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[Featured Content]SLOBLOCO 2020 is the first Slovak Blockchain Congress with international participation that will run from November 16th-18th based in Samorin, Slovak Republic. The team behind the Congress has the ambition to fill the conference with 430 participants with approximately 85% exclusively from Slovakia and the Czech Republic with a large portion of attendees coming from the Kelta community as well. Despite having a physical component, the main focus of the conference will be the...

Rapper T.I. is being hit with felony charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He has been ordered to pay a penalty fee of $75,000 for his role in a scam-laden initial coin offering (ICO).The SEC Goes After T.I.The SEC has made it clear over the past few years that it’s not going to play around. If you try to cheat investors, if you fail to register as a security, if you step out of line in any way, the agency will come after you and it will penalize you. It seems that the...

The U.S. SEC has fined Atlanta-based rapper Clifford Harris Jr, better known as T.I, along with other individuals for their involvement in two fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) projects.T.I, Others Pay $125K in PenaltiesAccording to a press release by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday (September 11, 2020), T.I, along with businessman Ryan Felton and three other individuals based in Atlanta, were involved in a fake pump and dump ICO scheme. The rapper was cleared...

Despite the short-term adverse price developments for Ethereum, ETH whales have continued to accumulate. Data from Santiment revealed that the top non-exchange whale addresses had increased their holdings by over 80% in August alone.ETH Whales Increased Their HoldingsSimilarly to the ICO boom in 2017, Ethereum’s popularity surged in 2020 as its blockchain serves as the underlying technology behind the hottest trend this year – DeFi.ETH reacted with a massive YTD increase. Ether is up by 170%...

In the last few years, the blockchain industry has shifted from being a rather niche market mostly comprised of experimental technologies and fledging protocols, to a multi-billion dollar industry full of fintech unicorns and novel platforms that promise to disrupt traditional finance and practically every other industry.Although many countries have been racing to position themselves as a global hub for blockchain, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Asia is forming the epicenter of...

The three-year-long class-action lawsuit against Tezos for supposedly violating securities laws in the US with its 2017 ICO has come to an end after Judge Richard G. Seeborg approved the $25 million settlement offer brought by Tezos earlier this year.Lawsuit Targeting Tezos: The BackstoryThe company had little time to celebrate its successful initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017 when Tezos raised over $230 million as a Boston-based law firm called Block & Leviton filed a class-action...

[Featured content]Cryptocurrency trading is growing in popularity by the day. The exciting markets that oftentimes reveal tremendous volatility present serious risks, but also earning opportunities, attracting more and more people.Data from the popular cryptocurrency market monitoring resource CoinMarketCap reveals that the 24-hour trading volume is above $110 billion.As CryptoPotato recently reported, information from Google Trends revealed that the number of searches for the key phrase ‘buy...

Polkadot has quickly gone up the ranks and became one of the biggest cryptocurrency projects. Its native token DOT was recently denominated at a 1:100 ratio. After the event, early Polkadot investors can benefit from a nearly 2,000% ROI.This became possible following the latest company developments, mainnet launch news, and DOT listings on several prominent cryptocurrency exchanges.Polkadot’s History and MissionAlthough the original Polkadot whitepaper saw the light of day in October 2016, it...

[Featured Content]Exchange platforms are essential components of the crypto world. These platforms provide a place for crypto investors to trade or swap their cryptos and can either be centralized or decentralized.Centralized exchanges require intermediaries and often require KYC procedures, which means that traders cannot remain anonymous when transacting. Besides, in the case of an exchange breach, traders have their funds and information exposed to hackers.Decentralized exchanges aim to...

[Featured content]The cryptocurrency space has come a long way in the past couple of years. There is a myriad of services that various companies offer, bridging the gap between digital assets and traditional financial markets.One particular field, the interest for which has skyrocketed recently are cryptocurrency-backed fiat loans. In essence, people can now use different platforms where they can use their Bitcoin and other cryptos as collateral for a fiat loan.Nebeus is a platform that...