Blockchain and the Web Are Coming Together, Says Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Creator of the World Wide Web is big on blockchain Sir Tim is big on blockchain. By Jeff John Roberts October 17, 2017 Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a famous computer scientist and academic who invented the World Wide Web in 1989—so when he talks about new technologies it’s worth paying attention. Today, one […]
Authoritarian Cryptocurrencies Are Coming
Russia and China see a new way to completely control their financial systems. With Russia and China both embracing the idea of sovereign cryptocurrencies, it’s time to ask a simple question: Why is a technology threatening to decentralize money so attractive to highly centralized, authoritarian regimes? QuickTakeBitcoin and Blockchain Last weekend, Argumenti i Fakti, a pro-government newspaper, quoted […]
JPMorgan Buys the Dip After CEO Trashes Bitcoin
Days after JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon labeled Bitcoin a “fraud” and threatened to fire any employees caught trading cryptocurrency, it has emerged JPMorgan Securities made a number of trades on the Swedish stock exchange. Someone at the company bought and sold an instrument called Bitcoin XBT that tracks the bitcoin price. 📷📷JPMorgan […]
Goldman Sachs Explores a New World: Trading Bitcoin
Move would make it the first big Wall Street firm to deal directly in the growing yet controversial cryptocurrency market Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -1.06% is weighing a new trading operation dedicated to bitcoin and other digital currencies, the first blue-chip Wall Street firm preparing to deal directly in this burgeoning yet controversial market, […]
IMF predicts the End of Banking and Triumph for Crypto Currencies!
Create a blog post subtitle that summarizes your post in a few short, punchy sentences and entices your audience to continue reading. Bitcoin “puts a question mark on the fractional banking model we know today.” blog pos In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary […]
Putin Instructs Government To Prepare Legislation On Token Offerings, Cryptocurrency
Russian head of state Vladimir Putin has tasked his government with passing legislation that would regulate token offerings and cryptocurrency mining, and establishing legal definitions for various digital assets. In an October 21 press release, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a series of directives instructing his government to draft legislation that would regulate many aspects […]