Stories by Adriana Hamacher
India borrows blockchain to fix its spamming epidemic
Starting this month, Indian telcos have begun rolling out blockchain-based tech that will help protect telecom subscribers from spam calls and texts at the behest of the country’s regulator TR...
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Adriana Hamacher
The bitter secret of Blockchain Island
Late on an October afternoon in 2017, journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, decided to drive to her bank in Malta. As her Peugeot neared the crest of a small hill just outside her village, a ...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Adriana Hamacher
Will Facebook’s stablecoin fly?
Facebook may be one of the biggest companies in the world but its much-discussed new cryptocurrency has a daunting challenge: Appeasing U.S. regulators. And, Lord knows, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is...
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Adriana Hamacher
Facebook coin: The good, the bad and the inevitable
Facebook is launching its new cryptocurrency, dubbed GlobalCoin, later this month, The Information trumpeted yesterday. The more cynical among us may ponder the timing: it was only 48 hours pr...
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Adriana Hamacher
Who’s worth watching from Binance Labs’ 13 new startups
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance today announced a new tranche of protegees from Binance Labs, its startup incubation program. These starry-eyed startups are setting out to...
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Adriana Hamacher
Why Germany holds the key to crypto regulation in Europe
In January 2019, while the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commission was out to lunch, Germany’s regulator quietly licensed the country’s first STO. Bitbond, the crypto loan company who re...
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Adriana Hamacher
Can Block.One’s social media gamble take on Facebook?
The developer of the EOS blockchain, Peter Thiel-backed Block.One, launched a brand new social media platform over the weekend. Dubbed “Voice,” it’s designed to put users back in control of th...
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Adriana Hamacher
Block.One wants to create crypto Twitter?
Has Handelsblatt let the cat out of Block.One’s bag? The German biz paper reported today that the EOS developer is to announce tomorrow the launch of a new social medium platform to rival Twit...
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Adriana Hamacher
The crypto world awaits SEC v Kik. But will we get it?
The cryptoratti are expecting an epic battle: a showdown between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Canada-based messaging app company Kik, following its unregistered ICO. A cour...
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Adriana Hamacher
How (Not) To Investigate When Cryptocurrency Is Stolen
Are your customers leaving nasty online stains on your crypto business? Perhaps you’d like an authoritative opinion on your cyber-smear? In Cryptoland, the laundry business is thriving, and se...
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Adriana Hamacher
IOTA announces software upgrade to silence decentralization critics
IOTA, the Internet-of-things-focused cryptocurrency, has finally confirmed that it has a solution to its so-called “coordinator problem.” Until now, IOTA, which is worth over $1 billion, acco...
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Adriana Hamacher
Can 10,000 brains and an AI called Rose predict the price of Bitcoin?
ST JULIAN’S, MALTA—U.K.-based Pynk sounds like an attractive proposition: the core team behind the people-powered investment platform are digital startup veterans; it has funding from Canadian...
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Adriana Hamacher
Brock Pierce explains the origins of “Satoshi Nakamoto”
ST JULIAN’S, MALTA—There’s at least one thing that EOS co-founder and former child star Brock Pierce has in common with self-proclaimed “Bitcoin inventor” Craig Wright: they both agree on the ...
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Adriana Hamacher
Roger Ver and Craig Wright: new hullabaloo
ST JULIAN’S, MALTA—Nothing makes Roger Ver madder than the mere mention of his nemesis, self-proclaimed “Bitcoin inventor” Craig Wright. “Too bad this recording is just audio so people can’t s...
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Adriana Hamacher
Why Bosch is jumping on the Ethereum blockchain
Here’s some good news for Ethereum maximalists: Bosch, the biggest automotive company in the known universe, is running trials on the Ethereum blockchain. A Bosch spokesperson confirmed to De...
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Adriana Hamacher
UK financial watchdog warns investors after £27m lost to crypto scams
Cryptocurrency and foreign exchange (forex) scams tripled in the last financial year, according to new data from the UK financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA.) Total losses ...
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Adriana Hamacher
Vitalik Buterin’s secret: How to store your seed phrase
Vitalk Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder and all-’round crypto-genius,’ took to Twitter over the weekend to decry the increasing popularity of, what he termed, “ultra-heat-protective survive-a-nu...
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Adriana Hamacher
Ethereum’s Danny Ryan: it’s time to get excited about testnets
Danny Ryan is not ashamed to say he had an emotional response when the first testnets for Ethereum 2.0. were launched this month. He was recently elected an unofficial project leader for the g...
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Adriana Hamacher
ShapeShift is having a butterfly moment
QuadrigaCX, Bitfinex, Binance… the list of exchanges that have seen customer funds stolen is increasing on a weekly basis. But there’s one exchange—ShapeShift—that’s determined to buck the tre...
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Adriana Hamacher
Chainlink mainnet to go live on Ethereum at end of May
Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov announced today that the decentralized oracleprovider is to launch its service on the Ethereum mainnet on May 30. It’s the culmination of six years’ hard work for ...
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Adriana Hamacher