Cointelegraph spoke to the UC Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator’s director to find out what the blockchain incubator offers aspiring DLT startups. The Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator — an incubator for early stage distributed ledger technology startups at the University of California, Berkeley — recently launched its spring cohort, which includes startups seeking to fight COVID-19, launch a […]
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Top crypto traders have started to lean toward a resumption of a bearish trend for Bitcoin price. With the firm recovery of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Bitcoin defending the $6,400 support level with strength, crypto traders anticipated the Bitcoin price to rebound to at least the mid-$7,500 area in the short term. In […]
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The Series A funding round led by Highland Capital Partners brought in $6 million to crypto analytics firm Coin Metrics. Cryptocurrency analytics firm Coin Metrics has closed a Series A funding round worth $6 million. In a blog post on March 26, Coin Metrics said the round was led by Highland Capital Partners and the […]
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The court sided with the SEC and prohibited Telegram from releasing Gram tokens, but the community says it can still launch the network. As Telegram’s legal battle with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission continues to unfold, the U.S. authorities have convinced the judge to bar the company from issuing Gram tokens — at […]
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Will the sacrifice of our privacy help to stop, or at least reduce, the global spread of the coronavirus, and why the governments want to use the total mass surveillance? As the coronavirus continues to spread a total lockdown across the world, governments are creating the foundations for a new society of total surveillance. Can […]
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What effects does the global pandemic have on our lives, and what could help us to survive? A global pandemic has changed the world. I write this on lockdown, unable to leave my home. A global pandemic has stripped the entire state of California and over 1.5 billion people globally from our rights and freedoms […]
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Contributions for US politicians may soon be friendlier for crypto holders thanks to the Gemini, Coinbase, and Polychain-backed HODLpac. One of the hot button issues for elections in the United States is separating money and politics. At the center of this topic is political action committees (PACs), organizations that can support candidates or legislation with […]
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A report has found that equity fundraising has dramatically overtaken ICOs as the leading for leading source of capital for blockchain companies. A report published by research firm CB Insights has found that equity funding has dramatically overtaken initial coin offerings (ICOs) as the dominant means of finance in the blockchain space. While the largely […]
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Changpeng Zhao rejects claims that Bitcoin crashed because of the coronavirus, and debate rages on how closely BTC is correlated to the U.S. stock market. Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions […]
Continue ReadingCrypto asset manager Travis Kling has likened Bitcoin to insurance against U.S. monetary policy and hurricanes. Travis Kling, the chief investment officer of crypto investment firm Ikigai Asset Management, has described Bitcoin (BTC) as insurance against both hurricanes and U.S. fiscal policy. On March 20, Kling tweeted that an oncoming hurricane that will soon hit […]
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