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$30 Million New York Condo Tokenized on Ethereum Blockchain
The future of real estate and the mortgage business are set to be revolutionized by tokenized properties.
Now Everyone Gets a Slice A $30 million Manhattan building has become New York City’s first luxury property to be tokenized on…
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Brexit Driving Crypto Uncertainty
As the clock races down to Brexit next spring, uncertainty around the nature of Great Britain’s relationship following its exit from the EU is increasingly shaping business and investment decisions. Much of the media coverage of Brexit has…
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Coinbase Says Top Executive Adam White Is Leaving the Company
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase says Adam White, who leads the institutional platform group, is leaving the company. White was the fifth employee of Coinbase.
A top Coinbase executive, only the company’s fifth employee, is moving on.…
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Cryptocurrency Regulations Moving Towards Clarity, Says Investment Security Expert
Julie Myers Wood believes that the era of little or no regulations in the cryptocurrency space is fast becoming a thing of the past. The Guidepost Solutions CEO says regulators will firm up laws to protect investors from bad actors in the…
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U.S. Court Cements Commodity Verdict On Cryptocurrency After Landmark Ruling
A US court has formally dismissed an attempt to stop the country’s commodities regulator prosecuting an alleged cryptocurrency fraudster, ruling that such assets are commodities.
CFTC Can Legislate With Crypto In a press release October…
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U.S. Federal Election Committee Considers Request to Mine Cryptocurrency for Political Campaigns
Candidates for the 2020 presidential election may be able to accept cryptocurrency mining profits as campaign donations.
Could Mining Reform Political Campaigning? Osia Network, LLC, recently made a request to embed cryptocurrency mining…
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DEA: The Number Of Illegal vs. Legal Uses of Bitcoin Has Swapped
If 90 percent of Bitcoin’s applications used to be tied to illegal activities in 2013, today, the cryptocurrency is being used for legal financial speculation in 90 percent of cases. Bitcoin and illegality are found in association only 10…
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Buy Coke Instantly With Bitcoin: Vending Machine Uses Lightning Network
One major hurdle to Bitcoin’s mass adoption as a payment system is its usability — or lack thereof — for instant micropayments. A Spanish hardware hacker has addressed these concerns with a proof-of-concept vending machine accepting Bitcoin…
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ICOs Sold Almost as Much as They Raised According to New BitMEX Research
ICOs have managed to sell almost as much Ethereum (ETH) in terms of US dollars as they have raised, new research shows. Even with the current rates of ETH, projects are sitting on unrealized profits, rather than actual losses.
Most of the…
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Boston Federal Reserve Exec Talks Blockchain at Forbes Event
The VP of the Boston Federal Reserve bank discussed crypto and blockchain at the launch of Forbes 30 Under 30 event in Boston on Monday.
Jim Cunha, Senior Vice President of Treasury and Financial Services at the Federal Reserve Bank of…
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