Community-sponsored non-profit organization NEM Foundation has published a financial and structural reorganization plan. On February 20, the organization decided to allocate 210 million XEM coins (approximately $ 8.7 million) from its reserves. The first tranche of $ 25 million XEM (just over $ 1 million) will be aimed at “creating processes and structures for the new concept of the NEM Foundation, which will be […]
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The world-renowned expert on the history of economics, a former professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Oxford University Nial Ferguson admitted that he was wrong about Bitcoin, once calling him "an illusion." This writes the Australian Financial Review. A British scientist learned about bitcoin five years ago from his son, but refused to follow his advice and […]
On March 5, the premier of the Russian detective series “Miners”, filmed by the TV company “Tells and Shows”, took place on the RVision Youtube channel. The series is about amateur miners who want to make money on cryptocurrency using conspiracy theories around the personality of the Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. All 10 episodes of the film were shot in Screen Life format – the action takes place on a computer screen. Earlier, the studio “Talks and Shows” released […]
The site of the New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia, affected by the actions of hackers in mid-January, resumed work in a read-only mode. Update: The site is now live. This is a balanceline for calculating rebates. – Cryptopia Exchange (@Cryptopia_NZ) […]
On February 28 in Moscow, the famous trader and author of the cult work “The Black Swan” Nassim Taleb gave a lecture “Risking his own skin” organized by BBI Club. During the event, the guests managed to ask the thinker questions about Bitcoin. “Distributed systems are anti-fragile. All of us [in the USA] must decide what the currency should be, and not just the Fed, whose representatives are not […]
After the successful Constantinople upgrade, Ethereum's leading developers started discussing the question of who will coordinate further hardforks of the platform, and apparently came to a consensus that this task would be assigned to several people at once. The discussion about the need to coordinate further actions regarding the upgrades was held at the last Ethereum developer video conference. Her need was caused by the recent […]
Despite the fact that the authorities of Malta have recently made great efforts to make this country one of the leaders in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies, and opened the doors to several dozen companies, many of them have problems opening bank accounts. This writes the local edition of the Times of Malta. So, a number of service providers, law firms and […]
The Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX updated this week a user agreement, officially prohibiting users from trading in a number of countries, including the USA, Cuba, Syria, North Korea and Sudan. Also on this list were residents of the Canadian province of Quebec, the Crimea and Sevastopol. As noted by CryptoGlobe, the new agreement has become much longer than the previous version, having increased from 2,800 to almost 5,000 words. In particular, […]
Cryptopia, a New Zealand exchange hacked in January, announced that it would resume operations on Monday, March 4th. Update: We’ve been on the site. – Cryptopia Exchange (@Cryptopia_NZ) 28 February 2019 p. “We aim to open the site by next Monday,” representatives of the trading floor wrote. Many users of social networks gladly met […]
Cryptocurrency p2p platform Hodl Hodl announced on Wednesday, February 27, a new product called Predictions. Its launch is expected this spring, and according to representatives of the exchange, it can be a very useful tool for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Introducing Predictions by Hodl Hodlhttps: //t.co/403RFecdeM pic.twitter.com/InZfF3RJ63 – Hodl Hodl (@hodlhodl) February 27, 2019 The essence of the new product is to create a special market, where […]