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Recently, the new fintech terms came to town. We are already used to certain terms such as FAANG, FANG and even FAAMNG. When it comes to stocks, and especially technology-related ones, the times are certainly “a-changing”.2020 began already as a pretty turbulent one. With great geopolitical tensions, an unsure trade deal between the U.S. and China, Donald Trump’s impeachment (moreover, Meghan and Harry are leaving the Crown) – it seems that there is going to be a pretty tough year for big...

On 8 January, a day after the document is taken from the court, two plaintiffs sent a lawsuit against iFinex Inc., Bitfinex and Tether to another court. This lawsuit travels from Washington to New York, according to the Block.Bitfinex Has Three Weighty Cases against ItselfThe Western District Court in Washington gave the case back to Eric Young and Adam Kurtz, the crypto traders standing behind the third lawsuit against Tether. Despite yesterday’s news, the lawsuit was filed again, this time...

Executives of JPMorgan Chase & Co. believe that CME Group is going to be the company that dominates the bitcoin futures contracts arena.CME Group Is Heading the MarchAs we all know, other markets have opened the doorway to bitcoin futures trading in the past, a big example being Bakkt which began business in September 2019 after a long year of delays. The platform experienced a rather lackluster debut and is widely considered to be the reason for bitcoin’s dismal price performance just...

Management consulting and research firm Everest Group has released a new market report focusing on the future of blockchain. The report, entitled “BigTech Battle: Assessing Managed Blockchain Platform Readiness for Enterprise Use,” addresses a number of major players developing blockchain projects, including Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Microsoft.The report cites Jelurida’s Ardor blockchain-as-a-service platform, alongside Multichain’s Enterprise, as two technologies with favorable ease of...

On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had filed invoices to the court. The SEC is claiming that brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov were selling the Gram tokens after the initial pre-sale end.If It Has No Flaws, Invent ThemTelegram officially claimed that they did not conduct any sales after the initial offering end.However, the SEC representatives are sure that Telegram accountants have been messing with papers. Maybe Telegram managers got a total of 1.7 billion during the...

The North Korea-based hacking group Lazarus appears to be coming back, and this time, it’s allegedly using the encrypted messaging service Telegram to steal your cryptocurrency.Lazarus Is Bigger Than EverThe news comes by way of cybersecurity firms Kaspersky Labs, which stated recently that the group is taking “more careful steps” to ensure it can steal users’ data or digital funds without raising too many red flags. Researchers are calling the new attack wave “Operation AppleJeus Sequel,” a...

Here’s an interesting “reversal of attitude.” The state of New York – which up to this point, has been relatively anti-crypto – is suddenly announcing plans to launch its own cryptocurrency payment system in the coming years.Does New York Suddenly Love Crypto?This is strange given that New York has widely been criticized for stifling cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation within its borders. The state issued the dreaded BitLicense approximately five years ago.Many saw this document as a...

Elon Musk – the head honcho behind SpaceX and Tesla – got under crypto enthusiasts’ skin this week when he submitted a very strange tweet about bitcoin.Elon Musk Is Up to His Old TricksThe world’s number one cryptocurrency has a very bad habit of attracting unwanted attention and controversy wherever it goes. While many are in favor of the digital asset, others see it as something to utilize in malicious actions or as a means of stirring the wrong kinds of feelings within the industry.It is...

PayPal admitted that someone discovered a possible severe security breach that could lead to the exposure of user passwords to a hacker. Alex Birsan, who discovered the breach, earned a bug bounty worth $15,300 for reporting the problem. The vulnerability itself was disclosed on January 8 and has since been repaired.In his public disclosure, Birsan wrote that this “is the story of a high-severity bug affecting what is probably one of PayPal’s most visited pages,” referring to the login...

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is said to finally be issuing shares tied to his contract beginning January 13 through his DREAM platform. Just to remind y’all, in September last year NBA blocked this idea. The organization then claimed that Dinwiddie’s plan to bond one part of his contract earnings for a security token offering is against the league’s collective bargaining agreement.NBA wrote:“The described arrangement is prohibited by the C.B.A., which provides that ‘no player shall...