Dubai does for crypto what Silicon Valley did for tech — Gov’t affairs firm CEO

The Bitcoin community helped Uganda’s Brindon Mwiine travel to BTC Prague after winning tickets for his adoption efforts in East Africa. 342 Total views 2 Total shares A Ugandan Bitcoiner embarked on a community-funded trip from East Africa to Central Europe after winning tickets to BTC Prague for his adoption-driving efforts in his home country.Brindon…

“We believe voting should be safe and accessible to everyone, everywhere,” said Ripple. 683 Total views 13 Total shares Blockchain-based payments firm Ripple has joined a non-partisan group of companies working to ensure access to fair voting in the United States.According to a Nov. 2 tweet from Ripple, CEO Brad Garlinghouse has joined Twitter CEO…

Supporting the open-source community continues to be a priority for OKCoin, which has enabled us to sponsor the development of the very infrastructure that we depend on as a crypto exchange. Our commitment to free and open-source software, or FOSS, has led us to provide three additional grants so far in 2020. Announced on Aug.…

The cryptocurrency industry has grown immensely in the years since it began. Following Bitcoin’s (BTC) launch in 2009, an entire industry has sprung up and flourished around the innovative asset and its underlying blockchain technology. People have created thousands of crypto projects, numerous different blockchains and a number of different blockchain technological specifications and variants. With…

The Australian Federal Police revealed that scammers are using deepfakes and pig butchering as their primary methods to defraud victims. 

Binance-founded layer-1 blockchain BNB Chain has introduced a new layer-2 chain that it hopes will address its “scalability challenge.”On June 19, BNB Chain unveiled opBNB, which has launched as a testnet. The new layer-2 scaling solution is based on the Optimism OP Stack, which it says will add additional security and scalability to the Binance…

The next release of major Bitcoin (BTC) wallet software Electrum will support off-chain scalability solution Lightning Network (LN).The Electrum official Twitter account announced the upcoming LN integration in a tweet sent on Oct. 14. The tweet announced:“The next release of Electrum will support Lightning payments. Our lightning node implementation has been merged into Electrum's master…

The information will be sent to the Internal Revenue Service in early November. 69 Total views 1 Total shares United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken said it will share the data of 42,000 users with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in compliance with a court order. The information will be sent to the IRS in

August 9: The summer crypto rollercoaster continues, as the market sees a healthy rebound into the green after sustaining major losses yesterday. On August 8  total market capitalization had shrunk to $219 billion –– its lowest level since mid-November 2017. In today’s upward bounce, virtually all of the major cryptocurrencies have posted gains, as data…