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AI Reads 100 ICO Papers, Publishes a Crypto Whitepaper: Here’s How it Sounds

June 26, 2018 0 0

Clay Space, a blockchain researcher and the founder of Blockspace Media, recently ran a study by feeding an artificial intelligence (AI) system 100 initial coin offering (ICO) whitepapers and having it produce its own. Essentially, through the utilization of AI and machine learning, Space had an AI system, which previously had no knowledge of cryptocurrency […]

Op-Ed: Crypto-Doomsday or Self-Preservation? Takeaways From BIS Central Bank Report

June 25, 2018 0 0

The “Central Bank of Central Banks” recently released a 24-page report taking a hard stance against the cryptocurrency movement and the mainstream application of the technology. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) “fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks,” and presumably the recent crypto-doomsday report was carried out by well-informed […]

Bitcoin Price Rises 5% Avoiding Lower End of $5,000, Theta and Ontology Rise 21%

June 25, 2018 0 0

The bitcoin price has risen by over 5 percent in the past 24 hours, as the cryptocurrency market recorded a slight recovery. Theta and Ontology recorded a rise of over 21%, becoming the best performers of the market as of June 25. Potential BTC Scenarios After dipping to a monthly low at $235 billion, the […]

Coinbase Should Add XRP [And It’s Not a Security]: Ripple CEO

June 25, 2018 0 0

Brad Garlinghouse, the billionaire CEO at Ripple Labs, the company that oversees the development of XRP, the $18 billion blockchain network, has said for the first time in public that Coinbase should integrate XRP, the native cryptocurrency of the Ripple network. CEO Says Ripple is Clearly Not a Security In an interview with Jeff John […]

Cornell Professor and Nick Szabo Criticize EOS for Bugs and Centralization

June 24, 2018 0 0

Tthe launch of the mainnet of EOS was delayed due to a critical bug found by China-based cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360. Emin Gün Sirer, a professor at the prestigious Cornell University, criticised EOS developers for not seeking assistance from consensus protocol experts. Even after the mainnet launch, Sirer and other cryptocurrency experts including smart contracts […]

Class in Session! Stanford University Establishes Blockchain Research Center

June 24, 2018 0 0

Stanford University’s computer science department has established a center for blockchain research to promote the study of and develop best practices for this nascent technological field. Unveiled on Wednesday, the Center for Blockchain Research is a five-year research program that has been underwritten by a variety of cryptocurrency organizations, including the Ethereum Foundation, Protocol Labs, OmiseGo, DFINITY […]

3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Market Remains Optimistic Despite $6,000

June 24, 2018 0 0

Three Reasons why Bitcoin Isn’t Dead On CNBC Fast Trader, Kelly outlined three major reasons bitcoin will recover in the mid-term back to its previous support levels at over $10,000: Negative sentiment from investors signalling imminence of a bottom Positive development within the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange market Mt. Gox liquidation of bitcoin postponed to 2019 […]

SEC Obtains Another Order to Freeze Plexcoin ICO Assets

June 22, 2018 0 0

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an additional emergency court order from a federal court in Brooklyn, New York freezing assets linked to Dominic Lacroix, the founder of PlexCoin whose assets were frozen when the its ICO was halted amid a fraud investigation in December 2017. Announcing the court order in a communique issued on […]

Ethereum Classic Price Defies Bear Market in Single-Day Rally ethereum classic price

June 22, 2018 0 0

The ethereum classic price continued its inexorable rise on Thursday afternoon as it reached $17.71 on cryptocurrency exchange Binance — a single-day increase of 7%. There could be several factors which are affecting this price movement. The principal one is the listing on Coinbase, which was something of a surprise when it beat other contenders such as Ripple’s […]

Crypto-Friendly Robinhood Wants to Offer Bank Accounts

June 22, 2018 0 0

Stock trading app Robinhood, which recently began rolling out cryptocurrency trading to many of its US customers, wants to offer its customers savings accounts and other traditional banking services. Bloomberg reports that the $5.6 billion firm, based out of Menlo Park, CA, has already approached regulators at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) […]