The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link! Coming every Sunday, Hodlers Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week CFTC charges BitMEX with illegally operating […]
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SEC v. Kik doesn’t have to be game-over for Kik or SAFTs. In fact, the decision is perhaps more favorable than the SEC v. Telegram order. On the last day of September 2020, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein dashed the hopes of Kik Interactive, crypto entrepreneurs and Simple Agreement for Future Tokens, or SAFT, proponents in […]
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They’re following other central banks, including the European Central Bank, into studying virtual currencies. The Estonian central bank, Eesti Pank, announced the launch of a research program to study how to build a digital currency infrastructure. According to a statement, Eesti Pank partnered with technology companies SW7 Group and Guardtime for the research project. It […]
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How to use the opportunities that the Swiss regulatory system provides for crypto projects wisely to speed up the launch of your product. As the cryptocurrency world matures with more and more jurisdictions legalizing it and ensuring crypto becomes an industry standard, cryptocurrency receives a quality mark that proves that it can earn users’ trust. […]
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New update from Coinbase quickens the transmutation of crypto into fiat. Coinbase has unveiled a faster way for its customers to move digital currencies out of crypto and into their bank accounts. The U.S. friendly crypto platform now allows 40 different countries faster cash withdrawals, Coinbase wrote in a Oct. blog post. “Customers in the […]
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The majority of global jurisdictions have crypto asset taxation guidelines, yet additional frameworks are required to keep up. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, once said: “But in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” While this phrase was realized in 1789, the same […]
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Venezuela has announced a 90-day trial for a decentralized stock exchange supporting “alternative digital assets” and fiat currencies. Venezuela’s National Securities Superintendency has given the go-ahead for a 90-day pilot of a crypto-powered “decentralized stock exchange” in the country that aims to have a global reach despite international sanctions. Cointelegraph Espanol reports that news of […]
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Since 2010, inflation has turned $1 into 84 cents while $1 invested in Bitcoin would be worth $274,000. Bad news — the increase in the Bitcoin (BTC) price over the past decade may have been overstated because of the accompanying fiat inflation. Since Bitcoin is typically denominated in fiat — United States dollars usually — […]
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Malware payouts from insurance companies pose a threat to U.S. national security. Two offices of the U.S. Department of the Treasury have issued advisories on ransomware payouts, which they say pose a threat to national security. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FinCen reminded cryptocurrency processing companies of their duty to file suspicious activity reports when […]
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This potential move will swap the native AGI token from ERC20 to Cardano SingularityNET, the AI company behind the expressive robot Sophia, is “seriously discussing” a migration from Ethereum to Cardano, after announcing a collaboration with IOHK. IOHK is run by the founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, and drives the development of the blockchain platform. […]
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