[embedded content] “You can’t put the genie back into the bottle,” said Katharina Pistor at our exclusive event in DC during the Libra hearings. Pistor, the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, explored the legality – and importance – of corporate tokens like Libra in a world that seems reticent to adopt

Yet another crypto fund executive sets an ambitious $100,000 price target for bitcoin. Source: Shutterstock Crypto hedge fund executive, Murad Mahmudov this morning added his voice to the growing song of experts calling for $100k a bitcoin. The CIO of Adaptive Capital weighed in on the technical debate observing that the current choppy price action

Poloniex is now crediting trading fees to lenders who lost funds in a May market crash involving the obscure cryptocurrency ClAMS. According to an official blog posting, Circle’s Poloniex exchange will cover lost funds by covering trading fees back through June 6. Poloinex’s Clam margin trading market experience a flash-crash on May 26. A 2014 airdropped

Uber investor Bradley Tusk says the stock needs a ruthless CEO to escape the doldrums but one investment manager disagrees. | Source: REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Bradley Tusk, an early investor in Uber Technologies and its first political strategist, believes current management lacks the innovative and intense vision of founder Travis Kalanick and that Uber stock will

The U.S. Congressional Research Service released a report detailing the potential uses for blockchain in the national energy sector. In a report titled Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Energy Sector, published August 9, the legislators detailed the current state of energy consumption related to cryptocurrency mining, both nationally and internationally. They also explored possible ways to

The stock market is currently subject to the whims of the president and could change course with a single unexpected tweet. | Photo by Alastair Pike / AFP Whether or not the U.S. economy is headed for a recession depends on who you ask. Wall Street firm Bank of America believes that the chances of

China’s central bank is “close” to launching its own “cryptocurrency.” Will this historic moment pump bitcoin – or pummel it? | Source: REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration China’s long-fabled “cryptocurrency” launch is finally on the horizon. According to Bloomberg, People’s Bank of China (PBoC) payments department deputy director Mu Changchun confirmed at the China

New Zealand’s tax office, the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), has made it legal to receive salaries in cryptocurrency, and be taxed accordingly. In its August bulletin, the agency published a new ruling under the Income Tax Act (in relation to section RD 3) that states that an employee can be paid salaries in crypto assets

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. The global economy faces its biggest crisis in 11 years. In theory, this should be bitcoin’s

Image from Shutterstock. Forbes writer Kyle Torpey reported that Blockstream, a crucial company in Bitcoin Core development, has been hosting Bitcoin miners at two facilities for quite some time. Big Boy Mining Top clients include Fidelity’s Center for Applied Technology (FCAT). Fidelity is a financial firm which increasingly throws itself into the blockchain industry. Blockstream

Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s Director of Research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free weekly newsletter for institutional investors interested in crypto assets. Sign up here. Last week’s kerfuffle over the launch-that-wasn’t of LedgerX’s physically delivered futures

A new patent application from IBM describes a blockchain-based web browser. Filed on August 6 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, IBM’s patent is for a web browser backed by a peer-to-peer network. The browser collects pre-specified information from web browsing sessions, according to the patent. The information is then transferred to a

Angry Apple customers allege that the Silicon Valley giant forces them to abide by draconian repair policies when their iPhones break. | Source: REUTERS / Dado Ruvic Apple customers have long complained about the $900 billion company’s draconian restrictions on repairing broken iPhones, MacBooks, and other devices. Now, consumer advocates are turning to lobbyists to

Beijing, China – OceanEx, one of the fastest-growing and reputable cryptocurrency exchanges in the world is announcing that the first project on OceanEx GO! is Jur (JUR). Jur is a blockchain-based ecosystem providing revolutionary trust solutions in the legal and justice industry for any business-related circumstances.  Jur represents an overhaul of current legal solutions that

In the wake of a recent network upgrade, a number of nodes have been separated from the bitcoin SV blockchain, a development that highlights why “hard forks” have long been the subject of passionate infighting among cryptocurrency developers. According to block explorer Blockchair, roughly 20 percent of BSV nodes are still running an older version

A new report on the nascent ecosystem of blockchain-based games indicates that one of the model’s most-trumpeted characteristics — the ability to mix and swap data between games – isn’t panning out. The idea of cross-overs between games isn’t exactly new. Series like Nintendo’s Super Smash Brothers perhaps best exemplify this approach, with familiar characters

