Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ), and a self-made billionaire in his own right, has taken to the crypto endorsement trail of late, spreading the news that Bitcoin may soon become the currency of the Internet, as its Lightning Network enhancements revive its acceptance as a global payment medium…
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ErisX moved one step closer to its second quarter opening by beefing up its executive staff with three industry veterans. Thomas Chippas, the CEO of ErisX, recently described his initiative’s primary objective: ErisX stands to provide the most robust, secure and regulated digital asset offering available to both institutional and individual participants. To achieve such…
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Is Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) considering a “Big Play” in Crypto-Land? As news begins to trickle in that high-tech giants like Google, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Samsung, and others have several efforts in the works to incorporate blockchain technology and possibly cryptocurrencies, as well, into their daily operating systems, speculation continues to mount as to what Amazon might be…
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How would you like to search for patterns in the blockchain of your choice in much the same way as you would search the Internet today? Believe it or not, Google just made search tools available that will perform that task for eight separate blockchain ledgers. Transaction datasets have been loaded upon its “BigQuery” platform…
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As the crypto bear market drags on, the consequences of what has been termed Crypto Winter continue to spread across the globe, especially in South Korea, a known hotbed of cryptocurrency trading and popularity. Recent reports detail a level of carnage that matches in many ways the decline in market values over the past year.…
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The CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, is a talkative fellow and never one to shy away from expressing his opinions quite publicly. In a recent tweet, CZ expressed his consternation that more major retailers on the Internet have not begun to accept cryptocurrencies for online payments. In his tweet, CZ explained: For any internet…
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The following article was written by ATFX Chief Analyst of Asia Pacific, Martin Lam. Personal opinions today: The European economy outlook and the Brexit process uncertainty, affecting the performance of European currencies. In addition, the market is waiting the development of Sino-US trade negotiations, investment sentiment is more concerned, and global stock markets are expected to…
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Amidst all of the negative press of late related to crypto Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the Australian Government’s Treasury department has recently released an issues paper that draws attention to the many advantages and opportunities that ICOs can bring to businesses and to the Australian economy as a whole. The 27-page paper does not ignore…
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“Gong hei fat choy” or “Gong xi fa tsai”, if you prefer Mandarin to Cantonese, are the preferred ways to wish “Happy New Year” for most of the Chinese population on the planet. While these words actually wish for prosperity in the year to come, this period of the year is usually accompanied by a…
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Paris in the middle of winter can be brutal, but one year ago, attendees at the Paris Fintech Forum were hot with crypto fever. When one of Europe’s biggest annual gatherings of its kind convened this year in the City of Light, over 3,000 entrepreneurs, investors, bankers, and regulators braved the cold once again, but…
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