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Yang Zuoxing, CEO at MicroBT, is under investigation by the local police. The investigation is allegedly related to a dispute over Bitmain’s intellectual property rights. Yang nor MircroBT have released an official statement. A former Bitmain employee, Yang Zuoxing, is under investigation by the local police in China. The case appears to be related to a dispute involving the intellectual property rights of the mining giant corporation. Open Investigation According to a report by the Chinese...

Peter Schiff is once again making apocalyptic bitcoin price predictions. This isn’t the first time the famous gold bug has sounded the alarm on the crypto market. Are crypto investors right to treat him like the boy who cried wolf? Peter Schiff has remained active on Twitter lately, chiming in on the Fed’s ballooning balance sheet and the sharp gold sell-off. However, another issue catching significant traction is his extremely bearish view on bitcoin. Peter Schiff: ‘Get Ready for the Dump’...

Stable currencies are all the rage as of late. However, most are allegedly backed by fiat money such as the U.S. dollar, the euro, the yen and the yuan. Less often do we encounter coins backed by precious metals or similar commodities, and Coin Shares Group is looking to change that.Stable Currencies Are Growing in PopularityBased in London, Coin Shares is a company that specializes in stable coins. The company has recently released a new product its dubbing DGLD, which is a form of gold...

At press time, bitcoin has taken something of a nosedive and is now trading for a measly $8,800.Bitcoin Drops AgainWhile the price isn’t nearly as bad as it could have been, the currency has fallen below the $9,000 line, which is where it’s been for nearly two weeks. Things ultimately took a nasty turn for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general in late September when Bakkt – the institutional crypto trading platform owned by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – debuted to rather lackluster...

Decentralized finance’s (DeFi) meteoric rise has been accompanied by a slew of advances in financial technology, sparking a wave of P2P lending protocols and liquidity pools. The increasing competition of borrowing/lending, stablecoins, derivatives, and even cross-chain CDPs mark a new era in fintech innovation and have bred some intriguing externalities. Many DeFi lending protocols offer interest rates that are significantly more appealing than rates offered by banks and low-risk fixed...

Canadian crypto exchange CoinField has unveiled its top project Sologenic today at Malta AI and Blockchain Summit (AIBC), during the second day of the conference. CEO Bob Ras explained how Sologenic will merge traditional financial markets and crypto on the XRPL (XRP Ledger). Ras spoke exclusively to Coinspeaker at the conclusion of his presentation. Bob, you what was the key message that you delivered today in Malta about Sologenic?Bob Ras: If you look at the market size of stocks and ETFs...

It seems like scams will never dissipate from the cryptocurrency space.Scams: They’re More Prominent Than EverA man in New York has been arrested and charged with running a fraudulent cryptocurrency operation. 47-year-old Asa Saint Clair claimed that his project was tied to the United Nations (UN) through an international sports development program.This should have been the first big “no-no” for investors thinking about the operation. What on Earth does the United Nations have to do with...

On November 7-8, 2019, Singapore time, the world’s third artificial intelligence and blockchain summit was held in the European island nation of Malta. Leaders from all continents, industry elites, and media representatives gathered to discuss the development of blockchain technology and digital assets. As a representative of global cryptocurrency exchange, BitTok was also invited to attend this summit. Join hands with top experts, enterprises and investment institutions in the fields of...

From the birth of Bitcoin in 2008 to the rising popularity of Ethereum in 2014 until now, the concept and practice of blockchain and digital assets have become more and more popular. The blockchain is called as a machine that transfers trust and value, combining financial technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data on driving the global economic transformation from the era of information into the era of internet value. In this era, asset chaining, traditional asset...

In 1950s, a large amount of gold was discovered in California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad leading to a California gold rush in the west.Through this incidence, San Francisco grew from a small settlement to a boomtown. Today, one and a half centuries later, United States especially the Silicon Valley in San Francisco, remains the land of global entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial story of Silicon Valley’s...