Following sanctions imposed on Russia, Putin is supporting a mass gold stockpile expansion and a sale of U.S. debt holdings. With a trade war blazing, and sanctions laid across countries to force North Korea and its associates into submission, what h
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Vitalik Buterin Cashed Out Large Sums of ETH During 2017 Crypto Frenzy
Ethereum mastermind Vitalik Buterin, who holds 350,000 ETH in his main wallet address, allegedly cashed out $40 million worth of ETH between June 2017 and February 2018. The findings came to light by Alex Sunnarborg, a founding partner of the crypto
Newsflash: Dow Surges 250 Points to Race Past 26,000
The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened to sharp losses on Thursday and then promptly began a massive recovery that achieved what few on Wall Street thought it would today: cross the 26,000 mark on the back of a blockbuster rally. Dow Reverses Early
Why Square’s Bitcoin Hiring Spree is Crucial for Crypto Adoption
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square, the $32.7 billion mobile payment giant based in the U.S., revealed that Square would fund three to four developers and a designer to work on the open-source protocol of Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystem. Independent of
Theresa May Creating Dangerous Divisions as UK Heads Over the Cliff
British Prime Minister Theresa May is entering dangerous territory after blaming members of Parliament for Brexit delays last night, stoking an already febrile atmosphere across the country and drawing comparisons with the Steve Bannon-led Trump admi
Narcotics Dealers Dump Dark Web for Telegram & WhatsApp
As law enforcement increasingly cracks down on centralized dark-web markets, online narcotics dealers are migrating to encrypted messing apps like Telegram and WhatsApp, according to a new report from the Independent. Citing the findings of an anonym
Dan Berkovitz: CFTC Is Working Hard on the Bakkt Application
U.S. CFTC commissioner Dan Berkovitz says the futures and options markets regulator is working hard on the Bakkt proposal. While he’s refused to provide an approval deadline, he did say that the agency is not anti-crypto or anti-blockchain. CFT
WSJ Falsely Overstates ‘$9 Million’ ShapeShift Money Laundering Claim: Analysis
Blockchain investigation and cybersecurity firm CipherBlade has done its own research, the results of which seem to exonerate crypto exchange ShapeShift from a scathing report in The Wall Street Journal. Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees was the first to
Bitcoin Fraudster Duped Italian Investors out of $300,000 in Gold & Crypto
Gold and bitcoins worth of hundreds of thousands of euros are the spoils of an elaborate online fraud discovered by the postal police in Liguria, Italy. Bitcoin Scam Artist Impersonated Swiss Crypto Firm Local sources reported that the Italian author
Canadian Crypto Enthusiasts Get One-on-One with Regulators
Crypto enthusiasts in Canada are giving regulators their ideas about how to monitor the space. This will include the practice of short-selling. The Canadian Securities Administrators and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada filed