Cashaa is launching special USD accounts for crypto businesses LeapRate

November 19, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Cashaa is launching special USD accounts for crypto businesses

The cryptocurrency businesses in the US are going to see their lives made easier. This is thanks to the crypto-friendly banking service provider Cashaa - a company that is launching USD accounts for businesses involved in cryptocurrency transactions. The USD bank accounts will be provided in partnership with Metropolitan Commercial Bank. Cryptocurrency businesses will be…

Torstone Technology expands its London headquarters

November 18, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

New developments on the UK's crypto legal framework

The cryptocurrency regulation in the UK is one step closer to becoming clearer. Today, the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce of Tech Nation's Lawtech Delivery Panel has announced its legal statement on the treatment of cryptocurrency assets and smart contracts under Welsh and English law. The statement is addressing the legal uncertainty that surrounds cryptocurrency assets. Judging…

November 18, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

The first blockchain airline ticket is now a reality: from Dusseldorf to Luxembourg

Blockchain has seen a lot of development since 2009. The technology has disrupted almost any field and every sector. Now, the very first blockchain ticket has been created. The innovative solution for the air flight industry comes from the German airline operator Hahn Air. The company is using the open-source travel distribution provider Winding Tree,…

November 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crypto rankings redefined by CoinMarketCap’s new ‘Liquidity Metric’

The crypto community is grudgingly adjusting to a new measurement metric, one that many critics have demanded for some time, but, perhaps, not in its present form. There has always been a problem in the way that volumes are reported and aggregated by large data collection firms like CoinMarketCap.com (CMC). This particular aggregator is also…

November 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

France enters the blockchain ‘arms race’ with largest European incubator

With one master stroke, it seems that Paris has suddenly become a “player” in the blockchain industry in Europe. A group of like-minded startups have pooled resources and set up the largest blockchain incubator of its kind in Europe. Known as “The Garage”, this new incubator setup, per a report from NewsBTC, “aims to enhance…

November 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Shortage of skilled talent in blockchain arena apparent in hiring searches

In nearly every forecast of where jobs will proliferate over the next two decades, the top line performer is always IT software programming related. It makes abundant sense. We live in an electronic age that is innovating faster than ever before, and it takes raw IT talent to develop, implement, and make everything work. Within…

November 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Silvergate Bank, a pioneer for crypto and fintech, closes successful IPO

Occasionally, there are success stories that sound too good to be true, especially when the story involves a “pioneer” that risked treading where all before had feared to even try. In this case, we have Silvergate Bank, a unique financial institution based in San Diego, California, whose executive team consciously decided to serve the underserved…

November 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Will human psychology drive speculation in Bitcoin as it did for Dot-coms?

Bitcoin giveth and taketh away, like no other asset class before it, but analysts keep searching for Bitcoin’s “twin”, assuming that one might exist from another era that would provide an insight into the future price behavior of the world’s favorite digital asset. This search is not some kind of new age, outside of the…

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November 15, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Iran offers bounties to anyone who exposes illegal crypto mining operations

Countries are finding different ways to fight illegal cryptocurrency mining activities. One of the more interesting approaches comes from Iran, which has started offering bounties to people who expose illegal crypto mining operations. The announcement came after new regulations were set in motion for the cryptocurrency industry. The news comes from local agency IRIB News.…

Shanghai and Hong Kong now added to McKay Brothers Asia services

November 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Freelancer portals experimenting with blockchain – What to know about it

The freelancing eco-system has come of age over the past decade. Originally, the users of these global contractor job sites were considered “misfits” or outcasts from the corporate mainstream, but the “digital nomad rocketship” has taken flight. In the U.S. alone, recent studies peg 36% of the U.S. workforce, some 57 million people, as freelancers,…

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