Matthew Long will be responsible for payments and digital money at the financial regulator.
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Head To Head: Bitcoin Miner Revenues Surpass Ethereum But There’s More
The profitability of bitcoin mining has been dwindling compared to that of Ethereum in recent months. Ethereum miners had consistently surpassed bitcoin for almost a year. That is until now when the returns from bitcoin mining have taken the lead once more.
Bitcoin Miners In The Lead
Data shows that bitcoin miners have been recovering in comparison to their ETH counterparts. This has been obvious in the closing gap of the last several months where Ethereum miners had barely managed to stay ahead. This would continue until the month of June, an uncertain month for all who are involved in cryptocurrencies, and this, by extension, has affected the profitability of ETH mining due to the decline in price.
A Conversation with Jonathan Ward, Head of Research at Fetch.AI, on New Approach to Achieving Consensus
Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted by Nick Ward (NW), director at communications agency Fire on the Hill. CoinReport would like to thank Fire on the Hill for sharing this interview with us. Blockchain technologists have long understood the ‘trilemma challenge’ of achieving t…
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Wrap Your Head Around This: BTC Is Now Featured as a Token on Ethereum
It happened: Bitcoin is now an Ethereum token.
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an ERC-20 token with a 1-1 peg to bitcoin, went live on the Ethereum network on the final day of January, “the first token that makes Bitcoin compatible with the Ethereum chain,” its architects say.
Kyber Network, Bitgo and Ren spearheaded the “community led” initiative, which has spread its reach to AirSwap, BitGo, Blockfolio, Compound, DDEX / Hydro, Dharma, Gnosis, GOPAX, Kyber Network, Loopring Protocol, MakerDAO, OmiseGO, Prycto, Ren, Set Protocol, and TheOcean. These members of the WBTC DAO are a mixture of liquidity, infrastructure and custodial partners. The token’s network will rely on some of them to facilitate BTC to WBTC swaps for its users.
Bitcoin: Crypto Hedge Fund Says ‘We’ll See More Lows Before We Head Higher’
Technical analysts believe the Bitcoin price is at a turning point. Using the GTI VERA Bands Indicator, a new Bloomberg article suggests that the flagship cryptocurrency could be “on the brink of a large move.” It could go either way, the indicator suggests. Bitcoin price moves over the past 18 months prove surprises could be
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Head of Policy at Coinbase Leaves for a Venture Capital Firm
As recently reported by Bloomberg, the head of policy at Coinbase, Michael Lempres is leaving the company for a position at a venture capital firm. He was promoted back in September when Brian Brooks took over his post as a chief legal and risk officer, a role that Lempres served as for over a year.
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Andrew Fleming, Former Dow Jones Executive, Joins BTC Inc as Head of Media
BTC Inc, the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, is excited to announce the hiring of Andrew Fleming to be the new head of its media division. The addition of Fleming to BTC Inc’s management roster is the latest example of an emerging trend of big-name talent leaving institutions in order to join the crypto and blockchain industry.
Roubini & Buterin Go Head To Head
The cryptocurrency space has seen some heated debates over the past week between big named in the crypto space and the wonderful world that is economics. An open debate took place on the social network, Twitter and started with the world-renowned economist Nouriel Roubini making several allegations regarding Bitfinex.
Roubini pointed out the spike in price increase which showed a $ 60 premium, with a spike of a $ 100 premium on Bitfinex, noting that the price increase was pushed and would continue to go up. The exchange platform is yet to acknowledge the claims and has only made a post through its official Twitter.
Russia Central Bank Head: Cryptocurrency Craze Is ‘Fortunately Fading Away’
The head of Russia’s central bank has announced the “cryptocurrency craze” is “starting to fade away” – and that this is a “fortunate” event.
Nabiullina: Businesses Taking ‘Sober Approach’ To Blockchain
Speaking during the country’s fourth FINOPOLIS innovative financial technology forum in Sochi October 17, Bank of Russia’s Elvira Nabiullina signaled a change in the stance of “businesses” towards technologies such as Blockchain and ICOs.
“We’re holding this forum for the fourth time, and in that period a cryptocurrency craze managed to break out which is now – fortunately, in our opinion – beginning to fade away,” she said quoted by local news outlet RIA Novosti.
Crypto Giant Gemini Hires Former Wall Street COO to Head Operations
Crypto exchange Gemini has announced the arrival of Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto, who joins the team as the Managing Director in charge of Operations. A former Wall Street COO, Jeanine brings over a decade of experience to the company, which is owned by crypto investment duo Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. In a Medium post published by co-founder
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Crypto Trading Head: Cryptocurrency Is ‘Turning the Corner From Wild West’
A new voice from US big finance has added his weight to the increasing evidence institutional investors are corning the newly-stabilized cryptocurrency market.
