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Twitter plays defense with its patents, Square has launched a consortium — which includes Coinbase — to pool crypto patents and Alibaba is well on its way with its mission to overtake IBM in the blockchain patent wars. Many startups don’t take the necessary steps to protect their innovations, and that’s
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued fines totalling £480,000 to four separate companies for making unlawful calls to numbers registered with
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Hawaii is letting more companies play in its no-license-necessary digital currency sandbox.The state reopened applications for Digital Currency Innovation Lab (DCIL) hopefuls on Monday, raising the possibility that yet more crypto exchanges and service providers could soon do business in the historically restrictive-to-crypto islands. State law requires crypto companies maintain
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ARK Investment Management CEO Cathie Wood said she believes more companies will load their balance sheets up with bitcoin.In a Saturday interview with Yahoo Finance, the exchange traded fund (ETF) magnate and outspoken bitcoin advocate said large companies have asked her if they should follow Square. Inc’s lead. Square is
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The U.S. government’s top investments watchdog flagged a series of unregistered cryptocurrency companies for apparently duping mostly international investors with false corporate information.Of the 28 suspect investment firms the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) called out Thursday, CryptoX found eight that appear to target would-be cryptocurrency investors. Some purport
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Facebook’s decision to shut down the holding company in Ireland came after the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sued the company over its Ireland shore deal.Social networking service company Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is closing holding companies in Ireland. The social networking service company is winding up the Irish holding
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Open letter On 21 July 2020 the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and five other data protection and privacy regulators from around the world
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Bitcoin has seen a strong surge over recent weeks amid a muted background for the stock market. The
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Summary:785,999 Bitcoin is held by private and publicly traded companiesThis translates to roughly $10.2 Billion using Bitcoin’s current value at $13kOf this amount, 610,302 Bitcoin is held by publicly traded companies and 175,697 BTC by private companiesBitcoinTreasuries.org is a website dedicated to tracking the amount of Bitcoin owned by notable
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When I first suggested Systemically Important Social Media Institutions (SISMIs) were the social media parallel to Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs), I did not expect the theory to be picked up by financial regulators.As it turns out, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) essentially agrees with the argument,
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