Tag: Crypto

  • Breaking the Ice in Crypto: Are We Ready for Insurance?

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    Over the years, we have witnessed many hacks, violations, frauds, and lots of money disappearing virtually overnight. Transparency still remains one of the greatest challenges in  crypto businesses. Criminal activities, like exchange hacks or ICO scams, as we have seen in the past, have greater implications for the prices of cryptocurrencies and the general crypto market […]

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  • The Next Generation of Blockchain Startups Will Be a Convergence of Utility Tokens and Private Equity

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      By Laura Desmond In the modern scenario where we have Tokens, ICOs, Private Equity, and IPOs, how the fusion of these financials instruments can help enterprise companies and startups to create new values and in a SEC compliant way? The 2017’s ICO bubble was not only a bad thing, because a lot of projects […]

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  • 130 Coffee Shops in Europe Started to Accept and Sell Crypto

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    Be honest: shopping with cryptocurrency isn’t always the easiest experience. Even if price volatility is on your side, spending funds can be nightmarish. Crypto is gaining in popularity but many merchants still don’t accept it – meaning you are stuck with those age-old, boring options of paying by card or cash. A “technology enabler” startup […]

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  • Hacked, scammed and on your own: navigating cryptocurrency ‘wild west’

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    NEW YORK – When Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke learned in January that hackers cracked a 40-character password and cleaned out their cryptocurrency wallet, they did not go to the police or alert the tokens’ issuer, the Berlin-based technology group IOTA. They bought more coins. The Cyprus-based German couple, who describe themselves as financial educators, figured […]

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  • Pantera Capital Exec: Cryptocurrency Market Prices Could Increase Tenfold by 2020

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    Cryptocurrency markets could increase ten times over from 2020, blockchain investment firm and hedge fund Pantera Capital’s co-CIO told Bloomberg Tuesday, Oct. 16. Speaking in an interview, co-CIO Joey Krug said that scalability improvements for Bitcoin (BTC) were essential to spark a shift in the deflated prices seen throughout this year. He told the network: “These are all markets, and so if you […]

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  • Redditors Accuse Amex of Sponsoring Anti-Crypto Tweets, But Proof Inconclusive

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    Reddit users have alleged that American Express (Amex) has sponsored crypto-skeptical content on Twitter, according to a popular forum thread opened Tuesday, Oct. 16. The tweet in question was allegedly circulated through Bloomberg’s Twitter network “TicToc” on Oct. 11, and was reposted as a screenshot to Redditor u/Alexsayzz’s thread titled “Anti-crypto propaganda… promoted by American Express,” which has had […]

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  • Crypto Exchange Binance Adds Compliance Tools from Chainalysis

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    Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is working with crypto compliance and investigation software provider Chainalysis to implement a new global compliance solution, the companies announced Wednesday. As part of the partnership, Chainalysis will provide access to its “Know Your Transaction” compliance software, enabling the exchange to monitor cryptocurrency transactions in real-time, according […]

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  • The Ghost Advisors of the Blockchain

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    Or a guide for management teams on how to choose your advisors Six months before Mr X. was barely known, he might not even know about the Blockchain. And now he is proudly broadcasted in major rating websites as one of the top ten best advisor of the sector. He is one of the ghost advisors […]

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  • What Led the World’s Largest Brokerage to Fully Integrate Crypto After 1 Year of Testing?

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    In late 2017, Fidelity, one of the largest brokerages and asset managers with 7.2 trillion in assets under management as of October 2018, launched its first crypto initiative. By partnering with Coinbase, the biggest crypto-to-fiat exchange in the global market, Fidelity enabled its clients to track investments in major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum through […]

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  • The Bicycle, Umbrella and now, Cryptocurrency

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    The recurring challenge of social acceptance for witty technological advancements There is such anger and negative sentiment towards cryptocurrency today. Every day I hear some form of witty argument to counter the use and effectiveness of the blockchain technology. With the manner of words expressed today, you would think crypto will fall into obscurity. So the […]

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