Adoption of Bitcoin payments by Kroger and Starbucks may be tipping point for crypto. It’s no secret that cryptocurrencies don’t receive many plaudits in the mainstream media as reliable means of payment. Critics have even claimed that Bitcoin “sucks” as a payment mechanism. Yet, despite that blinkered skepticism, cryptocurrency payments actually grew last year. Payment […]
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In major news this week, university students seem to be making a profit mining crypto, and Jack Dorsey buys $10,000 of BTC a week. Top Stories This Week Research: ‘Free’ Electricity for Students Makes College Campuses Major Crypto Miners According to research from tech conglomerate Cisco, college campuses are the second-largest crypto miners across industry […]
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The SEC is still wary of ICOs, but recent changes to its guidelines show it’s learning to accept them. Initial coin offerings (ICOs) may be less fashionable than security token offerings (STOs) right now, but that hasn’t stopped the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from keeping its beady eye trained firmly on them. […]
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The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance has alluded to a new fiat-to-crypto exchange in Argentina on Twitter. CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, has hinted at the creation of a new fiat-to-crypto exchange in Argentina in a tweet sent on March 9. The tweet was in reply to a piece published by crypto news […]
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Morgan Rockcoons, the CEO of crypto city project Bitcointopia, pleaded guilty to selling land he didn’t have. Morgan Rockcoons, also known as Morgan Rockwell, has pleaded guilty to two cryptocurrency-related charges in San Diego federal court this week. Rockcoons admitted both to selling land he didn’t have for a crypto city project dubbed “Bitcointopia” and […]
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A U.N. Security Council report states that North Korean hackers obtained $670 million in crypto and foreign fiat from 2015 to 2018 North Korea has reportedly amassed $670 million in fiat and cryptocurrencies by conducting hacking attacks, Asia-focused financial newspaper Nikkei Asian Review reports on Friday, March 8. The publication cites a U.N. Security Council […]
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The second largest crypto exchange by adjusted trading volume OKEx has started listing Tron on its customer-to-customer market. Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has began listing Tron (TRX) on its customer-to-customer (C2C) trading market, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on March 7. OKEx’s decentralized C2C trading platform enables users to trade digital assets […]
Continue ReadingNiall Ferguson says that cryptocurrencies will turn out to not have been a complete delusion, and that he was wrong about the sector before. British economic and financial historian Niall Ferguson says that cryptocurrencies will not turn out to have been a complete delusion, as he had once assumed. The historian — who authored a […]
Continue ReadingRipple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the recently-announced stablecoin from U.S. banking giant JPMorgan Chase lacks interoperability. Ripple (XRP) CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the recently-announced digital asset from United States banking giant JPMorgan Chase lacks the interoperability that would make it a significant innovation. Garlinghouse made his remarks during an interview at the 4th Annual DC […]
Continue Readingsponsored A crypto exchange is giving the public a chance to invest in the top-25 digital assets in terms of market capitalization — all through one service token. An exchange has launched a new service designed to take the guesswork out of investing in cryptocurrencies. Lykke says that it is often difficult for crypto users […]
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