Author: BlockchainJournal

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) first fined a Bitcoin-trader for violating the Banking Secrecy Law (BSA) as part of the peer-to-peer exchange of cryptocurrencies. This is stated in a press release. Thus, California resident Eric Powers was engaged in buying and selling bitcoins for clients, however, he was not registered as a money transfer operator or business owner in the financial services industry. […]

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US presidential candidate in the 2020 elections, Andrew Young, has prepared a statement regarding the regulation of the market of cryptocurrency assets . According to Yang, his goal is to “create accessible leadership in the digital asset world so that business and individuals can invest in this area and develop it without fear of regulatory changes.” “It’s time for the federal government to create clear guidelines on how digital assets / cryptocurrency markets will be regulated so that investments can be made on the basis of all the necessary information,” the statement said. Young also describes his next steps if…

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According to the supporter of Bitcoin and the founder of Galaxy Digital Mike Novograts, the situation on the cryptocurrency market will remain attractive for investors. Billionaire puts on maintaining a positive trend, which will lead to an even greater increase in the value of bitcoin and altcoins . Novograz tweeted a post in which he stressed that despite the great losses that BTC suffered during the last year, we are waiting for him to return to the historical maximum recorded in early 2018. I’m more bullish $ btc and our whole space. I'll make it at the @SALTConference and then…

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Craig Wright, a senior researcher at nChain, who continues to insist that he is the true creator of Bitcoin, again got into an unpleasant situation. Within the framework of the sensational case of Kleiman v. Wright about the alleged embezzlement of 1 million BTC, an Australian businessman submitted a correspondence with the computer forensic scientist and mathematician Dave Kleiman, which allegedly took place in 2012. […]

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Cryptocurrency investors Chad Elvartovski and Nadya Summergergerl, who built the houseboat for trading income, started off on the run. Thai authorities accuse them of violating the country's sovereignty, writes the Bangkok Post portal. According to a report by the Thai border guards, the empty house of Chad and Nadi was discovered at a distance of 12 nautical miles from the coast of Phuket. "Our fleet found a floating concrete box without […]

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The Cardano (ADA) coin, which took the 10th place in the cryptocurrency rating with a market capitalization of $ 2.159 billion, has just completed the upgrade. The update, dubbed “Shelly,” will allow the network to move towards full decentralization. Cardano price in relation to the US dollar hovers around 0.083 dollars. Cardano began as a blockchain project under the leadership of the founder Hoskinson, who is also a co-founder of Ethereum. ADA was released on September 29, 2017. Hoskinson tweeted a new update: The IOHK Summit takes place within 2 days in Miami, Florida, from April 17 to 18. Earlier,…

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Over the past hour and a half, the price of BNB has grown by almost 5%. Perhaps the reason for optimism was the next tweet. Today marks the birth of a new genesis block. Who's ready? pic.twitter.com/AF1hVtFXzt – Binance (@binance) April 18, 2019 “A new genesis block will appear today. Ready?". Representatives of the community immediately suggested that today, April 18, the launch of the main network Binance Chain, […]

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The business publication Forbes presented a list of companies implementing blockchain technology that operate in the US market and have a minimum income or are estimated at more than $ 1 billion. The magazine has included 50 large enterprises in the Blockchain's Billion Dollar Babies list. Among them are companies from cryptoindustry, traditional financial institutions, food corporations, retail and technology giants and firms from other industries. Most of the listed companies are globally known names such as Amazon, Walmart, Facebook, ING, BNP Paribas, JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard, Microsoft, IBM or Nestle. Companies related to cryptocurrencies are listed on Coinbase, a US…

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Yandex Network Infrastructure Development Director Alexei Sokolov criticized the technology of filtering Internet traffic from the law on sovereign Runet, calling it “worsening the work of services.” The provisions of the draft law, adopted by the State Duma on April 16 , provide for the massive introduction of traffic filtering systems (DPI / deep packet inspection). According to Sokolov, in the middle of March, Yandex tested the technology proposed by the deputies, and it was because of it that the company's services crashed, almost all of them simply collapsed. Sokolov noted that with the current volumes of information in the…

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