Russia’s Power Grid Company Tests Blockhain for Power Meter Data
Russia’s national power grid company Rosseti is testing a system for electricity bill payments based on a distributed ledger by Waves. Source
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US Arrests 3 in Alleged Crypto Mining Pool Fraud Scheme
According to a press release, Matthew Brent Goettsche, 37, of Lafayette, Colorado; Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks, 38, of Arvada, Colorado; and Joseph Frank Abel, 49, of Camarillo, California were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud (Goettsche and Weeks) and conspiracy to offer unregistered securities through their participation in
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UK Court Orders US Judge to Depose Telegram’s Advisor About Token Sale
"It has been demonstrated to this Court that justice cannot be done amongst the parties to the Action without the testimony of Mr. Hyman... This Court requests the assistance of an appropriate English judicial officer to compel the appearance of Mr. Hyman to give oral sworn testimony and to produce
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SEC Seeks British Assistance in Getting Testimony of Ex-Telegram CIO
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a proposed order with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to request the British High Court’s assistance in getting the testimony of Telegram’s former chief investment advisor, John Hyman. Telegram has been embroiled in a longstanding legal wrangle
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Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
There exists a long history of censorship resistant and privacy preserving technologies: Signal for messaging, Bittorrent for file-sharing, Tor for web browsing. Like bitcoin, these tools are not built for the mainstream. Most people would rather use faster, slicker, glossier centralized alternatives like Facebook Message, Dropbox, and Google Chrome. But
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Implosion: MATIC Erases Four-Week Rally in Just Two Days
Sandeep Nailwal, chief operating officer and co-founder of MATIC Network, trashed allegations of manipulation and assured investors that his team had nothing to do with the price drop. He backed up his claim in a tweet noting that a majority of tokens are still in MATIC’s foundation address and that the
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Santander Redeems $20M Bond Using Ethereum Blockchain
Spain’s multinational banking giant Banco Santander has just redeemed a $20 million bond using the Ethereum blockchain.The firm has performed an early repayment of the blockchain-based bond that was issued on Sept.10, 2019, which purportedly shows that the public Ethereum blockchain can be applied to securities issuance across the
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Nike Patents a System for Tokenizing Shoes on Ethereum’s Blockchain
Footwear giant Nike patented shoes that are tokenized as a non-fungible token (NFT) on the Ethereum blockchain, dubbed CryptoKicks.The patent — dated Dec. 10 — describes a digital asset for footwear and ways to use it. One implementation of the technology described in the document is an Ethereum ERC721
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Tezos Rally Fizzles After 100% Gain — Likely Top for XTZ/BTC Appears
Lately, Bitcoin (BTC) price has been trading in a range that favors bears and this has led traders to shift their focus to altcoins.Interestingly, there has also been some very volatile price action taking place over the past 24-hours, especially with Binance Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs) like Matic Network
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2019: The Year Washington, Silicon Valley and Beijing Faced Off Over Crypto
Hacks, futures, settlements, flippenings, geopolitical conflict -- 2019 had it all. Source
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