SEC Commissioner Esther Pierce, also known as "Crypto-Mama", reminded the government and regulator that it should be more friendly to innovative technologies. Pierce stressed that the technological revolution in the world of financial services has a rich potential and is aimed at a long-term positive effect. Esther is not the first to express optimism about the crypto-space, which is very different from his colleagues in the bureaucratic apparatus. "Crypto-Mama" devoted most of its speech at the San Francisco conference to a discussion of a new class of assets – crypto-currency. She mentioned bitcoin at least 50 times. Esther Pierce gave…
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At the exhibition in Paris in honor of the tenth anniversary of the creation of bitcoin, artists from all over the world will present works devoted to crypto-currencies. The exhibition named Bitcoin Art (r) Evolution is designed to raise public awareness of crypto-currencies and demonstrate their potential. Another goal of the event is to show how a blockage can improve the art industry. With the help of art, artists will illustrate the main stereotypes about digital assets, in particular, their comparison with the dot-com bubble. Other artists will try to hide bitcoin in their works. Among the exhibitors are the…
Bitman founder Cihan Wu took part in the Subreddit forum, in which he responded to a comment made by a researcher named Justin Bons. He wrote about the centralization of Bitcoin Cash mining, saying that the increase in the block size is not the reason for the increase in the level of centralization. Rather, it is related to a hashreit belonging to individual mining pools. Wu commented: "To eliminate the centralization of the Mining Pool, you can take advantage of the shortening of the block creation time, given that pools must provide PPS mode to their customers because of popular…
The study was conducted by the consulting company Greenwich Associates. It is called the "Institutionalization of the Crypto-currency", and the paper talks about how institutional investors are gradually turning to the digital currency industry, Forbes writes. It turned out that 72% of institutional investors believe that the crypto currency will be delayed for a long time . The survey was attended by 12 top managers of financial institutions operating in Asia, North America and Europe. 38% of the surveyed executives believe that the impetus for the development of the crypto-currency industry will be the regulatory framework that will appear in…
Binance, Kraken, Gate.io may be under investigation. The Attorney General of New York suspects them of violating state law. The state launched the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative in April of this year and asked 13 platforms to voluntarily provide information on their activities, including internal control and policy against market fraud. Binance, Kraken, Gate.io and Huobi then said they did not allow traders from New York, so they would not respond to the request. Kraken said that market manipulation "does not mean anything for most crypto traders," although it acknowledged that the industry suffers from scams. The prosecutor's office was…
Michael Lee, the head of the analytical department of the social network LinkedIn, took up the position of vice president of data processing at the crypt exchange Coinbase. About this, Lee said in his blog on the platform Medium. As Lee said, he will participate in the Coinbase mission to "create an open financial system for the world." In his opinion, in the crypto and lock-box industry there are boundless possibilities for using the data. He added that the data will help Coinbase offer customers better quality of crypto-currency products and services. "For the data processing, we will use both…
The BitGo crypto-startup received custodian status for crypto-currencies and other digital assets. The permission for activity was given out by the regulator of South Dakota. Now the company can offer protected market participants a secure storage of crypto investments. BitGo combines in its service "hot" and "cold" wallets. The chief lawyer of the company Shala Ali explained: "We can offer a qualified custodian service that is officially regulated and meets all the requirements of the anti-money laundering policy and KYC. Now the service is available for institutional investors, especially for registered advisors and brokers – dealers. " The proposal is…
At 6 o'clock in the Wednesday the market is TOP-10, it is in an upward trend. Bitcoin did not live up to the expectations of the predictors of the march to 6000 and played a little position. During the day it grew by + 1.26% and is traded at the price level of 6 350 $ . Altkoins traditionally follow the leader, and some show readiness for future growth. In the top five, the best result is demonstrated by Ripple with a dynamics of + 18.91%. Such rapid growth occurred against the backdrop of news about the imminent launch of…
Switzerland and Israel agreed to share their experience in regulating the blockchain industry. Swiss Finance Minister Wali Maurer and Secretary of State for International Financial Affairs Jorg Gasser recently visited Israel to officially request access to local markets for Swiss banks. As Gasser said, by the end of 2018 he plans to prepare a report on the regulation of the blockchain for Israeli officials, which will set out general recommendations. He expects that these proposals can be approved by the Israeli parliament in 2019 and will come into force by early 2020. Israeli officials did not comment on this. However,…