Cayman Islands Announces Legal Framework in Bid to Attract Crypto Businesses
The Cayman Islands is building a regulatory framework for "virtual asset service providers" with some measures already enacted. Source
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Verizon’s newsroom to use blockchain in bid for absolute transparency
Verizon unveiled "a blockchain-based, open-source newsroom product designed to raise the bar for corporate accountability," today according to a public statement. Called Full Transparency, the platform is meant to immutably document the company's own news releases on a public blockchain. Verizon posted its first news story through the platform yesterday, according to
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Energy Web Is Starting With Ripple in Its Bid to Make Crypto Provably Green
The crypto industry, with its questionable carbon footprint, now has a convenient way to showcase its green cred on a verified (rather than trusted) basis.But that raises a tricky question: The likes of Amazon and Google, whose processing largely takes place within directly owned and controlled data centers, are able
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Uniswap Launches Governance Token in Bid to Keep Up With Rival AMM SushiSwap
Decentralized trading platform Uniswap has launched a governance token, UNI, minting 1 billion coins to be released to the public over the next four years. Source
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FINRA Greenlights Grayscale’s Bid to Launch Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash Trusts
Grayscale, a leading cryptocurrency asset management firm with $4 billion assets under management, has received approval from the United States Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to launch its Bitcoin Cash Trust and Litecoin Trust and make the shares available for public trading on over-the-counter (OTC) markets, according to a press
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Colombian Government and WEF Weigh Public Ethereum in Bid to Fight Corruption
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is working with the Colombian government to see if blockchain-based transparency can help prevent a hotspot for corruption, which happens in the process of bidding for high-value contracts to provide public goods and services. WEF partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Office of
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Trump’s 2020 Bid Could Be Threatened by the Most Unlikely Source – Facts
Twitter has finally added a “fact-check” label to Donald Trump’s baseless tweets. With nearly 15x the amount of Twitter followers as Joe Biden, Trump has a distinct advantage. The new stain on his tweets could weaken that advantage. Donald Trump is officially getting fact-checked by Twitter. From here forward, it
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RenBTC Quietly Goes Live in Latest Bid to Bring Bitcoin Into Ethereum
The latest implementation of bitcoin (BTC) on the Ethereum blockchain quietly went live this week. There are 1.24 renBTC live on the Ethereum mainnet now, according to Etherscan. Three sources with knowledge of the project have confirmed this is the Ren smart contract, live ahead of its launch announcement. However, there’s no
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AT&T Loses Bid to Dismiss $1.8M Crypto Theft Lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall has rejected AT&T’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the company was negligent for failing to prevent the theft of $1.8 million in crypto from investor Seth Shapiro.In the judge’s order allowing the suit to continue, Shapiro’s claims of negligence, negligent supervision, claims brought
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Justin Amash Reveals Third-Party Presidential Bid: Pro-Bitcoin Libertarian Candidate Targets Trump’s Seat
U.S. President Donald Trump now has an unexpected challenger as the independent congressman from Michigan, Justin Amash, says he plans to run as a Libertarian candidate in the 2020 election. Besides John McAfee and Adam Kokesh, Amash is also a pro-crypto candidate, a believer in free markets, and has
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