Bitcoin futures trading volume reached a record high, according to a tweet from leading derivative market CME Group about their products; CME says its Bitcoin futures hit an all-time-high of over 22,500 contracts on April 4, equivalent to about 112,700 BTC; the previous high was recorded February 19, 2019 and was reportedly over 18,300 contracts, […]
According to a new report from Gregory Matthew, a researcher at Inwara, the most funds raised in the blockchain and digital asset space in Q1 2019 were by companies in UAE and the Cayman Islands; of the total $790M raised, Cayman Islands accounted for 15% and UAE accounted for 21 percent; American companies raised 8% […]
Bitrefill has launched ‘Thor Turbo,’ a Lightning application that speeds up the initialization process for channels; while a typical channel takes six confirmations at ten minutes per confirmation, Thor Turbo allows users to open a turbo channel which bypasses the waiting period; Turbo channels are purchasable via Bitrefill and payable in five different cryptocurrencies - Link
According to a local report, the early June G20 meeting in Fukuoka, Japan is expected to set up regulations for cryptocurrencies relating to anti-money laundering (AML) and terrorism financing; the G20 nations, represented by central bank governors and finance ministers, are expected to reach an agreement with particular emphasis on the anti-anonymity at the time […]
Speaking to CoindeskKorea, Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox stated that not everyone can be a cypherpunk and exceptionally passionate about crypto; but, in regions with subpar banking systems and inefficient financial services such as Venezuela, everyone could begin using cryptocurrencies as an alternative if they are easy, cheap, and fast to use; the sentiment of Wilcox […]
📚 The web is a shifting product with ethical values. Built with the singular purpose of democratized information sharing, Web 1.0 was managed with search engines that inherently led to self-censorship through poor understanding of the rules. Web 2.0 sought to fix these issues by platforming information on sites like Facebook, Reddit, or Twitter. The […]
The Loki Foundation, a non-profit focused on addressing governmental privacy intrusion in Australia, filed as a charity April 3rd; the Monero based software allows users to transact and communicate around prying eyes; Loki chose to go non-profit and make its software open-source to further protect members or the software itself from government interference, a direct […]
📚 Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin recently said projects with early on supply caps are “dishonest” and proponents of such strict monetary policy are “angry and ideologically excited people that are extremely attached to their schelling points” Supply caps, and Proof-of-Work systems often behind supply caps, are not dishonest at all, but constant verification of holder’s property […]
Former Kraken employee Jonathan Silverman is suing Kraken for failure to pay after work he performed for the exchange’s now closed New York institutional sales and trading desk in 2017; the suit alleges that commission payments for $19M in profits were never paid and that a lump sum settlement of over $900K was never paid […]
The #LNtrustchain has less than a dozen passes before it extinguishes due to the set satoshi limit; as of now, the Lightning Torch holds about $170 or 4.29M satoshis; once finished, the plan is to donate the satoshis to Bitcoin Venezuela, a non-profit that raises awareness of Bitcoin usage in the country - Link