Stories by Adriana Hamacher
Vitalik Buterin: Use Bitcoin Cash to improve Ethereum scalability
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder, was certainly thinking outside the box when he proposed a radical new Ethereum scalability solution this weekend: using another blockchain—Bitcoin Cash—...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Adriana Hamacher
U.S. foes are weaponizing cryptocurrency says new report
A new study from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) claims cryptocurrencies are being used by U.S. adversaries to circumvent the nation’s geopolitical supremacy. The report—publi...
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Adriana Hamacher
Three reasons Trump’s tweets are good for Bitcoin
Crypto Twitter had a field day yesterday President Trump delivered his tuppence-worth about Bitcoin and Facebook’s Libra project. “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which ...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Adriana Hamacher
Bitcoin mining rig prices are soaring
Getting your hands on a Bitcoin miner in China these days is challenging. Official websites are out of stock. Second-hand mining machines that were once sold as scrap metal are again popular, ...
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Adriana Hamacher
Samsung unveils Galaxy tools for Ethereum developers
Samsung released a suite of tools early today for developers to more easily and cheaply build decentralized applications on its Galaxy S10 smartphone—on the Ethereum blockchain only, according...
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Adriana Hamacher
110 crypto exchanges want to set up shop in Japan
Move over Switzerland and Singapore, exchanges are making a beeline for Japan in the wake of new clarity surrounding the country’s regulation of cryptocurrencies. Japan’s Financial Services Ag...
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Adriana Hamacher
Overstock’s tZero to tokenize major movie biopic on Atari founder
Nolan Bushnell went from repairing broken pinball machines to launching the videogame manufacturer Atari in the 1970s. Now, as a tribute to his pioneering spirit, the producers of a biopic on ...
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Adriana Hamacher
Bitcoin tax: the U.S. & Singapore go to extremes
Last week, Singapore proposed to exempt Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions from value-added tax (VAT.) In America, meanwhile, it seems things are about to get a whole lot more taxing. Th...
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Adriana Hamacher
Electroneum’s radical new upgrade ushers in nonprofit miners
In a dramatic turn of events this weekend, the UK-based Electroneum platform made all its miners redundant—replacing them with charities and other nonprofits. It also introduced drastically re...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Adriana Hamacher
Dogecoin lists on Binance exchange (So Much Wow)
Binance, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency exchange, today listed the world’s most popular joke crypto, Dogecoin. The announcement comes the day after Ethereum cofounder, Vitalik Buterin...
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Adriana Hamacher
Chinese Ponzi scheme victims accuse Justin Sun of complicity through silence
Chinese victims of a billion dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of thousands are baying for the blood of Tron CEO Justin Sun, Chinese crypto news site Nuclear Finance reported today. ...
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Adriana Hamacher
Tezos scores billion dollar STO deal with investment bank
BTG Pactual, the third biggest investment bank in Latin America, and the Dubai-based asset manager Dalma Capital announced plans today to use the Tezos blockchain to launch security token offe...
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Adriana Hamacher
CipherTrace and Shyft unveil a fix for draconian FATF anti-terrorism rules
CipherTrace—which provides crypto intelligence solutions—and Shyft–an identity solutions provider—have announced a partnership to help exchanges protect the identities of their users in light ...
News>Technology
Adriana Hamacher
Curious new theory links Bitcoin’s inventor to Estonia
Is it a coincidence that an Estonian startup began testing blockchain in 2008—the same year that the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published his pioneering Bitcoin white paper? A new theory s...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Adriana Hamacher
What drove Vitalik Buterin to decentralization (according to his dad)
Growing up in liberal Canada, Vitalik Buterin—co-founder of the world’s second biggest blockchain, Ethereum—was never allowed to forget his Soviet heritage. Canada is obviously a far cry from...
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Adriana Hamacher
Chainlink lists on Coinbase Pro
Chainlink’s followers—the Link Marines—will be jubilant. Today, Coinbase Pro began listing the decentralized oracle provider’s crypto LINK. Chainlink—which allows smart contracts on Ethereum t...
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Adriana Hamacher
Oracle taps blockchain to introduce new revenue streams for startups
Oracle, the third biggest software company in the world, has announced it’s going to plug the data generated by 50 startups into a blockchain, for free. The idea is to help them unlock lucrati...
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Adriana Hamacher
Typosquatting gang accused of stealing £22m in crypto
Police in the UK and the Netherlands today arrested six people over a £22m cryptocurrency theft which targeted 4,000 people. Five men and one woman were apprehended in simultaneous arrests in ...
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Adriana Hamacher
The Next Big Thing after YouTube and Instagram
Google-owned YouTube is the unrivaled king of video hosting and has a staggering 75 percent market share. Facebook-owned Instagram, meanwhile, has a billion users. Together, these platforms ar...
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Adriana Hamacher
S. Korea battles a “beehive account” boom
South Korea is abuzz about “beehive accounts”—complicated, umbrella accounts that are run by small crypto exchanges to mask the identity of individual traders. Thanks to this burgeoning finan...
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Adriana Hamacher