Over the past two months while Bitcoin has been range bound, there have been a multitude of explanations for its sluggishness and inability to leap forward from its $10,000 perch. As for what could happen next, there are just as many predictions, primarily based on technical interpretations of the pricing “tealeaves”, but at times like…
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September 23rd is only weeks away. For those that missed it, it is the regulatory approved launch date for the Bakkt crypto exchange, the first of its kind – it will be “state-of-the-art; it will offer daily and monthly futures contract that settle “in kind”; and it will be fully regulated. What is that you…
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Blockchain is everywhere, disrupting it all. Islamic finance is also getting disrupted by the technology and some companies are quick to snap up the popular trend of deploying blockchain for business purposes and retaining customers. R3, a blockchain enterprise vendor is one such company. It has recently entered a partnership with a startup based in…
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Some companies raise enormous amounts of money when it comes to issuing their own cryptocurrency. Telegram is definitely one of those companies. The firm is scheduled to release its Gram cryptocurrency by October 31st, 2019. If it fails to do so, Telegram automatically loses more than $1.6 billion. According to press, Telegram has set a…
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At the end of July 2019, an ex-Amazon employee was suspected of hacking Capital One and the news brought about mixed opinions about technology, the personal responsibility of employees, and most of all - security. The suspect in question is a 33-year old woman who was actually arrested in Seattle over the massive hack at…
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In its initial idealized beginnings, Bitcoin was intended to be another payment option at the point of sale, free from interference by bankers and a cheaper alternative for merchants. A few zealots actually predicted that Bitcoin would soon rival Visa and MasterCard at the point of sale, but that dream soon disappeared, as BTC became…
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The following article is courtesy of Dr. Zvi Gabbay, Adv., former head of enforcement at the Israel Securities Authority. The piece is about Colu's Token Repurchase Plan. Colu DLT, the Gibraltar based subsidiary company of the Colu Group becomes one of the first companies to voluntarily offer to purchase the entirety of tokens sold during…
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In an ongoing reality play that has continued for nearly two years, the grandstanding performance of a one Craig Wright, who claims to be the real “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the inventor of Bitcoin and the blockchain, was brought to a semi-close, when a Federal judge, the Honorable Bruce E. Reinhart, ruled that he had “intentionally submitted…
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Concern is growing within the Bitcoin analyst community of late, since its 30-day volatility measure has been dipping from a recent high of nearly 130% to a current low of 64%. BTC has earned a reputation for being the most volatile asset class in history, and for good reason, but its latest descent has confused…
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August 28th, a day that might go down in history books to denote when Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, began its lending services, while at the same moment it came perilously close to crossing a major compliance land in the sand. The firm’s outspoken and charismatic leader and CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao,…
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