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The Fair Political Practices Commission, California’s campaign watchdog arm, has voted 3-1 to ban political donations with any cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, because of transparency issues. The vote follows similar decisions made by other states in the country such as South Carolina. Others, like Colorado and Montana, allow cryptocurrency donations with...
Billionaire Bitcoin enthusiast Tim Draper remains confident that the dominant cryptocurrency will reach his famous $250,000 price target by 2022. Tim Draper Expects Crypto Age to be ‘Bigger Than the Internet Ever Was’ The venture capitalist known for his early stakes in Tesla, Skype, and Hotmail, was interviewed by TheStreet...
As the cryptocurrency market comes under attack from numerous sources of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has taken to Twitter to defend the value and legitimacy of the LTC coin. Lee summarized the “concerted effort to suppress Litecoin price” in 10 points in order to clear...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organization founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to combat anti-money laundering (AML), may be about to agree with a set of standards to apply to virtual currencies. President Marshall Billingslea is optimistic that the discussions scheduled for October...
Dutch digital security company Gemalto has launched a distributed approach to Digital ID management in the form of the Trust ID Network service, developed in partnership with leading distributed database technology firm R3. Blockchain Identity Systems “Solves Profound Weaknesses of Traditional, Siloed Identity Frameworks” Identity systems are one...
Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Alibaba Group Holding, has said that the blockchain is meaningless if it can’t transform the manufacturing industry and society. Alibaba Jack Ma Expects Blockchain to Create a Greener, More Inclusive Society Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, trading at the New York Stock Exchange...
The European Central Bank (ECB) is not issuing a digital currency any time soon, according to President Mario Draghi. He’s argued that the blockchain technology is not mature enough for such a level of responsibility and physical cash remains widely used within the monetary union. ECB Studies Potential...
As Ethereum faces intense pressure from bearish market forces, a number of distinctive faces within the cryptocurrency community have been making comments to counter the overall FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) sentiment seen in September. Ryan Sean Adams, the founder of crypto asset investment company MythosCapital, took to Twitter...
Leading French professional football club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has partnered with blockchain startup Socios.com to enrich the club’s interaction with its fans through a tokenized voting platform. The current French Ligue 1 champions joined the project as part of a broader strategy to integrate distributed ledger technology in business operations...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended trading in two Bitcoin and Ethereum investment products until September amid confusion over their nature. Bitcoin Tracker One and Ether Tracker One are characterized by broker-dealers as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which legally mean listed funds that track a basket of assets....
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