Digital Assets Data to enhance crypto data insights with $6m funding
The firm targets crypto hedge funds, family offices, asset management research firms
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Coinbase acquires Earn, appoints first CTO
The deal is valued at $100 million.
You may soon be able to bid with Bitcoin on eBay
The digital currency is making a surprising entrance into the mainstream financial world.
Digital currency: the future or the biggest flop?
From Bitcoins to even newer (and lesser known, but rising) forms of currency, will this level the playing field for people in the future, or is this all just a sham that will die down? As things get digitised, what do we need to know about digital currencies, and does this mark the demise of traditional forms of currencies?
Stellar offers sponsorship for fintech start-ups
Stellar Development Foundation is offering sponsorships for fintech start-ups, and those who educate developers or represent an NGO. Sponsorship is available in the forms of “lumens” – Stellar’s unit of digital currency, similar to a Bitcoin. The firm says its goal is to support new products and ideas, and for those enabling that goal via […]
A boringly good guide to cryptocurrencies
Here is a boringly good guide to cryptocurrencies, courtesy of MBNA. It is not boring at all really!
Digital currency & payments: heads together on the blockchain
It’s difficult to avoid writing about distributed ledger technologies, so we won’t. Last month Australian Craig Wright claimed to be the elusive inventor of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. Displaying uncharacteristic scepticism, many mainstream media outlets doubted his claims. Whether it’s true or not, the story attracted great interest. Distributed ledger, blockchain (some argue the two are […]
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