Ripple Taps Bill Clinton to Give Keynote at Upcoming Conference

Sep 11, 2020 at 16:52 UTCUpdated Sep 11, 2020 at 17:21 UTCMoney Reimagined: Ending Money’s Distance TrapFor Australians of my generation, historian Geoffrey Blainey’s phrase the “tyranny of distance” was the defining descriptor of our place in the world, a place that seemed awfully far from everyone else.  In September of 2020, with hundreds of…

Bitcoin friendly Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for President.Suarez, who vowed to make the city a bitcoin hub and has accepted his salary in bitcoin, joins a growing Republican field seeking to unseat President Joe Biden in the 2024 election. He faces an uphill struggle to…

news U.S.-based shipping giant UPS has announced a new blockchain integration aimed to bring business-to-business (B2B) sales into the digital age. Announced yesterday, UPS has inked a deal with e-commerce company Inxeption to develop a platform to facilitate business-to-business sales, one supported by blockchain technology. The platform, called Inxeption Zippy, will work as an online…

news Japan’s interminable winter for cryptocurrency exchanges seems to have thawed. The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s top financial watchdog, told crypto news site Bitcoin.com that 110 exchanges are in “various stages of registration.” In 2018, the FSA, did not grant approval for any crypto exchanges to begin operating in the country. The year prior, the…

May 8, 2020 at 19:35 UTCUpdated May 8, 2020 at 19:38 UTCNew Zealand’s Central Bank Is Hiring a Money FuturistMoney futurists with a flair for central banking, take note: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is hiring.New Zealand’s monetary authority is looking for a “Head of Money and Cash,” a new position that will, according…

Ether's derivative market looks overheating amid the cryptocurrency's rally to new record highs. Ether (ETH) prices over 24 hours.(CoinDesk 20)Feb 18, 2021 at 10:34 a.m. UTCEther Looks Overleveraged as Cryptocurrency Hits New High Over $1,900Ether soared to new record highs Thursday, but an overheated derivatives market may suggest higher volatility is on the way for…

The fourth Bitcoin halving in April reduced the new bitcoin issuance rate to 3.125 BTC every ten minutes, sparking significant interest and speculation. Since then, Bitcoin has been down from its highs, with some investors concerned that the days of higher BTC prices are in the distant future.We believe March’s new high (above $70,000) was

Aug 20, 2020 at 16:00 UTCSarawut Benchakul, Secretary-General of the Office of the Judiciary, unveiled the project Thursday. (Office of the Court of Justice)Thailand’s largest court system is developing a blockchain storage network that will move judicial information entirely online when it debuts in Thai Courts of Justice in 2021. Already in the midst of…

Macron selected Barnier, who represented the European Union in negotiations over the U.K.'s exit from the trading bloc. Barnier replaces Gabriel Attal, whose centrist party lost the country's snap election in July. French President Emmanuel Macron named Michel Barnier as prime minister to replace Gabriel Attal after the country's snap election in July left no