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In Moscow, green shoots of crypto adoption are starting to emerge. Indeed, of the Moscow locals who prefer non-cash payment methods such as mobile payments, 1% are using cryptocurrencies while 5% appear to be on the verge of doing so, according to Forbes, citing a study by Yandex.Money. The survey, which was also a product […]
Despite their harsh exterior, banks have been quietly preparing for a world that involves cryptocurrencies. Bank of America has most recently secured a patent for a cryptocurrency aggregation system, one in which big companies store customers’ crypto deposits in an enterprise account involving vaults and offline storage rather than taking on the risk themselves. For example, “deposit […]
The Great Lakes Science Center, a large US-based museum and education center focused on building a community that is actively involved in “science, technology, engineering, and math”, recently announced that it will start accepting bitcoin (BTC) payments on November 13th. Contributing To The Blockchain Ecosystem Kirsten Ellenbogen, the president and CEO of Cleveland, Ohio’s Great Lakes Science Center, […]
Nicholas Merten, the founder of DataDash, the largest cryptocurrency YouTube channel with over 316,000 subscribers, recently noted that crypto will have “four major cycles” including the “Silk Road phase” from 2011-2013, the “retail speculation” phase from 2016-2017, the “institutional speculation” phase from 2019-2020, and finally the “crypto replaces fiat” phase from 2020-2030. Nicholas [email protected]_Merten From what […]
The U.S. 2018 midterm elections saw crypto-friendly lawmakers securing governorships in three states, while maintaining two others. Three new governors and two incumbent are ranked as very crypto-friendly, according to datacompiled by the Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA), a blockchain advocacy group. The organization sent surveys to most gubernatorial candidates, rating their blockchain-friendliness based on their responses. Perhaps […]
On October 31, multinational investment bank and financial services company, Morgan Stanley, released their latest report on Bitcoin. The report, entitled “Update: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain,” stated that Bitcoins and altcoins have constituted a “new institutional investment class” since 2017. In comparison to Morgan Stanley’s 2017 report on Bitcoin, their 2018 outlook is bullish. The report contains an overview of both how Bitcoin […]
Ethereum is now three years in the making. Vitalik Buterin, the Russian-Canadian whizkid who co-founded the platform, hoped that popular Dapps (decentralized applications) would become the new normal. Little did he know that his smart contract blockchain would wind up being a wildly popular way to raise capital, known as the initial coin offering (ICO). His […]
Former U.S. federal prosecutor and current cryptocurrency VC executive Kathryn Haun recently took part in a debate on crypto with Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman, posted on YouTube by crypto venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Nov. 2. The debate, hosted by Mexican tech company KIO Networks and moderated by local business journalist Rodrigo Pacheco, was reportedly held in […]
Over the past several weeks, the bitcoin price has been uncharacteristically stable, even as equities have lost their footing and the global stock market has flirted with corrective territory. Tom Lee, the founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors and one of Wall Street’s most well-known bitcoin bulls, said that he was pleasantly surprised by the drop in crypto volatility, […]
Crypto fanatics have been on the edge of their seats waiting for the banking firm, Goldman Sachs to make an official move on the firm’s goal to integrate Bitcoin derivatives. The rumours have been stirring since October last year when the Wall Street Journal first reported the investment banking giant might intentions of launching a […]