Cho: ‘Professionalization Is Happening’
Speaking to Bloomberg on October 1st, Bobby Cho, global head of trading at Cumberland, the crypto division of trading and investment firm DRW Holdings, said the market was “turning the corner” from its “Wild West” early years.
Amid talk of multiple Wall Street firms preparing Bitcoin trading opportunities, entities such as hedge funds are the major purchasers of coins in the latter half of 2018.
India Bitconnect Head Arrested
Alleged India Bitconnect head, Divyesh Darji, was arrested this week at a airport in Delhi as he arrived from Dubai. He and conspirators are accused of bilking millions of dollars (Rs 88,000 crore) from Indian investors seeking to find financial refuge during the government’s demonetization campaign.
Also read: Report: 15,000 Twitter Crypto Scam Giveaway Bots
India Bitconnect Head Arrested in Delhi
The sad and at times infuriating case of Bitconnect continues to unravel around the world. This week, accused mastermind of the group in Asia, Divyesh Darji, was arrested in connection with his role in the many millions of dollars investment scam.
Swiss Economy Head Wants Switzerland to Become a Crypto and Blockchain Nation
Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, the head of Switzerland’s Department of Economic Affairs, has said that blockchain technology will undoubtedly penetrate the entire economy of Switzerland and make a global impact that is as big as that of the internet.
Ammann noted that Switzerland has already evolved into a leader in blockchain technology and intends to continue supporting the cryptocurrency sector and companies within it. During his speech at the Crypto Valley Conference in Zug, Ammann added that the World Wide Web may have been invented in Geneva, Switzerland, but due to impractical policies and insufficient developments, the majority of internet work was done elsewhere.
Cecilia Paolino-Uboldi – Partner & Global Head of Commercial Affairs at Slotguru joins Zerocoin – Crypto Currency for Online Gambling
ZeroEdge is extremely excited to announce that entrepreneur, investor, and Blockchain/Crypto advisor, Cecilia Paolino-Uboldi has joined the ZeroEdge advisory team.
ZeroEdge is extremely excited to announce that entrepreneur, investor, and Blockchain/Crypto advisor, Cecilia Paolino-Uboldi has joined the ZeroEdge advisory team.
During 17 years, Cecilia has had a varied career in the technology and gaming industries working as a business developer and channel manager building and developing strategic partnerships and alliances internationally most notably at IGT –the world’s leading end-to-end gaming company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. More recently she is providing consulting to entrepreneurial businesses to help them improve their profitability and growth through customer-centric strategies.
The Reason for The Trading Platform to Become the Most Imaginative Business Model Interpreted from Successive Financing of The Head Digital Asset Trading Platform
Recently, Bit-Z, a globally digital asset trading platform, has obtained an investment of more than Us $ 10 million from three international investment institutions. The three investors were Hwazing Capital Limited, Wa Sung Investment Limited, and Plum Angel Investment Co., Ltd.
As shown by the online platform, Bit-Z was founded in 2016 and has been a leading digital asset trading platform in trading volume around the world. It is mainly engaged in offering digital asset trading crypto-to-crypto trading service for users in the world. The so-called crypto-to-crypto trading refers to a trading mode in which a blockchain asset is directly used for exchanging another kind of blockchain asset without involving transit or settlement of legal currency in the course.
Bitcoin Price Leaves Earth Again As Trades Head To $16k
Bitcoin price gained almost $ 2000 in 12 hours into Tuesday as the virtual currency’s correction gives way to gains and investors reaffirm their faith.
Bitcoin Price Optimism Returns
Volatility has briefly returned to markets post-Christmas, Bitcoin currently circling $ 15,200 according to Coinmarketcap’s average trading prices, up from $ 13,680 Monday but coming down from the day’s high of $ 15,700.
The move has dampened altcoins, with a mixed bag of gains and losses greeting investors today. Civic, which surprised by posting sudden huge advances from $ 0.70 to as high as $ 1.68 in the past 24 hours, has now deflated to around $ 0.87.
Coinbase ‘Unprecedented Victory’ Sees 14k Transactions Head To IRS
An “unprecedented victory for the industry” is how Coinbase describes the likely culmination of its year-long legal battle with US tax authorities this week.
$ 20k Or Nothing, Court Tells IRS
In a digest of the most recent events from court, communications director David Farmer said the exchange’s resolve to “take a stance” against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) request for customer data prevented them being “unfairly targeted.”
The court ruled that only transactions over $ 20,000 must make their way to the IRS, in reality corresponding to around 3% of the total records requested last year or 14,000 transactions.
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