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Australian Celebrities See Fallout of ICO Boom: Cricket Captain Michael Clarke

A recent article by Colin Kruger in the Sydney Morning Herald profiles the story of Michael Clarke, a renowned cricket captain, and a failed ICO called Global Tech Exchange (https://gttrade.io). Global Tech was to be a cryptocurrency trading platform which had some elements of artificial intelligence and machine learning embedded in it. They were trying […]

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Op-Ed: UK Central Bank Holds Venezuela’s Gold Hostage – Bitcoin Users Unaffected

Venezuela, where bitcoin trading is at an all-time high and the socialist government has issued its own cryptocurrency amid record-breaking inflation and other economic woes, has been denied access to its own gold reserves by the Bank of England. The justification used for denying the country’s request to repatriate 14 tons of gold, worth about […]

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Why Comparing Bitcoin with Centralized Systems Based on Transaction Rate is Wrong

On the Bitcoin network, whether it is a transaction worth $100 or $1 million, it costs the same miner’s fee to process the payment. On October 16, a $194 million payment was moved on the Bitcoin network with a mere $0.1 fee nearly instantaneously. Through legacy banking systems, weeks of paperwork, days of settlement system, […]

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NEM Price Rebounds to Two-Month High Following Coincheck Relisting

The price of NEM tokens (XEM) has risen some since Japanese exchange Coincheck announced that it would once again allow trading of the token, which was suspended after a hack at the exchange led to a more than half-billion dollars in tokens being stolen and systematically laundered through other exchanges. The XEM price started picking […]

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Greg Maxwell: Bitcoin SV ‘Maybe’ the ‘Real Fake Bitcoin’ – ‘But Who Cares?’

Greg Maxwell made headlines recently when an e-mail he’d sent to “Fake Satoshi” Craig S. Wright was revealed to the public. Parts of the e-mail were published on CoinGeek. Maxwell is quoted as saying: I believe it would be adverse for interests that concern me if your influence or prominence in BCH were in any […]