoin has significantly expanded its fiat on-ramps, introducing support for 17 national currencies on June 12. KuCoin now supports credit card purchases denominated in over 50 fiat […]
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Once Ethereum becomes a proof-of-stake blockchain, what will happen to the ETH miners, and what will they do? As Ethereum is finally set to launch its Ethereum 2.0 upgrade later this year, putting an end to a long streak of delays, the network will start moving toward a proof-of-stake model. Consequently, the network will abandon […]
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Different options trading will help to diversify the market, making it flourish on the global financial scene. For those of us involved in the cryptocurrency space, we’ve gotten used to the fast-paced nature of this rapidly growing industry. New technology quickly becomes old, bright shiny projects lose their luster, and what started out as a […]
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Blockchain for distributing votes and independent digital dollars take center stage in the this week’s regulation news. Editor’s note: These are times strange enough that every conversation seems to include some verbal acknowledgment like “strange times, huh?” A quasi-anarchist police-free leftist separatist bubble has formed and is growing on Seattle’s Capitol Hill — a sentence […]
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