Topic: ✷ News ✷ Analytics ✷ Analysis ✷ Forecasts - page 20. (Read 2290 times)
Japanese prosecutors from 10 prefectures have arrested 16 individuals suspected of involvement in an ongoing criminal case of cryptojacking, local news outlet The Asahi Shimbun
THE DARK SIDE OF THE CRYPTO REVOLUTION
THE BITCOIN HODLERS, ICO hustlers, and Lambo-owning crypto millionaires would like you to know that the cryptocurrency revolution is upon us. Before long you’ll be making breakfast on the blockchain! But as the trustless, decentralized world of digital tokens expands—and Fortune 500 companies, banks, restaurant chains, and even countries (ahem, Venezuela) cautiously wade in—a credibility problem persists. Silk Road and AlphaBay may be gone, but that hasn’t stopped fraudsters, gamblers, sex workers, and drug dealers from cashing in.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-side-of-the-crypto-revolution/
A Grammy Award Winner Is Using Ethereum & Harry Potter To Fund Her Blockchain Project
Musician Imogen Heap is working on her very own blockchain project, Mycelia, that will let musicians store all the information about their songs in one place and so they can easily track payments for their songs.
The Harry Potter musical is allowing Heap to fund the project as well as Ethereum, of which Heap used to by selling a song for cryptocurrency.
Read more: https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2018/06/a-grammy-award-winner-is-using-ethereum-harry-potter-to-fund-her-blockchain-project/
Bitcoin loses $40 billion in the market value
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bitcoin on June 12 fell to a two-month low, sliding in three of the last four sessions on nagging regulatory and security concerns after the weekend hacking of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail.
The original virtual currency neared its lowest level of the year of just under $6,000 BTC=BTSP on the Bitstamp platform. It fell to a low of below $6,500 and last traded down 4.7 percent at $6,551.48. So far in 2018, bitcoin is down nearly 53 percent, after soaring more than 1,300 percent last year.
https://www.independent.co.ug/bitcoin-loses-40-billion-in-the-market-value/
Aussie Crypto Exchange Blockbid Partners with Risk Management Giant LexisNexis
Melbourne-based crypto trading platform Blockbid has become the first cryptocurrency exchange in the world to introduce a new generation of risk management and identity verification technology developed in partnership with LexisNexis Risk Solutions and ThreatMetrix.
The partnership combines the 1.4 billion-strong identity database owned by ThreatMetrix with the LexisNexis database of potentially high risk identities for the purpose of establishing customer identities so as to satisfy the most stringent KYC and AML regulations present in jurisdictions where crypto trading is regulated.
Bringing Crypto Into the Mainstream Fold
This partnership, which follows the $817 million acquisition of ThreatMetrix by LexisNexis in February 2018, is part of a strategic push by several prominent players in the cryptosphere to ensure that digital assets trading has access to the same services offered to banks including identity verification, risk management, and prevention of money laundering, amongst others.
https://www.ccn.com/aussie-crypto-exchange-blockbid-partners-with-risk-management-giant-lexisnexis/
Melbourne-based crypto trading platform Blockbid has become the first cryptocurrency exchange in the world to introduce a new generation of risk management and identity verification technology developed in partnership with LexisNexis Risk Solutions and ThreatMetrix.
The partnership combines the 1.4 billion-strong identity database owned by ThreatMetrix with the LexisNexis database of potentially high risk identities for the purpose of establishing customer identities so as to satisfy the most stringent KYC and AML regulations present in jurisdictions where crypto trading is regulated.
Bringing Crypto Into the Mainstream Fold
This partnership, which follows the $817 million acquisition of ThreatMetrix by LexisNexis in February 2018, is part of a strategic push by several prominent players in the cryptosphere to ensure that digital assets trading has access to the same services offered to banks including identity verification, risk management, and prevention of money laundering, amongst others.
https://www.ccn.com/aussie-crypto-exchange-blockbid-partners-with-risk-management-giant-lexisnexis/
Italy and Crypto: Naples Mayor Talks About City’s Focus Group to Promote Blockchain and Possible Municipal ICO
A working group devoted to blockchain on the initiative of institutions, hundreds of volunteers from all over the world, a big and efficient plan for the future – it’s happening in Naples, the capital of the Italian region of Campania in the south of the country. The city, through a recent press release, announced the creation of a special “focus group,” whose purpose is to “develop and eventually implement objectives related to blockchain technology”.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/italy-and-crypto-naples-mayor-talks-about-city-s-focus-group-to-promote-blockchain-and-possible-municipal-ico
I recently bought a coin this MTC Docademic, its growth pleases, and the team has been working for many years and decided to make their own tokens, plus the application is launched online patient reception online for free !!!
Russia Prepares For SWIFT Exit With Blockchain
Russia’s corporate treasurers are working with the nation’s central bank on a blockchain initiative, reports in CoinDesk said Friday (June 15).
The Russian Association of Corporate Treasurers is joining the government-led Masterchain blockchain initiative, a platform developed by the central bank to facilitate communication within Russia’s banking market. Russia is reportedly looking to use the platform to replace SWIFT’s inter-bank communications network.
Read more: https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2018/russia-blockchain-swift/
Bank of International Settlements to Publish New Crypto Research
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is dedicating two chapters of its forthcoming annual economic report to cryptocurrencies.
BIS – considered to be the central bank's central bank – will publish those two chapters this weekend on June 17, the institution announced this week. The full report will be published on June 24.
https://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-international-settlements-to-publish-special-report-on-crypto/
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is dedicating two chapters of its forthcoming annual economic report to cryptocurrencies.
