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Stock exchange operator Nasdaq is adding indices for bitcoin and ethereum to its global data service later this month. Advertisements The company announced Monday that it has partnered with New Zealand-based blockchain data and research firm Brave New Coin to offer information on the two new indices starting Feb. 25. The Bitcoin Liquid Index (BLX) and the […]

A new token backed one-to-one with bitcoin is now live on the ethereum blockchain. Advertisements “Wrapped BTC” (WBTC) officially launched its ERC-20 token Wednesday evening. The project was first unveiled in October as a joint initiative between decentralized exchange startups Kyber Network and Republic Protocol, as well as cryptocurrency custody company BitGo. As stated on […]

The contentious nature of the ecosystem around cryptocurrencies is partly what gives them value – academics call it “belief heterogenity.” Advertisements But discord and personal sentiment alone isn’t enough to keep prices above zero, according to research from Wang Chun Wei, Ph.D., a finance lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia. According to Wei, if […]

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This week, we discuss kidnappings & gunpoint attacks demanding cryptocurrency. We often say that cryptocurrency is unseizable. But in one sense, it’s actually more seizable than dollars in your bank account: Kidnappers’ crypto accounts, unlike bank accounts, are unfreezable and are themselves unseizable — making stolen funds completely unrecoverable. Advertisements What can we do to be safe […]

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September 26 2018 Advertisements Ryan Dennis, Head of Content at ICO Alert, joins us on this week’s Roundtable to talk all things happening in the crypto and blockchain space. We covered the following topics on this week’s episode: – Q gives away his most prized CryptoKitty — Ryan tell us about Waltonchain and their social media blunders — We […]

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What is Block66? “Block66 is building a new blockchain-enabled marketplace for mortgages. Institutional and private lenders can use the service to offer loans to a wide range of borrowers, introduced by Block66 broker partners. Through the practical use of smart contracts, loans can be taken from origination to facilitation, quickly and efficiently.”— CEO Joe Markham ICO Alert […]