Amid the constantly growing cryptocurrency market, the number of irreversible coins in increasing affecting the whole industry development. The initial coin offering crypto buzz hit all-time high popularity in 2017 when there were 875 projects, a significant jump from 29 in the previous year. 2018 picked up on the trend, introducing a further 1,253 projects. To date, there have been a staggering 5,683 ICO projects with 2,318 of them being cryptocurrencies. Of the total projects, 4,932 are based on the Ethereum platform. However, only a few of these projects have…
Month: January 2020
Bitcoin’s Share of PoW Mining Rewards Now Above 80%
Rewards received by bitcoin miners form a major chunk of the salaries paid across major proof of work (PoW) blockchains, according to Yassine Elmandjra, a cryptocurrency analyst from ARK Invest. For example, bitcoin miners were paid over $15 million worth of the cryptocurrency as incentive to mine blocks and secure the network on Jan. 9. Meanwhile, the total rewards paid across bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH) and other major PoW cryptocurrencies including zcash (ZEC), litecoin (LTC), ethereum classic (ETC), bitcoin cash (BCH) and bitcoin SV (BSV) were just a bit more…
Ex-CFTC Chairman to Promote Blockchain-Based USD in New Think Tank
J. Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), plans to promote the blockchain-based United States dollar with a new think tank. Giancarlo, who earned the “Crypto Dad” moniker for advocating a “do no harm” approach to blockchain regulation, is now setting up a think tank called the Digital Dollar Foundation to promote the idea of digitizing the U.S. dollar. Giancarlo’s digital dollar is based on technology behind Bitcoin According to a Jan. 16 report by The Wall Street Journal, the ex-CFTC chairman is establishing the non-profit…
Chrysler Building Owner Sells Stake in Zurich Property for ERC-20 Tokens and Cash
The new owner of the Chrysler Building is selling a property worth $135 million to a blockchain real-estate company, taking a fifth of the purchase price in tokenized securities. New York-based RFR Holdings, which purchased the Chrysler Building in a joint agreement in March 2019, agreed to sell its majority stake in a commercial property in Zurich to BrickMark, a Switzerland-based real estate agency. Announced Wednesday, BrickMark said roughly 20 percent of the purchase price will be paid in the firm’s BMT security token. The deal gives BrickMark 80 percent…
Bitcoin Price & Technical Analysis: BTC Rally Seized
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex. BTC/USD tech analysis The application for launching the ETF for the BTC called back again CME Group started trading options for the BTC On W1 of the Bitcoin, there begin ascending dynamics after a breakout of the resistance line of the 6-months descending channel. It is too early to say this impulse can renew the high. First of all, we should consider a move to the long-term resistance line at $11500.00. All said above, the Stochastic and MACD are looking down, which may…
Coinbase-Led Crypto Ratings Council Plans Transparency Boost as New Members Join
The Crypto Ratings Council (CRC), the Coinbase-led organization hoping to create a standard for assessing whether different cryptocurrencies are securities under U.S. law, is adding new members. The group announced Thursday that eToro, Radar and OKCoin US have joined the aspiring self-regulatory group looking to streamline how exchanges assess whether a cryptocurrency is a security. The new members bolster the level of technical and legal information that the group can utilize, said Juan Saurez, a member of the Coinbase legal team working with the CRC. Saurez told CoinDesk in a…
Former CFTC Officials Ramp Up Push for Digital Dollar With Accenture Partnership
Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, former LabCFTC head Daniel Gorfine and Charles Giancarlo want to take the dollar digital – and they’re not waiting for the Fed. The three are forming the Digital Dollar Foundation, working with Accenture to design and push for a potential U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC). The new not-for-profit organization has a multi-part plan to first create potential designs and proposals; convene economists, lawyers, academics, technologists and others to evaluate these designs; and create a framework for testing the new system,…
Fintech Startup Aims to Create New Asset Class With ‘Continuous’ ICO Model
A newly launched fintech firm hopes to leverage the token sale model to back investments in real-world assets. But it’s taking a different approach than many previous projects. Hong Kong-based Two Prime – recently founded by open-source veteran Marc Fleury – calls the sale a Continuous Token Offering (CTO), as opposed to an initial coin offering (ICO) in which most tokens are sold early on. The goal is to use the funds raised to help make crypto a proper new asset class that appeals more to the financial world. The firm…
Russia’s New Prime Minister Sets Course for Digital Economy
The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation has called on the country to prioritize the development of the digital economy. As domestic news outlet RIA Novosti reported on Jan. 16, Mikhail Mishustin — who was confirmed in the position as the Prime Minister earlier today — noted some key priorities for his work and outlined the need for institutional reforms in Russia. Mishustin said that the country should implement modern information technologies, including the development of a national digital economy program, adding: “The state should become a digital platform that…
Attendees of North Korea’s Crypto Conference Might Violate Sanctions
It is no news that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), or simply North Korea, has been on the wrong side of the United Nations (UN) and the free world at large. Stemming from that, some sanction experts with the UN have made it clear that attending any conference in North Korea, including the upcoming crypto conference, is considered criminal. Therefore, attendees will be penalized for it. All hell broke loose in August when reports went around, alleging that North Korea is defrauding banks and crypto exchanges to finance…