Ron Hammond took to Twitter today to confirm to the XRP community that he is the new manager of government relations for Ripple. Token Taxonomy Act On Sept. 3, Ron Hammond took to Twitter to announce that as of today, he is the new Manager of Government Relations for Ripple. Hammond was reportedly part of...Read More
Walmart is taking its toughest stance ever on gun-related sales. With the nation screaming for gun control, investors seem just fine with the ramifications. | AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File Walmart’s latest hard-line stance on gun sales and even carrying the weapons in its stores may be drawing sharp criticism but not from investors. Despite the...Read More
Chinese crypto exchange Huobi plans to launch its blockchain-powered smartphone Acute Angle in Southeast Asia next week. Official launch is coming next week Huobi’s new blockchain phone was already available to some users in China, but the actual launch is scheduled for next week as part of the sixth Huobi Prime launch, according to a...Read More
Trying to time the stock market? New research suggests you need to start paying even more attention to President Trump’s Twitter feed. | Source: Shutterstock There’s no doubt that President Donald Trump loves watching the stock market go up. After all, he has bragged at least 60 times about how the Dow Jones Industrial Average...Read More
The Netherlands’ central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), a member of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), has announced plans to start regulating bitcoin-linked businesses from January 10, 2020, according to a Reuters report on September 3, 2019. Dutch Authorities to Regulate Cryptos Per sources close to the matter, the central bank of the...Read More
September 3, 2019 5 Views Blockchain payments and ID platform Nuggets, which removes the need to store personal data with 3rd parties, has today announced a strategic partnership with global identity verification provider Onfido. Nuggets will be using Onfido’s technology to verify users for its blockchain payment and identity solution. Nuggets is a B2B2C platform...Read More
September 3, 2019 31 Views A Norwegian savings bank dating back to the mid-1800s has just invested in a cryptocurrency exchange set up by local business magnate Bjørn Kjos. In a press release posted on the Oslo Stock Exchange, Sparebanken Øst said it had taken a 16.3 percent stake in Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) for 15 million Norwegian krone (around...Read More
Infinity Ward has all but confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare won’t have a battle royale mode, warning players to keep their greed in check. | Source: Infinity Ward Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward has all but confirmed that the upcoming first-person shooter would not include battle royale, warning players not...Read More
According to news published on Bloomberg on Septemeber 2, Yves Mersch, an executive board member at the European Central Bank (ECB), stated that Facebook’s proposed Libra currency could undermine the European Central Bank’s ability to set monetary policy. You Can’t be a Central Bank During the European Central Bank conference in Frankfurt, Yves Mersch, an...Read More
The Dow futures are in the red following the response of China towards new sanctions imposed by the U.S., fueling fears of a possible recession. | Source: Shutterstock The Dow futures are in the red once again following the response of China towards new sanctions imposed by the U.S., fueling the drop of the bond...Read More
Binance, the world’s largest exchange by trading volume, has acquired JEX, a crypto-asset trading platform that offers spot and derivatives trading services. The exchange announced the acquisition on Sept. 2, saying, “JEX will join the Binance ecosystem as Binance JEX and focus on further building the crypto-asset derivatives market.” According to the announcement, Binance will...Read More
Connecticut police caught a man who had stolen over $15,000 worth of digital currency in a mobile phone theft after he mistakenly sent an apology email to a detective heading the investigation. Back in April, a Connecticut resident fell victim to a cryptocurrency theft by New Jersey citizen Darren Carter, wherein the latter swiped the...Read More
Billionaire bitcoin skeptic Ray Dalio was trolled on Twitter after gushing how much he enjoyed this year’s Burning Man festival. | Source: (i) Reuters/ Brian Snyder (ii) Ray Dalio Twitter Account; Edited by CCN Ray Dalio, a billionaire investing guru and noted bitcoin skeptic, was teased for “ruining” Burning Man. Dalio is the founder of...Read More
September 2, 2019 21 Views Fans are up in arms after Sony delisted stunning racing game Driveclub from the PlayStation store a day earlier than planned. | Source: Source: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP Fans are up in arms after Sony delisted Driveclub from the PlayStation store a day earlier than planned. Sales of the driving game...Read More
The Financial Integrity Network (FIN) — a Washington D.C.-based advisory firm — has urged the United States Congress to regulate firms in the cryptocurrency sector under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Virtual asset service providers should be regulated under BSA In a copy of FIN testimony published ahead of a hearing on Sept. 3, FIN...Read More
