Time will tell how many customers will accept Bitcoin as a method of payment for their utility bills, says Enercity which announced on Friday, September 16 that Hanover residents can now pay for their energy use with the virtual currency. Enercity CEO, Dr. Susanna Zapreva, who made the announcement, said digitization has already been fixed […]
Ethereum was built using different consensus rules than bitcoin, so wallets also need to function in an alternative way. But what are the options?
John Stumpf, “Mr. Clean” of American Banking who is known for the lack of controversy surrounding the bank he leads, is facing a major scandal. It’s led to calls for his resignation from Wells Fargo & Co., one of the U.S.’s big four banks. Stumpf, while in charge of Wells Fargo, led the bank record […]
BlockCypher’s Josh Cincinnati critiques a recent NYTimes article that suggested bitcoin’s immutable ledger of transactions is its weakness.
Securities broker-dealer, Keystone Capital Corporation, has selected t0’s blockchain-based trading technology to provide brokerage services for market participants seeking to trade blockchain securities. This is part of Keystone Capital’s brokerage service’s support of a blockchain preferred share offering from Overstock.com Inc., the parent company of t0 which has been working to reconcile fiat currency and […]
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has advised the European Commission to establish a regulatory regime specific to virtual currencies such as bitcoin. Commenting on the commission’s proposal to amend the existing European anti-money laundering directive, the EBA expresses the opinion that, in the long term, oversight of digital currencies should not fall under regular anti-money laundering provisions, […]
Since hardware wallet devices first came to pass in the Bitcoin ecosystem, the Trezor has been the one wallet to rule them all. Added security measures, such as the ability to visually confirm the correct receiving address on the device’s display, were always the key selling point of the Trezor, but Ledger may have now […]
After the biggest money-printing episode in recorded human history, it appears that central bankers are realizing the limits of quantitative easing. The Federal Reserve (Fed) has indicated that they are planning to raise interest rates when it meets on September 20–21. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested that September and December rate hikes are on […]
John Stumpf, “Mr. Clean” of American Banking known for the lack of controversy surrounding the bank he leads, is facing a major scandal. It’s led to calls for his resignation from Wells Fargo & Co., one of the U.S.’s big four banks. Stumpf, while in charge of Wells Fargo, led the bank record profits. But, […]
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin will present a new version of his ‘mauve paper’ at Devcon next week.