Ripple has announced that it will be setting up an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates before the close of 2018. Speaking during this year’s Global Islamic Economic Summit that was held in Dubai, Ripple’s global infrastructure innovation head, Dilip Rao, indicated that the focus of the fintech firm would be on cross-border payments. In […]
In the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) latest annual report, the regulatory authority explained that reducing the number of cryptocurrency-related scams is currently among their top priorities. The report specifically cites initial coin offerings (ICOs) as one such sector of the industry that they are focusing on. The report comes amidst an exponential increase in crypto-related […]
Atomic swaps mean the ability to exchange digital assets across different blockchain networks without the involvement of central parties. This has piqued the interest of the crypto-community since early 2017. Atomic swaps are inherently different from decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges because they represent a novel cryptographic protocol. Here two parties seamlessly and securely exchange bitcoin or other digital […]
Brazil’s tax regulator, the Department of Federal Revenue, is requiring local cryptocurrency exchanges to report their operations on a monthly basis in order to verify tax compliance and improve the country’s fight against money laundering and corruption. Brazillian Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Report Monthly Trading Data to Authorities Citing the examples of Australia and South Korea, […]
Matthias Steinig, a German developer whose focus seems to be on the development of Lightning Network-enabled technologies to serve consumers, has created two projects to date which are notable and Lightning-related. The first is an e-commerce solution which supports Lightning transactions in the traditional web store format. A demonstration of it is live here. The […]
Binance, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges on the planet, has announced full support of the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork scheduled for November 15. More Companies Announce Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Policies Just days after Ledger, one of the largest hardware wallet providers globally, announced their own policy on the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard […]
It’s been 10 years since bitcoin’s white paper appeared and opened up a whole new world of possibilities, says BitGo’s Mike Belshe.
CoinDesk looks back at some of the best crypto costumes worn for Halloween 2018.
On November 2, 2018, Coinbase announced that it would be integrating support for Basic Attention Token (BAT), an ERC-20 token that is designed to work out-of-the-box with the privacy-centric Brave Browser, on CoinbasePro. BAT will initially trade against USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin that Coinbase developed with Circle Ltd. and recently added to its platforms. […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases. The report details actions for 2018’s fiscal year, which ended on September 30, and offers insight into the ICO-related fraud that has seemingly come to light […]