Xbox is holding tattooing events across the world in the lead up to Gears 5’s release next week, and it all feels like a mistake in the making. | Source: (i) Christian Petersen / Getty Images / AFP (ii) Shutterstock; Edited by CCN There are marketing events to promote the launch of a game and...Read More
The blockchain industry in South Korea is reportedly facing a difficult period reports local media platform The Block Post. While the struggles of cryptocurrency exchanges in the country isn’t exactly news, it appears that other crypto-businesses are also experiencing similar problems sparking fears of a slowdown in South Korea’s digital economy advancement. ICO Projects Going...Read More
The Bitcoin (BTC) price has rallied over the past few days and has again crossed the $10,000 threshold. Bitcoin 7-day chart. Source: Coin360 On Aug. 28, Bitcoin dropped $600 in the course of a half-hour, sinking below the $10,000 mark before slumping to a weekly low of $9,362 on Aug. 29. The price has slowly...Read More
Self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin (BTC) Craig Wright wants to challenge a recent court order requiring him to pay 500,000 Bitcoins to the Kleiman estate. Reinhardt did not have power to enter the order, Wright says On Aug. 30, Wright’s attorney Andres Rivero filed a document with the United States District Court for the Southern District...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has launched not one, but two test platforms for its planned crypto futures products. Dubbed Futures A and Futures B, the new testnets are now open to users for testing, with new competitions to encourage traders to get involved. On Monday, Binance announced on its website that users will be able to vote...Read More
The Eurozone’s biggest economy is in decline and the reported stimulus is likely to prove inadequate. | Source: AP Photo/Richard Drew By CCN Markets: Economists expected Germany, the biggest economy in the eurozone, to introduce crucial stimuli to boost the eurozone economy that could shift the sentiment of the European equities and the wider stock...Read More
September 2, 2019 4 Views Here’s what happened this week in Bitcoin. The trial between the self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin, Craig Wright, and the family of his former partner, Dave Kleiman, was concluded this week. The judge found that Wright lied in his testimony and falsified evidence. The judge further ordered Wright to transfer...Read More
The first birth certificates to be recorded by exclusively using blockchain technology were issued in Brazil. As Cointelegraph Brasil reports on Sept. 1, Álvaro de Medeiros Mendonça is one of the first children in the country to have their birth certificate recorded only with blockchain technology, without the need of the registry office. Streamlining registration...Read More
The municipal government of São Paulo, Brazil, is going to use a blockchain registry for its public works projects. The Municipal Secretariat of Urban Infrastructure and Works contracted blockchain firm Construtivo to implement a blockchain solution for city hall, Cointelegraph Brasil reports on Sept. 1. Better transparency after past inefficiencies The city has decided to...Read More
Philippine boxing champion and celebrity Manny Pacquiao has launched his own cryptocurrency. On Sept. 1, the South China Morning Post reported that the Filipino boxer turned politician and singer launched his own token with the financial support of private investors such as ex-Liverpool and England soccer star Michael Owen and Sheikh Khaled bin Zayed al-Nahyan,...Read More
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 and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Sudden slump sees Bitcoin lose support for five figures After...Read More
In a bid to set international governance standards and safety nets in the cryptospace, MERJ Exchange, Seychelles’ first national stock exchange to list tokenized securities, has partnered with Globacap, the U.K.’s first regulated platform to issue equity tokens. In their alliance, the duo will offer tokenized assets to the U.K. and European customers in an...Read More
There are several countries around the world that are developing national blockchain-based digital currencies — such as Venezuela and its state-owned Petro (PTR), China and its plans to issue a government-backed digital currency, etc. We reached out to experts in the crypto and blockchain industries, central bank officials and researchers to answer whether or not...Read More
Telegram Open Network’s (TON) blockchain will allow developers to port their Ethereum (ETH) smart contracts. As industry news outlet CoinDesk reported on Aug. 30, software startup TON Labs managed by Telegram’s token offering investors is building a Solidity compiler for its blockchain. This programming language is primarily used to develop smart contracts in the Ethereum...Read More
This week saw major expansion of crypto payments in Brazil, new standards freeing Bitcoin from Portuguese taxes, and the allegedly fraudulent Grupo Bitcoin Banco’s refusal to pay clients their deposited funds. Brazil’s central bank announced that it would classify cryptocurrencies according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) guidelines on Aug. 26. With the new classification under...Read More
