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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has announced a new Associate Director of the Division of Corporation Finance and Senior Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation, creating an entirely new position that will oversee the application of US securities law to the cryptocurrency and digital asset industry. Valerie A. Szczepanik was announced as the new […]

Ripple is to be represented by two former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials — one a former SEC Chair — in the US cryptocurrency’s ongoing private lawsuit. In Ripple’s defense, ex-SEC Chair Mary Jo White and Enforcement Chief Andrew Ceresney — now lawyers at Debevise & Plimpton — will stand in to disclaim Ripple’s […]

US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase officially announced an expansion into the booming Japanese cryptocurrency market with the launch of a new Japan office. Announced on June 4, a new office in Japan will be spearheaded by Japanese fintech leader Nao Kitazawa. The new Coinbase office will provide Japanese cryptocurrency investors access to the suite of Coinbase […]

Seattle-based blockchain venture capital firm Pitha announced the filing of the very first Schedule 13D SEC filing in history, listing cryptocurrency as a method of payment during a recent investment round in DigitalTown. The filing of venture capital related paperwork to the US Securities and Exchange Commission is a common occurrence, but the 13D submitted […]

Ripple announced the launch of a new University Blockchain Research Initiative that will see Ripple Labs donate $50 million across 17 universities worldwide to promote academic research and blockchain innovation. The new initiative, announced June 4, inaugurates a program intended to “shape the workforce of the future” by supporting technical development and innovation in cryptocurrency, digital […]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak recently became the latest tech titan to endorse Bitcoin. With his statement, Wozniak joins the list of tech luminaries such as Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, Naval Ravikant of AngelList, venture capitalist Peter Thiel and many others who support Bitcoin as the currency of the future. In March 2018, Twitter […]

Microsoft publicly announced that it is buying GitHub for $7.5 billion – a move that has left many in the Bitcoin and blockchain community seething, and jumping ship over to GitHub’s competitor, GitLab. Microsoft has a hit-and-miss history of takeovers – the acquisition of LinkedIn went rather smoothly, with much of the LinkedIn operation still running separately. […]

Slovenia’s largest shopping city, aptly named BTC City, is on its way to becoming the world’s first genuine “Bitcoin City.” Slovenia’s Prime Minister, Miro Cerar, recently visited to open the Beyond 4.0 international conference, and to learn more about BTC City’s strategy to become a Bitcoin City. BTC City is a giant shopping mall in […]

Korea’s premier court has overturned the law to seize 191 Bitcoin earned through the provision of child pornography, ending a lengthy battle over the legal status of cryptocurrency. Appealing a September 2017 ruling that deemed such confiscation to be illegal, the Supreme Court will see $2.3 million worth of BTC confiscated from a 33-year old […]

After weeks of speculation, IOTA has given clarity on its enigmatic Qubic project — or what it describes as “the most significant contribution to the IOTA stack” to date. Aimed at facilitating smart contracts, oracles, and outsourced computation, the young Qubic protocol may be a future asset to IOTA — the 9th largest cryptocurrency by […]