Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 20, 2020

news Utah County is to pilot the mobile voting app from Voatz in its municipal primary election in August. According to a press release on Tuesday, the county will offer the blockchain-based voting service to active-duty military, their eligible dependents and overseas voters. The pilot is a collaboration between the Utah County Elections Division, Voatz, Tusk…

news Online investment platform BnkToTheFuture will expand its security token offering (STOs) business to the U.S with an investment in a Securities and Exchange Commission-licensed broker dealer. Announced in a Nov. 7 statement to investors, BnkToTheFuture acquired an undisclosed stake in BMI Capital International’s holding company, which enables the lending platform to offer STOs to…

Apr 28, 2020 at 04:18 UTCUpdated Apr 28, 2020 at 04:22 UTCHydropower plant image via ShutterstockA Chinese city in the world's bitcoin mining hub is publicly encouraging the blockchain industry to help consume excessive hydroelectricity ahead of the summer rainy season.Ya'an, one of the many cities in China's mountainous Sichuan province, a region that's estimated…

news Two long-anticipated upgrades appear to have officially activated on the ethereum blockchain, the world’s second-largest by market value, without incident. At 19:57 (UTC), the sixth and seventh system-wide upgrades to the software, dubbed Constantinople and St. Petersburg, respectively, rolled out on the main network at block number 7,280,000. As seen on blockchain monitoring website Fork Monitor, there…

Dec 4, 2019 at 16:51 UTCUpdated Dec 4, 2019 at 16:53 UTCMARKETS DAILY: Is Bitcoin Market Manipulation Profitable?Tune in as CoinDesk podcasts editor Adam B. Levine and senior markets reporter Brad Keoun run down recent action in the markets, interesting longer-term trends and some of the most important crypto industry developments of the day. Having…

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Jan 3, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. UTCThe Rise of Layer 2s Spells End for AltcoinsPhase 1 of the Bitcoin journey is complete. Over the past 10 years we have seen the Bitcoin network rebuff questions as to whether it would survive as a concept. Today, we see the bitcoin cryptocurrency gaining monetary premium as prominent…

Losses from crypto investment scams in the U.S. totaled $3.94 billion in 2023, an increase of 53% compared to $2.57 billion in 2022, a new report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said.The overall investment frauds grew by 38% to $4.57 billion from $3.31 billion, according to the bureau's Internet Crime Report 2023.

Oct 16, 2020 at 17:52 UTCUpdated Oct 16, 2020 at 18:01 UTCRussian Metal Giant’s Tokenization Firm Expands to AmericaAtomyze, a tokenization startup by Russian mining and smelting giant Nornickel, is setting up shop in Greenwich, Conn., to sell tokenized metals in the U.S.The company, whose legal name is Atomyze LLC, will become the second foothold…