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Pomp to Speak at Seattle’s Most “Intimate” Blockchain Conference Yet
With the blockchain industry at fever pitch, a merry-go-round of puffed up conferences has left Jonathan G. Blanco thirsting for a different formula. Speaking to…
Interview
Exclusive Interview: A Briefing with Scott Stornetta, Founding Father of Blockchain
Bitcoin, the archetypal blockchain, has for ten years waged technological warfare against corporate and state-run finance. Yet for all the heads that have been turned…
Scams
Texas Securities Board Hits Two “Fraudulent” Mining Operations with Emergency Cease-and-Desist Orders
The Texas Securities Board pounces on two mining operations using social media and multilevel marketing to propagate a transnational web of “fraudulent crypto-mining programs”,…
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Interview
Texas Law Enforcer Who Took Down BitConnect: The Hunt for Crypto Cowboys in the Lone Star State [INTERVIEW]
In an exclusive interview, CryptoSlate spoke with the Director of Enforcement at the Texas State Securities Board, Joseph Rotunda, who has presided over more…
Stablecoins
Tether Clears Air with New Banking Partner and Balance Sheet
In an apparent attempt to bring an end to USDT’s unrelenting solvency saga, Tether Limited has procured a new banking partner and laid bare…
People
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon still doesn’t “give a sh*t” about Bitcoin
A year after attempting to abdicate his throne as ruling Bitcoin basher, Jamie Dimon has stepped back into the king’s court heralding fresh commentary…
Adoption
Visa CEO: Crypto Not Of Interest – Yet
Despite its infiltration of some of the largest names in the payments game, crypto won’t be creeping onto the radar of Visa anytime soon…
Mining
Zcoin Gives ASICs the Boot with Merkle Tree Proofs
In a direct challenge to the type of industrial-grade efforts that have transformed once-lone cryptocurrency miners into multi-billion-dollar oligarchies, Zcoin has held itself up…
Analysis
SEC Releases New Memorandum on VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF
With Wall Street seemingly moving from the sidelines to their pre-match pep talk, the weight of institutional participation in cryptocurrency would no longer rest…
Exchanges
IDEX Seems to be Shutting up Shop in New York
Wall Street may seem to be primed for a cryptocurrency revolution, but the regulatory fortress of global finance doesn’t seem to be letting down…
Exchanges
Binance CEO Bullish on Fidelity’s Bank Balance
Not only the eyes of retail traders appear to be glued to the horizon, with crypto executives, venture capitalists, economists, and bootstrapping ICO projects…
Regulation
SEC to Engage Directly with ICOs and the Public via New Portal
If the blockchain industry had been knocking at the iron-clad gates of the Securities and Exchange Commission, it appears access was just granted. The US’s…