Blockchain’s MovieCoin Adds Martin Pompadour To Board of Directors
Exchange Platform AlphaPoint Names Sri Manda As Chief Information Security Officer
Blockchain Platform Zilliqa Names Yiling Ding As Chief Marketing Officer
Blockchain/IoT Provider CENTRI Names Robert Strickland CEO
Blockchain Travel Rewards Platform KeyoCoin Adds Sheri Kaiserman To Advisors
Bitcoin and others in the top ten cryptocurrencies accelerated their downward tumble today, as the bear run gained strength.
At mid-morning, bitcoin was sitting just above the $6,000 per single coin mark, and threatening to breach that barrier later in the day. Trading volume was high and up significantly from Monday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today obtained permanent officer-and-director and penny stock bars against the founder of a company who perpetrated a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) to fund oil exploration and drilling in California.
According to the SEC’s order, David T. Laurance and Tomahawk Exploration LLC attempted to raise money through the sale of blockchain-based digital tokens called “Tomahawkcoins.” The SEC’s order finds that the defendants’ promotional materials used inflated projections of oil production that were contradicted by the company’s own internal analysis and misleadingly suggested that Tomahawk possessed leases for drilling sites when it did not.
Saga Foundation recently launched a new token that’s non-anonymous and reserve-backed. The currency is designed with a tamed volatility mechanism, addressing concerns expressed by policy makers, regulators and market participants regarding cryptocurrency anonymity, lack of underlying value, and high volatility.
So far, Saga contends,
Ethereum is experiencing some significant problems, and those are reflected in its dramatic price plunge this week. Scaling issues, security issues and the problem of solving the smart contract that is clogging the network have all made their mark, driving pessimism even as the vast ethereum developer community is working hard to solve the problems.
A special standing committee in Saudi Arabia has warned that cryptocurrency trading is illegal in the country.
In a statement published on Sunday, the Standing Committee for Awareness on Dealing in Unauthorized Securities Activities in the Foreign Exchange Market declared it was against cryptocurrency trading.
Unidos Podemos, a left-wing electoral alliance in Spain, has called on the government to study the benefits of blockchain technology.
Unidos Podemos, which was formed by Podemos, United Left, Equo and other left-wing parties in May 2016, proposed the creation of a subcommittee that would explore the potential of blockchain technology as well crypto regulation.
The South Korean government has announced that it will spending a total of 5 trillion won ($4.4B USD) to nurture eight critical sectors of the domestic economy, including blockchain.
On Monday, the country’s finance ministry unveiled its ‘growth through innovation’ investment plan for 2019.
Barbados-based cryptocurrency firm Bitt has partnered with the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS) to explore the creation of a central bank-backed digital currency.
Bitt utilizes blockchain technology to offer digital payment products and services,
Payments platform Square has announced that its users can now use Cash App to buy bitcoin in all 50 US states.
In November 2017, Square integrated bitcoin on its Cash App to allow users to buy, sell and hold bitcoins, but not to make payments with it.
Digital-ID management startup identitii has become the second blockchain firm to launch an initial public offering (IPO) on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).
Identitii allows financial institutions to accelerate transaction verification processes by enabling the secure, trusted and auditable exchange of information within and between counterparty financial institutions,
Blockchain’s MovieCoin Adds Martin Pompadour To Board of DirectorsExchange Platform AlphaPoint Names Sri Manda As Chief Information Security OfficerBlockchain Platform Zilliqa Names Yiling Ding As Chief Marketing OfficerBlockchain/IoT Provider CENTRI Names Robert Strickland CEOBlockchain Travel Rewards Platform KeyoCoin Adds Sheri Kaiserman To Advisors