West Virginia to Offer Blockchain Voting Statewide in Midterm Elections

Crypto trading platform Bitget plans to expand into the Middle East and hire up to 60 new members of staff, the company said on Thursday.The company said it has already opened an office in downtown Dubai to support the expansion, and will explore opportunities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It also foresees…

news A top United Nations (UN) official said cryptocurrencies are making international efforts to combat terrorist financing, money laundering and cyber-crime “exceptionally difficult.” Neil Walsh, chief of the Cybercrime and Anti-Money Laundering arm of the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, said that the anonymizing and pseudo-anonymizing attributes of cryptocurrencies provide a “new layer of…

news Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the standards body seeking a common approach for businesses using ethereum’s code, has released a third version of its client specification, as well as updates on privacy and performance. Announced Monday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019 conference, EEA released its Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification V3, which simplifies permissioning systems, inherent to…

Commissioner Summer Mersinger, of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is one of the few U.S. regulators who is routinely willing to defend the crypto industry and call out what she sees as overzealous oversight. She will be speaking at Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas, on May 30.CoinDesk caught up with Mersinger to discuss the

Blockchain startup Citizens Reserve is partnering with enterprise software startup Blockdaemon to more rapidly deploy nodes. Announced Wednesday, the partnership is aimed at helping Citizens Reserve, lead by a team of former Deloitte blockchain employees, and its clients more quickly deploy nodes using tools developed by Blockdaemon, enabling users to more easily join the former's SUKU…

Apr 17, 2020 at 14:00 UTCUpdated Apr 17, 2020 at 14:08 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/DimaBerlinResearchers in Spain are racing to develop a smartphone app that leverages blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to help stem the coronavirus pandemic.A team of more than 100 researchers from the Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca, the University of Salamanca and the Artificial Intelligence…

Dec 11, 2020 at 10:55 a.m. UTCIndia’s Banks Are Once More Serving Crypto Traders and ExchangesBanks in India are again doing business with select cryptocurrency exchanges and their customers.Top institutions such as State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Yes Bank are allowing customers to use their bank accounts to fund cryptocurrency trading.…

Aug 25, 2020 at 22:16 UTCUpdated Aug 25, 2020 at 22:17 UTCThe IRS's Taxpayer Advocate Service says a group of letters the agency sent to taxpayers last year may have violated its own code. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)Undeterred by its own watchdog’s warnings, the Internal Revenue Service has once again begun sending crypto “soft letters” of disputed…

Yaroslav Shtadchenko was hired by Bitsonar in mid-2018 to consult on marketing and website development. (Yaroslav Shtadchenko)Crypto Firm Bitsonar had Signs of a ‘Deliberate Fraud’, Ex Employee Claims in FBI ReportYaroslav Shtadchenko, former project manager at now defunct crypto fund Bitsonar, has formally accused his former employer of fraud. As previously reported, Bitsonar is an…