South Korea’s central bank has said that it opposes the idea of issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The news comes from the Bank of Korea’s (BOK’s) report about coins and the crypto-ecosystem, which looked at the possibility of issuing a CBDC and also how digital currencies might influence Korea’s financial sector as a […]
A Japanese village is launching the country’s first Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on the municipal level.
As the cryptocurrency market develops and grows, cryptocurrencies have become the subject of an increasing number of securities lawsuits. This year alone, more than 10 cryptocurrency securities lawsuits have been filed in federal district courts throughout the country. While regulations and laws governing the cryptocurrency market continue to develop, recent activity involving cryptocurrency has raised […]
“When Blockchain Revolution came out, bitcoin was worth around $7 billion. Today, it’s more than twenty-two times that. Bitcoin is the workhorse of the cryptocurrency world and the cryptocurrency that launched a thousand ships.” So reads part of the preface in the newly-released second edition of Blockchain Revolution by the father-and-son team of Don Tapscott, […]
Those working for the executive branch of the U.S. government must disclose their cryptocurrency holdings, ethics officials said Monday.
The post Bitcoin News Summary – June 18, 2018 appeared first on 99 Bitcoins. Español Русский Here’s what happened this week in Bitcoin in 99 seconds. The US Securities and Exchange Commission stated that they don’t consider Bitcoin or Ethereum as securities, renouncing any claim to oversight of these coins. However, the SEC regards […]
Robinhood is by no means an ‘elder’ in the cryptocurrency industry, only opening up its cryptocurrency division in early January. Despite this, Robinhood’s co-CEO, Baiju Bhatt, believes that the cryptocurrency market has a strong future ahead of itself. “Bitcoin Just Keeps on Coming Back” During an interview with Yahoo Finance, Bhatt expressed his positive sentiments […]
Healthcare in developing parts of the world has remained below standard over a long period of time. The reasons for this can be related to system weaknesses in terms of leadership, governance, workforce, technology, finance among others. Traditional implementations in attempt to achieve lasting solutions to these problems have left the people going round in […]
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 […]
The team behind CryptoZombies — a website dedicated to teaching people how to code Ethereum DApps, — is launching the world’s first collectible card game on a blockchain. To raise funds for the game’s development, the team decide to go with Kickstarter instead of an ICO. Surprising? Maybe not. James Martin Duffy, a creator of […]