February 17th, 20197Brock Pierce wants Mt. Gox creditors to receive 100 percent of whatever they’re owed – or so he says, anyway.
Weeks after announcing Gox Rising – his ambitious effort to unite the long-defunct exchange’s creditors, submit a civil rehabilitation plan and relaunch the Mt Gox exchange itself – Pierce, a prominent...
February 17th, 20194Ethereum core developer Afri Schoedon is taking a step back from social media due to an onslaught of online criticism.
Tweeting Sunday that he will “no longer respond on Gitter, Skype, Discord, Slack, Wire, Twitter and Reddit,” Schoedon said that for the foreseeable future he would no longer answer contribution requests or general...
February 17th, 20198Despite a growing mainstream interest in the use of crypto assets and blockchains as a way to replicate and represent securities, some of the use case’s earliest innovators say sky-high expectations may not be in line with reality.
For example, during a panel discussion at the ethereum conference ETHDenver this weekend, Tal...
February 17th, 201913Rhombus has released new products designed to help further connect decentralized, ethereum-based blockchain applications to real-world data, the startup announced this weekend.
Revealed at the ongoing ethereum conference ETHDenver, the blockchain-based “oracle” service will now support currency pairs, asset pricing and blockchain...
February 16th, 201914The ethereum-based token maker (MKR) is outperforming the broader markets with a 37 percent gain so far in February.
Ranked 16th by market capitalization on CoinMarketCap, 1 MKR was valued at 4.6 ETH on Feb. 14 – the highest level since Oct. 8 – and was last valued at 4.37 ETH. The pullback is likely associated with profit-taking...
February 15th, 201919“We always needs to ask, ‘Who are we building for?'”
Kicking off the annual ethereum hackathon ETHDenver, Aave CEO Stani Kulechov shared an opening address on on “leaping decentralized finance mainstream.”
Aave is a Swiss-based blockchain technology company that officially launched in September of last year. Acting as the...
February 15th, 201910Apple has submitted what might seem like an arcane filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – but the document contains tantalizing details about the computing giant’s interest in blockchain tech.
The document – entitled “Summary of Apple’s Commitment to Responsible Sourcing” – details the company’s...
February 15th, 201910The clock just started on the latest effort to launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it was beginning its review of a bitcoin ETF rule change proposal filed by NYSE Arca and Bitwise Asset Management on Feb. 11, and the proposal itself was published in the Federal...
February 15th, 20199A number of apps in Microsoft’s app store have been found to be able to illicitly mine cryptocurrency.
The eight apps, discovered by Symantec on Jan. 17, hosted a version of Coinhive, a script for mining the monero cryptocurrency that has proved popular with cyber criminals.
In a blog post on the discovery, Symantec said it had...