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Robert Kiyosaki, the author of one of the top personal finance books of all time, stated that cryptocurrencies, gold, and silver, will triumph over an impending economic crash — the likes of which the world has never experienced. The author of the 1997 bestseller ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’, Kiyosaki has garnered a reputation as an […]

Since Bitcoin’s inception, many crypto aficionados have worked to dissociate their favorite digital coin from the notion that it may be used for illegal activity, and new data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is proving that criminal activity in the space is massively shrinking. Has Illegal Activity Really Dropped? According to Bloomberg, Lilita […]

While fake cryptocurrency accounts on Twitter may pass off as failed tactics to amateur investors, a major security researcher believes the epidemic is an elaborately-planned, carefully-executed cyberattack consisting of thousands of spam accounts. Crypto-Twitter Epidemic: Not Child’s Play According to TechCrunch, U.S.-based Duo Security recently released a report that detailed the elaborate steps utilized by […]

Decentralized applications (dApps) are one of the most promising applications of blockchain technology, holding the potential to completely replace centralized third-party operated platforms. User identity management, however, remains critical to any dApps and is currently managed by “trusted” third parties—a problem the ERC725 identity standard aims to solve. The  ERC725 identity standard is the brainchild of […]

Status, also known as Status.im, released a lightweight Sharding client, called Nimbus, to scale the Ethereum protocol and create a better ecosystem for decentralized applications (dApps) in processing information. First Mobile Client for dApp Applications Since its launch in 2017, the development team of Status set its focus on improving mainstream adoption of Ethereum by […]

On June 26, the SEC received an application from Cboe Futures Exchange to launch the world’s first Bitcoin ETF. Initially scheduled for a decision next week, the SEC has now postponed the application’s deadline until late September. Bitcoin ETF Delayed, Crypto Market Responds The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed CBOE’s application deadline […]

Governor John Kasich of Ohio signed a new piece of legislation on August 3, 2018, that will enable new uses of blockchain technology within the U.S. state. Ohio’s Push into Blockchain Moving forward, the new legislation will allow the use of blockchain technologies to transmit and store electronic records from a breadth of industries ranging […]

The overall cryptocurrency market has struggled to maintain an uptrend since its revival from a multi-month bear market. Following a recent bounce back, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Litecoin have drawn back to prices below key support levels.

As Capitol Hill comes to terms with the notion of a new financial landscape, the U.S. Chair of the Judiciary Committee has become the nation’s first congress member to disclose holding cryptocurrencies. As reported by Sludge, Congressman Bob Goodlatte admitted to holding between $17,000 and $80,000 worth of crypto-assets in his 2017 annual Financial Disclosure […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin put forward a series of open questions to the cryptocurrency community in a recent discussion with Mars Finance International WeChat group, postulating seven issues present within the blockchain ecosystem. Buterin’s “hard questions for any blockchain people” deal with some of the biggest obstacles that stand between the current state of blockchain […]