A North Korean official claims that a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) cryptocurrency is on the horizon. According to a delegate for the Committee for Cultural Relations, Alejandro Cao de Benós, the country plans to forge a token backed…
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GK8: Israeli Startup Develops a System for Offline Crypto Transactions
GK8, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, has reportedly managed to developed the world’s first system for offline crypto transactions. This revolutionary system is using GK8’s cryptographic techniques which enable instant blockchain transactions of any digital asset without the need of an…
Old-Style Extortionists Try to Destroy a Crypto Startup
United States authorities have recently apprehended two “old-style” extortionists who attempted to destroy a crypto startup. The old-style extortionists threatened to destroy the company if they did not receive payments worth millions of dollars. The United States Attorney’s Office for…
New Research Shows How Young Adults Drive the Cryptocurrency Revolution
Are Millennials and Gen Zers (post-millennials) driving the growth in adoption of cryptocurrencies? A growing amount of recent research suggests that the overall increase in society’s acceptance of the technology is exponential and is concentrated among the youngest cohort of…
Discovering Bitcoin Part 4: A Wrong Turn (New Plan Needed)!
This is the fourth installment of bitcoiner Giacomo Zucco’s series “Discovering Bitcoin: A Brief Overview From Cavemen to the Lightning Network.” Read the Introduction to his series, Discovering Bitcoin Part 1: About Time, Discovering Bitcoin Part 2: About People and…
New Cold Wallet Custody Solution Strives to Eliminate Cryptocurrency Hacks
GK8, a blockchain startup based out of Tel Aviv, Israel, has made some significant strides in its mission to improve cryptocurrency security and convenience solutions. On September 18, 2019, the firm announced completion of what it is calling the world’s…
Financial Group Offers Indirect Exposure to Bitcoin With Investment Fund Yields
An investment and asset management firm has contrived a creative, if circuitous, way to give investors exposure to bitcoin. Wave Financial, a California-based financial services firm focused on digital assets, just announced its Wave BTC Income & Growth Digital Fund.…
Bitcoin ETF Regulatory Withdrawal Sets Institution On-Ramp Back Once Again
VanEck and SolidX have withdrawn a proposal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the duo’s latest attempt at a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The struggle to create the first bitcoin ETF has been ongoing since at least…
Zuckerberg Dines With US Democrats Concerned Over Facebook’s Libra
Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is grilled with questions and concerns about its planned Libra stablecoin project by Democratic lawmakers during a private dinner. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had dinner with a handful of United States lawmakers, where he was met with intense…
Square Crypto Completes Inaugural Developer Team With Three New Hires
Square Crypto has hired former devs from Google, Facebook’s Libra and Lightning Labs onto its inaugural developer team. Square Crypto, the crypto-focused branch of payment company Square, has hired Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz and Arik Sosman to its inaugural developer…
