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A new report from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) contends that bitcoin markets are swayed by news events related to regulation. "While cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, in fact their valuations, transaction volumes and user bases react substantially to news about regulatory actions," argues the report,…

Pascal Thellman is CMO at Bounty0x, a simple service for earning crypto, and an advisor at PolyGrowth, a crypto PR firm. — As proof-of-stake (PoS) networks gear up in an effort to compete with proof-of-work (PoW) blockchains, significant attention has been placed on their validator mechanisms and incentive structures for maintaining valid consensus. In particular,…

Coinbase (COIN) shares rose over 24% Thursday after the U.S. District Court dismissed part of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) case against Ripple Labs and ruled that the company’s XRP token is not a security, however, the extent of the rally may not be warranted, investment bank Berenberg said in a research report.“The surge…

news The rate at which new transaction blocks are being added to the ethereum blockchain is back on the rise after the network’s successful upgrades, Constantinople and St. Petersburg, last week. According to blockchain analytics site Etherscan, the daily block count increased more than 1,500 blocks within a 24-hour period after the upgrades, implemented as hard…

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May 22, 2020 at 18:34 UTCUpdated May 22, 2020 at 18:35 UTCA statue beside the Louisiana State Capitol (Credit: Jeffrey Schwartz / Wikimedia Commons)Louisiana State Senate to Consider Crypto Business Licensing BillThe Louisiana State Senate is about to consider a bill to regulate and license virtual currency businesses. Sponsored by state Rep. Mark Wright (R-77),…

news The China Banking Association (CBA), the country’s self-regulatory organization for the banking sector, is launching a new blockchain-based platform for trade finance. The platform was announced last week while the organization is in the process of rolling it out for live usage after several pilot programs aimed at improving the efficiency and security of trade…

Aug 13, 2020 at 14:00 UTCInside the Bundestag, Germany's federal parliament. (Ricardo Gomez Angel/Unsplash)Crypto VC Firm Assesses the ‘State of Blockchain Governance’Everyone in crypto has been talking about decentralized finance (DeFi) since bankless lending started to boom in June. But, looked at another way, it’s really a governance boom. Into this environment has stepped Greenfield…

British pension specialist Cartwright has guided the country's first pension fund to allocate money into bitcoin. The unnamed fund invested 3% of its total assets directly into the token, as opposed to using a proxy such as a spot ETF. Cartwright is also launching a Bitcoin Employee Benefits scheme, which would allow employers to pay