Korea’s Jeju Island Seeks to Become ICO Hub Despite Domestic Ban

Mar 30, 2020 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Mar 30, 2020 at 19:11 UTCBitcoin, Stablecoins, DeFi and Privacy: How COVID-19 Is Changing Key Crypto NarrativesHow the once-in-a-generation COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the way we think and talk about different parts of the crypto industry - from bitcoin (BTC) to DeFi to stablecoins.For more episodes and free early…

The People's Bank of China (PBoC), the country's central bank, is looking to clamp down on airdrops – free distributions of crypto tokens. In its financial stability report for 2018, released on Friday, the PBoC said that "disguised" initial coin offerings (ICOs) including airdrops continue to grow in number, despite its previous efforts at cracking down…

May 14, 2020 at 14:11 UTCUpdated May 14, 2020 at 14:27 UTCJames T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise (Photo by Stefan Cosma on Unsplash)Blockchain Bites: Capitalizing on Enterprise Blockchain and Reading Coin MetricsTop ShelfOn Wednesday we learned that less than a 1% of the total suspicious activity reports filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network since 2013 were…

news A blockchain-powered platform built by IBM and Maersk and designed to facilitate international trade is to launch in Russia. According to a June 6 news release from Maersk, the Danish shipping and logistics giant, agreement has been reached with Russian authorities for the TradeLens platform to operate in the country, starting with a pilot project alongside…

Millions of dollars worth of various tokens tied to the crypto wallets of bankrupt firms FTX and Alameda Research moved to other wallets earlier on Wednesday, on-chain firm Nansen tweeted.These funds seemed to be sent to wallets of crypto exchange Binance, where they presumably could be sold.Some $2.2 million worth of Chainlink’s LINK, $1 million

Mar 23, 2020 at 17:13 UTCBitriver mining farm in Bratsk, Russia. Photo by Anna Baydakova for CoinDeskRuble’s Drop Eases Pain of Lower Bitcoin Prices for Russia’s MinersThe global market meltdown has indirectly benefited Russia's bitcoin miners, even as the cryptocurrency's price tumbled along with other assets.That's because the Russian national currency has rapidly lost value,…

Feb 18, 2020 at 19:41 UTCUpdated Feb 18, 2020 at 19:58 UTCIllustration by Cheryl ThuesdayA Safer Harbor: Improving Hester Peirce’s Proposal for Regulating Token SalesDonna Redel is the former Chairman of COMEX, a Board Member of New York Angels and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. Olta Andoni is an Adjunct Professor…

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markets Bitcoin ended a two-week period of consolidation with a drop to six-week lows earlier today. The leading cryptocurrency by market value fell below $3,470 at 04:45 UTC, confirming a downside break of a triangle pattern. That range breakdown was followed by a quick slide to $3,357 – the lowest level since Dec. 17 –…