BIS – considered to be the central bank's central bank – will publish those two chapters this weekend on June 17, the institution announced this week. The full report will be published on June 24.
https://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-international-settlements-to-publish-special-report-on-crypto/
The crypto boom is like the dotcom bubble but that's not a bad thing: 'Selling crypto now is like selling Apple in 2001'
LONDON — Cryptocurrency startups around the world have raised billions of dollars over the last 18 months to build software companies that they hope will rewrite the rules of everything from voting to stock trading.
But even many cryptocurrency advocates expect the majority of projects to fail.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/ico-dotcom-bubble-yoni-assia-etoro-crypto-blockchain-joseph-lubin-bitcoin-ethereum-2018-6
Proposed Ethereum Roadmap Would Activate Its Biggest Upgrades Together
The developer team behind ethereum is considering possible changes to a planned rollout of new technology upgrades.
Addressing rumors that such plans are now under review, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin told a meeting of the platform's open-source developers Friday that the idea is that the team might seek to alter the sequence in which Casper and sharding, perhaps its two most-anticipated updates, are activated.
https://www.coindesk.com/proposed-ethereum-roadmap-activate-biggest-upgrades-together/
The developer team behind ethereum is considering possible changes to a planned rollout of new technology upgrades.
Addressing rumors that such plans are now under review, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin told a meeting of the platform's open-source developers Friday that the idea is that the team might seek to alter the sequence in which Casper and sharding, perhaps its two most-anticipated updates, are activated.
https://www.coindesk.com/proposed-ethereum-roadmap-activate-biggest-upgrades-together/
Bitcoin Transactions Help Police Track Down Dark Web Drug Dealer
A French national has pleaded guilty to selling narcotics on the dark web after police were able to trace his criminal activities through his bitcoin accounts. Police arrested 36-year-old Gal Vallerius in September at the Atlanta airport in the US while traveling to attend a beard and mustache competition, according to Bleeping Computer.
Investigators said Vallerius, who used the name OxyMonster on the Dark Web, established a “tip jar” on the Dream Market marketplace. He did not use the marketplace’s internal payment systems that process transactions via a transaction anonymizer for collecting his tips.
Police learned that 15 of 17 outgoing transactions from the tip jar went to bitcoin wallets that Vallerius kept on LocalBitcoins. This allowed them to determine he was OxyMonster. They also found similarities between Vallerius’ and OxyMonster’s writing styles on Twitter and Instagram.
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-transactions-help-police-track-down-dark-web-drug-dealer/
A French national has pleaded guilty to selling narcotics on the dark web after police were able to trace his criminal activities through his bitcoin accounts. Police arrested 36-year-old Gal Vallerius in September at the Atlanta airport in the US while traveling to attend a beard and mustache competition, according to Bleeping Computer.
Investigators said Vallerius, who used the name OxyMonster on the Dark Web, established a “tip jar” on the Dream Market marketplace. He did not use the marketplace’s internal payment systems that process transactions via a transaction anonymizer for collecting his tips.
Police learned that 15 of 17 outgoing transactions from the tip jar went to bitcoin wallets that Vallerius kept on LocalBitcoins. This allowed them to determine he was OxyMonster. They also found similarities between Vallerius’ and OxyMonster’s writing styles on Twitter and Instagram.
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-transactions-help-police-track-down-dark-web-drug-dealer/
The NSA helped to invent Bitcoin, founder of world’s second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum claims
The founder the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency has claimed US intelligence services may have played a role in the creation of Bitcoin. Vitalik Buterin, the Russian-born creator of Ethereum, suggested the National Security Agency (NSA) was involved in the development of the virtual currency.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/15/nsa-helped-invent-bitcoin-founder-worlds-second-largest-cryptocurrency-ethereum-claims-7631719/
The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may have files on Satoshi Nakamoto,(they definitely have it) the mysterious Bitcoin creator. There are also indications that the National Security Agency (NSA) of the country can learn the real identity (or identity) of Satoshi Nakamoto
http://bitcoinist.com/cia-doesnt-deny-files-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto/
After the SEC announcement, which separated Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) from securities, the CBOE president said that this could increase the chances of writing off regulators on Ethereum futures.Time will tell what it is like
http://bitcoinist.com/ethereum-futures-cboe-chief-sec-decision/
http://bitcoinist.com/ethereum-futures-cboe-chief-sec-decision/
One of the amazing news recently was that ImmVRse and SkyfChain had posponed their ICOs without increasing a pool (as abou the second) and this type of new is my "favorite" from all others, lol!
AlphaPoint Raises $15 Million In First Major Funding Round
Crypto services company AlphaPoint successfully raised $15 million in its first major round of venture capital funding, the firm announced Thursday.
AlphaPoint raised the funds through Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital, the self-described cryptocurrency merchant bank. Chief executive Salil Donde said Galaxy Digital managing director Greg Wasserman is also joining his firm's advisory board to provide "oversight, guidance and insights."
https://www.coindesk.com/alphapoint-raises-15-million-in-first-major-funding-round/
Crypto services company AlphaPoint successfully raised $15 million in its first major round of venture capital funding, the firm announced Thursday.
AlphaPoint raised the funds through Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital, the self-described cryptocurrency merchant bank. Chief executive Salil Donde said Galaxy Digital managing director Greg Wasserman is also joining his firm's advisory board to provide "oversight, guidance and insights."
https://www.coindesk.com/alphapoint-raises-15-million-in-first-major-funding-round/
Jump to: