April 8, 2020 Exclusive: US Congressional Watchdog on Prototyping Smart Contracts Cointelegraph spoke to Chuck Young of the US Government Accountability Office to learn about the agency's exploration into DLT. The supreme audit institution of the United States, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), posted two job positions with its Innovation Lab concerning the development of prototype applications for blockchain technology during March.Cointelegraph…
April 7, 2020 Tim Draper: Pandemic Could Be The Tipping Point For Bitcoin Venture capital investor Tim Draper believes the COVID-19 outbreak and financial crisis could be the tipping point for Bitcoin adoption. The global spread of the coronavirus played a major role in the dramatic 2020 stock market crash.…
April 6, 2020 US Congressional Watchdog Quietly Reveals DLT Prototype Development The U.S. legislative branch’s supreme auditor has created two job positions with responsibilities including the development and exploration of blockchain. The United States Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Innovation Lab posted ads for job positions to develop “use case prototypes” for blockchain technologies in late-March.GAO…
April 6, 2020 New Zealand Financial Regulator Warns Public About ‘Profit Bitcoin’ Scam New Zealand’s financial regulator, the Financial Markets Authority, issued a warning against a suspected Bitcoin investment platform. Amid the apparent global surge of cryptocurrency-related scams, New Zealand’s financial regulator has warned the public against another suspected Bitcoin (BTC) investment scam scheme.In…
April 5, 2020 Africa Using Blockchain to Drive Change, Part Two: Southern Solutions Health care, identity management and renewable energy are some of the non-financial blockchain use-cases gaining popularity in Africa. With pundits like Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey predicting that Africa “will define” the future of Bitcoin (BTC), cryptocurrency and blockchain technology continue to attract interest from both public and private establishments across the continent.…
April 4, 2020 EU Highlights Blockchain Benefits in Digitization Write-Up EU agency Eurofound laid out several benefits of blockchain in its recent report on digitization. The European Union, or EU, mentioned blockchain technology as part of social services digitization efforts to keep Europe up to speed with the changing times. “As…
April 3, 2020 Bail Bloc Founder Says How Monero Mining Can Help ICE Detainees Cointelegraph has had an in-depth talk with Bail Bloc’s Grayson Earle about how the charity project helps release people from incarceration through cryptocurrency. One cryptocurrency project is using Monero (XMR) to give undocumented immigrants a better shot at a fair treatment in the United States judicial system.The…
April 3, 2020 Digital dollar warning: Opposite of what crypto is all about – Demirors Meltem Demirors, the chief strategy officer at Coinshares has issued a digital dollar warning, saying that the digital dollar is totally opposite of what crypto is and what it stands for.…
April 3, 2020 Spanish Tax Watchdog Puts 66,000 Crypto Traders on Notice The Spanish tax office is warning tens of thousands of crypto traders to honor their tax obligations. The Spanish tax authority has begun sending out warning notices to 66,000 cryptocurrency holders to remind them of their tax obligations.According…
April 1, 2020 CoinTracker Passes 100K Users, Announces Six New Partners Portfolio tracker and tax calculator CoinTracker has topped 100,000 users and brought six new partners on board. Cryptocurrency portfolio tracker and tax calculator CoinTracker has surpassed 100,000 users and has signed up six new partners.The…
April 1, 2020 FBI Arrests Russian Rapper For Crypto Money Laundering, Cites Damning Instagram The FBI arrest a Russian rapper living in the U.S. for money laundering using, among evidence, Instagram pictures including huge wads of cash, both dollars and rubles. United States authorities have arrested a Russian national under allegations of money laundering — using his Instagram that promoted his rap career as evidence against him.Per…
March 31, 2020 Russia Postpones Its Crypto Law Again, Now Blaming Coronavirus Anatoly Aksakov, a member of the Russian State Duma, says that the country’s crypto law won’t be adopted before the end of spring 2020. After facing multiple delays, the adoption of Russia’s major cryptocurrency law will be postponed again, now due to the coronavirus.Anatoly…
