Crypto, now for use in the offline world? In ways that involve physical notes — the ones you (gasp) keep at the ready, poised to hand to merchants? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Oscar Meyer is facing a potential problem with a bacon-backed cryptocurrency dubbed “Bacoin” that it promoted: Someone else might have come up with the idea first, Motherboard reported. Kirk Steele claims that he came up with the idea for a digital currency that is backed...
An agreement for peace between North and South Korea was stored in the blockchain by a South Korean developer, CoinDesk reported. Ryu Gi-hyeok recorded the Panmunjom Declaration on the Ethereum blockchain. The declaration said that “there will be no more war on the Korean peninsula.”...
Origin Protocol, a blockchain-based sharing economy startup, has brought a PayPal co-founder on board as a research and development engineer, CoinDesk reported. Yu Pan will spearhead the startup’s research team, according co-founder Josh Fraser. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Square’s stock fell almost 4 percent on Monday (April 30), after a short seller tweeted that the company’s bitcoin efforts might be overhyped, CNBC reported. “SQ-Cash to BTC trading has been insignificant,” Citron Research tweeted. “Even w/ hyper growth still 40% too rich.” In addition, the...
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis isn’t buying into the belief that because bitcoin isn’t tied to a real-world commodity, it shouldn’t have any monetary value. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
It didn’t get to $10,000. That might be the headline news about bitcoin. But then again, it wasn’t $6,000 either. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
Bitcoin is pushing against the upper limits of its supply, CoinDesk reported. The 17 millionth bitcoin was expected to be mined on Thursday (April 26). That’s only a few million less than the 21 million bitcoins that can be mined under the cryptocurrency’s current limits....
The Winklevoss twins are turning to Nasdaq to keep an eye out for trading manipulation, Quartz reported. Their crypto exchange, Gemini, will use Nasdaq’s tech to monitor transactions during continuous trading, as well as trading auctions. In a statement, Gemini CEO Tyler Winklevoss said that...