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17.12 / 01:35

business interview proof-of-work NOT Kadena CEO Stuart Popejoy on blockchain design: proof of work is a feature, not a flaw

When taking its blockchain public, “there was an adjustment period where we had to learn to love crypto,” Kadena founder and CEO Stuart Popejoy said. The admission sounded more like a technical adjustment than a surge of emotion on his lips, but he added, “The people who participate in your ecosystem really are your network and that is obviously not a very enterprise-y thing, that’s very grassroots.”

16.12 / 01:29

Law regulation Central Bank services NOT dutch Dutch central bank says KuCoin is not licensed and 'illegally offering services'

The central bank of the Netherlands, De Nederlandsche Bank, has issued a warning to investors in KuCoin, saying the exchange was operating without legal registration.

14.12 / 17:51

business Law Adoption NOT Will FTX’s ill wind reach the Global South? Maybe not

With the crypto world still reeling from the FTX collapse, Brazil recently passed legislation that legalized cryptocurrency use for payments in the country. How to reconcile this with all those declarations in the West that crypto is having its “Lehman moment”?

13.12 / 20:45

BAY NOT China’s Zero-Covid Policy Is Ending, but Not Everyone Is Celebrating

HONG KONG—After three years of trying to keep Covid-19 at bay, China is finally loosening its draconian zero-Covid rules. But instead of celebrating, many people are hunkering down, cutting spending and avoiding public areas as they prepare for more Covid cases.

13.12 / 10:39

Bitcoin Payments Lightning Network lightning Bitcoin NOT Not medical advice: Bitcoiner implants Lightning chip to make BTC payments by hand

The Lightning Network continues to shock the Bitcoin (BTC) community. A swiss IT Professional called F418 (not his real name) surgically implanted a Lightning-enabled chip into his right hand to make Lightning Network (LN) payments.

13.12 / 03:07

NOT Why Solvency II reforms might not release billions after all

Jesse Griffiths is chief executive of the Finance Innovation Lab

13.12 / 01:11

BTC Binance Assurant Bitcoin reserves NOT audit Investors Not Satisfied with Binance’s Proof-of-Reserves Audit – Next Exchange to Collapse?

Binance’s proof-of-reserves audit has already raised red flags, with some experts claiming it is far from enough to satisfy worried users.

11.12 / 14:05

business Binance Hackers hacks NOT Abnormal token price movements on Binance not hack-related, confirms CZ

Crypto exchange Binance began investigating suspicious behavior on its platform after noticing abnormal price movements for certain trading pairs involving Sun Token (SUN), Ardor (ARDR), Osmosis (OSMO), FUNToken (FUN) and Golem (GLM) tokens. Nearly 40 minutes into the investigation, Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao revealed that the price movements “appears to be just market behavior.”

09.12 / 00:57

CBDC Adoption Central Bank Cross-border NOT DMI finds CBDCs not targeting cross-border payments, huge potential in Metaverse

Central bank digital currency (CBDC) development aims squarely at inclusion, both for the central bank in the national economy and for the people it serves. Meanwhile, the technology for cross-border payments is being developed elsewhere for the most part, according to a new report on the payments industry.

07.12 / 10:15

European Union NOT Ukraine war: US 'not encouraging' Kyiv strikes on bases deep inside Russia

The United States on Tuesday said it is not encouraging Ukraine to launch strikes deep inside Russia, after several drone strikes, believed to have been launched by Ukrainian forces, hit Russian air bases.

05.12 / 04:47

markets Technology Ethereum Investments NOT Vitalik Buterin on the crypto blues: Focus on the tech, not the price

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared some sage advice for traders feeling the blues of the crypto bear market: Focus on the tech rather than the price.

03.12 / 17:03

European Union NOT Ukraine war: Biden will not talk to Putin; Russia to encircle Bakhmut; Estonia wants HIMARS

US President Joe Biden does not intend to speak to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about ending the Ukraine war as conditions for such discussions currently do not exist, the White House said on Friday.

01.12 / 16:37

cryptocurrency Fried Customer NOT FTX ex-CEO Bankman-Fried says he did not know of improper use of customer funds: Report

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said there was a borrowing-lending facility at the cryptocurrency exchange but he did not know of deposits being used to pay its affiliated trading firm Alameda Research, he told ABC News in an interview aired on Thursday.

01.12 / 11:53

European Union NOT Denmark election: A month on, why has a new government still not been formed?

Voters in Denmark went to the polls a month ago, on 1 November.

30.11 / 15:31

NOT U.S. Not Seeking Decoupling From China, Commerce Chief Says

WASHINGTON—The U.S. isn’t seeking to decouple from China, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo will assert Wednesday, even as she emphasizes steps the U.S. is taking to safeguard its technology to ensure its economic competitiveness.

29.11 / 17:01

Progressive NOT How Student-Loan Debt, or Not Having It, Shapes Lives

Without student loans, millions of Americans couldn’t afford the degrees that might smooth the road to prosperity. Yet, having student loans can also make it tougher to get far along that journey.

29.11 / 09:37

Football NOT Eurozone inflation has not peaked and risks rising even higher, says European Central Bank head

Inflation in the Eurozone has not peaked and risks rising even higher than predicted, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) warned on Monday.

25.11 / 05:39

business Blockchain Adoption SEC NOT Belgium says BTC, ETH and other decentralized coins are not securities

Belgium’s financial regulatory body has confirmed its position that Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and other cryptocurrencies that are issued solely by computer code do not constitute securities.

23.11 / 21:35

NOT Scottish independence: What happens next after UK rules a second vote is not allowed?

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland's parliament can't organise its own independence referendum.

23.11 / 17:49

Ethereum Legal Bitcoin Jail NOT ETH Hacker Gets 10 Year Jail Term, But BTC Theft ‘May Not Be Criminal’ in China

Tokens such as ethereum (ETH) and bitcoin (BTC) continue to rest on uneasy legal ground in China – where an ETH hacker who struck in 2018 was recently sentenced to 10 and a half years behind bars. But prosecutors in the country have explained that it could be tricky to convict BTC thieves who have struck after the 2021 crackdown.

23.11 / 06:47

Digital NOT Why the ‘worse than Enron’ FTX meltdown will not spread contagion beyond cryptos

Over the last 15 days, the crypto world has looked on in horror as FTX and its 130-plus complex of related crypto entities filed for bankruptcy. A few months back, FTX was in the market to raise funding at a valuation of $32 billion.

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