Blockchain implementation research is coming to New Jersey. Governor Phil Murphy signed bill S2297, the Blockchain Initiative Task Force, into law Friday. The task force is commissioned with studying potential use-cases for blockchain technology on the state and local level. The bill specifically points out medical records, land records, banking, and property auctions as potential

May’s Binance hacker has been hard at work washing his stolen bitcoins through a mixing service. Clain.io, a Luxembourg-cryptocurrency capital flows research team, says the 7,074 stolen coins are being laundered through mixing service Chipmixer. Clain says at least 4,836 bitcoins were laundered since June 12th. A bitcoin tumbling service mixes a bitcoin’s unspent transaction

The SK Group, one of the largest conglomerates in South Korea, is creating a blockchain-based donation platform, reports IT Chosun, the technology publication of the Chosun Ilbo. The company also proposed two new tokens have been proposed in the design of the platform. According to the report, SK Corporation C&C, the group’s IT arm, made

KaratGold Coin (KBC) was introduced to the world in February 2018. KBC uses the Ethereum blockchain and was created as a part of the Karatbars International product universe. Most of the cryptocurrencies are backed by just an idea or business model, but the launch of KaratGold Coin created a new tendency – linking digital currencies

D Community, incubated by Infinity Edge Foundation, today officially announced the grand opening of its first-round private investment for D Community Infrastructure Partners, hard cap of which is $ 4.35 million. D Community, founded in 2012, is a blockchain-based pan-entertainment ecological platform consortium that includes a series of platforms, which contains pan-entertainment video platform, e-commerce

The Global community particularly Africa is facing lots of challenges ranging from global warming to unemployment. Governments and private organizations are working tirelessly to address some of these challenges in so many ways. For these types of challenges to be addressed effectively there is a need to have enough information about various problems at our

Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates and all-round bitcoin evangelist is sticking to his quarter-million-dollar price prediction. Source:PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP Crypto bull and venture capitalist Tim Draper has disclosed that it could take a little longer for his Bitcoin price target of $250,000 to be reached. Speaking to Yahoo Finance, Draper said

Fifteen nations are planning to set up a system to monitor cryptocurrency transactions alongside the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a Friday report indicates. According to Nikkei Asian Review, the aim is to stem the movement of funds for illicit purposes, such as money laundering and funding of terrorism, by collecting and sharing transaction data,

Facebook’s privacy woes isn’t doing the company any favors. | Source: AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg just had their ears boxed by the 9th US circuit Court of Appeals regarding privacy concerns related to Facebook’s facial recognition technology. The decision by the court opens the possibility of a massive Facebook class

Two top JPMorgan analysts are encouraging investors to buy the dip whenever the stock market tumbles, saying any Dow plunges are temporary. | Source: REUTERS / Lucas Jackson Two top JPMorgan analysts are encouraging investors to keep calm during any forthcoming stock market downturns and to buy when the Dow Jones tumbles. Why? Because they

Blockstream has launched a colocation mining service and already counts the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman as customers. On Thursday, the bitcoin and blockchain technology firm announced a new mining wing, Blockstream Mining, along with a BetterHash-based mining pool, Blockstream Pool. Led by cryptographer Dr. Adam Back, Blockstream is best known

Rhode Island has become the latest U.S. state to add specific money transmitter guidance for crypto firms. According to a report published August 5 from Alston and Bird, an international law firm, any business that accepts fees for currency transmissions, or maintains control over virtual currencies for others will fall under the new law beginning

Dozens of Australian investors have lost approximately AUD $2.7 million to a major crypto scam which started in 2017 and was only shuttered in May. | Source: Shutterstock Over 100 Australians are estimated to have lost nearly AUD $3 million to a cryptocurrency investment scam based in Gold Coast, Queensland. According to a statement released

Market data from the Winklevoss twins-founded crypto exchange Gemini is being added to eight crypto indices offered by CF Benchmarks. Formerly called Crypto Facilities, CF Benchmarks’ eight reference products include four indices and reference rates provided for CME Group, which currently offers a bitcoin futures product: the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate and CME CF Bitcoin Real