5 Things I Wish Marie Kondo Would ‘Declutter’ from the Crypto Industry: Wes Messamore
“What do you have that sparks joy? And can we pay with bitcoin?” Her Netflix television series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, became available to stream in January 2019 and quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Marie Kondo is the author of the best selling boo…
Why Trump’s Trade War Hasn’t Stopped US Venture Capital from Piling into China: Melanie Kramer
President Donald Trump and the US government are neck-deep in a trade war with China. Yet US businesses and investors pushed more venture capital investment into China in 2018 than ever before. Though Trump has added tariff after tariff on the country, Americ…
Under Fire from the SEC, Kik’s Crypto Project is Going to War: Wes Messamore
Canadian messaging app company Kik Interactive Inc. is planning to take the SEC to court over a potential enforcement action against Kik’s 2017 initial coin offering (ICO) of the Waterloo, Ontario-based tech company’s proprietary cryptocurrency, Kin. A Kik re…
Op-Ed: Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Might Run for President, Here’s Why That’s Great for America: Wes Messamore
The Atlantic reported Sunday that former Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz is giving serious consideration to a presidential run in 2020 as an independent candidate. The revelation was made in a recently recorded 60 Minutes interview, The Atlantic said, in a repo…
25 Crypto Networks Vulnerable to ‘Fake Stake’ Attack, are Your Funds at Risk?: P. H. Madore
More than two dozen Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency networks are vulnerable to what has been dubbed a “fake stake” attack. The vulnerability allows a node with a very small stake to overwhelm competing nodes with false data and essentially crash them. Onc…
Outplayed: Trump Weaker Following Shutdown Fiasco, What Pushed Him to the Brink?: Joseph Young
The Trump administration reopened the government after a record 35 days, merely weeks after President Donald Trump heavily emphasized that the government would remain shut without funding for the border wall. Reports suggest that three major factors led Presi…
Crypto Payments Firm CEO: Hacks, Scams, and Volatility Discourage Mass Adoption: P. H. Madore
AtomicPay’s CEO believes that scams and volatility are the primary things holding back public mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. The Thailand-based company is a non-custodial crypto payment processor. They are one of the few crypto payment processors that fac…
Opinion: Bill Gates and Elon Musk Should Be Forced to Pay More in Taxes: Jimmy Aki
Wealth equality has always been one of the major global macroeconomic objectives with various initiatives being recommended and employed by governments and multinational organizations to lessen the gap between the rich and the poor. However, no one seems to b…
Bill to Exempt Crypto From Securities Laws Will Be Delayed, Says Attorney: ‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’: Samantha Chang
Crypto attorney Jake Chervinsky doesn’t believe that a bill to exempt cryptocurrencies and ICOs from US securities law will be approved anytime soon. He cited the bureaucratic inefficiency of Washington as a key reason for his pessimistic outlook. “I don’t kn…
Did China’s Wealthy Elite Secretly Move Capital Offshore via Hong Kong’s Gemstones?: Melanie Kramer
There’s attention being drawn to an anomaly in China’s trade data. Compared to imports of precious gemstones from Hong Kong, it could point to China’s wealthy overpaying for said imports. A method of moving capital out of the country that bypasses China’s cap…
TRON Spikes 134% in 1 Month: Will the Crypto Sector’s Strong Performance Push Bitcoin Higher?: Joseph Young
In the last 48 hours, since its daily peak on January 26, the Bitcoin price has declined from $3,657 to $3,515, by nearly four percent against the U.S. dollar, while TRON surged by 10 percent on the day. The decline in the Bitcoin price has led the valuation …
15 Suspects Arrested in Alleged $8 Million Taiwan Cryptocurrency Scam: Alan Wass
By CCN.com: More than a dozen suspects have been arrested in Taipei for their part in an alleged Taiwan cryptocurrency scam that is worth in the region of $8 million. The scam surrounds a cryptocurrency called IBCoin, which was supposedly used to part investo…
Apple Leads the Dow Jones Into Five Weeks of Gains: Melanie Kramer
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, by a fraction, realized its fifth week of gains on Friday. A closing high of 0.8% in Friday gave the Dow a 0.1% increase across the week. Disregarding speculation that Apple could be dying, the iPhone maker’s shares led the D…
Exclusive: Voyager CEO on Why Crypto Regulation is the Last Step Before Mass Adoption: P. H. Madore
By CCN.com: Voyager aims to be the easiest way to trade cryptocurrency. The crypto brokerage app lets the user simply place an order and allow Voyager to do the rest. The company is connected to more than a dozen cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. It …
Why the US Debt Machine Should Make Investors Wary of the Dow Jones Recovery: Joseph Young
By CCN.com: Since early 2018, virtually every type of debt in the U.S. has achieved an all-time high, surpassing trillions of dollars, and that should make Americans wary of the recent recovery seen in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and wider U.S. stock mar…
Trying to Build a ‘Better Bitcoin’ is as Pointless as Creating a ‘Better’ Google Search: Wes Messamore
By CCN.com: MIT researchers have designed a new cryptocurrency, Vault, to make it easier for new users to join the network by reducing the bandwidth for starting a new node by 99% over Bitcoin. Shocker (Not): New Cryptocurrency Claims to be Better than Bitcoi…
Why Hedge Fund Titan Ray Dalio Says the US Stock Market is Lurching Toward Recession: Melanie Kramer
By CCN.com: Ray Dalio, the investment chief at the $160 billion Bridgewater hedge fund, joins other money titans and economic experts in warning that a recession looms on the horizon, threatening to wipe out the US stock market. Others still disagree. Dalio D…
Exclusive: Markets Will Take Time to Digest 2018 ‘Crypto Meltdown’, Says Former Morgan Stanley MD: Christina Comben
By CCN.com: Patrick Springer spent 20 years working for Morgan Stanley as an investment specialist. Specifically, his job was to help institutional investors make informed decisions in global equity markets. Now, despite the bitcoin market meltdown, he’s flun…
235 DApps and $3.5 Billion in Transactions: Prominent Crypto Investor Sees EOS [and TRON] ‘Crushing it’: Joseph Young
By CCN.com: Brock Pierce, a co-founder of Blockchain Capital, a major venture capital firm that focuses on the crypto sector, has said that EOS and TRON are thriving based on the number of decentralized applications (DApps) and active users on the two smart c…
Ripple’s Cryptocurrency Sales Plunged by Nearly 25% Last Quarter: P. H. Madore
By CCN.com: Ripple released its fourth-quarter markets report this week. One thing is clear: the bear market is affecting Ripple as much as anyone else. Total sales of XRP from the company amounted to around $129 million versus the previous quarter, which saw…
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