Ethereum Watch

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has released a notice requesting that investment firms disclose their involvement in cryptocurrencies. Advertisements On Friday, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released a regulatory notice advising that all member firms are to report all cryptocurrency dealings. FINRA is a self-regulatory US organization that oversees securities brokers and has the […]

The original Ethereum chain, with a commitment to immutability, sidechains, and aspirations in the IoT space. Confusing newcomers is something cryptocurrency does particularly well. Advertisements Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash. Ethereum. Ethereum Classic. …Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin God, Ethereum Fog… Ethereum originally hard-forked to undo the damage caused by a bad actor, as we’ll explore below, but […]

Before discussing the launch of a blockchain platform for newsrooms, there was one thing I had to clear up with the Matt Coolidge, co-founder and communication lead at the Civil Media Company: was he planning to put me out of a job? Advertisements “Our visions of world domination stop short of disrupting CoinDesk,” he said. A […]

Indian Exchanges Struggle with Supreme Court Order, Swiss Stock Exchange Launching New Crypto Exchange, Bittrex Moves into Europe Photo: Elijah Keay Indian Supreme Court Upholds Reserve Bank’s Ban on Crypto, but Exchanges Fight to Adapt India’s highest court issued a decision against cryptocurrency earlier this month, supporting the Reserve Bank’s direction to all financial institutions in the country […]

Ethereum is in the midst of a “gas crisis.” Advertisements At least, that’s according to Taylor Monahan, CEO of MyCrypto, who took to Twitter this week to remind users of best practices for setting transaction fees when using the world’s second-largest blockchain. The words of concern are warranted – because of changing conditions on the […]

Bof head of digitalization Aleksi Grym has published a scathing analysis of digital currencies in a recent report that calls them “a fallacy.” Advertisements A new research paper from the Bank of Finland (BoF) is titled The Great Illusion of Digital Currencies. It includes a note clarifying the BoF Economics Review is an analytical study […]

IBM strikes again – this time to help the Australian government use blockchain technology to improve its data security. Advertisements On July 4, it was reported that IBM has entered a five-year agreement worth $1 billion AUD (about $740 million) with the Australian government to integrate blockchain technology into the country’s federal departments, such as […]

The latest addition to the ICO Alert podcast series kicks off a change we’ll be making over the coming weeks: separate podcasts under the name of ICO Alert. Advertisements On Bitgenstein’s Table, we consider 2,500 years of the wisest human thought in philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, and more to make better decisions. Some episodes will […]

According to a July 5 report by local news outlet, Cripto Tendencia, the Venezuelan minister of habitat and housing, Ildemaro Villarroel Arismendi, announced the government’s intentions to build houses for the homeless, and to fund the project using the nation’s embattled cryptocurrency, the petro. Advertisements The project is to operate under the umbrella of the […]

It was reported this week that Japan’s Financial Services Agency is looking to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges under a different law, but there seems to be some contention about whether that’s true. Advertisements UPDATED | July 6, 2018: Japanese outlet CryptoWatch reported that a source from the FSA has denied claims the agency is considering regulating […]