Tag Archives: Cryptocurrencies

On Sept. 19, the Committee on Financial Services came to an agreement that the topic, “Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission: Wall Street’s Cop on the Beat,” would be the topic of discussion and Sept. 24 was chosen as the D-day, which is, just for a reminder, the day after Bakkt launch.This hearing will consist of the chairman of the SEC, Jay Clayton, Commissioner Hester Pierce, who is also known as Crypto Mom, and three other commissioners.Will Libra Make It Into the List of...

San Francisco-based blockchain startup has been having a tough time this year with several investors complaining over the nature of XRP being a ‘security’. Recently, Ripple has moved to the court to dismiss the claims that it has violated any U.S. Securities laws.In its motion to dismiss, Ripple claims that Bradley Sostack, the plaintiff, doesn’t have any standing to register a complaint and claim that XRP is a ‘security‘. Further explaining, Ripple stated that the plaintiff failed to file...

Patrick Byrne shared the letter on his personal website. Within the letter he reveals that he had dumped all his Overstock equity holdings over the past week and blames the deep state and the government for this action:“The riff-raff will tell you that my departure and sale were from a lack of confidence in what I left behind in Peace Coliseum: they are wrong, and I would like to tell you all the actual reasons before the yuck-yucks spin the truth.”Patrick Byrne resigned from the role of CEO...

Changchuan Mu within the educational lectures touches a range of cryptocurrency questions starting from the recently announced People’s Bank of China (PBoC) digital currency to the vast expansion of Facebook‘s Libra. Also, he compared Libra to the PBoC digital currency, stating that the Chinese new currency is even better than Libra in several aspects. Mu believes that at this point, Libra already might be unstoppable and that it is “highly unlikely” that someone can stop people from buying...

Generally, the fact that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not very supportive of the cryptocurrency industry is no longer news. The SEC has many times before, spoken out against cryptocurrencies because of their volatility and unregulated nature.Even efforts to launch Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF), have been largely unsuccessful as a few days ago, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) withdrew its application to float the VanEck/SolidX Bitcoin ETF, just...

In the latest blog post announcement, Coinbase highlighted a possible addition of 17 new cryptos to its platform including Telegram. As part of the exploratory process, users may see public-facing APIs and other signs that the exchange is conducting engineering work to potentially support these assets.According to that post from the exchange, Coinbase plans to add Dfinity, Filecoin, Handshake, Avalanche, Celo, Chia, Coda, Nervos, Oasis, Orchid, Kadena, Mobilecoin, Near, Solana, Spacemesh,...

Wall Street veteran and founder of the Galaxy Digital crypto merchants bank, Mike Novogratz, recently accepted that he missed out on the token sale of Telegram‘s TON cryptocurrency.During a recent interview with The Block, Novogratz spoke how he missed the opportunity of investing in the Telegram Open Network (TON). Messaging giant Telegram has been work for over a year on its ambitious blockchain project which can see the light of the day anytime soon.In his interview, Novogratz said that...

The past few days have seen the price of Bitcoin hovering above the 20 Moving Average (MA). Following an entire week of consolidation in a tight channel, the price of Bitcoin finally made a move on September 18. Many commentators predicted a downside move and they seem to have been correct all along as BTC lost 5% in an hour.The latest drop has made the crypto to plunge below the psychological $10,000 level to settle in the mid-$9,000 zone. The drop made the token to draw nearer to the 20...

Photo: ShutterstockBy Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex.BTC/USD tech analysis.Launch of the BTC futures postponed again.The BTC price dropped to zero due to a technical problem.On W1 of the Bitcoin we can see a prolongued correction. The pattern still looks like a Triangle but is promising to turn into a descending channel. A breakaway of the resistance line may signal the end of the correction and the start of a new wave of growth. Securing above $11350.00 may confirm further...

Top features on NEO like on-chain and off-chain governance as well as Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (DBFT) have already made it one of the more appealing blockchains for businesses and enterprises. Now, the project is adding additional features that improve functionality.What Is NEO3 Preview1?NEO3 Preview1 is the first look at some of the changes that are anticipated to occur when the project transitions from its current NEO2 protocol to NEO3. NEO3 TestNet, which was also released on...