In January, Facebook published a list of prohibited content that it considered harmful to its users. This was part of its broader efforts to make the platform safer. With regard to financial services, the policy stated: “Ads must not promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices such…
It’s Day 17 of the Crypto World Cup and our second day of the round of 16! Charlie Lee faces off against Bill Barhydt, plus Tyler Winklevoss takes on CryptoYoda. It was two wild games today, with some pretty surprising results. Let’s dig in! If you missed it, here’s the summary of who’s playing in…
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) announced recently that it has issued orders to six cryptocurrency exchange operators–Tech Bureau, Corp., BITPoint Japan Co. Ltd., BTC BOX. Ltd, bitFlyer, Inc., and QUIONE Pte. Ltd.–to reform their business practices. The FSA conducted on-site inspections at each of the companies and the results identified various points for reform, such…
Welcome to Crypto World Cup Day 16! We are down to the final 16 and this round gives no second chances; if you lose your match you are out. To arrive at the final 16 required tenacity and teamwork; it was a battle of the best and brightest but only the strongest have made it…
Welcome to Crypto World Cup Day 18! We are down to the final 16 and this round gives no second chances; if you lose your match you are out. To arrive at the final 16 required tenacity and teamwork; it was a battle of the best and brightest but only the strongest have made it…
A Hong Kong-based venture capital firm is placing a major bet that tZero, a security token exchange owned by e-commerce company Overstock, will be the future of tokenization. On Friday it was confirmed that GSR Capital, which also has offices in Beijing and Silicon Valley, has entered into an agreement to purchase $160 million worth…
The final day of June 2018 is significant in the crypto world given the mainnet transitions of a number of prominent tokens. Vechain, for example, will move from being an ERC-20 asset on the Ethereum blockchain, while Ontology will say goodbye to NEO and NEP-5. In addition to these to major migrations, Fusion (FSN) a network with a $177 million market cap,…
Today has not been the best day for cryptocurrencies everywhere. With Bitcoin declining below the critical $6K level, it marks the furthest drop in the coin since November. Declining as much as 4.2 percent on Friday, it is currently trading around the $5,900 mark; this is whopping 59 percent decline from its highs at the beginning of this…
Charles Hoskinson suggests Mantis: Last week, Tron (TRX) was heavily criticized as developers outside of the project discovered that most of the code on Tron’s platform had been taken from Ethereum’s EthereumJ library. Tron celebrated its ‘Independence Day’ from Ethereum on the 25th, but ironically it wasn’t independent from the project at all. While the…
Block.one released its proposal of a new version of the EOS constitution: the EOS Constitution v2.0. EOS has been under fire recently for its block producers freezing user accounts without the account owner’s permission. Does the new constitution address this issue? EOS Constitution v2.0: What’s in It? One of the first things to catch my…
